…apparently runs an insurance agency in Colorado, and I don’t think it would be unfair to leave some review about how she doesn’t pay out
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the marines eagle was what I thought first
but I’m not balls deep in white supremacy iconography either
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Goatse Nazi.
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I can’t in good conscience do that though. She may have ended up paying them. I pointed out that I worked for the agency, not Kit Roupe. Her not paying them was not my problem; it was bad enough I was freelance without benefits, with two kids and a wife, and was the primary wage earner in our household. After about a week I was reluctantly paid, and never given another assignment, so that was a bridge burned, I guess. Worth it.
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I think they need to make it even MORE explicit (I mean c’mon them voters is DUMB!)
I like adding the 45 like they print it on the hats n such (and isn’t the red hat going to be the red armband of the 21st century, fit for landfill and nuthin else… good riddance)
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Now we just need to send Sean Bean in search of America’s… something?
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You sure it’s not a blueberry pie?
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One designer to another. (And I think you will agree to the following)
- nothing is accidental it’s always on purpose even if subconsciously.
- we always do what the customer asks for ultimately.
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I swear, someone in Trumpland watched The Man in the High Castle and thought, “This is fine.”
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for Reference.
Ascribing meaning to the various details (such as which direction the eagle’s head is turned) is left as an exercise to the herald.
Styling eagles is fraught with peril. You can read so much into it. The Boy Scouts stylized their eagle in my lifetime, and the effect was disconcerting.
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They could have started with the Apollo 11 mission patch:
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That patch went through several iterations with its design team.
The first had the eagle’s talons extended as if about to land, and was rejected as being too belligerent. The eagle looked as if it was attacking the Moon, not landing on it.
The second had the talons folded up against the body. The astronauts rejected it. What pilot wants to be symbolized with a gear-up landing?
The olive branch was a compromise. The ‘landing gear’ are apparent, but the belligerency is broken with the symbol of peace.
It’s not the greatest heraldry, by the way. Heralds dislike having multiple charges forming a scene. It makes the shield too ‘busy’ to recognize on the field of battle. (Endless quarterings meet with the same objection, but that argument went against the heralds a long time ago.)
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Yeah I’ve read Mike Collin’s book too. I remember he hoped the eagle would drop the olive branch before setting down.
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Dare I admit to being old enough to remember Walter Cronkite telling the story on live television?
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OK, so we’ve established:
- the graphic was picked off a cheap-arse stock clipart site. (Probably without paying even the minimal price, if the campaign runs true to form.)
- of all the cheesy patiotic emblems displayed on the site, they chose the one most evocative of the Third Reich.
- which also defies heraldic convention by looking to sinister. Quite appropriate for the bastard in charge.
@mindysan, can we agree that the choice was both stupid and wicked?
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The Trump version is quite modest. I like to imagine the eagle’s hiding a pair of denim cutoffs behind that flag.
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Well, that depends. If he’s doing it as Sharpe, he’s immune to COVID-19 (and everything else) and he’s a great choice. If he’s doing it as any other character, he’ll die of COVID-19 in the first 20 minutes, assuming he isn’t fatally mauled by a squirrel before then.
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But but but… the heritage…
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