Addressing The Problem of Visibility
Things are very scary out there in America. In a text from AOC, she claimed that what we are experiencing a 5-alarm fire. That is a mild depiction. I think what the Trump Administration is doing, i.e., gutting federal agencies, ignoring the constitution, the law, and the courts, is more than a simple conflagration.
A more apt description can be found in the movie “Live Free or Die Hard.” The situation in the film is eerily like today’s America. Justin Long explains to Bruce Willis what is happening like this, “It’s a Fire Sale. You know, everything must go!” We are amid a wholesale destruction of the federal infrastructure that overlays the Constitution, the foundation of our democracy. You can get my more complete appraisal in my last blog post: “Into the Storm.”
As I have said in multiple previous posts, we, on the left, have a problem. We are invisible. Now more than ever, we need to be seen. To that purpose, I have designed four new shirts that allow the wearers to shout how they feel without saying a word. The more of these on the streets, the louder the voice. Great for protests and marches.
Currently these shirts are only available in long sleeve, 100% cotton, unisex fit that runs one size small.
What The F**k?
While Jo Anne and I were having wine with some friends, one of them expressed the idea for this shirt. It defines my sentiment each/every day since January 20th. I designed different versions of this shirt: WTF? shirt for women and WTF? shirt for men. I have Asian and African American versions in the works. If you would like one of those, let me know and I will make the one you want available.
Where Your Tax Dollars Go
Here is a glimpse of validation: In the last decade alone, Elon Musk has received $15 Billion in federal subsidies (our taxes). 25% of your taxes go to Billionaires. This is the first image I attempted on Designer. It took me 24 iterations to get the image I used for the shirt. I added “MY SHARE” on the side of the wheelbarrow to cover “U.S. Treasury” misspelled by AI. After I had the image, I could not find the right wording to make it work. In the meantime, I created the other two designs.
Stamp Out Organized Crime
Unless you are not paying attention, you are aware that what the billionaire class is doing to us is, by design, to keep us in our place and at one another’s throats. Stamp out organized crime Jail Billionaires. For this image, no matter how I changed the description, I could not get three rich looking men in a cell without at least one of them sticking through the bars or standing outside the cell. I had to make two separate images for the room and the men then layer them to get what you see.
Help me continue doing this and make all of us more visible. Get your shirt today! Follow the double underlined links above to order the shirt you like. I wear one every day.
Disclaimer: I created the images for these shirts with Microsoft Designer AI. The message on all four shirts was constructed by me in Microsoft Publisher and added to the images. AI is not particularly good yet in organizing or spelling words.