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January 12, 2008
The Real Scott Stantis
Tonight, thousands of children will go to bed hungry. On any given night, upwards of 200,000 veterans - men and women who defended our freedoms - will sleep on the streets, homeless. Anywhere between 40 and 50 million of us don't have health insurance. Nearly 4,000 families have lost loved ones in a war based on lies. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis - more than died under orders from Saddam during his 30 year reign of terror - have perished in the same war. All of our children are born owing $30,000 thanks to this monstrous debt run up under President George W. Bush - a birth tax that Republicans never talk about. Families are swimming in debt. Foreclosures are at record highs. Merrill Lynch has announced we're in the first month of a recession. More and more Americans are forced to work two jobs because so much of our industrial and factory work has been shipped overseas. Did I mention that there are kids who will go to bed hungry tonight in the richest nation in the world, and that a full 12% of the population lives in poverty?
Please keep that in mind when reading Scott Stantis' comic strip today. Keep in mind that he thought it would be funny to point out that "some people" live quiet lives of desperation, and that he had no problem having his proxy Carmen respond by saying, "Yeah. And?", one of the most heartless responses possible. And then the punchline: having the the supposedly liberal character "thank" those of us living in desperation for not making a big stink about it so he can whine and bitch about his life "in peace."
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Scott Stantis: Compassionate Conservative.
Go fuck yourself, Stantis.
Comments
I don't want to seem self-absorbed but I have a nagging suspicion that these two strips might actually be about us. You know, Shrubville and maybe Tumbleweedtown. We criticize the strip every day, and maybe he's whining about our perceived whining. Maybe the appropriate response to this notion is, "Don't flatter yourself," which is okay, but when I was reading the strip I got this weird feeling that it was about us.
Probably not.
Posted by: Chris at January 12, 2008 02:47 PM
And because we can never get enough Charles Brubaker, I give you his new, second blog: "Bakertoons."
http://toontalk.org/index.php?author=34
Posted by: Chris at January 12, 2008 02:58 PM
I wonder if Stantis has even seen this blog; if you Google "Prickly City" or "Scott Stantis" it doesn't appear until the third page for either.
Posted by: Antenora at January 12, 2008 03:45 PM
Yeah but it used to be higher, I think, plus its linked to from the Prickly City article in Wikipedia. So he might know about it.
Posted by: Snowman at January 12, 2008 03:50 PM
I honestly have no idea what spurned Stantis into writing today's strip. Was he trying to say that the people who have been screwed over by Bush need to complain more loudly, and since they don't he's got the bully pulpit all to himself? Was he saying the few people who do complain should shut up and be like the rest of the "little people" that have learned their place to just listen to the leadership and follow like sheep? Or was he just trying to carry the whole "whining" thing over one more day until Winslow tries to fly again tomorrow? No clue. But when I read it, I was really pissed off that he dare talk about people who are suffering in this country and basically saying, "So? Who cares?" And then following it with, "Oh I don't - I'm just saying that it sucks to be them."
As for his critics, I know one or two of the people who have commented here have mentioned that they've written to Stantis (this was when he was doing the podcast so a loooong time ago) and referenced Shrubville, so Long Lost Toby at least knows there are people out here making fun of the strip.
Posted by: The Furnace at January 12, 2008 04:34 PM
