A.F. Branco Cartoon – Trump wins the 2024 presidential election. Now it’s time to clean up the mess and get started putting the country back on track after 4 years of one disaster after another. THREE-PEAT: PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP WINS 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN HISTORIC VICTORY! By Jim Hoft – The Gateway Pundit – Nov 6, 2024 President Trump became the second US president in history to win the White House in two non-consecutive terms! The last president to win in non-consecutive terms was Grover Cleveland. Nothing could stop President Donald Trump – 91 junk indictments, two assassination attempts, Democrat lawfare, being shot in the face! Trump won Pennsylvania at 1:30 AM for 19 electoral votes to put him at 267 With Alaska coming in that is 3 points to put him at 270 electoral votes and the victory! Trump is still leading in every battleground state – Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada have not been called yet! READ MORE   DONATE to A.F. Branco Cartoons – Tips accepted and appreciated – $1.00 – $5.00 – $25.00 – $50.00 – it all helps to fund this website and keep the cartoons coming. Also Venmo @AFBranco – THANK YOU! A.F. Branco has taken his two greatest passions (art and politics) and translated them into cartoons that have been popular all over the country in various news outlets, including NewsMax, Fox News, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, and “The Washington Post.” He has been recognized by such personalities as Rep. Devin Nunes, Dinesh D’Souza, James Woods, Chris Salcedo, Sarah Palin, Larry Elder, Lars Larson, Rush Limbaugh, and President Trump.

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Most people know the name Gene Simmons. He enjoyed a long career as the lead singer for the hard rock band Kiss. Although the band’s most popular era was the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, they are still well-known in the industry. Their trademark look was the stage makeup each member wore during performances. The white face paint with black accents made them stand out. Gene Simmons’ model was his daughter, Sophie Tweed Simmons, when he showed fans how he creates his iconic look. The makeup session was an interview for Cosmopolitan in 2014 hosted by Gene Simmons’ daughter. The rockstar began by pointing out the unique brand of face paint he uses, Stein’s Clown White. Gene patiently discussed the importance of a thick, smooth base layer as he slathered GOBS of white face paint onto Sophie’s face. Gene Simmons’ daughter had trouble not smiling during the makeup session. Her dad made jokes and drew a sad little clown face as he worked to apply the base coat. He was very good about explaining each step of the process, including how to correct little slip-ups. Image from YouTube. Gene Simmons added black to his daughter’s face, explaining that you can use any eyeliner pencil. He starts by adding a series of dots along the nose to outline the large, black design. The base “sketch” is just an outline; he explains that you can refine it later. Thinking of everything, he includes some blending tips. Once the outline is complete, he removes the white inside the design using cotton swabs. Gene Simmons Finishes His Daughter’s Makeup He encourages, “Don’t be afraid of making mistakes.” The tutorial is long but very complete. If you ever thought you might want to dress like a member of Kiss, you’ll have the best makeup in town. Please share if you know any future rockstars. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Remember When Gene Simmons Re-Created His Iconic Look For His Daughter? appeared first on InspireMore.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The political push for online platforms to introduce age verification was never a war between users and their privacy could win – if the battle to prevent it in the first place was lost. The reasons are the methods and technologies available – one being the unmasking of all users with government-issued IDs, while one seeming alternative, now in the works over at Meta, is yet another facet of the age verification dystopian nightmare. Reports say that instead of seeking outright proof of identity (and therefore age), Meta (Facebook, Instagram) is opting to “estimate” that age – by going the route of aggressive data mining. The “AI” tool Meta plans to put to use is proprietary – meaning, closed-source, therefore unavailable to a public audit, despite the fact it is affecting billions of users. It is called, an “adult classifier.” The tool goes through content related to users’ profiles, and the profiles themselves in the hope of “guessing” whether they belong to somebody 18 and under, or an adult. As is to be expected of proprietary software, the giant isn’t – because it doesn’t have to – revealing how accurate the results are expected to be. What is known is that the type of data Meta is gathering and analyzing is found in users’ follower lists, including things like “happy birthday” messages. But in the end, if it decides this is insufficient to “guess” the real age, or suspects a user’s self-reported age is fake, Meta will ask for proof of real-world identity. All this is now developing around an Instagram feature announced in September, known as “teen accounts,” which feature appropriately restricted settings. Thus far, the information used by Instagram has been the birthday each user declares while creating an account, but now the murky – in both its mechanics and usefulness – tool, the “adult classifier” – is coming onto the scene. It does look like Meta trying to convince the world it is doing something, while in the end, the whole thing comes down to demanding proof of identity via government-issued ID. The circle is complete – those counting on spreading biometric mass surveillance will have their way. “Teens who try to manually increase the age listed on their account will have to prove themselves by uploading formal identification, like a driver’s license, or by sending in a video-selfie to Yoti, a third-party service that can estimate age based on facial features,” says a report. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Privacy Takes a Hit: Meta’s Digital ID Check Plans Dig Deeper Than Ever appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

In Scotland, whose witch trials were among Europe’s most deadly, 3,000 people burned at the stake for witchcraft – a startling proportion of its overall population. Like other places, the Scottish witch hunt began during times of political instability and unrest. And as elsewhere, the witch acquired a particular representation. European artists played an important role in shaping the image of the witch, transforming it into a powerful cultural symbol. In the History Hit film The King’s Curse: Scotland’s Notorious Witch Trials, art historian Dr Catriona Murray explains how these depictions evolved. Sign up to watch The broomstick, for example, is evident in a medieval manuscript which identifies two women who are religious heretics. The broomstick is a classic icon now associated with witches, but why is it included here? “I suspect they are acting as phalluses,” explains Murray. “They are empowering these women and they are riding them. On another level they provide flight, and that’s one of the key characteristics of witches, that they fly to their Sabbath.” Albrecht Dürer’s later, memorable depiction of witches resembles how we often think of witches today. “This is the hag, the crone. And one of the other things that’s very interesting about it is that she’s naked,” says Murray. “There’s a real focus on the gross nakedness of this old woman.” Witchcraft was often linked with ugliness, and Dürer’s witch has aged features and withered limbs. The Witch, Albrecht Dürer, circa 1500 Additionally, Dürer depicts her riding a goat, an animal particularly linked with the devil. She does so backwards to signify that the natural order is upset. “There’s a feeling of real [discomfort] here, that things do not happen as you expect them to happen.” “This is the subversion of what the feminine should be doing, that there’s this patriarchal anxiety going on here,” says Murray. The growing fear of witches in the 16th century included increased anxiety about them joining together in a coven. Increasingly witches were depicted in a group, as in a painting of the witch’s sabbath by Frans Francken. Francken picked up his brush at a time when the Spanish Netherlands experienced a growing panic about witches. He portrays witches of different social orders engaged in lewd dancing, spells and incantations, and also reading grimoires, which links female literacy and knowledge with witchcraft. Heinrich Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum, ‘Hammer of Witches’, had already provided instruction on how to catch witches. Kramer argued that women were particularly prone to witchcraft. He wrote accounts of their alleged powers and habits, including the harvesting of male organs and depositing them in birds’ nests, “where they move themselves like living members and eat oats and corn”. In The King’s Curse: Scotland’s Notorious Witch Trials, Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney investigate one of Europe’s bloodiest witch hunts: Scotland’s North Berwick Witch trials of 1591. In this extraordinary case, fears escalated all the way up the social hierarchy to the king himself, James VI. A wild storm in the North Sea had nearly killed James and his new wife Anne of Denmark, fuelling his fascination with the intellectual study of demonology. A maelstrom of terror brought together the king’s paranoia of a conspiracy against him with local rivalries and misfortune. It twisted together the fates of individuals from maidservants to magistrates in the hunt for scapegoats. Anthony and Maddy host After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal, a History Hit podcast. Sign up to watch The King’s Curse and to listen ad-free to After Dark. Sign up to watch

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