#dont let him fool you he is anger incarnate

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Happy Birthday to this Fluffball of a Cat-lover Bookworm! Happy Birthday Satan!

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Jetflare

"I AM THE LIVING INCARNATION OF RAGE! THE EPITOME OF ANGER! NONE CAN STAND AGAINST ME! ALL OF YOU PUNY FOOLS WILL PERI-HEY! PUT ME DOWN! I'M NOT DONE RANTING ABOUT MYSELF! YOU CAN'T KEEP ME SILENT FOREVER!" Sorry about that, he got access to my keyboard for a bit, well I was uploading him anyways so as you can see he's an angry little bugger, literally little to. "I'M NOT LITTLE!" And also touchy about it He's been rage-y since I met him, which was an interesting meeting, I came home to find a broken window and him storming around while ranting about his broken wings, so I fixed me up for him and after that he just decided to stay, saying I would be useful to him (I just think he didn't want to leave) He's quite an interesting fellow, as already shown he's very angry and villain like, well at least he tries to be, from the amount of times he says how he's pure rage and stuff it seems more like he's telling it to himself, really all he does is yell, he's pretty weak and his blade is extremely dull along with how else he acts I'm actually pretty certain that he's just a kid but he'll never truthfully admit to it. Really he's all talk, he says he hates everything but he'll still do it if it's something he wants and he try's to exaggerate all of his powers and evil deeds Why I think he's a kid is because of a couple little things I've noticed, his love of candy for one thing, even if he does say he hates it he'll take it, when he's flying or being complimented on his wings and such he acts completely different, excited, happy and pretty friendly if a but boastful about them. He's even like a child when he gets tired, claiming that he's not tired despite being visibly tired and such. He has one fear, thunderstorms, the only other time he'll act like a kid, he'll immediately search out the nearest parental like figure and attempt to get comfort from them while still slightly denying that he's scared. Also his companion helps show it to. So far he has started to mild put a bit after being with us long enough, sure he's still ragey and grumpy but he'll admit to liking stuff and has toned down his rants a touch, still won't admit to is fear of thunder (he gets flustered over it XD). Personality: grumpy, childish, throws tantrums when he doesn't get what he wants, always trying to convince others that he's pure rage and asserting it to himself at the same time, ranty, loves jokes and puns, will act nicer when eating candy but to much and he gets a sugar high during which he acts more like a child but goes nuts. Other attributes: Blade of molten rage which-”THIS IS MY WEAPON! I MOLDED IT FROM THE PURE RAGE OF MY ESSENCE! IT CAN CUT THROUGH ANYTHING AND NO ONE CAN STAND AGAINST IT!” ...Yeah really all it is is a dull blade that he waves around when ranting and try's to threaten people with despite it being visibly dull and all he can do with it is bonk people with it.

Wings with lights rocket jets on feet, movable jet on back. Large crushing fist (at least it would be if he was stronger, can only really bonk you with it). 

Hates being called small or some nickname that is generally used for someone short, like shorty, short-stack, smurf. (All which I love to call him! The rage filled rants he makes!)

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This guys was fun, large winged shoulders, custom-ish bottom and all sorts a crazy, also for some reason all of my recent ones are solid color... Probably not the right wording, forget what it is but it's for when you make something in all one color. He talks in www.1001fonts.com/road-rage-fo… in bright red and only talks in caps when ranting. Edit: how did I not notice this earlier?! To put it simply the road rage don't doesn't have a lower case font for when he's not ranting so I had to find one that matched up with it. He talks in this font when he's not being all super ragey and ranty: www.fontspace.com/joebob-graph… For ToaLittleboehn Oh also as you mighta noticed some of the pieces are a bit different colored then the others, I actually custom painted those so they matched up with the rest of the build.

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Baron Von Deathcuddle

"THIS IS BARON VON DEATHCUDDLE! MY TRUSTED ASSOCIATE AND PARTNER IN EVIL AND RAGE! DO NOT LET HIS ADORABLE LOOK AND ACTIONS CONFUSE YOU! IT IS ALL PART OF HIS DIABOLICAL PLAN! FIRST AFTER YOU HAVE LET YOUR DEFENCES DOWN AND PICKED HIM UP HE WILL SLOWLY INCREASE HOW MUCH OF HIS GREAT STRENGTH HE USES ON YOU SO YOU DONT NOTICE HES CRUSHING YOU UNTIL ITS TO LATE!" So by great strength you mean the strength to just be able to hold onto people and pull himself up ledges and stuff. "Eh, ummm,.. n-NO! HIS STRENGTH IS TRULY GREAT AND EVEN IF IT ISNT ENOUGH TO CRUSH "ANYONE HE CAN STILL STAB YOU WITH HIS SPIKE TIPPED ARMS OR BACK QUILLS!" You mean his spiked fur and plastic spikes? "W-WELL EITHER WAY HE IS STILL MY TRUSTED PARTNER!” So yeah you guys remember how I told you his companion also showed how he's probably a kid? This is why, it's quite literally a walking, intelligent teddy bear that can't talk, waddles around, and loves cuddles and such, sure his choice in company sit range but hey who cares, he's adorable. So yeah from what I can tell most of his body looks quite a bit worn, quite a bit of it has been replace and repaired, from what I can tell only the head is an original piece. Because of his leg size he waddles and tends to fall over a bit, his back fur has been purposely spiked and instead of hands he has blunt, bendable, plastic spikes. He's usually seen with Jetflare and vice versa, whenever he's not though he'll search out the nearest other and attempt to make them pick  him up and cuddle him (I.e. Go near them and raise his arms in the pick me up position). He can't or at least doesn't talk but is still very expressive in movements and such.

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The Problem Isnt Just Trump. Its Our Ignorant Electorate.

For many of us, mornings have taken on a certain nauseating sameness. We roll out from beneath the blankets and, before the scent of coffee has reached our nostrils, we are checking the news feeds for the latest semi-literate tweet coughed up by the ranting, traitorous squatter occupying the Oval Office.

The rest of the day is spent in a kind of horrified suspension, holding our breath, waiting for whatever outrage will inevitably belch forth from the White Houseonce a bastion of seriousness and decorum, now ground zero for the demise of western democracy. How many lies will Trump spew today? Which dictators will he suck up to? Will he smear a Gold Star family? Attack a woman who dares to call out his smarmy predations? Unveil a puerile, racist nickname for a Senator or member of his own cabinet?

As much as we loathe it, however sickening it might have become, every day seems all about him, a former game show host and real estate failure, a hawker of rot-gut vodka and bullshit degrees from a fraudulent University who once styled himself as the Donald. The cable news shows lead with his most recent flatulence, the op-ed pages brim with intimations of doom, late night comedians are having a field day.

He is the president and, thus, bears watching. But we would be mistaken to think that he is truly the center of our universe, a man with a plan, commanding the heights, directing the action.

Virulent as he may be, Donald J. Trump is a symptom not the disease. Without us, he would amount to nothing more than what he had always been before the bizzaro presidential election of 2016: a foppish narcissist desperate for any measure of affirmation; a joke; a nothing. He did not create his voters. They have been there all along, seething with sometimes justifiable anger and suffering their various insecurities. They created and enabled Trump. And make no mistake, in all their vulnerable humanity, they are us: Gullible, compliant, distracted, marinating in irony.

At root, we the people are the problem.

We are understandably reluctant to impugn the intelligence and integrity of our fellow citizens. It is arrogant, uncivil, bad form. Who are we, any of us, to hold ourselves superior? When Hillary Clinton referred to some Trump supporters as deplorables, she was roundly castigated on all sides. How dare she? Yet it is an uncomfortable reality that anywhere from a fifth to a third of our electorate can be fairly (if gently) described as low-information voters. If the results of numerous polls and questionnaires are to be trusted, they know very little about the world they inhabit and what they do know is often woefully incorrect.

Surveys conducted every two years by the National Science Foundation consistently demonstrate that slightly more than half of Americans reject the settled science concerning human evolution. They are not unaware that virtually all credible scientists accept the overwhelming evidence that we evolved from earlier species. They simply choose not to accept that consensus because it doesnt comport with their deeply held beliefs. Many also embrace the absurd notion that the earth is only six thousand years old. Astonishingly, in the early 21st century, around a quarter of our citizenry seems unaware that said earth revolves around the sun.

It is a mistake to regard concern about such ignorance as effete snobbery or elitist condescension. While misapprehensions about basic astronomy, earth science and biology may have little impact on these folks daily lives, does anyone actually believe that similarly uninformed views arent likely to affect their grasp of policies regarding, say, climate change? Income inequality? Gun violence? Immigration?

Profound knowledge gaps like the aforementioned reveal an inability to think critically and leave a person vulnerable to all manner of chicanery. We are all ignorant about many things. Dont get me started on my dismal grasp of mathematics! But the hallmark of a sound education is not glorying in what you think you know, but, instead, appreciating the vastness of what you dont know.

If ignorance is the key that opens the door for charlatans like Trump, improved education, whether in school or in the public square, would seem to provide an obvious solution. But here we confront the perverse Dunning-Kruger Effect identified by psychologistsessentially, the less we know, the more certain we become of our superior knowledge. We have also discovered that exposure to facts and evidence does not always have the expected impact. Many people, when confronted by irrefutable proof that some core belief is incorrect, dont change their minds but dig in their heels. What feels right to them must be right and no amount logic and reasoning will dissuade them. Emotion trumps evidence.

Not too long ago, I fell into conversation with a woman aboard an airplane. Our chat somehow turned to health care. She offered the opinion that people who couldnt afford health insurance didnt deserve medical services. Why should she pay for someones care when they were obviously too lazy to earn their own money?

Because Im my own kind of fool, I rose to the bait. Did that mean they should be allowed to die in the street? I wondered. Well, no, she said. That would be inhumane. They could always go to an emergency room. So she was willing to pay for their care, I observed, but only in the least efficient, most expensive manner. This gave her momentary pause, but she quickly regrouped, simply repeating her prior assertion: Why should she pay? I didnt ask who she planned to vote for in the then-upcoming presidential election, but given that she had also voiced the opinion that women were, by virtue of their gender, unqualified to be news anchors, Im guessing it wasnt Hillary Clinton or Jill Stein.

She is hardly the worst example of an unthinking voter. Bill Maher once invited onto his show former GM Executive Bob Lutz. One supposes that such a fellow has benefited from an adequate education and that hes open to reason. Yet, when the subject of climate change arose, Lutz denied it was happening. A bunch of nonsense as far as he was concerned.

As it happened, Maher had also invited Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist, educator and Director of the Hayden Planetarium. Tyson patiently explained why Lutz was misinformed. The planet was warming. Humans were largely to blame. This is how we know.

You might expect an educated person to respond by at least engaging on the topic. Tyson was, after all, vastly more knowledgeable on the subject at hand. Had their roles been reversed, with the topic being cars, I have no doubt he would have deferred to the automaker, asking questions, trying to improve the state of his own knowledge. Not Lutz. You could see him shutting down before Tyson had even warmed to the topic (no pun intended). As Upton Sinclair famously put it, Its hard to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it.

Anyone who has watched the focus groups of Trump voters has seen this sorry dynamic played out again and again. Everything, no matter how tawdry or malicious, is excused or minimized. You get the feeling these folks would accept the sexual molestation of teenage girls as a trade-off for Neil Gorsuch. In fact, many did in supporting Roy Moore.

Welcome to the Post-Truth Era.

Much has been written about the impact social media and the internet in general have had on how people receive and absorb information. By now, we are all familiar with bots, trolls, phony scandals and the tendency of folks to hunker down in their own info-silos. The old adage that a lie is halfway round the world before the truth gets its socks on has never been more salient.

Consider the recent attacks on one of the young Parkland shooting survivors. A teenager who had just witnessed classmates being gunned down at his own school quickly discovered that speaking up for common-sense gun regulation resulted in vicious trolling and the viral lie that he was a paid crisis actor. This was similar to what befell the grieving families of the small children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Imagine waking one morning in a state of searing grief over the violent death of your baby to discover that some odious prankster like Alex Jones is telling his gullible audience that the whole tragic incident was staged, that your child was actually a paid performer doused in artificial gore and posed in a gruesome tableaux of death.

That Jones and his ilk have not been thoroughly shamed and driven from the public sphere says a lot about our growing tolerance for vile nonsense.

Trump did not invent Fake News. The Big Lie has been the stock in trade of con men and tyrants since time immemorial. But he understands its value. Alternative facts as his lickspittle factotum, Kellyanne Conway infamously put it, has long been his metier. Hes a bullshitter, a phony and now hes our president.

This shouldnt have happened. But we let it happen, though Trump did have plenty of help

Unsurprisingly, the Fox propaganda machine and any number of right-wing radio ranters enthusiastically clambered aboard the Trump Train. They were abetted by many in the mainstream media who, mindful that Trump lured eyeballs to advertisers and too timid to call him out as the carnival barker he so obviously was, went along for the ride. A number of Republicans in Congress dismissed him at first. But when it became clear he had a shot at winning and that his devotees comprised at least half of their party, they scurried to adopt him as their useful idiot.

Its true that we are not all equally culpable. Roughly three million more people voted for Trumps chief opponent. But the right-minded among us didnt do enough to forestall the plainly looming disaster. The proof of that is the Trump presidency itself.

So, if we in our various incarnations are the problem, then what is the solution? Is there any way out? Wed better hope so. Whats certain is that its on us. We made a wreck of our government and its up to us to fix it.

There are positive signs:

A once compliant media has begun to take the gloves off. Genuine conservatives, outraged that their movement has been hijacked by philistines, are sounding the alarm. People are rising up and calling BS. For every Sean Hannity there is a Rachel Maddow, Jake Tapper or even Shepard Smith (at Fox News, no less!). For every Paul Ryan, there is a David Frum or Max Boot. Frothing crowds at CPAC are countered by the #MeToo movement and impressively eloquent teenagers fed up with politicians of any stripe who cower before the gun industry. On a good day, a John McCain or Jeff Flake will stand up to the cringing accommodationists in their own party. And, of course, Donald Trump himself, along with his corrupt lackeys, face a formidable foe in the person of Robert Mueller.

NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers recent testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee should mark a turning point, though he merely confirmed what has been apparent for some time: that even as our nation is under attack from a Russia determined to subvert our democracy, the president has not directed any relevant agencies to defend the country. This is a violation of the oath Trump swore on inauguration day and smacks of treason. We have entered uncharted waters.

Whats clear is that we need to use all non-violent resources at our disposal to rid ourselves and our country of the dangerous infection spreading from the White House into our body politic. These are not normal times and our usual reflexes will no longer suffice.

Trump is a problem of our own creation. We must become the solution.

Ron Reagan is an author and political commentator who lives in Seattle and Arezzo, Tuscany.

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