The macro below originated on Reddit, I think — but I can’t verify that this cartoon was published in The New Yorker. The cartoonist, Herblock (Herbert Block), was actually a legendary cartoonist who worked for The Washington Post for most of his life.
So, Trump says he might not defend certain NATO allies unless he’s satisfied they’ve paid a requisite amount of money owed to the United States.
Hey, what do you expect when a landlord wants to be President of the United States? This is, after all, the Manhattanite who was collecting overdue rent from city tenants during the Vietnam War.
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BELOW: U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Kyle Page (right), a team leader with 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion, attached to Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, and an Estonian Defense Forces service member make their way over rubble in Northern Now Zad, Afghanistan, as a controlled detonation explodes behind them on Oct. 26, 2008. Marines are conducting a clearing operation of a known enemy stronghold in support of an Estonian Defense Force vehicle checkpoint.
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“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern…Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
— from George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four”
Photo credit: By Michael Vadon (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.
Americans, please consider voting for me.
The first priority of my administration will be establishing a database and surveillance of rich assholes.
Also? A free copy of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” to any American citizen who requests one. A copy of the United States Constitution will be tucked inside.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 