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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/heat-vision/thanos-creator-feels-violated-trump-campaigns-avengers-ad-1261553?__twitter_impression=true"In the climax of Avengers: Endgame, the chief villain Thanos utters the now-famous line "I am inevitable" before snapping his fingers in an attempt to destroy all life in the universe. On Tuesday, that scene took on new meaning when the campaign for President Donald Trump released a video with Thanos replaced by Trump.
Jim Starlin, the comic book writer and artist who created Thanos in 1973, was not amused by the use of his creation in the video.
"After my initial feeling of being violated, seeing that pompous fool using my creation to stroke his infantile ego, it finally struck me that the leader of my country and the free world actually enjoys comparing himself to a mass murderer," Starlin said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. "How sick is that? These are sad and strange times we are going through. Fortunately, all things, even national nightmares, eventually come to an end."...(more)
spanone
(135,921 posts)Docreed2003
(16,890 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,776 posts)He doesn't see himself as Captain America. He sees himself as the villain of the show.
Maybe that's a good question for the debates. What kind of super being would you be? Captain America or Thanos?
Maybe we should also give him the option of Quark from Star Trek?
Ilsa
(61,710 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,776 posts)Ilsa
(61,710 posts)For one, he's smarter and made better deals. But certainly not omnipotent or powerful.
rwsanders
(2,613 posts)miss the parallels between them and the republicans.
Grokenstein
(5,729 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 12, 2019, 04:59 AM - Edit history (1)
There are no other options. Ehhhwic and Joonyer can fight over who gets to be Salacious B. Crumb.
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Gothmog
(145,805 posts)Link to tweet
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ancianita
(36,207 posts)campaign can transfer to Russian hackers.
Girard442
(6,087 posts)"Hey, let's make a video showing Trump as a total asshole and a total loser. Then we'll get him to pay for it himself."
Cha
(297,935 posts)depravity. They'll be scraping him off the bottom of the 666 Circle of hell any day now.. tricked and defeated
Ferrets are Cool
(21,112 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,229 posts)Or maybe Daffy Duck, they more accurately represent the president installed by our American filthy rich.
I wonder if the Waltons, Zuckerberg or Kochs pat themselves on the back for allowing the short man in Russia to install the most hated president ever?
iluvtennis
(19,899 posts)malthaussen
(17,230 posts)... and have Mr Trump declare "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven?"
Probably because they wouldn't know John Milton if they tripped over him in Wal-Mart.
-- Mal
Lonestarblue
(10,144 posts)Hes too stupid to know their context, or maybe he just doesnt care because looking strong like his dictator friends is whats important to him. And his voters dont care about the mass murderer image because they think it would be fine for Trump to have all the liberals in the country murdered.
ancianita
(36,207 posts)used to hack offline election machines, or infect connected digital networks. Most of his audience isn't likely to know about that.
Nature Man
(869 posts)a two-bit hustler.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Whether art or music, the orange ass must be charged and prosecuted.
Just like CHI Na!
NotASurfer
(2,157 posts)Maybe the Cult of 45 is safe under that assessment and the snap, if wielded by their Dear Leader, would only target non-members?
JHB
(37,163 posts)All the "saved" float off to Paradise, and all the sinful unsaved are stuck here to suffer.
ancianita
(36,207 posts)franchise now contracted as part of Trump's and Putin's joint campaign?
Or is this more outrage fuel?
samir.g
(835 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,233 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)live never before.
captain queeg
(10,281 posts)I think that was his name. So fat and ponderous no one could move him. Or break his grip when he got ahold of something. If I remember right (its been a long time) I think they even look similar.
Clash City Rocker
(3,402 posts)He even fought as a good guy from time to time.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)on the body of Stallone. Hahahahahahahahaha.
Blue Owl
(50,547 posts)n/t
Gothmog
(145,805 posts)Grokenstein
(5,729 posts)They think they're "triggering the libs" but they're only admitting that the Egomaniac-in-Chief is bottomlessly insecure and needy.
Link to tweet
DFW
(54,480 posts)Ask almost any Greek.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)The Republicans are conducting a scorched earth policy that has absolutely no moral or ethical restraint. I have watched the Republican Party over the last fifty years, I am in my eighties, increasingly resort to some of the lowest tactics possible to maintain power. Each Republican president from the Nixon years has abused the powers of the presidency resulting in every Republican administration being a cesspool of scandal with their henchmen going to prison. I really at a loss as to when it will have gone too far, since I have thought that after each Republican presidency that they would be vanquished to garbage heap of history. I have been disappointed time and time again when their propaganda network put yet another criminal in the White House to do their bidding. They owe Reagan a ton of gratitude for providing them with the weapon to corrupt the nation when he repealed the Fairness Doctrine and allowed multiple station ownership. This has been coupled with the attack on the Free Press and the discrediting of every government office that would dare to oppose their fascist inspired agenda.
What is unfortunately being ignored is their determination to transform the presidency into functional dictatorship under what they term the Unitary Executive Theory in which they claim that the Second Amendment provides the president with unlimited authority over very executive branch of government. Attorney General William Barr has been a powerful proponent and it is the reason that he was chosen. He along with the Federalist Society from which nearly every person nominated for a judgeship is quickly dominating the courts spelling the doom for the democracy and the reality of their long cherished goal.
Boomerproud
(7,976 posts)I'm 63 and am not the least bit optimistic about my winter years. Peace to you.