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Wednesday Toon Roundup 1- The tRump Signal (Original Post)
n2doc
May 2016
OP
Rall forgot to mention that President Trump would force Saudi Arabia to pay for the bacon. (n/t)
Jim Lane
May 2016
#13
Am I the only one who doesn't get the first one at all? What the hell is that? Is someone
Gene Debs
May 2016
#4
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)1. The sad thing is that Ted Rall just gave Trump and his supporters a plan - n/t
n2doc
(47,953 posts)2. tRump ahas already said that us troops should fire bullets coated in pig blood
I doubt that Ted came up with the idea himself. The RW'ers love to think up this sort of crap.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)13. Rall forgot to mention that President Trump would force Saudi Arabia to pay for the bacon. (n/t)
Gene Debs
(582 posts)4. Am I the only one who doesn't get the first one at all? What the hell is that? Is someone
trying to summon the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Trump sees it? WTF?
n2doc
(47,953 posts)5. the * sign is shorthand for asshole n/t
Cirque du So-What
(25,943 posts)8. Makes sense now
but I too admit being perplexed by that one.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)12. Wasn't Vonnegut the first to popularize that?
I think it's from "Breakfast of Champions"
Hekate
(90,714 posts)14. It may be floating around the Zeitgeist at this point. Back when I started DU in 2002...
...I didn't necessarily want to write out asshole in full, and it occurred to me that an asterisk looked a lot like one. So *hole it became.
Sentath
(2,243 posts)15. Sort of
Vonnegut's is more illustrative
https://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/the_use_of_illustration_in_kurt_vonnegut-s-breakfast_of_champions
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)16. Yep, I read BoC in 1984 and I loved his artwork in that book. n/t
annabanana
(52,791 posts)6. kicktoons. . . . . . n/t
madokie
(51,076 posts)7. I'm really not looking forward
to America being tRumped.
Thanks for the 'toons.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)10. Thank you for the Cartoons
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)11. Thank-you!