The Random, Meaningless Political post thread

[Estro Felino]

 

[Stevicus]

Trump supporters and DeSantis super PAC officials spar at a Des Moines dive

A shouting match transpired after a top Never Back Down official took umbrage with a Trump backer's hat.

www.politico.com

Looks like Trump supporters and DeSantis supporters are going after each other.

As he flipped pork burgers at the pork tent, a flock of Trump supporters chanted “We love Trump” in his direction.

The pork tent.

Outside the pork tent, things were even dicier. One Trump supporter could be heard trying to convince a man in a DeSantis shirt that DeSantis hadn’t done enough as Florida governor to prevent pedophilia and child trafficking. The DeSantis supporter was unmoved.

I guess there's something symbolic about American politics to have political confrontations at a pork tent.

And at a dive bar as well:

The night before the camps squared off at the state fair, an incident took place between the two at a bar in downtown Des Moines. According to three people who were at The Copper Cup, officials with the DeSantis-allied super PAC, Never Back Down, got into a shouting match with a Trump backer not affiliated with the campaign wearing Trump garb. The exact nature of what was said is disputed, though each side agreed that it centered on the Trump hats some of the patrons were sporting.

The mud-slinging was accompanied by real politicking. The people wearing Never Back Down shirts fanned out across the crowd at the pork tent, engaging in one-on-one conversations with fair goers trying to sell them on why DeSantis was the better candidate than Trump.

While Trump supporters waited for Trump to arrive at the Steer N’ Stein on Saturday, several people wielding DeSantis signs walked by the open-air bar. The room of Trump fans erupted in booing.

Where do they get the energy for all this hullaballoo? Trump's facing multiple indictments, running a presidential campaign, and then this tiff between Trump and DeSantis.

Next election:

 

[Estro Felino]

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Revoltingest]

Guess who disagrees with epidemiologists & virologists,
but has only studied literature, history, & law?
(He obviously didn't study the history of epidemics.)

Perhaps he too had a fever of 103 some 3 months ago, eh.

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Wu Wei]

 

[Brickjectivity]

Presidents shouldn't have children.

 

[Stevicus]

For reasons I can't quite explain, Chris Christie reminds me of the character of Tony Dogs from Casino.

Spoiler: Casino

 

[mangalavara]

Hurrah! I found him!

 

[Stevicus]

This was an interesting story: Muralist who depicted enslaved people as 'cartoonish, almost animalistic' loses lawsuit

The Vermont Law School commissioned two murals in 1993 by now-73-year-old Canadian artist Sam Kerson — a muralist who is known for focusing on themes of social justice. The 8 feet by 24 feet murals were meant to celebrate Vermont’s role in the Underground Railroad, and Kerson painted them directly onto the designated walls at the law school.

“Slavery” depicted scenes of African people being captured and sold into slavery. “Liberation” contains images of Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Frederick Douglas, and shows Harriet Tubman arriving in Vermont and being provided with safe haven. The murals were initially well-received, but by 2001, observers began to speak up about racist caricatures appearing in the works.

The murals were initially well-received when they were first painted in 1993, but by 2001, people started to speak up about the racist caricatures.

“Among the concerns, viewers perceived the Murals as depicting enslaved African people ‘in a cartoonish, almost animalistic style,’ with ‘large lips, startled eyes, big hips and muscles eerily similar to ‘Sambos’ or other racist . . . caricatures,'” Chief 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Debra Livingston wrote in a unanimous opinion (citations omitted). “Beyond these stereotypical representations, some also took issue with the Murals’ depiction of ‘white colonizers as green, which disassociates the white bodies from the actual atrocities that occurred.'”

The law school ultimately covered the murals, leading to a lawsuit by the mural artist, who claimed they were violating Federal law.

Kerson sued the school, claiming that the school violated the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (“VARA”) which prohibits the “destruction … distortion, mutilation, or other modification” of art without artists’ consent, which prohibited VLS from painting over the murals entirely. Kerson lost at the summary judgment phase in district court and appealed.

The unanimous three-judge panel upheld that decision, siding with VLS and ruling that the school’s blocking the murals from view does not illegally “destroy” or “modify” the works under VARA and that federal law “does not afford artists a categorical right to demand that their works remain on display.”

But since the murals weren't actually destroyed, altered, or modified - only concealed - the VARA did not apply.

Well, these do look kind of strange, so I can see their point as to why they wouldn't want these up on the wall.

 

[Estro Felino]

 

[Wu Wei]

 

[Wu Wei]

 

[Revoltingest]

Scowling Trump gives death stare in unprecedented mugshot... Inmate No. P01135809...​

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Scowling Trump gives death stare in unprecedented mugshot... Inmate No. P01135809...​

I read that as "death star".

 

[Wu Wei]

 

[Revoltingest]

I find your lack of vote disturbing.

 

[Wu Wei]

I find your lack of vote disturbing.

I find your disturbing vote lacking

 

[Revoltingest]

I find your disturbing vote lacking

I lack disturbing your vote find.