Comics and posts about protests | One Nation, Thunder Dog

The lunge

DEB: You there! Please get your Tea Party folks away from my rose bush!
LUDWIG: It's the atheist Congresswoman! SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!

LUDWIG: AUGH!!

DEB: Oh my, I think you may've broken your ankle, dear...
LUDWIG: Keep your socialist ObamaCare hands off me!

DEB: OK. Can I call an ambulance?
LUDWIG: Just leave me BE! Let... OW! ... Let the free market do its work!

Out of hand

TOMMY: This is out of HAND. A guy is waving a pig fetus, in blackface, with a sign saying "Obama's birth was an inside job".

RAMON: The GUY'S in blackface or the PIG is?
TOMMY: Does it MATTER? We just need to distance ourselves from this protest.

RAMON: We set UP the protest.
TOMMY: No... No, no one can PROVE that. This was technically a GRASSROOTS event. We'll just condemn it.

TOMMY: Twitter a statement, Ramon. And use ALL CAPS.
RAMON: My God... The NUCLEAR OPTION.

In your backyard

JEREMY: Rep. Geminari! I'm with the Irv Turner show, can I have an interview?
DEB: Um... sure.

JEREMY: What's your reaction to this Tea Party protest in your own backyard?
DEB: I respect them. The Constitution gives us the right to assemble.

DEB: And I-- HEY! Those little bastards just trampled my PANSIES! You there with the swastika! MOVE IT!

JEREMY: How do you see the role of the State in citizens' lives?
DEB: If they touch my damn AZALEAS, the State's ROLE is gonna be to kick some libertarian ASS!

Low profile

Ending the protest

CAROL: ...so we're here today, to tell Rep. Geminari that we won't stand idly while she and her Democrat cronies hijack our beloved nation! Thank you! And God bless America!!!

A pause.

CAROL: So... so that's it. Protest... over. You Tea Partiers can... can go home.

CAROL: Can... can anyone HEAR me?... My God, have I DIED? Am I a GHOST?!

Filming the protest

TEA PARTIER: You with the camera! You some kinda BLOGGER?!
JEREMY: NO! I mean, YES, I am, but I work for the Irv Turner show!

TEA PARTIER:: All right, well... Irv's a good man.
JEREMY: He can be, yes. Anyway, I'm here to shoot a remote piece about the protest.

TEA PARTIER:: Son, you've got a Flip camera, and no crew. It's not a "remote piece". It's b-roll.
JEREMY: Well, I-

TEA PARTIER:: Now get a shot of me with my "Bela Pelosi" poster... Here, I'll pretend to yell...
JEREMY: (sigh) FINE...

A tough Democrat

GRIMM: Rep. Geminari, you cannot talk to the Tea Partiers. You'd be ripped to shreds.
CHAR: I think you underestimate me.

DEB: I'm a tough cookie. I can handle myself at a protest. What if I just go out there, look them in the eyes...

DEB: And explain to them that the Stimulus Package is not an enormous expansion of government largesse, but an aggregation of temporary projects designed to triage an ailing economy.

GRIMM: They would disembowel you and sell your bloodied pantsuit on eBay.
DEB: But I'd be SHOUTING it... Or at least raising my voice.

At the Tea Party protest

LUDWIG: Tea Party-ers, Tea Party-ettes! We are here to tell the Democratic Socialist House of Misrepresentatives, that WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK!

LUDWIG: Welcome our first speaker, a former Congresswoman and a solid conservative patriot, CAROL GEMINARI!
CAROL: THANK YOU! First, let me-

LUDWIG: Because she knows that this government is a CANCER on our sacred democracy!!
CAROL: Yes, WELL... which is why, today, we must-

LUDWIG: And we're here with her to declare that the people of this country are MAD AS HELL!!
CAROL: Shall I just... talk from back here then?

Avoiding the protest

LINDA: OK... Change of plans. Driver, head to the Congresswoman's apartment.
DEB: I... I thought we were going to my office...

LINDA: Your sister is planning a protest there, we're going to turtle at home until it blows over.
DEB: B-but I had a meeting with the AMTRAK CFO!

LINDA: It'll have to wait.
DEB: I don't WANT it to wait! I want to discuss intercity railroad funding initiatives NOW!

DEB: (sigh) We... we were gonna detail a pathway to solvency... (sniff) via an expanded Northeast corridor model...
LINDA: I know, ma'am. I know...

On the way to the protest

BUCK: Carol, this is Ludwig, he's with the Tea Partiers. He'll be introing you at the protest.
CAROL: Thanks for your support.
LUDWIG: I support no one!

BUCK: So we'll open by calling Rep. Geminari an ATHEIST.
CAROL: Oh, will Deb be there?
LUDWIG: Demand to see her church certificate!

BUCK: Yes, we'll be outside her office.
CAROL: Oh, how NICE! I can return her crockpot.
LUDWIG: The revolution begins in the lion's den!

LUDWIG: Hey, can our folks set up booths to sell shirts and pins?
BUCK: Sure, I'll get the permit.