Thursday, June 16, 2016

A journalist was stunned yesterday attending his first Trump Rally. Read his tweets here.

By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed. 


Jared Yates Sexton attended his first Trump rally yesterday and posted the series of tweets linked below. His comparison to the Nuremberg Rallies seems apt.

Here are his four hours of tweets, in chronological order. . .

Trump event like a security state. Just watched a girl get denied for being "too alternative."

There's an ungodly amount of extremely drunk people here.

Big seller is a shirt that says Trump That Bitch. Everyone wearing one is being asked to pose for pictures. Big thumbs up. Big grins.


Crowd chanting BUILD THAT WALL BUILD THAT WALL over operatic music.

I don't like Hitler comparisons but that was positively like Nuremburg rally level crazy.

People laughing about how pissed their sisters are going to be. "they deserve it"


There's a protestor next to me and he's scared to death




Saying Orlando shooter shouldn't of been here as child of immigrants

Increase military. Jobs. Refutation of immigrants and minorities.

Bragging that he took credentials from WA Post. Crowd yells Kill them all.

Says Obama lousy president, can't repeat what I'm hearing in the crowd


Trump says "take care of our protestor, don't huuuurt him, take him home to mommy"


Trump says not to hurt protestor, several chant HURT HIM HURT HIM

Calls Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas, says he was asked to apologized, will only apologize to Pocahontas. Guy next to me does a war dance

Rally ends. Crowd on way mumbling about immigrants. Vendors yelling HILLARY SUCKS BUT NOT LIKE MONICA. America. 2016.

Just overheard: "you can't trust Latinos. Some maybe but not most"


So much casual racism, misogyny, homophobia, and just plain ugliness.

People breaking beer bottles in parking lot, throwing them on ground and at passing cars

Telling myself they're angry about the economy. About changing technology and industry. But there's so much base-level ugliness.

Suv blaring I Am A Real American, waving Trump hats and flipping off homeless and car with Mexican flag. What reality is this

Article tomorrow: there are members of Trump's coalition who've been waiting for years for an excuse to let their hate out.


Clearing out of Greensboro. Thanks for the retweets and comments. Trump's candidacy is a virus that needs cured.

Paul McCartney's concept sketch for the Abbey Road cover (1969)

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drawing: faces 1451 - pink slip

by Jack Brummet

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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

drawing: Faces #1450 "I've wondered all these years"

By Jack Brummet
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The Greys were here. . .

By Jack Brummet, Alien Life Ed.


Adam Frank writes that The Greys may not exist now. . .but they did once. 



"In a paper published in the May issue of the journal Astrobiology, the astronomer Woodruff Sullivan and I show that while we do not know if any advanced extraterrestrial civilizations currently exist in our galaxy, we now have enough information to conclude that they almost certainly existed at some point in cosmic history."




To read the full article in the New York Times, click here
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drawing: Faces #1448 - wine crate

By Jack Brummet

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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Tykables: a controversial store for adult babies

Near Chicago, citizens are worked up over the success of Tykables--a retail store that caters to adult fetishists who identify as babies (e.g., they sell diapers, pacifiers, bonnets, oversized cribs, strollers, etc.).



So far, Tykables is a word-of-mouth business and you need an appointment to shop there. This is a photo of the owner, John-Michael 'Tod' Williams, in his store.



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