Last night, as you may have heard, Donald Trump showed how he was the toughest guy on the planet, who can stand up to Putin and Kim Jong Il, by running away from Megyn Kelly, the world’s most terrifying person. Instead of being grilled by Fox personnel on the GOP debate, Trump launched his own, […]
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2015 will probably go down as the ‘year of migration’, certainly in Europe. All the contradictions of globalisation were coming to a head. All the ‘blowback’ from Western interventions in the Maghreb and in the Levant were coming home.
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Have you been following the United States presidential race? Crystal Valentine has crafted a poem called “Crystal Gets Taken in for Interrogation After Assassinating Donald Trump.” The video embedded above features her performance at the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam.
Click on these links to listen to three more of Valentine’s works: “Black Privilege,” “Tempest,” and ‘A Voter’s Problem.” For more Donald Trump-themed videos, follow these links to watch “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Trump (Grinch Parody)” and “Donald Trump Children’s Book (ghost written by Jimmy Kimmel).” Have you ever created politically-inspired art work?
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Did you know that reality TV star Donald Trump wants to write a children’s book? Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel the took the liberty of ghost writing one for him.
In the video embedded above, Kimmel reads aloud from the Dr. Seuss-style verse story, entitled Winners Aren’t Losers, during a conversation with the GOP presidential candidate. Throughout his lifetime, Trump has been credited with authoring more than a dozen books.
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Jorge Ramos, a journalist and news anchor, has signed a deal with the Penguin Random House imprint, Celebra. Ramos’ name has been circulating throughout the news as of late because he recently engaged in a verbal altercation with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on the topic of immigration.
Ramos plans to write a book entitled Take a Stand: Lessons From Rebels. The publisher plans to release the book in both English and Spanish on March 15, 2016.
Here’s more from the press release: “In Take a Stand, Ramos looks back on the groundbreaking interviews he has conducted during his thirty years as a journalist. Recounting interviews with such personalities as President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Spike Lee, Barbara Walters, Fidel Castro and more, he shares never-before-told stories and offers a unique perspective on key issues affecting the world today. Candid and at times controversial, Ramos shines a light on the concerns that influence Hispanics, the largest minority in the country. These concerns will undoubtedly shape not only the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, but also the overall future of America.”
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The proudly coifed and teased hair, the desire to make a splash, the lust after wealth, the racist remarks: Donald Trump? Or Mark Twain? Today is Mark Twain’s birthday; he was born on 30 November 1835, and died on 21 April 1910.
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With elections just about a year away, Americans can expect to hear a lot about regulation during the next twelve months—most of it from Republicans and most of it scathing. Republican frontrunner Donald Trump typifies the GOP’s attitude toward regulation.
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In case you couldn’t stomach five hours of GOP presidential candidates sniping at each other while competing to see who could do more to cut access to health care for women, Michael Cavna was doing some quick sketches for Twitter. Cavna—best known for his wonderful Comic Riffs column at the Washington Post—is no Jane Rosenberg, […]
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Doctor Mike Tyson is giving the people what they want, and speaking his mind because everyone knows his secrets. The former boxing heavyweight champ returned to San Diego Comic-Con to promote the upcoming season of his Adult Swim animated comedy Mike Tyson Mysteries. He couldn’t really get into the details on what we can expect because then it wouldn’t be a mystery now would it. “We are about to get really, really explosive. I like to use that word: explosive,” Tyson said. “Some dignified offenses. It will be offensive but dignified.”
Tyson expressed his dream real life celebrities and cartoon favorites he’d like to see in the animated series. “Foghorn Leghorn,” Tyson confessed. “I’d want Bishop Magic Juan, Snoop Dogg, Eddie Griffin, Flavor Flav in the show. We are going for mainstream celebrities like Howard Stern.”
So, I was curious him if there was a Presidential candidate he admired or wanted to get in the ring with. Tyson fancies himself as a political pundit and had a couple things to say about Republican Presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
“I like Donald Trump,” Tyson said while laughing and covering his face.
ICYMI, Trump has been making headlines and climbing the polls because of the outlandish comments made about the Mexican migrants crossing the US/Mexico border during his Presidential bid announcement.
“He has balls. (Trump) is taking all those guys on. You gotta respect those kind of merits. We are all human, and we are going to make mistakes. We got a lot of emotional vampires in the world we’re living in.”
The Mike Tyson Mystery Team will be back at it again with all-new episodes on Adult Swim this fall.
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By Elvin Lim
In 2010, the Tea Party movement was out and about. Newly christened and newly outraged, they created the enthusiasm gap that creates victories in an age of evenly split bipolarized politics.
This year, the rage has sizzled out to disgruntled listlessness. Even for those still against Obamacare, the memory of its passage has waned because the promised effects of its eventual implementation will not become evident for a few more years, and the debate about the national debt is either too real (in Medicare) or too esoteric (as in the debt ceiling) for easy populist manipulation.
If Republicans are still waiting for a political novice from a midwestern town to emerge out of nowhere and take the country by storm (i.e. their Obama), then they better wait for the next cycle, because their most talented candidates have already opted to do so. The smart candidates, if they can afford the time, are polishing their CVs for 2016, because they know that whoever it is, incumbent presidents are just hard to beat; plus, they happen to be facing an incumbent president who appears as adept at filling his war-chest as he is at delivering campaign sonnets.
Trump was a fun fantasy, as was Huckabee, and as remains Herman Cain. So many tantalizing options, some sparks of celebrity, and yet no magic, no candidate with the star quality — the je na sais quoi of our era of infotainment politics. It’s not that there is no talent on the Republican side, but that the talented have wisely chosen to withhold their talent for a better shot in the future.
And so all we have on the Republican side right now is the same old. The front-runner, as far as any is visible, is a stiff millionaire with Wall Street credentials with the slick hair to match his slick politics. He was for health-care in Massachusetts before he was against it in Washington. But he does raise a lot of money, so at least he satisfies the bare minimum requirement for what it takes to take on Obama. And that’s it. For all the Right’s talk that Obama is just about the worst president that has ever befallen American (so terrible he’s even been deemed, literally, unAmerican), there is a gaping lacuna in their search for an alternative.
In the era of the permanent campaign, when all elected politicians are already campaigning for their next appearance at the poll, now is rather late in the game that we are not already speculating about the most viable candidates. Granted, the speculations are often wrong, but the point is early speculation is a sign of enthusiasm that helps create a victorious wave for whoever the nominee is later on. The last time there was an incumbent president on the ballot, the Democrats were going gaga over Howard Dean at this time in that cycle. We are well past this point for the 2012 cycle, and yet the Republican Tea Partiers are only just getting over Donald Trump’s flirtatious clownery. Whereas by 2006, the lame-duck George Bush was already being eclipsed by the media’s extended foreplay with both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, most eyes remain on the same two characters, even if some are cast in contempt. There still isn’t a newsmaking, paparazzi-feeding figure on the Republican side who also looks credible enough to party apparatchiks. (Sarah Palin fails on the latter criterion), in part because no candidate on the Right has yet mastered the fine art of credible populism — as close as one can come to giving the je na sais quoi of presidential star quality a name in the era of plebiscitary and anti-intellectual politics. The existing range of candidates are sub-par because they are either too stiff or too silly.
All populists are, to some extent, sweet-talking thespians. It cannot be otherwise, because democracy makes the voter sovereign, and sovereigns love flattery. But
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On Sunday, Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books publisher Margery Cuyler and actress Robin Holly will judge children’s books produced by contestants on Donald Trump‘s reality television show, The Celebrity Apprentice.
Here’s more from the release: “In the episode, the star-studded cast featuring celebrities such as Gary Busey and La Toya Jackson will split into two teams and engage themselves in one of the most prominent niches in the book publishing industry – children’s literature. Both teams will author an original children’s picture book to help raise money for charity.”
In the past, Celebrity Apprentice contestants worked at Redbook magazine and Zappos.com comics, but this is the first time the show has featured children’s books. Will you watch it?
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By Elvin Lim
In recent weeks, factions within the Republican party have begun jostling for power within the conservative movement. This is the bitter-sweet inevitability of being more than the party in opposition, but also a party recently co-opted into power. Whether the disagreement is between Rick Santorum versus Sarah Palin, or the Family Research Council versus GOProud , or Tea Party members of Congress and moderate Republicans debating the budget, or William Kristol and Glenn Beck on democracy in Egypt, these differences are only going to grow as we head toward Republican primary season.
There are, of course, differences in priorities within the Democratic fold as well. But the source of the president’s incumbency advantage derives from the fact that these differences will not be played out during the primary season. He will likely enjoy the benefit of not being challenged. So when Republican candidates are invariably jostling for advantage, the president can simply go about his business, looking presidential (and raising money.)
The reason why Ronald Reagan’s historical legacy has been revised upwards in recent times is because the children of his revolution know of no better way to hold themselves together. Or put another way, the celebration of Reagan only reveals the dearth of leadership in the conservative movement, which is still looking to the past because they cannot yet see anyone who can take them to victory in the future.
At this time in the 2008 cycle, Barack Obama had already declared his candidacy, alongside a formidable front-runner, Hillary Clinton.
Today, there is a long, lackluster, and uncommitted list of potential candidates on the Republican side (so much so that even Donald Trump managed to steal the show at this year’s CPAC Conference), but no major candidate has taken the plunge. Why? Because whoever takes the first plunge would become the universal target of all those not yet declared, and will suffer the irony that the first-mover advantage becomes the first-victim-of-infighting disadvantage. The more potential candidates predict infighting, the later they will declare, so that they can stay above the fray for as long as they can. No one candidate feels confident enough to pull the three major strands of conservatism – the libertarians, the social conservatives, and the neo-conservatives – together, and this is why Reagan is still the godfather revered.
Watch the lesser known candidates be among the first to declare as they would be able to secure some national media attention when the Reagan Library hosts the first Republican primary debate for the season on May 2, 2011. The better known candidates have more to lose and less to gain by declaring early.
In particular, s/he who waits until the situation in Egypt as well as the budget battle between the President and Congress unfolds would better be able to pivot toward the emerging priorities of the conservative movement. If Egypt transitions into a democracy friendly to US interests, then neo-conservatives of the Kristol variety would have won the argument
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My thought on all this politics and financial crisis is that we can make a difference. We MUST make a difference!
What can we do right now to ensure that the youth and children of now are smart enough and prepared enough and willing enough to care about this country like we do and to run it effectively?
Education is the key to our survival. Look around you; look at the average kid walking down the street. Is that who you want running our country in 40 years? Would they even care enough to want to?
By putting more of a focus on the education of this and the next generations we can ensure that our country will be worth the respect of those around us and that we won't have to worry about the next big crisis.
I think that Robert Kiyosaki and Donald Trump have the right idea. In WHY WE WANT YOU TO BE RICH, they talk a lot about financial education. It is crucial to not only teach kids the basics, but to also teach them about the wonders of respect and accomplishment and self-worth. By giving them a financial education, we can increase the chances of them being successfully independent. Part of that education needs to be the analysis of situations like what we face now in the financial sector. I once heard someone say that Wall Street didn't affect them because they owned no stock. I wonder what they are thinking now.
Kids are leaving schools without the basic skills to do simple math or even to know how to read in many cases. I've seen this. It is frightening.
Is it up to government to fix our education problems? Isn't it up to the people? This is no time for pointing fingers and saying "you did it." It is a time to come together and find a solution to the problem. Don't like the schools your kids go to? Home school, give them the level of education you think they require, but be sure you include the things that are important. WE have to make certain that we all begin and master the basic skills before moving on to the "fun" stuff.
Where is the support for our educators. I do believe that a lot of the problem with education lies with the teachers. It is not their fault! But they are tired. They are overworked, they are underpaid, and they are seriously underappreciated. What incentive do they have to even care? Now, don't get me wrong, they chose their career and they had to know going in that it would have its down side, but overpopulated classrooms, lack of financial support for curriculum materials and basic tools? Was this part of the deal? When was the last time you thanked your child's teacher for their efforts. How many teachers actually feel like anyone cares?
Well, I care. I don't have children, but I am educated enough to know that if we, as a people, don't do something to support education in this country, we are all in a lot of trouble, now, and in the future!
“Very very rich people like other very very rich people.” Exactly so. It’s something Robin and I are fond of saying whether we’re watching sporting events or a Congressional debate or a Hollywood-based awards ceremony or a talk show. These people all have more in common with each other than they do with us, and even if they disagree with each other vehemently they’re still inclined to go out for a beer together after the game or the debate or the show.
The attempt to downplay the charity is very strange. There is no reason to assume that because the money was donated to a particular organization it won’t be sent along to veterans. The website linked uses a weak argument to taint the charities motives, claiming it donated more to political organizations than to veterans. However they are only talking about 180 thousand dollars, the origin and purpose of which is no elaborated upon. This is not to mention the fact that many charitable organizations do make political donations, take planned parenthood for example.
These points are irrelevant of course because it’s not as though the money has been misspent yet! We have no reason to assume it’s going to be, either, unless you have some pre existing bias which wants to see every virtue of this candidate perverted into a vice. Is it so surprising that he would use a personal charitable organization that already exists to facilitate this somewhat spontaneous event rather than setting up a new organization?
I understand comics is not interested in politics other than to sling mud at perceived opponents of the hive mind, but perhaps if we hope to ever mature the medium we should attempt to broaden our minds and at least treat these topics fairly and their proponents with respect.
Andrew, the Perlmutters’s philanthropy is well documented and longstanding. .For whatever reason, they are definitely very charitable.
Check this out: http://thefederalist.com/2016/01/28/trumps-new-pro-veterans-website-directs-all-donations-to-trumps-personal-foundation/
Trump’s New Pro-Veterans Website Directs All Donations To Trump’s Personal Foundation
Rather than going directly to veterans groups, 100% of online donations on Trump’s pro-veterans site will go directly to Trump’s personal foundation.
JANUARY 28, 2016 By The Federalist Staff
After ducking the final Republican presidential debate heading into next week’s Iowa caucuses, GOP front-runner Donald Trump announced that he would hold his own pro-veterans event during the debate to raise money for veterans. Trump even set up a special website to solicit donations to help veterans.
“Honor their valor,” the website, donaldtrumpforvets.com, states. “Donate now to help our Veterans.”
The website, which is nothing more than a single page with stock photos and a credit card donation form, claims that “100% of your donations will go directly to Veterans needs.”
There’s only one problem: 100% of the money raised on the site goes directly to Donald Trump’s personal non-profit foundation, according to a disclosure listed at the bottom of the page.
“The Donald J Trump Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization,” the disclosure reads. “An email confirmation with a summary of your donation will be sent to the email address provided above.”
While i’m certainly not a fan of Trump, I think it’s hyperbole to say that he ran away from Kelly. He’s the front runner and all the other candidates would want to get their last shots in before the caucus. It’s actually a pretty smart move to bow out and just run out the clock.
The other reason to doubt Trump was his raising money for the “Veterans for a Strong America” organization earlier in his campaign. Trump said the organization “represented thousands of Veterans” when it only represented one person: Joel Arends. That organization’s non-profit tax status had already been pulled after not filing income taxes for 3 years. After the fundraiser the organization declared bankruptcy and restarted under the new name “Vets for a Strong America”. There is no evidence that Joel’s former group spent any of the Trump raised money it received on Veterans.
The movie “the 1 Percent” indicates how the Fanjul family is a top contributor to both the Republican, and Democrat parties (it is somewhere around 24 minutes into the documentary), and I would not be surprised if Ike contributes just as much to Hilary Clinton.
At the end of the day, regardless of who is President, regardless of education, and salary, and work ethic the majority of our adult lives as ‘Americans’ will still be asphalt, strip malls, junk food, screens w/advertisements disguised as entertainment w/commercials, brand identity, bigotry, consumerism, more grueling traffic, homes made to be flipped instead of lived in as products and services are made to break down and take our money, outsourcing and lobbyists, and more and more and more grueling traffic -the whole time anyone you walk up to will not be able to articulate how to be involved in town hall meetings and where they take place, where city council meets or who they are, how to meet their congressmen, or how a bill gets blocked let alone passed, and never would anyone feel it would be expected to know who are non-violent protest leaders or how to be involved in a peaceful protest -because…? We are ‘Americans’ still?
Ike can freely do whatever he wants, it is not like ‘Americans’ are going to do anything. Did you all tell yourselves to ‘think positive’, and ‘im special’ enough while sitting in traffic, and being reduced at work? Make sure to pay attention to corporate policy, so you can keep your jobs, OK? Are there enough condo complexes filled with out-sourced labor, and ‘Americans’ obsessing who is either ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’, while we pretend work ethic, cooperation, and education have value?
You guys dont actually think the USA still exists, do you? We know more about Marvel and DC brands, than we do about how to improve livability in this fake country.
In the spirit of a miogynist supporting a racist like they’re Klan members too afraid to wear the white hoods in public, Ike Perlmutter’s support of noted bigot Donald Trump provides Disney and Marvel with every justification they need to kick him put of the entire conglomerate. Ike, meanwhile, is contemplating changing his name to Isaac Scott Card. When reached for comment, Ike hid behind a random veteran and whined, “It’s all Hillary’s fault!”
America needs a father figure.. I can`t wait until he is President.
The best thing when he wins is to see that silly smirks wiped off the people in shock!
Go Trump! Make America great again.
Freedom of Speech rules!
I stopped buying Marvel’s comics years ago. Thanks, Mr. Perlmutter, for giving me a reason to continue avoiding them.
Amazing Stam, if you have any Muslim friends or relatives, I’m sure you’ll enjoy visiting them in detention camps if Trump is elected. The rest of us will be making plans to move to Europe.