OMG Politics, I'm over it already.

[bsman]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/03/09/china-approves-trump-trademarks/98953422/

Do you suppose that "Loofah-faced shit-gibbon" is one of the things Trump trademarked?

 

[Mark Wein]

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-b...tional-endowment-for-the-arts-52-of-unnatural


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[mongooz]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/03/09/china-approves-trump-trademarks/98953422/

Do you suppose that "Loofah-faced shit-gibbon" is one of the things Trump trademarked?

it SHOULD be tatooed on his forehead in red ink.

 

[mongooz]

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-b...tional-endowment-for-the-arts-52-of-unnatural


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that was pretty foreseeable, really. the NEA hasn't been relavant for a while and as the article points out, granting money to people who use defacation or sexually graphic nudity as "their art" doesn't play well with most of the public.

 

[Flamencology]

that was pretty foreseeable, really. the NEA hasn't been relavant for a while and as the article points out, granting money to people who use defacation or sexually graphic nudity as "their art" doesn't play well with most of the public.

America's failure to support public-funded art disgusts me.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

America's failure to support public-funded art disgusts me.

"It's a waste of money and doesn't solve any real problems!"

 

[jp_nyc]

that was pretty foreseeable, really. the NEA hasn't been relavant for a while and as the article points out, granting money to people who use defacation or sexually graphic nudity as "their art" doesn't play well with most of the public.

There’s another side nobody talks about: the NEA spent a lot on performing arts that weren’t especially creative and already have wealthy benefactors. I can understand funding the arts to promote new ideas. But do we really need public money for big-budget stagings of Wagner’s Ring Cycle? Or Sondheim revivals? Beethoven’s symphonies? That’s never been music for the masses. It’s entertainment for wealthy people who are quite capable of funding this stuff on their own.

 

[bsman]

America's failure to support public-funded art disgusts me.

The NEA has been a target of the right-wing since at least the Reagan days (remember piss christ and the Mapplethorpe exhibit?) The right wing wants veto power over any public art it deems unworthy. I wonder where they got that idea?

 

[Tig]

We have plenty of alligators to stock it with in Florida, so we won't have to import any.

Drain the swamp and the alligators will just move by themselves.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

But do we really need public money for big-budget stagings of Wagner’s Ring Cycle? Or Sondheim revivals? Beethoven’s symphonies? That’s never been music for the masses. It’s entertainment for wealthy people who are quite capable of funding this stuff on their own.

Yes we do. Especially when those events are free to the public.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

LOL. The Washington Times doesn't like Sen. Turtle's answer to Politico.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...c&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

 

[Mark Wein]

Civil discourse spoiled-child style.

These guys just took down their "build tr wall" sign.

Here is my more mature contribution.

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[mongooz]

and they're ramming it through. we'll see if it gets the votes on the floor.

dumpster has said that if it doesn't pass, he's going to "let obamacare die" and blame it on the dems. he said that again yesterday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/us/politics/health-bill-clears-house-panel-in-pre-dawn-hours.html

 

[Tig]

Civil discourse spoiled-child style.
Here is my more mature contribution.

Crowd envy?

 

[Dogsinplastic]

do we really need public money for big-budget stagings of Wagner’s Ring Cycle?

Wagner was the nationalist music for the Nazis, so if it's presented in this manner, Bannon might give Trump the go ahead.

 

[mongooz]

Wagner was the nationalist music for the Nazis, so if it's presented in this manner, Bannon might give Trump the go ahead.

OMG....don't tell them that.....they'll change the national anthem to one of his works.

 

[Dogsinplastic]

OMG....don't tell them that.....they'll change the national anthem to one of his works.

The higher up Alt-Right NeoNazis are well aware of the history of Germany and it nationalism. Way too fucking that is.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

OMG....don't tell them that.....they'll change the national anthem to one of his works.

Still better than a rewritten drinking song.

 

[mongooz]

Still better than a rewritten drinking song.

Oh, say can you see, any bed bugs on me?
If you do, take a few, 'cause I got them off of you.
They have scars and broad stripes; they annoy me at night.
O'er the hair parts we watched, are now gallantly gleaming.
And the flashlights' red glare, the bugs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night, that no bugs were still there.
Oh, say does no scar-spangled bed bug yet wave
O'er the bed that's bed bug free, and the home that was saved?