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Tag: 2016 Presidential Election

2016 Election…

What Would Kurt Vonnegut Say About the 2016 Election?

29 Sep 20161 Oct 2016
Or, When Did We Start Living in a Fictional Satire? I've compared recent events—and, in particular, this presidential election—to many things: Armageddon, Alien, every Batman story, and almost every '90s action movie.…
2016 Election…

Who Would Donald Appoint? Some Predictions for Trump’s Cabinet

19 May 201621 Oct 2016
Interested in reading D. F. Lovett's fiction? Buy his books here. Donald Trump made waves this week by releasing his list of SCOTUS picks. He must've had some help from…
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How the Republican Establishment Has Become South Park’s Stan Marsh

10 May 20167 Jul 2016
Jeb(!) Bush recently made headlines by declaring he would not vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, proclaiming "I cannot support his candidacy." With this announcement, he has fallen…
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Is Bane the Batman Character Who Trump Resembles Most?

23 Mar 201621 Jan 2017
"Do you feel in charge?" It is with these words that the power shifts from one man to another in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises, as the terrorist…
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Is the Joker the Batman Character Who Trump Resembles Most?

22 Mar 201621 Jan 2017
This is the fourth installment of an ongoing investigation into which Batman character Donald Trump resembles most. You can read the beginning here.  The similarities between Trump and the Joker have been discussed…
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If the Candidates were Horror Movie Characters: An Updated Guide to the 2016 Election

30 Oct 201528 Oct 2016
In a previous article, I discussed how presidential elections resemble the one-by-one elimination of astronauts at the hands of space monsters, and which specific science fiction character each candidate is. As…

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