So Trump wants to classify "antifa" as a terrorist organization while neo-Nazis are staging their monthly rally in Portland. This guy really does know his base. Part of me really wants the Proud Boys to do something stupid so cops will have an excuse to shoot them. Then again, there has been past collusion with Portland PD and neo-Nazis so that might not be the best thing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/us/portland-oregon-protests.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/us/portland-oregon-protests.html
The cops coordinate with the Proud Boys there.
Cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his graphic novel Maus, withdrew his introduction to a new Marvel comics collection after its publisher insisted he remove a description of Donald Trump as "Orange Skull," (Newsweek)
Instead, the essay has been published at The Guardian:
Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
Instead, the essay has been published at The Guardian:
Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
Trump's Secretary of Agriculture Tells Joke About Whining Farmers to Room Full of Farmers, Gets Boo'd
It's never funny when it's their faces the leopards bite off!
It's never funny when it's their faces the leopards bite off!
That's actually the goal.
Start trade war.
Farm industry collapses.
Bailout industry, big companies first.
Small farmers go bankrupt.
Big companies buy out small farmers at fraction of cost.
End trade war.
Money and property successfully and legally transferred to the wealthy.
Generally a bad thing but trump voters deserve it.
Given the choice, I'd prefer they decide to switch rather than be economically murdered. Just sayin'.
I feel like we've touched on this before... people in power using that power to hold the heads of the poor underwater (heh) and then scooping up the flotsam for pennies on the dollar.
--Patrick
figmentPez
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But it'll be happening to everyone, regardless of who they voted for. It's also going to happen in the stock market, and probably other industries as well.
Yeah of course it's bad that it happens to good people. I'm just enjoying the trump voters who will lose everything becusss they were racist morons.
Zappit
Staff member
Almost. Grab up the Midwest land, knowing full well about global warming. Build new homes there. Once the oceans flood and destroy the coast, the majority of poor people will be wiped out, leaving smaller population easier to control as slave labor.
The funniest thing about this is the right* having to rationalize trumps stupidity with stuff like "well this was discussed in 1946 so it's actually not that weird for him to bring it up."
*my phone autocorrected the word "right" to be alt-caps. Not particularly relevant but I thought it was an amusing insight into my habits.
*my phone autocorrected the word "right" to be alt-caps. Not particularly relevant but I thought it was an amusing insight into my habits.
I got to admit, i doubted it for a fraction of a second myself... but afterwards i wasn't really surprised... because of course it's fucking real.
figmentPez
Staff member
Are they seriously trying to convince Jewish people that white nationalists flying the Nazi flag are their allies?
Sounds about right.
I remember years ago when I first saw Shen Yun popping up, and I said something about it to my MIL. She said we shouldn't go because it was Falun Gong propaganda. And suddenly the ubiquitous turn it's taken in resent years, including becoming an meme, make sense now.
I remember years ago when I first saw Shen Yun popping up, and I said something about it to my MIL. She said we shouldn't go because it was Falun Gong propaganda. And suddenly the ubiquitous turn it's taken in resent years, including becoming an meme, make sense now.
For those who haven't seen this yet: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/denmark-offers-to-buy-us
--Patrick
Which I posted already.
TBH, Stephen Fry posted it first. Then I posted his tweet.
