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#trump #obama #dubya #US politics #inauguration #POTUSI would just like to state—as an Indonesian, born & raised—that Setya Novanto and Fadli Zon are ass-kissers; and they have abused their positions in the Indonesian legislative assembly. They do not speak for Indonesia when they state that they support Trump’s presidential run. And that few people here in Indonesia even know (Or even care) that Trump is running for US president.
(And of those of us who do know, we mostly don’t like Trump very much. Or at least I don’t.)
[anti-“foreign influence” my a**.]
-_-”
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/shepard-fairey-launches-people-poster-campaign-trumps-inauguration/
I honestly must say that I like Shepard Fairey (Obey Giant)’s poster design for the 2017 US Presidential Inauguration. It is definitely controversial, no doubt about it. Undoubtedly progressive. With an undertone of criticism that most certainly cannot be hidden. Not everybody can like it, and I can certainly imagine how some people would even hate it, bitterly and with deep anger. That said, if you squint hard enough, the message is bipartisan.
If you’re deeply conservative you may need extra-hard emotional control to even respond to this. I might even suggest you don’t even try to respond, at least not immediately. Yes you are not racist, we do know. Believe me we do know.
// Via Twitter: https://twitter.com/NegarMortazavi/status/820436065207062529
// You can buy a copy of the poster via Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amplifierfoundation/we-the-people-public-art-for-the-inauguration-and
// at PBS: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/shepard-fairey-launches-people-poster-campaign-trumps-inauguration/
The debate between Lord Varys and Queen Daenerys on loyalty to the throne (from Game of Thrones Season 7 episode 2).
My favorite scene so far, perhaps, from this Season 7 of the series.
If there’s one thing I could wish for though, is that Trump would not demand so much “absolute blind loyalty” from his executive officers; that, if anything, is Trump’s greatest folly in my opinion. That’s Trump’s one fatal governmental sin, I say; one that cannot be let to slide.
Yes, but admittedly it’s practically a tradition now in the switch between Democratic & Republican administrations…:
Established in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, the global gag rule has since become a political football that has been repeatedly rescinded and revived depending on which party controls the White House.
Democratic President Bill Clinton nixed it. Republican President George W. Bush brought it back. Democratic President Barack Obama threw it out almost immediately after his inauguration. And now, Trump has reinstated it…
“Is it original? An editor’s guide to plagiarism” – Poynter.org
Cartoon by Pat Bagley, carried by Cagle Cartoons [www.caglecartoons.com].
(Higher resolution image file found at various online newspapers, for example the Salt Lake Tribune.)
as TrumpBannonConwaySpiceretc try their schemes, it is time to teach them the limits of their power.
They must learn that the price of their actions is the ungovernability of the nation. Orders must be subverted. Implementation must be prevented. Congress needs to learn that if they support the Trumperians, they will be wiped out politically.
There are A LOT more of us than there are of them. Their coup only works if we abet it.
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Here’s a bonus comic from my latest Words of Wonder post. Read the full piece here:
https://incidentalcomics.substack.com/p/words-of-wonder-emily-dickinson
