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Inevitable?


(I noticed that because WaPo has an article about it "тАШThese are sad and strange timesтАЩ: Thanos creator rips widely mocked campaign video portraying Trump as тАШAvengersтАЩ supervillain.")

резрезрем рдЯрд┐рдкреНрдкрдгреНрдпрд╛:

Jaq рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

I would love to see them, accurately by the way, describe Hillary as the тАЬwidely mocked loser of the last election.тАЭ

gilbar рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

President Trump's re-election is ЁЭЧ╢ЁЭЧ╗ЁЭЧ▓ЁЭШГЁЭЧ╢ЁЭШБЁЭЧоЁЭЧпЁЭЧ╣ЁЭЧ▓.

i'd go with: Resistance is Futile

JML рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

He's neither as good nor as bad assume people say about him...myself, I LOVE HIM. Even when, or maybe, especially when, he is a tool.

henry рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

hyperbole is common in marketing. shrug.

Narayanan рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

They will be Dusted off in 2020 Election?!

рдЕрдирд╛рдорд┐рдд рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Clicking on the links like this always provides more data supporting the impression that there's a set population of dumb, sad TDS sufferers who spend their lives searching for Trump-related content and appending their rubber-room cogitations about Putin-stoogery and the dastardly motivations of Trump supporters to whatever they find. The names start to look familiar. (That Jong-Fast person blogged about here shows up regularly.)

Leland рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Just remember gilbar, it was Seven of Nine that used to say Resistance is Futile, and it was her divorce records that gave us 8 years of Obama. That said, I like what you did there.

J. Farmer рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

i'd go with: Resistance is Futile

So would Ann Coulter

Charlie Eklund рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Inevitable? Perhaps not. But it is written.

gilbar рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

J. Farmer said...
i'd go with: Resistance is Futile
So would Ann Coulter


i would say, "great minds think alike", but that's not it.
Maybe? Hot Blondes think alike? No, that's not it either

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

who is "Trump war room"?
Is this offical or just some dumb dudes?

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

I cannot stand super hero movies.

Chuck рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

The WaPo story linked by Atlhouse is paywalled. So I can't see the full quote from Thanos' creator, Jim Starlin. His quote was:

"After my initial feeling of being violated, seeing that pompous fool using my creation to stroke his infantile ego, it finally struck me that the leader of my country and the free world actually enjoys comparing himself to a mass murderer," Starlin said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. "How sick is that? These are sad and strange times we are going through. Fortunately, all things, even national nightmares, eventually come to an end."

From the not-paywalled Hollywood Reporter:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/thanos-creator-feels-violated-trump-campaigns-avengers-ad-1261553?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=Direct

le Douanier рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

What did almost-Thanos creator, Holmes, say about this video?

Probably thought it sounded good.

tcrosse рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

President Trump's re-election is ЁЭЧ╢ЁЭЧ╗ЁЭЧ▓ЁЭШГЁЭЧ╢ЁЭШБЁЭЧоЁЭЧпЁЭЧ╣ЁЭЧ▓.

I'll vote anyway, just to make sure.

Owen рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Good to know that Starlin can indulge his pique with the best of them. If he didnтАЩt want тАЬhisтАЭ creation to be тАЬviolatedтАЭ through ironic comment, parody and fair use, he should have kept his pen dry.

On balance, I think Trump knows more about playful repurposing of cultural ephemera than many of the hacks who created them.

Just IMHO.

Fernandinande рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Speaking of superheros,


Martin Scorsese Cinematic Universe the Complex Irish-Man
"Irish-Man is in his Irish-Hideout when..."

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

"True Principled Conservatives" routinely link to far left hollywood types who hate conservatives and republicans.

LOL

Everyday it just gets easier and easier, doesn't it?

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

I can't wait for LLR-lefty Chuck to give us a detailed update on the deep deep political thoughts of Alysso Milano next as that is probably a good indicator of where his thoughts are at this moment.

chuck рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

In a world of humorless scolds, the funny man is King.

mccullough рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

The actor who played Thanos played W.

ItтАЩs all in good fun.

King Kong. Godzilla. Thanos

Some people need to lighten up

Gator рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

It is strange and sad times, with social media the people that actually create things that matter (agriculture, energy) are seeing the "elites" for what they are.

For me, I didn't work at Sullivan & Cromwell like Ms. Althouse but I worked at a white-shoe firm for 7 years. Talking to one of my fellow associates how I took voice lessons in school to fix my speed-talking and mentioned I'm from a place in Ohio that speaks with a southern accent - he glibly said "people from Ohio don't speak with a Southern accent".

-second story, was just in DC for a friend's wedding, one of the groomsmen went into a rant about Trump that went over like a lead zeppelin, even in that crowd. Same crowd at breakfast the next morning treated the mostly Hispanic like crap. One Connecticut woman demanded that the waitstaff bring real marmalade out. Can we all agree coastal elites are neither elite or likable, they are freaking a-holes!

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

I have a favor to ask of LLR-lefty Chuck.

I know Chuck probably has a list of thousands of far left hollywood types whose political opinions he adores, but perhaps he will be kind enough to boil it down to 2 or 3 for us so that we can understand more fully where he is coming from as a "True Conservative".

LOL

narciso рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

And let us say, its not acting for him to play a sociopath.

Wince рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

President Trump's re-election is я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜я┐╜.

What ever happened to "your worst nightmare"?

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Wince: "What ever happened to "your worst nightmare"?"

Indeed.

Recall that LLR-lefty Chuck, as a representative leftist here, literally called the republican sweep of 2016 an absolute "disaster".

So, yes, there is no doubt that if Trump becomes inevitable and that inevitability leads to the republicans retaining the Senate and recapturing the House, we will be looking at another republican sweep that LLR-lefty Chuck will deem an absolute "disaster", Part II.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

We should get back to the stability of our elected officials pocketing million and millions in secret... with their facade of stability.

Char Char Binks, Esq. рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Was that clip doctored?

Bay Area Guy рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Apologies if someone else beat me to this, but ya gotta watch this NBC interview of AG Barr by Pete Williams. .

It explains the skulldudgery of Brennan-Comey cabal against the Trump campaign in 2016. In my mind, it helps explain why Trump will win again in 2020, once this is exposed as the Dems and media allies are further discredited.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

If Hillary is going to enter the race - lets re-litigate all her crimes

Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Gary Hart: Billion-dollar Clinton campaign should 'frighten' Americans

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Good News everyone!

CNN is running interviews while Graham is speaking at the Horowitz hearing.

Don't worry though, as soon as Graham is finished and Feinstein starts speaking, CNN will go to the hearing live.

#LLR-leftyApproved"Journalism"

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Hillary Clinton Denounces Corporate Crime While Accepting Cash From Blackstone, Firm Sanctioned By SEC

Dust Bunny Queen рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Anecdotal evidence. The crowd at the Pennsylvania rally last night was comprised of more than 20% Democrats.

If you can get that many Democrats to go out in the rain, stand around for hours to see Trump, I think there may be many more who would be voting for him in 2020. Maybe they are waking up?

Make it so! Then,....... the obligatory "don't get cocky kid" warning from Glen Reynolds.

CJinPA рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Why would they bother writing "widely mocked campaign video" when we all know the width of the mocking ends where the swath of pro-Trump praise begins? That's how everything plays out today. Even left-wing outlets and their readers know that.

Gunner рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

If Trump wants to appeal to the humor of lefties, he has to do stuff like threaten to punch conservative children who wear MAGA hats.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...


Clintons And Foundation Raked In Cash From Banks That Admitted Wrongdoing

CJinPA рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

...it finally struck me that the leader of my country and the free world actually enjoys comparing himself to a mass murderer," Starlin said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. "How sick is that?

You know it's pretend, right? I realize you get paid millions of dollars to play dress-up, but don't forget that it's just pretend.

The mass murderers the Left was enthralled with, like Mao and Stalin, those were real. The Hollywood Left in particular had a warm spot for the Soviets and Fidel Castro and Che, real, actual mass murders.

Limited blogger рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

CNN now talking about how dems can back pedal to a 'censure' of Trump.

These twerps are pathetic.

narciso рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...


Oh thats surprising:


https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/1809982/suspects-identified-allegedly-members-of-black-hebrew-israelite-movement.html

Limited blogger рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Graham is on fire!

No wonder CNN can't bear to watch.

Limited blogger рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Graham trying to not break out laughing about absurdity he is investigating.

Hammond X. Gritzkofe рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Trump as Avengers supervillain? Here is a strange portrayal fer ya'.

Francisco D рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Graham is on fire!

I fear that Lindsay is all hat and no cattle, like Trey Gowdy.

hombre рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Of course Thanos creator rips, heтАЩs Hollywood. Of course itтАЩs widely mocked, by democrats, their minions and toadies - who are not enough to win in 2020.

Oh, I almost missed the тАЬviolatedтАЭ part. Is that like a #MeToo moment?

Nonapod рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Thanos is sort of a ripoff of Jack Kirbys Darksied.

Bay Area Guy рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

@Limited Blogger,

"CNN now talking about how dems can back pedal to a 'censure' of Trump."

Well, on the USMCA deal, Nancy-Pants talked about "eating their lunch," but perhaps she was talking about Nadler's

narciso рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

I didnt know the whole mythos, till i caught the post credit scene in the avegers

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Francisco D: "I fear that Lindsay is all hat and no cattle, like Trey Gowdy."

We all fear that.

However, Graham is laying out quite a bit here, more than I thought he would, regardless of what might or might not come after.

We will have to wait and see.

narciso рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

The antimonitor, seems to be the counterpart to thanos, in the crisis series.

Michael рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Just another weapon of mass distraction. Trump wants this whole business to look as "comic opera" as possible, and he uses his laser pointer to get all the cats to jump from here to there to somewhere else.

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Hmmmm, Graham, wisely, is fessing up, again, regarding his dealings with John McCain and the hoax dossier in Dec 2016.

McCain and McCain staffers sucked Graham into this (not that it took much effort) and Graham is and has been pre-emptively offering it up to address it publicly to get past the fact that he was fooled by this hoax dossier effort initially.

Limited blogger рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Amazing, as noted above by Drago, that CNN and MSNBC are purposely ignoring Graham's presentation.

But will cut to the hearing as soon as Horowitz starts talking.

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Graham's comments now mirror perfectly Barr's comments from yesterday.

Beasts of England рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

GrahamтАЩs up for re-election next year. HeтАЩll revert to a squish within twelve months.

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Limited Blogger: "Amazing, as noted above by Drago, that CNN and MSNBC are purposely ignoring Graham's presentation."

It has to be noted that CNN and MSNBC are the 2 favorite networks of a certain LLR-lefty who likes posting at Althouseblog even after being banned.

narciso рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Magic eightball says yes, richard clarke remember him created a project insight for the uae (remember their prince who was falcon hunting with bin laden) it became raven, among its staffers were edward snowden

Bay Area Guy рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

The Steele Dossier was a piece of shit. All lies. It is remarkable that a gullible Media printed it, it is remarkable that the FBI presented it to a federal judge to get warrant to spy on Trump.

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Beasts of England: "GrahamтАЩs up for re-election next year. HeтАЩll revert to a squish within twelve months."

I do believe that Graham would have been happy to do much of what he has done the past 2 years whether or not he was up for reelection or not.

However, being up for reelection does light a fire, doesn't it? Graham can certainly read political tea leaves.

You have to appreciate Graham rhetorically donning the garb of "deplorable" several times this morning to further ingratiate himself with South Carolina voters.

Bay Area Guy рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Doddering Dianne Feinstein is speaking now. She is 86! Older than Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Beasts of England рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

ThereтАЩs a chance heтАЩs genuinely angry about this mess, Drago, but IтАЩll never trust him much. However, IтАЩm pleased that heтАЩs doing his part at the moment.

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Beasts of England: "ThereтАЩs a chance heтАЩs genuinely angry about this mess, Drago, but IтАЩll never trust him much."

That is my default position for all politicians. Even Trump, although in Trump's defense he's no politician. Which makes all the difference.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

тАШCorroboration ZeroтАЩ: An Inspector GeneralтАЩs Report Reveals the Steele Dossier Was Always a Joke

The report throws water on one тАЬdeep stateтАЭ conspiracy theory of the Russia investigation, but validates complaints about тАЬfake newsтАЭ



"The Guardian headline reads: тАЬDOJ Internal watchdog report clears FBI of illegal surveillance of Trump adviser.тАЭ

If the report released Monday by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz constitutes a тАЬclearingтАЭ of the FBI, never clear me of anything. Holy God, what a clown show the Trump-Russia investigation was.

...

Officials on the тАЬCrossfire HurricaneтАЭ Trump-Russia investigators went to extraordinary, almost comical lengths to seek surveillance authority of figures like Trump aide Carter Page. In one episode, an FBI attorney inserted the words тАЬnot a sourceтАЭ in an email heтАЩd received from another government agency. This disguised the fact that Page had been an informant for that agency, and had dutifully told the government in real time about being approached by Russian intelligence. The attorney then passed on the email to an FBI supervisory special agent, who signed a FISA warrant application on Page that held those Russian contacts against Page, without disclosing his informant role.


MSM?

*crickets*

Beasts of England рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

тАЩThat is my default position for all politicians.тАЩ

I could never be that cynical. ;)

Ken B рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

тАЬI fear that Lindsay is all hat and no cattle, like Trey Gowdy.тАЭ
Snicker. Gowdy was one of the most effective cross examiners in Congress, really quite deadly. I am very happy he is part of Trump's team for any senate trial.

narciso рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

'Do not put your trust in politicians, thet will always dissapoint'

Bay Area Guy рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

At this point, Adam Schiff should consider hiring two Nigerian bodybuilders to mug him on the Capitol steps to help delay the impeachment farce, while he recuperates.

narciso рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Oh really:


https://mobile.twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1204794179890614273

narciso рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bi8V-9EQfec

Skeptical Voter рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Just a question--since I'm not going to watch the Senate and House shenanigans on all this---has the House actually passed the articles of impeachment? Or are they simply still yammering about it?

narciso рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Mostly yammering.

Bay Area Guy рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Graham is doing a great job with Horowitz. The evidence collapsed in Jan 2017, and there was no basis to renew the FISA warrants.

But, Yes, with him, trust, but verify.

narciso рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

So how were they renewing the following spring?

Limited blogger рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Stock market is hovering around unchanged, waiting for Jerome Powell statement later today, and a possible Chinese tariff announcement from the WH.

Congressional hearings are just confirming what the market has known for years. Trump and his team have no culpability.

Nothing to see here.

rcocean рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Trump's reelection is NOT inevitable and he will only win if EVERYONE on his side gets outs and vote. The D's are going to pull every Vote fraud trick in the book, and will whip their base up to a hysterical level. Right now they're at Trump hate 90, and the MSM will increase that to 99.9 to get them out to vote. Wisconsin and the Midwest will NOT be ignored this time.

Trump 2016 win was a miracle. It may not be repeated.

Limited blogger рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Wow! Graham tore Horowitz a new one in his closing remarks there.

рдЕрдирд╛рдорд┐рдд рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

When I read Thanos I pictured the pretty blue-eyed woman with the deep voice who wasted millions on a failed medical testing device. Heh!

Martin рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Nothing is inevitable, but I am beginning to think the main point of a lot of Trump's tweets, esp the ones with graphic memes, is to demonstrate that the other side is a humorless bunch of scolds. Those tweets certainly have had that result, but I am thinking maybe that is their purpose.

This is not hard to do because they wear their TDS with pride.

In 'Animal House' terms: Who would want to ally with Dean Wormer instead of Bluto Blutarsky? The Dems are a bunch of Marmalards and Neidermeyers.

Limited blogger рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Voter turn out is critical. Trump voters from 2016 will return. Many 'pubs who stayed home will now get out and vote for Trump in 2020. And best of all, all the new Trump voters that have been created will also head to the polls.

Don't know if all dems will show up to vote for Joe.

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Martin: "This is not hard to do because they wear their TDS with pride."

We have examples of this on this very blog. Leftists all, regardless of how they label themselves.

Lucid-Ideas рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Ok. Spoke to the gf about my poetry. Women have an intuition. It's true. She told me that I should just let my poems go into the public sphere. Since I am in the process of moving into a different phase of my life I will - with Ann Althouse's permission - publish my poetry here. It is my intention to write new poems - maybe a book of poems - that represent what life can be like once a warrior returns to the hum-drum of everyday living in the greatest country on planet earth.

I will not publish my love poems. Those I keep for myself.

Trigger warning. A lot of my poetry in the oughts was very very angry and filled with rage. It had to be.

Every time I comment on AA's blog from now on I will give out one of my non-sexy poems. I give this poetry for free.

PitaYesDee

Seriously?
Are your going to write me up?
And you yelled at me...
To Cowboy the Fuck Up?

Shit's not cool
You fucking tool
And Randy's dead
You fucking fool

The mine wasn't mine
That raghead's fine
His brain is screaming
For something more
Than a nine

Enough's been said
You friend
Of Raghead's
I'll not make more
Of anymore gore
Write me up
I'm going to bed

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...


тАЬPresident Trump's re-election is ЁЭЧ╢ЁЭЧ╗ЁЭЧ▓ЁЭШГЁЭЧ╢ЁЭШБЁЭЧоЁЭЧпЁЭЧ╣ЁЭЧ▓.тАЭ

You donтАЩt play to lose. And if you show up to play, you donтАЩt talk about the possibility of losing. Trump has kept the Democrats, even as they lash out, in a fetal crouch for 3 years. I canтАЩt think of a single instance where a person/group/country in that attitude didnтАЩt lose.

Thorley Winston рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

I've seen this movie - this is the scene right before Thanos *loses*. Odd choice for a pro-Trump campaign video.

phantommut рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Yeah, if only the Democrats had a Tony Stark.

chuck рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

>> Odd choice for a pro-Trump campaign video. <<

Why? It made me laugh, what else matters? A strict reading of the sacred texts and cinematic revelations isn't relevant.

Michael K рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Don't know if all dems will show up to vote for Joe.

How about Hillary ? That would be fun to watch.

Quaestor рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

I've seen this movie

Thorley Winston obviously needs a better way to waste the stuff of life.

Try reorganizing your sock drawer. At least that doesn't line the pockets of the intellectually destitute.

Limited blogger рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Give Hillary a rematch.

Will be fun for Althouse cause Hill would have to make some grand gestures in Wisconsin this time around.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

I do not get this approach. Did Trump re-tweet?
Who is this person?

I think this hurts Trump more than helps.

Limited blogger рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

BBH, this was tweeted by the 'Trump War Room'

A Trump entity run by Steve Bannon

Good for Trump. All this analysis and outrage by the left is part of the plan.

Kevin рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

i'd go with: Resistance is Futile

Just go with: Trump's Reelection is on the Right Side of History.

It provides the undertone of inevitability with the moral snark sure to make heads explode.

Iman рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

тАЬ After my initial feeling of being violated...тАЭ

Sad, defenseless little artistic, leftist man... stand up, feel heroic as you create the empty enterprises that lower IQs if viewed.

Sad times, indeed, but not for the reasons you would ever cite.

Yancey Ward рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Considering the source, I would bet this ad was specifically designed to tweak outrage in Trump's enemies, and get them retweeting the ad.

Does this hurt or help Trump? I think people overanalyze these sorts of things. Really, who is going to have their minds changed by seeing this, either in promotion or in criticism? Probably no one.

tcrosse рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Remember who was inevitable in 2016.

Roy Lofquist рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Blogger Chuck said...
The WaPo story linked by Atlhouse is paywalled. So I can't see the full quote from Thanos' creator, Jim Starlin. His quote was:

"After my initial feeling of being violated, seeing that pompous fool using my creation to stroke his infantile ego, it finally struck me that the leader of my country and the free world actually enjoys comparing himself to a mass murderer," Starlin said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. "How sick is that? These are sad and strange times we are going through. Fortunately, all things, even national nightmares, eventually come to an end."

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So, the sick fuck who created the sick fucking character is calling the president sick because he used the sick fuck's sick fucking character in a tweet? I think I'm beginning to understand.

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Iman: "Sad, defenseless little artistic, leftist man... stand up, feel heroic as you create the empty enterprises that lower IQs if viewed."

Indeed.

No wonder LLR-lefty Chuck feels a powerful and deep kinship with this far left hollywood moron.

Qwinn рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Philosophically, Thanos resembles no one else more than Greta Thunberg.

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Dick Durbin just finished questioning Horowitz a short time ago.

Whenever Durbin is being televised one pictures LLR-lefty Chuck laying about at his home, with his bathrobe on and open and getting rather........comfortable.......

narciso рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

although trump is more like tony stark, playboy philanthropists developer sans suit, with a touch of arrogance, I'm grokking why marvel cut starlin out, are there seven keys, to his reelection,

Jerry рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

They are totes pissed at this over on Gizmodo, CERTAIN that Trump is Just. Like. Thanos. and would kill us all if he had a chance.

And if it was a vid of Pelosi doing it, blowing away the hated right? They'd be cheering it.

Howard рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Trump as a cartoon villain ticks the two major campaign boxes. Triggers libtard outrage, check. Stimulates bad-boy overcompensation in his base, check.

Completely in character for every stripe of punter..

Churchy LaFemme: рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

When you create a comic book character, you know that, unless you specifically get a contract clause, it's "work for hire" and that other writers are going to be taking the character in directions you never dreamed of..

TJM рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Dick Durbin had a reputation as one of the dumbest, laziest lawyers in Springfield, Illinois, so he had to run for CONgress to make a living. His principles are very flexible too. He once was a pro-life Dem, but now has been banned from Communion by his bishop

narciso рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

he was selected by aipac to run against Charles percy, who was considered too pro arab, but stark is second generation rich,(stan lees version of howard hughes) arrogant, somewhat like his analog in dc oliver queen, one might say it's bruce wayne,

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

TJM: "Dick Durbin had a reputation as one of the dumbest, laziest lawyers in Springfield, Illinois, so he had to run for CONgress to make a living."

According to LLR-lefty Chuck, au contraire!

LLR-lefty Chuck is the biggest booster of the theory that Dick "us troops are gestapo" Durbin is astonishingly "competent" and a diligent and hard worker and infinitely more honest than Donald Trump.

Even after one compensates for LLR-lefty Chuck's usual over the top praise of all things democrat, this ranks as some of his heaviest praise for any dem (which is really saying something).

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

BTW, I listened to Mike Lee's questioning of Horowitz.

Ugh.

He should have thrown his time to someone else.

Lee and Romney.

Really Utah?

Balfegor рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Just as there's a clear streak of ironic self-awareness in a lot of Trump's humour, I think a lot of the Trump support online is intended to communicate simultaneously on sincere and ironic levels, in a way that is common with internet humour, but seems lost on a lot of people.

For example, when people post memes of Trump as the God Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K, they're usually expressing sincere support for Trump, yes. But the character they're using is, ah, not an heroic character particular, other than perhaps by the standards of the setting ("In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war"). He's some kind of psychic godking ruling a brutal galactic theocratic empire, whose life has been sustained for thousands of years by massive human sacrifices. Similarly, when people use Game of Thrones memes, like "bend the knee" -- the kings and warlords of Westeros are not good people. And here, Thanos is obviously the villain of the story (unless you're Greta Thunberg I guess).

Jim Starlin may simply be too dense to appreciate it, but there's an obvious, knowingly ironic playfulness at work in using these over-the-top images. The people who create this stuff know that Trump's opponents regularly use similarly over-the-top comparisons to criticise him, and (unironically?) seem to think he's some kind of fascist. These kinds of memes take that nonsense, dial it up to 1000%, and undercut it with humour. It's similar to how Trump likes to put on a grandiose spectacle and simultaneously undercut it. You see that pretty much every time he has a rally. There's none of the pompous self-serious stentorian declamation you see in the videos of Hitler at Nurmberg (or, say, Obama). That's the mode you expect for the setting. But what you get is basically a guy at a bar doing a comic monologue.

Trump isn't the first major politician to do this -- I think it's actually pretty common for American politicians to exploit the grandiosity of our public ceremony to draw a contrast with their coarse, "everyman" persona. But he does it all the time, and I think it's a major part of his appeal, notwithstanding that he doesn't bother pretending to be an "everyman."

Browndog рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Klobuchar is such a hack.

Drago рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Browndog: "Klobuchar is such a hack."

Recall that the entirety of the NeverTrump movement declared themselves happy to vote for ANY democrat, including Klobuchar, over Trump.

narciso рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

it's like Charlie brown's teacher,

'ig horowitz, in your experience in the justice department, has there been an investigation open on such flimsy grounds, is that not an indicator of bias,

Milwaukie guy рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

I don't want to overestimate the effect, but Trump memes will help to persuade new voters. Not only is the economy, etc., good, Trump is fun. Fun is infectious.

[2 blogger f-ups so far.]

BUMBLE BEE рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

In sleepy DC town
there's just no place for
Street Fightin Man

FullMoon рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Has the word "malarkey" infiltrated the hearing?
Surely they are not making fun of Joey?

RMc рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

"After my initial feeling of being violated, blah blah blah"

Why does everybody always have to respond to everything in the strongest possible, woker-than-thou terms? Is it some kind of competition? Couldn't he just say, "As the creator of Thanos, I think this lame"? Or maybe just not say anything at all...?

Achilles рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

Bay Area Guy said...
The Steele Dossier was a piece of shit. All lies. It is remarkable that a gullible Media printed it, it is remarkable that the FBI presented it to a federal judge to get warrant to spy on Trump.

Do you think the deep state has a tough time finding a federal judge in DC that is wholeheartedly part of the resistance?

We have a lot of people wearing black robes who do not follow any of the laws of this country and routinely just make things up.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together рдореНрд╣рдгрд╛рд▓реЗ...

The Steele Dossier was a piece of shit. All lies.

How nice to know that the Trumpanzees have such a high regard for the truth.

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