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Edited by TheRoguePenguin on Oct 15th 2018 at 11:31:23 AM
Disasturbator
You know the quickest way to get him to pay would be assert something like
"Is that because your checks would bounce,Mr.President?" or least something that would insult his billionaire ego
New theme music also a box
While a good gotcha moment I am not sure that this is too important in the big scheme of things...
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
There's no way he is going to pay. The Trump Foundation got shut down remember.
Lost in Space
It's not "important" compared to other things, but it's just more wood for the pyre that Trump is piling up under himself.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
What happened to the blue wave? I thought democrats were supposed to absolutely sweep the republicans next month, but the polling I'm seeing is more and more uncertain.
538 is reporting a 9-10% polling lead on average, with 80%+ chances of the Democrats seizing the House. That's not accounting for local and state level races, where a lot of polling isn't done and news doesn't reach people outside of those areas unless you look.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
A procrastination in of itself
“absolutely sweep” has never been a genuine prediction, it’s a possible outcome based on the democrats having solid numbers and a high likelihood of taking control of the house, all of which are still true.
I suspect that you’ve got some combination of having higher expectations than the data predicts and currently looking at polling data that is worse than the average and not representative of a full sample size.
Edited by Silasw on Oct 15th 2018 at 8:07:13 AM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
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Yeah, that was the case, the polling data I was looking at wasn't representative enough.
That Painting of Trump Having a Diet Coke With Abraham Lincoln Is Now Hanging in the White House
Called “The Republican Club,” the print of 10 Republican presidents sitting around a table could be seen briefly in the background of Trump’s interview with “60 Minutes” Sunday, and an image of that moment went viral on social media.
I was looking at the picture before I read the article, and I was thinking that Trump's smile in the picture looks incredibly fake. It therefore interested me to read this part of the article:
He said he’s found that some presidents have a natural smile: Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama. But others, like Trump, have more of a forced campaign smile that doesn’t look right in a painting. He found it particularly hard to get Nixon right the first time he painted him.
To get Trump’s smile, Thomas said he looked at thousands of photos.
“Trump has that one thing where he sticks his chin up and smiles really big, and it’s great for a caricature but not necessarily flattering to him,” he said. “I had to find a photo where it looked like he’s actually heard something funny, so it looks like a genuine smile.”
The artist also said this about both this painting and its twin (he's done a 'Democratic Club' painting as well):
The same woman also appears in a separate painting, “The Democratic Club,” that Thomas just finished.
“That will be the first Republican female president and the first Democratic female president,” he explained. “As I was doing the painting, I was thinking that these guys are kind of intimidating in a way. That’s the kind of woman that will be our first woman president; she’ll walk right up to that table.”
But Trump had to be Trump so this also happened:
Thomas said he was a bit surprised at that turn in the conversation.
“I’m thinking, ‘I’m a damn artist, what is he asking me about this for?'” he recalled.
Edited by Wyldchyld on Oct 15th 2018 at 9:26:46 AM
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
Pretty sure that Lincoln and Roosevelt would be filled with shame to be in the same painting as Trump and, being the kind of people they were, would probably beat the tan out of him.
Yes, I did feel there was a basic historical flaw with the two paintings in that some of the older presidents would actually be in the other painting to the one they're currently inhabiting precisely because of the political shift over time in the two parties.
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
The Republican Party:
- Anti-slavery
- Pro-Environment
Teddy especially would have hated it. Though they share in xenophobia, what with Theodore being a firm advocate of the White Man's Burden, he would despise Trump's attitudes towards the working-class.
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Good point, especially as Roosevelt himself was the one to establish the National Parks service in general, and the (since-reduced by Trump & Co.) Bears' Ears monument specifically.
Edited by ironballs16 on Oct 15th 2018 at 4:40:40 AM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
"“I’m thinking, ‘I’m a damn artist, what is he asking me about this for?'”
Because he want to know what you think about him, everything else is white noise for him.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
I doubt that Eisenhower would like Trump very much either, the whole Cadet Bonespurs thing aside, Trump is his polar opposite on foreign policy.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Also huge conservationist, so he'd probably run Trump over while riding a bull moose for all the environmental destruction. And he was a Rough Rider despite having health problems, so I'm pretty sure he'd look down on Trump's draft dodging.
Edited by danime91 on Oct 15th 2018 at 1:38:41 AM
I saw that. Thought it was an interesting painting. The artist also does one for the democratic party presidents. https://andythomas.com/product/the-democratic-club/
Yeah... Andrew Jackson really doesn't belong in that one.
He and Gifford Pinchot actually created the National Forest Service. The NPS itself was established in 1916, under the Organic Act. (There’s a difference, as the Forest Serice focuses on Conservation aka wise use and sustainability, while the NPS focuses on Preservation, at least in theory. That distinction has blurred a bit over the years, but the general idea still holds true.)
He would still totally hate trump though.
Edited by megaeliz on Oct 15th 2018 at 5:32:49 AM
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
For all of Roosevelts faults, I feel he'd find Trumps casual and deep seated dishonesty simply unbearable.
Afair, Teddy was also (for his time and societal standards) nearer to the liberal side of the Republicans, which does make one wonder how a Teddy Roosevelt would be if he grew up in our time..
Edited by 3of4 on Oct 15th 2018 at 11:36:48 AM
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I mean, he and his Generation of reformers, quite literally defined the modern progressive agenda, that we’ve been building on ever since. I’m pretty sure modern republicans would hate him.
that’s an interesting question. I’ll have to think about that a bit.
Edited by megaeliz on Oct 15th 2018 at 6:22:24 AM
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
So, I've been reading Maus for an English class I have, and it's re-awakened my fury at the current state of affairs in American politics. Some of you may remember that I am Jewish, and my great-grandparents came to America to escape the Nazis. Sorry, but I just need to vent a bit.
RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGHHH!!!!! WHY ARE NAZIS BACK?! WHY?! I HATE THEM SO MUCH AND I WANT ALL OF THEM TO DIE!! FUUUUUUUCK!!! FUCK ANYONE WHO SAYS THAT TRIPE "Oh, hatred is just you hating something about yourself you see in other people, you can't truly hate anyone unless you see something you hate about yourself in them". FUCK. THAT. NAZIS ARE EVIL, I HATE THEM, AND I WANT ALL OF THEM TO DIE!
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Oct 15th 2018 at 3:52:14 AM
I wrote my Jewish superhero, Gary, to kill a bunch of Neo-Nazis.
I got a bad review for it.
Too political.
1-star
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Edited by Blueeyedrat on Oct 15th 2018 at 11:32:18 AM