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Wednesday 16 March 2016

In the fun house

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when you realize trump and clinton are going to be our presidential candidates: image via alexandra @woalexandra, 15 October 2016



[Untitled -- in the fun house]: image via daveweigel @daveweigel, 15 October 2016


[Untitled -- in drumpfworld]: image via daveweigel @daveweigel, 14 October 2016

Give me my robe. Put on my crown. I have immortal longings. Before another dawn you will love me. Don't give
me any lip. I will have you killed and I will have
your killer paid, and paid well. I love you. And before the juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this
whip, I will put it to you, and to your children, and your children's children
in the melancholy slackening that ensues
in the first hours after the election, when they will fall to their knees
in red ballcaps and worship me. I love you. You love me. We are an accommodating people.

 


This is the scene here at Trump's press conference. Woman in light-up hat posing for photogs red carpet-style.: image via Jill Colvin @colvinj, 15 March 2016


Trump invites his supporters to sit down. Says this is mar-a-lago so they get seats.
: image via Jill Colvin @colvinj, 15 March 2016



My view of Trump's press conference. He's speaking now.
: image via Jill Colvin @colvinj, 15 March 2016



My view of the podium at Trump's press conference tonight, which will be starting soon: image via Jill Colvin @colvinj, 15 March 2016


Trump's guests for the evening are beginning to file in. Photogs taking photos of them, them taking pics of us: image via Jill Colvin @colvinj, 15 March 2016


And here's the view of Trump's presser from the front of the room. Press will be seated in last two rows.: image via Jill Colvin @colvinj, 15 March 2016


Just your typical "elevator equipment" door decor at Trump's Mar-A-Lago: image via Jill Colvin @colvinj, 15 March 2016


This is how far back the press is seated at Donald Trump's presser tonight. Clearly conducive to questions.: image via Jill Colvin @colvinj, 15 March 2016


I count at least a 17 chandeliers in the Mar-A-Lago ballroom where Trump will be holding his presser tonight: image via Jill Colvin @colvinj, 15 March 2016


Cheer up @Reince, there's always 2024: image via The Baxter Bean @TheBaxterBean, 15 March 2016



@realDonaldTrump Hey thanks a lot Florida! #NeverTrump
: image via 4q2 @ForQ2, 15 March 2016



@realDonaldTrump Hey thanks a lot Florida! #NeverTrump
: image via 4q2 @ForQ2, 15 March 2016



Leaving our Nation's Capital flying over the #Pentagon, Center of our US Military! #Trump Will Take Care Of Our Vets: image via Pastor Mark Burns @pastormarkburns, 16 March 2016
 

Spotted in Tampa earlier this afternoon: image via Jenna Johnson @wpjenna, 14 March 2016


donald trump's son like...: image via Oliver Willis @owillis, 15 March 2016


I made a hat for you
: image via Chris Cilizza @TheFix, 14 March 2016




A voter left a polling place in Wilmot, Ohio, one of five states holding primaries that could narrow the field of candidates for president
: photo by Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse, 15 March 2016



A voter left a polling place in Wilmot, Ohio, one of five states holding primaries that could narrow the field of candidates for president
: photo by Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse, 15 March 2016


By the light of a lunar halo seen in the sky above Kathmandu

A man looks towards a lunar halo seen above the sky of Kathmandu...A man looks towards a lunar halo seen above the sky of Kathmandu, Nepal, March 15, 2016. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar


A man looks toward a lunar halo in the sky above Kathmandu, Nepal: photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters, 15 March 2016

A man looks towards a lunar halo seen above the sky of Kathmandu...A man looks towards a lunar halo seen above the sky of Kathmandu, Nepal, March 15, 2016. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar


A man looks toward a lunar halo in the sky above Kathmandu, Nepal: photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters, 15 March 2016

By the light of a lunar halo seen in the sky above Kathmandu
to look on nature as in thoughtless youth
but with a slow eye, as of the old man scuttling through the Ohio woods 
ahead of the angry mob of outraged parents
whose cries, to his chaste ears, harsh and grating must oftimes have seemed
More than once since then have I worried for his welfare, then one day last week
I saw him happy in the wood
there in the marsh country, by the river
with that young girl, and we felt an innocent warmth
that night, and for the first time in many a...
and she had heard of a pleasure, and something...  

Passengers ride an escalator at Canary Wharf tube station in London


Passengers ride an escalator at Canary Wharf tube station in London on Tuesday: photo by Kevin Coombs/Reuters, 15 March 2016

A police officer runs over a rooftop during a police anti-terrorist operation on the site of a shooting in the rue du Dries in Forest-Vorst, Brussels, Belgium  
A police officer runs over a rooftop during a police anti-terrorist operation at the site of a shooting in the rue du Dries in Forest-Vorst, Brussels, Belgium: photo by Laurent Dubrule/epa, 15 March 2016

A police officer runs over a rooftop during a police anti-terrorist operation on the site of a shooting in the rue du Dries in Forest-Vorst, Brussels, Belgium

A police officer runs over a rooftop during a police anti-terrorist operation at the site of a shooting in the rue du Dries in Forest-Vorst, Brussels, Belgium: photo by Laurent Dubrule/epa, 15 March 2016

Buildings under construction are seen during a hazy day in Rizhao...Buildings under construction are seen during a hazy day in Rizhao, Shandong Province, China, March 15, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.       TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Buildings under construction are seen during a hazy day in Rizhao, Shandong Province, China: photo by Reuters, 15 March 2016

Buildings under construction are seen during a hazy day in Rizhao...Buildings under construction are seen during a hazy day in Rizhao, Shandong Province, China, March 15, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.       TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Buildings under construction are seen during a hazy day in Rizhao, Shandong Province, China: photo by Reuters, 15 March 2016

National League for Democracy party (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives in Manama's parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. Myanmar's parliament votes Tuesday to pick the country's next president from a group of three final candidates, including a front runner who is a longtime confidant of Nobel laureate Suu Kyi. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

National League for Democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives in Manama’s parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Myanmar’s parliament votes Tuesday to pick the country’s next president from a group of three final candidates, including a front runner who is a longtime confidant of Nobel laureate Suu Kyi : photo by Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP, 15 March 2016

National League for Democracy party (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives in Manama's parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. Myanmar's parliament votes Tuesday to pick the country's next president from a group of three final candidates, including a front runner who is a longtime confidant of Nobel laureate Suu Kyi. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

National League for Democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives in Manama’s parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Myanmar’s parliament votes Tuesday to pick the country’s next president from a group of three final candidates, including a front runner who is a longtime confidant of Nobel laureate Suu Kyi : photo by Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP, 15 March 2016

Young Eels Night Fishing...A fishermen uses lamps to search for young eels on the Yoshino River in Tokushima, Japan, on Saturday, March 12, 2016. Young eels are approximately 2 inches (5 centimeters) in length. Those caught during fishing season are sold at a price of between 100 yen and 300 yen to farming facilities. Photographer: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Bloomberg.

A fishermen uses lamps to search for young eels on the Yoshino River in Tokushima, Japan, Young eels are approximately 2 inches in length: photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Bloomberg, 15 March 2016

Young Eels Night Fishing...A fishermen uses lamps to search for young eels on the Yoshino River in Tokushima, Japan, on Saturday, March 12, 2016. Young eels are approximately 2 inches (5 centimeters) in length. Those caught during fishing season are sold at a price of between 100 yen and 300 yen to farming facilities. Photographer: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Bloomberg.

A fishermen uses lamps to search for young eels on the Yoshino River in Tokushima, Japan, Young eels are approximately 2 inches in length: photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Bloomberg, 15 March 2016

to you, and to your children 


Boys play with a BB gun in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus: photo by Bassam Khabieh/Reuters, 4 March 2016


Wounded Syrian children react as they wait for treatment at a clinic in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, following  air strikes by regime forces. More than 210,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising began in March 2011.: photo by Abd Doumany/AFP, 13 March 2016


A Kurdish fighter walks with his child in the center of the Syrian border town of Kobane, known as Ain al-Arab: photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP, 28 January 2016


Syrian children walk through the debris in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, following air strikes by regime forces: photo by Abd Douamany/AFP, 13 March 2016


Syrian children reenact scenes they said they have witnessed in Islamic State videos, in the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Douma: photo by Abd Doumany/AFP, 5 March 2016


Syrian girls, carrying school bags provided by UNICEF, walk past the rubble of destroyed buildings on their way home from school in al-Shaar neighborhood, in the rebel-held side of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo: photo by Izein Al-Rifaii/AFP, 7 March 2016


A woman and her child sit in a military vehicle as she returns home at the town of Tal Ksaiba, near the town of al-Alam, Iraq: photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters 7 March 2016



A Syrian child sits in the back of a truck loaded with furniture as residents collect what remains of their belongings from their apartments following months of shelling by regime forces in the besieged rebel held area of Douma, north east of the capital Damascus: photo by Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP, 13 February 2016


A Syrian man carries a wounded child at a makeshift clinic following air strikes by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the rebel held area of Douma. Syrian rebels fired dozens of mortar rounds at Damascus, killing at least five people, with government forces responding with air strikes that killed eight people.: photo by Abd Doumany/AFP, 13 March 2016


A boy carries bread as he makes his way through rubble of damaged buildings in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus: photo by Bassam Khabieh/Reuters, 4 March 2016


An injured Syrian child waits for treatment at a makeshift hospital in the rebel held area of Douma, north east of the capital Damascus, following air strikes by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad: photo by Abd Doumany/AFP, 2 February 2016

4 comments:

Hazen said...

In light of these electoral goings-on, it looks like we’ve decided to saddle up and ride the ole H-bomb to perdition, as our lord and savior Slim Pickens taught us. Figuratively speaking, of course.

Hilton said...

What a spread of dismay. Powerful.

TC said...

Well then, okay. Desperate measures.

The invisible virtues of Kasich. For study. Possible Kasich 'n Lil Marco Breakfast Combo. Anything to stop The Hildebeest before she installs yet another western hemisphere corporate co-prosperity sphere puppet regime... anybody notice by the way, that exactly as the late Berta Cáceres had grimly prophesied, another troublesome Honduran activist has now been "mysteriously" murdered in the night, only a few weeks after Berta herself suffered the same fate -- this latest assassination victim quite possibly erased by the selfsame termination squad, and Hildebeest's little regime friends remain, once again, mum...

I believe she's having the chapter on her Honduran successes struck from her official history, but likely that'll be just for this week, or until the trouble blows over...

...and hey, there hasn't even been any trouble, because, hey, well, "I'm with Her"...

So. The hidden till now virtues of Kasich.

To be explored... but that project will have to be postponed till a bit later in the night, as at the moment the Coon Cat is recumbent upon the hand magnifying glass.

STEPHEN RATCLIFFE said...

"And before the juice of Egypt's grape shall / moist this / whip, I will put it to you, and to your children" -- Donald Dump