Reckoning 2'x2' birch panel,5B pencil, and Sharpie™ Fine, Extra Fine, and Magnum
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Showing posts with label Election 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Election 2016. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
drawing: faces 1711 — Reckoning
By Jack Brummet, Staff Artist
Reckoning 2'x2' birch panel,5B pencil, and Sharpie™ Fine, Extra Fine, and Magnum
Reckoning 2'x2' birch panel,5B pencil, and Sharpie™ Fine, Extra Fine, and Magnum
Wednesday, November 09, 2016
Reconciling the 2016 Presidential Election
By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.
A lot of people are posting and tweeting angry messages about Donald Trump voters. And, yes, some of those voters are bad people. But people have been wanting and needing change.
A lot of people voted not for DJT, but for something—anything—different. And they took something different—bleeding, gangrenous warts and all. That's how desperate and disenfranchised they were. We accomplish nothing by hating them. More than ever it's time to focus on caring for ourselves and the many people around the world who depend on us. We need to push to be better and tap into that vast reservoir of love in this whole world.
A lot of people are posting and tweeting angry messages about Donald Trump voters. And, yes, some of those voters are bad people. But people have been wanting and needing change.
A lot of people voted not for DJT, but for something—anything—different. And they took something different—bleeding, gangrenous warts and all. That's how desperate and disenfranchised they were. We accomplish nothing by hating them. More than ever it's time to focus on caring for ourselves and the many people around the world who depend on us. We need to push to be better and tap into that vast reservoir of love in this whole world.
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Tuesday, November 08, 2016
Gabriel Green, the 1960 "write-in space-age candidate."
Gabriel Green's qualifications were that he had "seen at least 75 flying saucers and has chatted with space people."
Green was also the founder of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. He promised his presidency would bring in "The World of Tomorrow, and UTOPIA now."
Green was also the founder of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. He promised his presidency would bring in "The World of Tomorrow, and UTOPIA now."
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Sunday, November 06, 2016
Saturday, November 05, 2016
Thursday, November 03, 2016
[50 million new voters have registered since the 2008 election]
by Jack Brummet
50 million new voters have registered since the 2008 election
In a study earlier this year, the Pew Research Center said this election will be the “most racially and ethnically diverse ever,” with 31 percent of the vote coming from minorities.
In 2008, just shy of 132 million people voted. No one is really sure how many of those other 68 million registrants will vote, but we know this will be the biggest turnout ever.
25 million votes have been cast.
The dice have left the cup, and, even now, are rolling across the table.
In a study earlier this year, the Pew Research Center said this election will be the “most racially and ethnically diverse ever,” with 31 percent of the vote coming from minorities.
In 2008, just shy of 132 million people voted. No one is really sure how many of those other 68 million registrants will vote, but we know this will be the biggest turnout ever.
25 million votes have been cast.
The dice have left the cup, and, even now, are rolling across the table.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2016
Micah Cohen's brilliant chart of The Ten Levels of Poll Fretting
Micah Cohen's chart on relative polling freakouts. Cohen is the politics editor at fivethirtyeight.com.
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Tuesday, November 01, 2016
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Monday, October 24, 2016
The Trump Presidential Transition Team
By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.
We have not heard much from Governor Chris Christie and the transition team of late.
We have not heard much from Governor Chris Christie and the transition team of late.
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Thursday, October 20, 2016
The final shot of the 3rd Presidential Debate
This image was found by Jeff Clinton. . .somewhere.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Monday, October 10, 2016
Sunday, October 09, 2016
Donald J. Trump's reverse bandwagon juggernaut
By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.
As a politics geek, it's fascinating watching this shipwreck, especially the accelerating Reverse Bandwagon Juggernaut of friends and foes jumping off as the boat takes on water and lists even further. It's actually hard now to feature just how the debate tomorrow will look.
Mr. Donald J. Trump has nothing to lose. It's coming down to a Captain Queeg moment tomorrow night. Maybe DJT will come out all contrite, and every answer will be like a cocktail of Socrates, Jesus, and Bobby Kennedy; but you know he's going to come in hot. And I think probably half of HRC's debate prep must be based on the five or six targeted crooked Hillary accusations.
It is good fortune for Hillary that the WikiLeaks release of her speeches for corporations occurred just when this whole firestorm went down. They are virtually unnoticed.
So tomorrow we'll see contrition, defiance, or savage counterattacks and scorched earth craziness. Or, something like, I apologized yesterday, now let's move on to Crooked Hillary and these WikiLeaks. Will they pillory him? Will the moderators and/or the audience pile on? For all we know, more Trump tapes will appear tomorrow (his Apprentice 1st and 2nd season producer says there are tapes that make the Access Hollywood tapes look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm).
I'm not sure an amazing performance tomorrow can make a difference now. Stay tuned, eh?
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Three stages of Hillary Clinton processing the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape
[Illustration by Jack Brummet]
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Saturday, October 08, 2016
The Gutter King, Donald J. Trump
By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.
After Donald Trump's hedging [1] apology last night (ending "I pledge to be a better man tomorrow"), he inserted a passage like a song's bridge, where he seemed to evoke RFK spending time with the poor folks, and being transformed. Then he crawled back in the gutter on Bill Clinton, and ended his 90 seconds on a [shockingly] defiant note.
[1] a) that's not me; b) this is a distraction; it's ten years old; d) what about Bill Clinton?
After Donald Trump's hedging [1] apology last night (ending "I pledge to be a better man tomorrow"), he inserted a passage like a song's bridge, where he seemed to evoke RFK spending time with the poor folks, and being transformed. Then he crawled back in the gutter on Bill Clinton, and ended his 90 seconds on a [shockingly] defiant note.
[1] a) that's not me; b) this is a distraction; it's ten years old; d) what about Bill Clinton?
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