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« on: June 17, 2017, 09:53:07 AM »

How very strange that there was no outrage five years ago, when they did the same thing.
I can't imagine what possible difference there could be.

http://www.startribune.com/trump-themed-julius-caesar-is-talk-of-theater-world-unlike-2012-obama-version-in-twin-cities/427990033/


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« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2017, 04:39:45 PM »

If we weren't in the Dark Timeline, conservatives would be loving the Shakespeare in the Park production with a female Julius Caesar in a pantsuit.

Nah. They'd be simultaneously upset that the production was letting a woman play Caesar, and complaining about how it legitimized Hillary's dictatorial ambitions. (They'd be fine with the murder scene though, and images of it would be making the rounds of anywhere vaguely GOP-leaning on the internet for the next 10 years. Trump would probably tweet one.)
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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2017, 11:43:16 PM »

I've had rocks thrown at my windows, Badger. I was also on a bus that was literally freaking rocked by Bernie supporters with the Lt. Governor of Florida on board.

I will point out (again) that you can find people committing violence among any political persuasion. Equating that with a major political party whose own prominent leaders and elected officials regularly preach and practice political violence is comparing apples and rhododendrons.
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« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2017, 04:53:31 PM »

Ridicule & exposure obviously not enough for some  who follow the left's Alinsky disruptive tactics. We all know both sides have people paid to protest or in the case of kids there is usually a dissatisfied adult teacher or admin encouraging them.

Admit it, the play with a black bald Obama-like Caesar in 2012 was not playing in Central Park, sponsored by American Express, and touted by a CNN anchor. It was a much smaller Minnesota theater.

A good number of people don't care to hear that a major company that appeals to a wide range of people that props up a production which gives a select number of Trump haters a good time every night with a vicarious assassination of their least favorite President ever.

At least this is the last of this play but not the last virtual or symbolic violence against political figures.

Given the attack at the baseball practice it is obvious to see it can lead to a downward spiral.

I cannot find complaints about this from any person or organization leaning Republican to be credible. The party that just seated a violent criminal in the United States House of Representatives complaining about art that can be deemed critical of their Little-handed Dictator would appear to be far more interested in shutting down any dissent from their deplorable party line than in actually reducing politically motivated violence.
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