Thanks to you, the Trump They Live billboard is up in Times Square!

Contrary to what you’ve implied, I personally tried really hard to “just ignore” him, especially at the beginning.

Guess what?

Didn’t work.

And in the meanwhile , he’s actively making the world a worse place, everyday.

So I fight, in whatever small ways I can.

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Hey Mitch. What would it take to make this thing bigger? Like twice the size?

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There should be a good ‘art print’ of this.
For sell.
I’d recommend the guy from http://metropolisgrafix.com/?p=29
who does a great time bandit map.

Yes, dammit. Any press is good press. But this is in his home town, and when he sees it he’ll be livid.

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Billboards in Times Square go up to $70,000 in cost. I had 3 different options/goals on the GoFundMe and we just got enough for the smallest (which is still impressive). If somehow I raise a ton at www.trumpbillboard.com, happy to to get the biggest space NY has! :slight_smile:

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I have a few left at
https://www.etsy.com/shop/MitchOConnell
Thanks!

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IIRC there was also a 'zine publisher named “Thom” (not Tom) Metzger. (EDIT: I believe this is he)

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Does anyone at or related to boingboing have a good knowledge of how to get onto video billboards globally? I’d like to see Greta Thunberg’s UN “How dare you” speech run everywhere there is a video billboard. Something I would definitely contribute to but I’ve no idea how to start.

Do you think enough people remember the movie to get it? I mean it was 1988, after all.

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Well, enough to get it funded, anyway.

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Just thinking of people born back then walking by it and saying WTF is that? To me, it’s perfect and encapsulates the entire Republican [bowel] movement. But I actually saw it in a theater.

I dunno - I think it still reads well even if you are unfamiliar with the source material. Trump is an aberration and this poster is a physical manifestation of that.

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Sadly, my song written over 20 years ago seems to have come true…

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Maybe ask whoever perpetrated this :grin:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/30/business/asics-new-zealand-porn-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

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His name is nowhere to be seen on the billboard. Just an alien-skeleton-thing with a pompadour.

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I really liked that. Thanks for sharing it, and welcome to boingboing.

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I miss the old days of Boing Boing and all of us tech-heads! And btw, this is Bat from Xorcist as well as CyberDen and the club House of Usher. We were all featured in Boing Boing Ep #13 way back when!

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