Anti-Trump billboard along Phoenix road stirs controversy
Source: Fox 10 Phoenix
The billboard stands on the 1000 block of Grand Avenue, and is reportedly the work of a female artist named Karen Fiorito.
On Friday, a post made by an Instagram that purportedly belongs to Fiorito confirms that the design was hers.
The billboard contains a picture of Donald Trump, with mushroom clouds in the background, and dollar signs that bear some resemblance to the swastika on each side.
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Read more: http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/242373977-story
Link to her Instagram post:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRvzU65gEe3/?taken-by=karenfiorito
Brava, Karen!
pkdu
(3,977 posts)red dog 1
(27,845 posts)iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)CrispyQ
(36,501 posts)I can't decide if I want him to die on the toilet with his cell phone in his hand half way through a mindless tweet, or if I want to see him handcuffed in an orange jumpsuit.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)insurance promises vs. the bill he is endorsing. Every promise vs. real action deserves billboards where the affected Trumpsters live.
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)ananda
(28,873 posts)Wow
Paladin
(28,271 posts)There should be hundreds of them, from coast to coast.
DK504
(3,847 posts)All could have a different caption.
He said he was wiretapped.
He said Rex Tillerson saying all diplomatic options are gone.
He wants 54 Billion more for the DOD.
He wants to cut every program except the Defense Dept.
God this guy is so evil.
llmart
(15,550 posts)it must continue until he's gone.
TeamPooka
(24,248 posts)red dog 1
(27,845 posts)I love it!
I wish that billboard would go up all over America -- in cities, towns and along freeways.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)this is awesome..every day in every way...RESIST!!!!!
marybourg
(12,634 posts)At least it's good AZ news here on DU for a change.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Their news was always a downer..I was at the Tempe Arts Fair - I go each year..you know how they have kiosk for AZ Rep..subscription peddlin' - One young fellow, smart mouth if you ask me..asked me why I don't sub..I told him too right wing for me.. you really want to have this discussion, here, now? He got my message....
Enjoy this beautiful evening....
kimbutgar
(21,177 posts)They do some good journalism and it's pretty equal. I remember it having some well written and truthful criticism of scrotus during the election when we went last September.
dalton99a
(81,567 posts)Squinch
(50,993 posts)You voted for Trump? He's going to cost you $xx,xxx next year.
That kind of thing.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)Because that is just a great image, and it really just says it all. Should go up in more places, IMO. Great job!
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)what he stands for pretty well.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)On the highway not far south from where I live, there's an old trailer (as in tractor-trailer, not the one you live in) that some farmer has pulled up close to the interstate.
He actually went to the trouble to paint on the side in big block capitals "ARE YOU A PRODUCER OR A PARASITE? DEMOCRATS - PARTY OF PARASITES!!!
I'm a proud registered Democrat, and I got my first job when I was 13 as a paperboy. I've washed dishes, flipped burgers, worked in a warehouse, done pretty much every scut job you can think of. I paid my own way through college working full-time, and I have damn well earned the right to tell stupid Trump-voting cocksuckers like Lonesome Farmer Gus that they can FUCKING KISS IT!!
Whiny stupid inbred sister-fucking cornbread clown probably never hurried a day in his life, unless it's to the mailbox for another federal crop insurance check . . .
SunSeeker
(51,659 posts)About time the Trumpanzees felt the blowback for their stupidity. Elections have consequences.
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)another adviser as a member of a Hungarian Nazi group;
Confederate Sessions in his cabinet;
The support of David Duke;
Support FOR Steve 'cannot rebuild a society with someone else's babies' King.
Paid a wreath-laying homage to Andrew Jackson.
The billboard's only controversial if one ignores or is unaware of all of the above.
SunSeeker
(51,659 posts)JudyM
(29,265 posts)mitch96
(13,924 posts)Laws pertaining to content??
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Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)Can range from maybe $100 bucks a month in a small town or rural local highway to thousands a month in cities, on major interstates, high profile areas, etc (just imagine what those electronic billboards in Times Square cost).
Laws pertaining to content - this is probably a less important question than 'Will the company that owns the billboard approve it?'. Obviously free speech has its limits in this country so there may be govt intervention in terms of inciting violence, obscenity, etc. But the billboards are owned by companies big (like Clear Channel) and small (like some local person who has one on their property). They don't have to rent to people they don't want to rent to in terms of the content of the design. E.g. they can't discriminate against a person who is black simply because they are black, but they can choose not to allow a political message they don't like.
ETA: In addition to renting the space, there may also be costs associated with artwork/design, of course. But these days anyone with a PC can design an image. Dunno if you'd need special software to get a high enough quality image for that size of print.