Detective Comics 33 November 1939
Slightly altered
I thought the Republicans loved aloof playboy multi-billionaires?
I was this close to saying they were a superstitious cowardly lot myself. Seriously.
Yeah, I’ve thought about that. The Republicans had to vote to repeal Obamacare because they demonized it as the worst thing ever and ran on its repeal. But if they did actually succeed without having anything to replace it, it would summarily cost millions of people their health care with no one to blame but them. So you enlist McCaine to scuttle the thing. He’s on his way out and so won’t have to face another primary, meanwhile he advances his legacy as a maverick, and they can go back home and tell the marching morons that they tried and would have gotten away with it to if it wasn’t for that meddling kid. Everybody wins.
That seems to be the way it has been for a lot of House GOP members until now as well.
Several have felt safe voting against the budget or debt ceiling increases or continuing resolutions or whatever because there was always enough of a cushion not to. But with a razor thin majority, that’s not going to be possible anymore.
Eh, the Wayne Foundation was pretty left wing, with emphasis on helping fight poverty and providing education and information technology to the poor, promoting public health care, and sponsoring the arts. So I don’t know how much they’d love him.
Tony Stark though, the weapons manufacturer and drunk, they’d love him. That’s a Republican’s kind of multi-billionaire playboy superhero.
Who went along with the superhero ban, and with locking up innocent people in an impenetrable* ocean prison. MAGA poster boy.
*well, mostly
Oh yeah, the whole Civil War thing. Trump would love that guy if he was real.
I never called it gravy. Around here, it is referred to as “Canadian Freedom Sauce”.
This is an unfair characterization of John McCain. His track record proves that he did and said the right things at the time that he needed to do that. While no doubt Trump would have tried the marginalization game, with some success, it is also true that more voices of reason are better than few.
I think it’d be exactly the opposite. He would HATE Tony Stark, because he would be insanely jealous of him.
Eh… I dunno. He doesn’t seem to be jealous of Elon (at least for now). It could go either way.
I’d expect some kind of bromance before it soured.
It’s because he still thinks he’s on top in the relationship, so to speak.
Maybe if Stark made a special orange Iron Man suit for him with extra-large robotic hands that can easily hold water bottles and Diet Coke cans, and blasters that squirt ketchup, he’d be his bestest friend.
Are we sure Trump knows Tony Stark isn’t real? Look at his infatuation with Hannibal Lector.
“Tony Stark? Never heard of him. Maybe I took a picture with him once. I take a LOT of pictures with a LOT of people. Maybe he cut me out a line of Ferrous Sulfate once.”
I AM ORANGE MAN
Has he lost his mind?
Can he see or is he blind?
Can he walk at all?
Down a ramp, will he fall?
[Verse 2]
Is he alive or dead?
Has he thoughts within his head?
We’ll just pass him there
Ask his wife, “Do U care?”
He was turned to flab
In the great McDonald’s bag
Nobody loves him
He just stares at the sun
Shades of HUAC, but as usual the sequel is worse.