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Related, sort of...I wanted to start a thread in TL about folks' favorite comic strips. For me, one of my favorites has always been Bloom County by Berkely Breathed. One of the characters, Bill the cat, was a horrible mess in general. There was a period where the creator was struggling after the Reagan years to do something creative so, he wrote in that Bill got a Trump's Brain for awhile. This would be in the 90's with a younger (40's?) Trump connotation. I was delighted to see the creator also released a new book recently that picked back up on Trump now being President.

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Donald Trump, ‘Bloom County’ Slumlord

In the late 1980s, cartoonist Berkeley Breathed was bored — and for Bloom County readers, his lack of inspiration was palpable. The comic strip that had spent the Reagan ’80s lampooning so many aspects of period culture astutely and mercilessly — race relations, presidential politics, runaway conservatism, feminism, MTV’s rise, the Cold War, scientific progress, tabloid absurdity, general corporate fecklessness — was running on fumes in the Bush I era.

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Enter Donald Trump. Then in his early 40s, the New York real estate mogul had been cast by the national media as a living, breathing personification of soulless opulence: forcibly evicting tenants to accelerate a demolition; megalomaniacal, piling up failed business ventures (Trump Airlines, the New Jersey Generals, Tour de Trump); showcasing the sneering, world-baiting hauteur of a wrestling heel, a role he would later actually play.

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One was hard-pressed, at that moment in time, to find a more powerful, loathsome figure in American life — or a more deserving icon for Breathed to roundly whack-a-mole as the strip marched to its end.... The strip thrived on the era’s neon-splashed shallowness, which felt informed by a certain well-meaning earnestness. Trump’s every action and utterance embraced reckless shallowness with such vengeance that he almost had to surface in Bloom County; his presence in this strip, in retrospect, feels almost inevitable...
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Apologies for posting what is more appropriately put in the Trump thread, but it kinda fit where this just went. Sue me.
 
"I don't have a problem standing up to somebody who was you know working on season 7 of Celebrity Apprentice when I was packing my bags for Afghanistan," Buttigieg also said.

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Pete Buttigieg accuses Trump of using wealth to dodge draft with "fake" disability

In an interview Thursday, he said that Trump had used his "privileged status to fake a disability"
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A+ I think we have a new "should be" candidate for the Dems in 2020.
 
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