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Description ”Don (Trump) Quixote”, riding annoyedly atop a very angry white horse. He wears grey fatigues, a sword and riding boots with spurs while the horse wears a red caparison with golden trim. He holds a yellow shield inscribed with “FREE SPEECH” and a red buckle decorated with a yellow T in his right hand while brandishing a spear labelled “LAWSUIT” in the left. He pursues an animate windmill flying the Chinese flag. Its sails are labelled, clockwise from top-left, “🐦twitter”, “facebook”. “CENSORSHIP” amd “Google”, with a skull at the centre. The “CENSORSHIP” sail ends in a hand holding a bunch of Dollar notes, one of which has slipped away.)Yes, I realize that the Don Quixote character from Cervantes’ novel attacked imaginary enemies as represented by the windmill, but Donald Trump Quixote’s enemies are not imagined.
They are all too real and dangerous.
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Yes, I realize that the Don Quixote character from Cervantes’ novel attacked imaginary enemies as represented by the windmill, but Donald Trump Quixote’s enemies are not imagined.
Why, then, did you compare your hero with Don Quixote? Also, why are you saying that as if that was something obscure rather than the one thing everyone knows Don Quixote for?
@Bastethotep Cause it's such good imagery!
Of course, because Ben Garrison is an idiot he doesn't realize comparing your wanna be Wonder Boy to Don Quixote is an insult. To Don Quixote, really. Both Trump and Don Quixote are both delusional but at least the man from La Mancha was well meaning. Don Trump is anything but.
I'd also agree Don Trump's enemies aren't imaginary. He has meticulously crafted anyone who calls him out for the scum that he is into some being as dangerous as an angry giant, and fighting the "foe" to suit his own ends.
Getting flashbacks to when Colonel KR compared himself constantly to Don Quixote, which to his credit he actually did stop, unlike ol’ Garrison and his insultingly-bland constant glamorization of Trump
You haven't read the novel by Miguel de Cervantes, thus realised its actual meaning.
Have you, Benny-boy...?!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote
Many critics came to view the work as a tragedy in which Don Quixote's idealism and nobility are viewed by the post-chivalric world as insane, and are defeated and rendered useless by common reality
You may think of that orange... thing as 'noble' and 'chivalrous'.
The rest of us on Planet Reality don't.
Trump’s lawsuit has no hope of success as Facebook, Google etc. are not government actors and thus not compelled to allow their users First Amendment rights. So he might as well be Don Quixote taking aim at a windmill in any case.
@Bastethotep #93327 @TheKingOfRhye #93338 If you’ve seen the movie ‘Idiocracy’ you may recall President Camacho saying “We’ve got this guy Not Sure! And he’s got a higher IQ than any man alive! And he is gonna fix EVERYTHING!” Garrison posted a picture of Camacho and quoted the same, but “We’ve got this guy Trump…” instead. Having apparently forgotten the film was called ‘Idiocracy’, Camacho was an idiot and his audience even worse idiots.
Yes, I realize that the Don Quixote character from Cervantes’ novel attacked imaginary enemies as represented by the windmill, but Donald Trump Quixote’s enemies are not imagined. Sure that means my cartoon makes no sense, but I already drew the cartoon and I won't ever admit to having done anything dumb, no matter what! So actually, my cartoon makes perfect sense because you're the dummy, not me!
Those companies (rightfully) banning Trump from their services for breaking the Terms of Service (by posting hate speech and attempts at insurrection) does NOT make them enemies of America or free speech.
Let me guess, you’d be all for it if those companies banned Obama and Biden for merely disagreeing with Trump, right? F*cking hypocrite…
Don Quixote was a sad, delusional man with a better opinion of himself than reality warranted, who was doomed to failure, subject to ridicule and destined to die angry and disillusioned that his fantasy would never and could never come true.
Sounds an awful lot like the Man From Mar-A-Lago, if you ask me.
As everyone above said....plus, Quixote's sidekick was loyal to Quixote.
And, Sancho was witty. None of the Trump's minions are wits...
I'm reminded of a cutaway gag from Family Guy where Brian tells Peter he's a terrible liar. It cuts to Peter stepping onto an elevator with one other person at which point he farts. Peter then looks the other man dead in the eye and says "it was you" with the implication that absolutely nobody on this planet would have thought that to be convincing.
Trump supporters are the people too dumb for that joke to work. Real life people that lower the bar for Family Guy's game of vulgarity limbo.
Stupidest quote in a long time. What makes it extra-stupid is that HE KNOWS it’s stupid but says it anyway, like a stupid person stupidly awash in stupidity!
I feel like Eros the space guy from Plan 9 From Outer Space … “STUPID! STUPID!”
I sometimes wonder if these self-defeating misuses of pop-culture on purpose… as a way to troll and get attention.
* A political cartoonist comparing a figure he LIKES to a literary goofus who chases after imaginary enemies and problems… as a means to try to defend that figure. He COULD have gone with the more obvious like “St. George vs. the Dragon” or “David vs. Goliath” but nope… he goes with “Don Quixote vs. Windmill”.
… Sure some could be geezers being out of touch but some of these folks should not only know better but are themselves Boomers, Xers and Millennials who are sure to own computers and TV sets and should know what’s going on pop-culture wise via simple “Pop-Culture Osmosis” (I never watched Game of Thrones but even I know some basic plot points and characters). These aren’t all Silent Generation - aged hermits who hang out in the Siberian wilderness in caves somewhere.
@SpukiKitty #93495
"one would have to be deaf to not hear what the non-chorus part of ‘Born in the USA’ is so blatantly saying"
Not necessarily. These ARE the people who wave the Bible around with little to no clue what it actually says. They know a few lines and pencil in whatever they WANT it to say.
So they hear a catchy refrain and willfully believe everyone else assigns the same meaning they do.
Ben the enemies of America are ok with Russia hacking us, want a president who, at the very fucking best was weak. At the very worst, he wanted us to fail and was beholden to Putin. Who stormed capitol 6 January. Why? Because it weakened us. And Putin loved it.
<@KeithInc. > #93500
True, after all, they’ve spent centuries mis-interpreting their oft-pacifistic proto-SJW religion as a warmongering imperialistic genocidal mess… mainly due to conflating it with the previous stuff with the crankier Deity and stories of wars and genocide… never mind that the new faith was like “that was then but this is now”. Even most modern Jews realize much of the Mosaic Law is outmoded and reinterpret things to adapt with the times.
Jesus of Nazareth had the worst Misaimed Fandom ever.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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