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LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 08:04 PM Jun 2016

Phil Plait. the Bad Astronomer and The Oatmeal deliver a righteous smack-down to Trump

Phil's comment on Facebook:

You remember how when you were a kid on the Fourth of July and your parents bought fireworks from a shady roadside shack, and when you lit them off that night one of the fountain cones would fall over and start sputtering and spewing sparks and flames in random directions as it floundered and spun chaotically on the ground, and you weren’t sure whether to point and laugh or run for your life due to the very real possibility it might horribly burn you or a child standing too close or that it would set all the trees on fire?

That cone is Donald Trump.


His friend, cartoonist Matt Inman picked up on it and turned it into a cartoon:








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Phil Plait. the Bad Astronomer and The Oatmeal deliver a righteous smack-down to Trump (Original Post) LongTomH Jun 2016 OP
I love Phil Plait! longship Jun 2016 #1
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