It’s about time the Clenis was memorialized in a piece of fine art (click to embiggen). Prints suitable for framing are available here. Open thread.
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It’s about time the Clenis was memorialized in a piece of fine art (click to embiggen). Prints suitable for framing are available here. Open thread.
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ruemara
I got turned down for even an interview for a job I have nearly 20 years of experience doing, at a middling, petty little agency. This now makes my day the best day ever.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
Not enough women.
ETA: It at least needs Lois Griffin.
Captain Haddock
That’s weird because that is exactly how I remember him
Grumpy Code Monkey
I know I should know this, but…
What the fuck is up with the atomic alligator?
Omnes Omnibus
From the link. I do have a question. What the fuck?
ruemara
@Grumpy Code Monkey: Why the fuck not? Isn’t even just writing the words, “Atomic Alligator” making you feel good?
David Koch
Ronald McDonald using a RPG in the bottom left of the frame was a nice touch.
flaneur
Forget the alligator, what about Ronald Mcdonald?
John Cole
What’s the deal with the radioactive gator?
ranchandsyrup
@David Koch: I don’t know if Ronald is using proper technique. Can we get some kerning on this?
Also and as well, Monica’s lookin’ good, no?
Napoleon
I want to know why is Ronald McDonald shooting in the background?
Suffern ACE
I know it’s great to leave these things open to interpretation, but who exactly is he shooting at? I would assume the impeachment handlers or serbians, but there are some who might think people who feel that investment banking, retail banking, and insurance operations ought to be run in separate enterprises.
Omnes Omnibus
@John Cole: It’s the dog collar and tags that concern me.
Napoleon
@Suffern ACE:
Or Vince Foster.
Suffern ACE
Also, why a cigarette and not a cigar? This is starting to disturb me.
Omnes Omnibus
@Napoleon:
That was Hillary.
Amir Khalid
I don’t know from guns. What’s the weapon in Bill’s right hand?
SFAW
@ranchandsyrup:
If that’s Monica, isn’t her hand mis-placed?
alhutch
@Suffern ACE: That’s no ordinary cigarette…
David Hunt
@Suffern ACE:
He’s got better uses for a cigar…
Omnes Omnibus
@Suffern ACE: Joint.
BruceFromOhio
Clearly the alligator is a dirty bomb, and by the impression of the glowing red light, I’d hazard a guess that thing is armed. C’mon, people, think it through! What’s the symbolism?
The first thing I thought of was, “What the hell is Ronald McDonald shooting at? There isn’t anything even back there!”
The ruins at far left suggesting the wreckage of the WTC is kind of creepy though. Madness that way lies.
Hillary is looking pretty fine, though.
SFAW
@alhutch:
You can tell because he’s not inhaling?
Amir Khalid
@SFAW:
Not necessarily, if you’re allowing for Bill’s, um, length.
Commenting at Balloon Juice Since 1937
@Grumpy Code Monkey: and Ronald MacDonald with the gun?
Nick Istre
@Amir Khalid: Looks like the AA-12
Trollhattan
@David Koch:
I assumed that was James Holmes, but perhaps not….
Omnes Omnibus
@BruceFromOhio:
That’s easy. The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
lol
@Suffern ACE:
House Republicans and Beltway reporters circa 1998.
johnny aquitard
@Grumpy Code Monkey:
Alligator, hell. What the fuck is up with riot gun Ronald McDonald?
SFAW
@Amir Khalid:
See, SOME of us are too classy to say stuff like that.
But since I’m not one of those …
you coulda said “Well, um, it’s because he’s packing THREE weapons.”
usw.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@BruceFromOhio: At the far right is a destroyed McDonald’s “M”. It looks like Bill and Ron are getting retribution for destroying the restaurant. A little late considering Bill is a vegetarian, though.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
@ranchandsyrup:
Monica, bless her heart, never looked that svelte.
Rupert
The dress is the wrong shade of blue. Otherwise the picture is exactly as I remember the 90s.
Trollhattan
@alhutch:
Busy not inhaling? I don’t know if I’m looking at massive snark or wingnut [sur]reality.
Suffern ACE
@Omnes Omnibus: Ah, I see. There is also a cigar in his coat pocket, so I’m satisfied.
Or not. Just nit picky, I suppose.
kindness
Wouldn’t she have her hand just a little higher up his thigh?
I mean, Clinton….amirite?
comrade scott's agenda of rage
I just noted the flying saucer providing air cover.
Shouldn’t it be black helicopters with a UN logo?
Omnes Omnibus
@Suffern ACE:
That’s what she said.
Elizabelle
So. Boxers.
David Koch
I love how the Golden Arches are twisted rubble.
shortstop
@Trollhattan: “Sometimes you just have to let art flow over you.” –William Hurt, The Big Chill
alhutch
Is that a UFO to the left of the flag pole? This thing just keeps getting better.
WereBear
The gator is to make sure no one gets the football.
Ronald is there for backup… the least he could do after all the business tossed his way. Not to mention the PR.
And why am I the first to notice that his fly is open?
Edit: Okay, so I’m not.
Culture of Truth
He has a cigar in his pocket. Don’t get the alligator, though.
Southern Beale
Speaking of political penises, looks like those prostitution charges against Sen. Menendez were a set-up:
Ruh-roh!!! Wonder if we’ll ever find out who’s behind this. This is extreme ratfucking.
Elizabelle
Reptile parity, please.
Reagan got his own velociraptor.
Is Ronald McDonald shooting Zippy the Pinhead?
SFAW
@WereBear:
Actually, his pants are unbuttoned. Maybe it’s just a semantic differments, but …
Fred
@Suffern ACE: Dude, I don’t think that’s a regaler kinda cigarette. He’s back, He’s bad an’ He’s inhalin’!
Omnes Omnibus
@alhutch: It’s all in the details. I want to know what the floating documents are. and is that C3P0 facedown in a pool of vomit just to the left of the alligator?
Suffern ACE
The only connection I can remember to Ronald MacDonald was in the first months of the administration, there was a McMuffingate, soon dwarfed by travelgate and barbergate. Clinton went jogging one morning and stopped unexpectedly in a MacDonalds. It was a scandal because traffic was reportedly stopped while he was wandering about.
Looking back on that now, I wonder if it ever happened. It was the first post inagural scandal. I worked in DC at the time, but not around the mall, so I have no idea if it is a true story, but I read it in the papers, so how would I know. I hadn’t yet learned that a paper like the Post would print false stories if they could smear the clintons.
Southern Beale
Aww fuck my comment is in moderation, but it looks like those Sen.Menendez prostie claims were a set-up.
Arclite
@Omnes Omnibus: Obviously it’s collared and tagged. That’s classic Democratic party: regulation, bitches.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
a metaphor for Carville et al? I’m sure he’d like that image. Would that they were that effective
SFAW
@Suffern ACE:
Is that what they’re calling the Lewinsky incident, now? Who knew?
johnny aquitard
@alhutch: I’m thinking that’s supposed to be an F-117, but that thing hovering over the statue of liberty’s torch is looking very much like a flying saucer. Or one of those cylon 3-robot ships from the tv series Battle Star Galatica.
UncommonSense
Ronald McDonald firing a riot gun and flying saucers. Awesome!
I’d love to be able to zoom in tight enough to see whose ID badge that is floating in the air next to Monica.
Omnes Omnibus
@Southern Beale: Oh dear, Malkin will need to reshoot her dance video.
dance around in your bones
Well, until I embiggened the image, I thought the open zipper/red boxers bit was a….well, you know, red wienie.
Why would anyone want to own this? You gonna hang it on your wall and impress all your friends? More likely you’d get the eyeroll and/or the side-eye.
I agree with Napoleon on WTF is Ronald McDonald doing wielding some kind of SAM, and at who? (or whom, for you grammar Nazis). The potential victim looks like a zombie.
eta: Also, I think I see a UFO just to the left of the giant US flag. Kinda squint, and you too might see it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@dance around in your bones: Maybe Jim Van de Hei can hang it next to his framed copies of the articles of Das Clenis’ impeachment.
Todd
Monica is pretty hot in that.
Elizabelle
That gator’s growing on me.
And it’s got a name tag, but cannot make out what.
dance around in your bones
Gads, I’m always miles behind you smarty pants commentariat.
Omnes Omnibus
@dance around in your bones: As I said before, Ronald is shooting at the Creature from the Black Lagoon. And of course there is a flying saucer. The artist is going for Socialist Realism so they couldn’t very well leave it out. Could they?
ruemara
No appreciation for the high arts. Philistines, you are.
daverave
I think there are 3 more joints tucked into the back of his tie. This whole piece is about The Smokin’! Also, too, his huge gun is labelled “Big and Tasty.”
Roger Moore
What I want to know is why you’re focusing on the Bill Clinton picture instead of one of these awesome ones of The Kenyan in Chief. They even gave it the Shepard Fairey treatment.
SFAW
Is THAT what ‘Monica’ said right before the picture was taken? “Bill, can I ‘click’ you?”
Learn somethin’ new every day.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: It lacks Ronald McDonalds. It lacks atomic alligators. It lacks…. Well, it lacks.
alhutch
@johnny aquitard:
Maybe, but that sure looks like a laser type weapon firing out of it.
Roger Moore
@Omnes Omnibus:
How can you not like a picture of Obama on a lion wielding a laser sighted crossbow and a light saber? Firebagger!
SFAW
@Roger Moore:
The artist screwed up. If he were serious, he would have called it “(Lyin’) Obongo Riding a Lion”
Gotta get his wingnut meme-slurs rite
SRW1
@Suffern ACE:
Cigar is still in Bill’s front pocket. Apparently, it got used in the after action action.
Suffern ACE
Is the cigar a cuban? It looks actually like it might be North Korean.
Mike in NC
Meh. It’s OK but I still love the work of that wingnut Mormon dude that we’ve mocked here before.
Dee Loralei
@Suffern ACE: Looked like a joint to me.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: I didn’t say I don’t like it. I just don’t think it has the pure wow factor that the Clinton one has.
Roger Moore
@SFAW:
He doesn’t appear to be a wingnut. He’s just discovered that there’s a market for posters of Presidents in awesome but improbable poses. He seems perfectly happy to make ones of any president he thinks will sell: Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, both Roosevelts, JFK, Reagan, Clinton, and Obama. Plus there are a couple of other founding fathers, and the one of a gun-toting cat riding a fire breathing unicorn.
the Conster
If this is all right wing memes, then I’ll need what Bill’s not smoking to understand any of it.
PeakVT
Awesome.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: TR vs Bigfoot is pretty good.
SiubhanDuinne
There are only 49 stars on that flag.
WHAT THE FUCK DID BILLARY DO WITH THE MISSING STAR??
Suffern ACE
@Mike in NC: If I was going to go the route of buying something similar to hang on my wall, it would be in the Donuts and Robots theme.
johnny aquitard
@daverave:
Also also, too, the shells are blue with red and white stripes. He shoots an All-American load, natch. The exposed drum slung under his large gun is full and ready to go.
Another Halocene Human
That Bob Menendez story gets weirder and weirder. Lawyers approached the escorts about reading a scripted story? Like grown-up James O’Keefes? And what is the penalty for prostitution in the DR? Am I wrong to be suspicious of what these women tell the police given the potential for incriminating themselves? Or am I wrong about that? I’m not well educated on all cosas dominicanas.
dance around in your bones
@Omnes Omnibus: Well, I suppose not. Not if you’re going for the full-on Realism. Of COURSE you need a UFO!
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne:
Of course.
SFAW
@Roger Moore:
Since when have YOU become a defender of all-things-wingnutty? I tells ya, I can’t leave this joint for a day without things going to Hell.
What’s next? You gonna tell me DougJ is trolling Villager sites/columns? That Cole shaved his beard? That McCain was a POW?
More seriously: he may not be a wingnut, but he’s certainly using some of the dog whistles in his “art”. (Clinton with unbuttoned pants, Obama riding an African animal. Not sure about Jefferson punching a gorilla, unless it’s supposed to be some three-levels-removed reference to slaves or darkies in general.)
Faux News
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): Absolutely! There should be Binders Filled With Women!
MikeJ
@SFAW: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Trollhattan
@Roger Moore:
He certainly seems equal-opportunity WRT his, uh, targets.
Reagan’s has the same bit of WTC wreckage in the lower left, and an F22 instead of a Cylon raider in the upper right.
What is he telling us!?
Andrew Abshier
Is it possible that the alligator is a James Carville reference? But why make him atomic?
So many questions!
Mike G
The only thing missing is a shark flying a helicopter gunship
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I like FDR as Megatron
Citizen_X
BRANCH DAVIDIANS!
Somebody had to say it.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well found, sir, well found.
Roger Moore
@SFAW:
I think he’s trying to be funny, and fairly successfully. After all, this blog is not exactly wingnut haven, and the poster seems to be going over just fine here, wingnut memes and all. If anything, I think the wingnut memes are a big part of what makes it so hilarious to liberals; he’s still awesome despite that stuff.
Marc
@Another Halocene Human: legal there, as in most of the world, as long as they’re of age.
dance around in your bones
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Maybe that’s what the floating document is?
I cannot believe we are spending time dissecting this “artwork”. Maybe T&H could chime in.
dance around in your bones
@Roger Moore:
OMG, Obama’s riding Aslan!
Frankensteinbeck
For those who keep wondering about the McDonalds, you’re too interested in the truth. I remember very well that Republicans and thus the TV news media were convinced that Clinton ate triple-whoppers (or whatever they are) with supersized fries and a milkshake for every meal. ‘Clinton is fat and gorges on fast food, especially McDonalds’ was a prevalent narrative.
Villago Delenda Est
@SFAW:
He’s mocking the dog whistles…and the moronic slime that constitute the wingnuts.
jayboat
There’s also a Mickey D’s sticker on the weapon.
Didn’t he famously swear off the burgers, or something like unhealthy eating?
All that mcburger- symbolic of our love/hate relationship w capitalism?
The id badge could be Vince Foster? and I’m guessing the paper has something to do with impeachment.
Where’s Waldo?
Redshirt
I don’t know art, but I know what I like.
And I like this painting. A lot!
Spaghetti Lee
OK, I’m late here, but I know this guy: sharpwriter.deviantart.com No, he’s not a wingnut-it’s all tongue-in-cheek.
Trollhattan
@Andrew Abshier:
The nukem-gator is quite the puzzle. As it turns out, Teddy Roosevelt has an atomic-symbol belt buckle for a real WTF moment.
I do like the whole idea of Ben Franklin vs. Zeus in a lightning fight.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@jayboat: He’s a freakin’ vegan now, with the exception of Thanksgiving. I used to go vegan one day a weak. I should get back to that.
Short Bus Bully
That pic is going up on the Book of Faces, watch all my wingnut friends and relatives start shitting themselves.
Please tell me an NEA grant paid for this artwork?
Trollhattan
@Short Bus Bully:
It’s Facebook, you need to claim it and dare anybody to “Prove I’m wrong!”
Please report back with a ‘splosion count, there’s popcorn waiting.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Short Bus Bully: Please tell them their tax money paid for it.
IP
If nobody has mentioned it, Ronald McDonald is probably a metaphor for his fondness for their french fries.
/goes back to lurking quietly…
TaMara (BHF)
Gaaa, I waste much too much time with you guys and this just sucked away half an hour. But it was fun…
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Suffern ACE: Cigar is in the coat pocket. For the celebration when he’s done. Or something.
hrprogressive
Bill Clinton with an AA-12 and a G-17? Ronald McDonald firing some sort of assault weapon in the background?
An alligator with the Nuke ‘Em button on its back?
What’s not to love?
AMERICA!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!
David Koch
@hrprogressive: They should have used a MAC-10, it would have been much more gangsta.
Joel
> McNaughton.
slag
This is what Bill Clinton would have looked like to Republicans if he were a Republican.