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Ronald McDONALD! (Original Post)
napkinz
Mar 2016
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2naSalit
(86,691 posts)1. Yikes!
Two horrible ideas in one manifestation...
a little too early in the day for that, for me.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)2. it's afternoon now ... hope you're feeling better
2naSalit
(86,691 posts)12. Much better, thank you.
flamingdem
(39,314 posts)3. You are SO right
Ugh barf!!!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)4. I hear Mayor Mayor McSleaze has endorsed him
napkinz
(17,199 posts)5. Donald Trump, the Greatest Show on Earth: He’s the second coming of P.T. Barnum, not the next Reagan
by Sean Trainor
Donald J. Trump is not, as Matthew Pressman argues in the Atlantic, Ronald Reagans heir. Rather, hes the heir of the 19th-century showman Phineas Taylor Barnum disingenue extraordinaire and purveyor of humbug (that quaint, old-timey synonym for bullshit).
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Now, the people who paid admission to see this rank fraud were not idiots not all of them, at least. While 19th-century Americans had a more magical conception of natures possibilities than their 21st-century counterparts, many were skeptical when it came to the existence of merpeople. And many more were familiar with Barnums reputation for deception.
But they still went to see the Feejee Mermaid because they enjoyed the spectacle. They enjoyed the act of looking for the seams where the monkey flesh had been woven into the fish scales. They enjoyed talking to others engaged in the same act. And they relished the possibility that some spectators were well and truly being taken in by Barnums fraud.
Barnum understood why his audiences came. And so, time and again, Barnum returned to the public with a litany of spectacles that tested the boundaries of spectators belief (while also, at times, exploiting white patrons racism): Joice Heth, an elderly African-American woman who he told viewers was the 161-year old nurse of George Washington; William Henry Johnson, an African-American man from New Jersey who Barnum claimed was a missing link between humans and apes; and even a hairy horse that he tried to pawn off as a living fossil.
read more: http://www.salon.com/2015/09/18/donald_trump_the_greatest_show_on_earth_hes_the_second_coming_of_p_t_barnum_not_the_next_reagan/
Rex
(65,616 posts)6. LOL! He is taking political advice from Mayor McCheese!
I did not steal money from orphans!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)7. make that Mayor McSleaze!
spanone
(135,855 posts)9. 2nd pic looks like sam kinison
napkinz
(17,199 posts)10. Kinison was funny; Trump is SCARY!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)11. more clown pics ...
napkinz
(17,199 posts)13. posted by kpete