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Portland gallery is forced to take down gruesome art work showing President Trump being beheaded ISIS-style after the owner received DEATH threats |
2018-07-18 |
h/t Instapundit An art gallery in Portland, Oregon, removed a window drawing that depicts President Donald Trump being beheaded ISIS style. The founder of One Grand Gallery in the Northwest city told KPTV-TV that he took down the controversial drawing after threats from Trump supporters and a request from his landlord. The gallery founder asked to remain anonymous for fear that someone would try to harm him. The horrific image shows a man whose face is concealed holding Trump’s head with one hand. |
Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
#5 *sigh* The link for the Driscoll piece is here. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-07-18 15:13 |
#4 About those other countries... Ed Driscoll told the full story about that quote about fascism descending on America, and it's fascinating: [Guenter] Grass plays a small role in Tom Wolfe's 1976 essay, "The Intelligent Coed’s Guide To America," reprinted in his 1982 anthology The Purple Decades, available on the Kindle and an essential introduction to both Wolfe's early nonfiction, and life in America in the crazed '60s and '70s, which today often reads stranger than fiction. Wolfe uses a statement from Grass as a springboard for the saying he helped enter into widespread distribution: "The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe." The two men shared the stage at a ruckus 1965 panel at Princeton University, dominated both on the panel and in the audience by paranoid lefties convinced that fellow Democrat Lyndon Johnson was the new fascistic boogieman*, including Allen Ginsberg and Merry Prankster Paul Krassner, about whom Wolfe notes: The next thing I knew, the discussion was onto the subject of fascism in America. Everybody was talking about police repression and the anxiety and paranoia as good folks waited for the knock on the door and the descent of the knout on the nape of the neck. I couldn't make any sense out of it. I had just made a tour of the country to write a series called “The New Life Out There” for New York magazine. This was the mid-1960’s. The post-World War II boom had by now pumped money into every level of the population on a scale unparalleled in any nation in history. Not only that, the folks were running wilder and freer than any people in history. For that matter, Krassner himself, in one of the strokes of exuberance for which he was well known, was soon to publish a slight hoax: an account of how Lyndon Johnson was so overjoyed about becoming President that he had buggered a wound in the neck of John F. Kennedy on Air Force One as Kennedy’s body was being flown back from Dallas. Krassner presented this as a suppressed chapter from William Manchester’s book Death of a President. Johnson, of course, was still President when it came out. Yet the merciless gestapo dragnet missed Krassner, who cleverly hid out onstage at Princeton on Saturday nights. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-07-18 13:13 |
#3 Try that in Cuba, Venezuela, or even in Germany and see what happens next. USA as fascist right wing hellhole, my arse... |
Posted by: magpie 2018-07-18 10:03 |
#2 The horrific image shows a man whose face is concealed holding Trump’s head with one hand. Sexist, patriarchal appropriation. Kathy Griffin already did it. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-07-18 07:35 |
#1 "Look at ME! Look at ME!!... Oh, wait, nevermind" |
Posted by: Frank G 2018-07-18 06:41 |