WTAF?!? Ken Paxton is a sociopath

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

[Girard442]

1. Geez. Couldn't have worked a kid and a puppy in there too?

[Nevilledog]

2. Nothing says tragedy like dropping your red Solo cup.

Surprised there wasn't a keg.


That picture is just so wrong.

[bottomofthehill]

17. Your 9am red solo cup. Big beer bash in the towers

[Bucky]

3. Oh, those poor white guys...!

First make pattern baldness... and now this!

Will no one give these poor fellows a tax cut so they can be great again?

[hlthe2b]

4. I hate to think how that artistic rendering makes HIM feel, but I'm sure it would not be normal.

What a despicable excuse for a human.

[Salviati]

5. Also:

#PleaseForget the nearly 3000 Texans that have died since the start of September as I try to block schools from protecting the children of Texas.

[enough]

26. Thanks

[Maru Kitteh]

6. So these poor white men were having a red-cup kegger when death arrived?

My gosh. How disruptive.

[Nevilledog]

10. Don't miss the box of donuts.

[Maru Kitteh]

16. I assumed that was a pop-up oral dam dispenser.

[Ocelot II]

21. At 9:00 a.m.

[Make7]

7. From the painter: "This is my tribute to 911."

"This is my tribute to 911. No records of the view from inside the towers on that day exist, but this is the image that came to my mind on that day. It's a macabre scene, but one I think is a valid interpretation of the events. It's the last moment of American innocence."
- Dave Maestrejuan,  July 1, 2011

http://maestrejuanart.blogspot.com/2011/07/orange-county-fair-2011.html#BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624523068938986754


Weird AF.

[GoCubsGo]

12. I was expecting it to be by that McNaughton whackjob.

Looks like he has a copycat.

[Bucky]

40. I got bad news for Dave

We weren't all that innocent on September 10th.

[msongs]

8. interesting pic but not appropriate in this tweet nt

[LeftInTX]

38. The guy who painted it is in California.

I don't get the impression he has a connection to the WTC.

His talent appears to be at the Velvet Elvis level

[Takket]

9. what sick fuck decided to turn our country's terror and sorrow into a Norman Rockwell painting?

[StarfishSaver]

24. I wish it WERE a Norman Rockwell painting. He was truly talented and always had a message

This is just schlock.

[Bucky]

41. Aspires to schlock...

barely makes trite

[harumph]

11. That's some tasteless art.

It's so utterly tasteless and the tastelessness seems intentional.

[GoCubsGo]

13. Spreading it around on social media is even more tasteless.

But, we're talking about Ken Paxton here, so it's pretty much expected.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. It's like something Jon McNaughton would crank out. NT

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{edited to add} Someone else had the same idea. See reply #12.

[Retrograde]

35. McNaughton's technique is considerably better

subject matter and composition aside. This looks like a cheap advertisement in a 1950s magazine: the client couldn't get Rockwell so they went with a knock-off.

[irisblue]

15. Did Windows on the World restaurant let red solo cups in their place?

Who are the 3 white guys so casually dressed?

[mactire]

18. Remember all the victims !

Typical GOP jerk, Paxton. Nearly 400 citizens of other countries also perished in the attack on our country, from about ninety countries. Any attack on our democracy must not be forgotten. It’s time for asking why.

[Boomerproud]

32. When I was watching the ceremony this morning I was

struck, but not surprised , by the number of Latin names that were called out. This picture is offensive because of the "loss of innocence " caption. America lost its innocence many years ago.

[malaise]

19. And yet not a word from him about Jan 6 when the Capitol itself wsa

attacked by ReTHUG domestic terrorists

[CurtEastPoint]

22. yes, and THAT was a TRUE attack on democracy.

[malaise]

25. Literally

Never forget Jan 6

[StarfishSaver]

23. I had no idea people cooked out on the World Trade Center balconies first thing in the morning

[LeftInTX]

27. The artist has no talent, or may I say "emotional perspective"

When I looked at the picture more closely, it appears to be that they may be indoors, at water cooler and there is a bag of donuts on a chair.
I have no idea if WTC had ceiling to floor windows, but I think that is what is portrayed here.

Still it is crappy...red cups...can't tell whether they're inside or outside..Just plain old bad art

[StarfishSaver]

28. I thought the box had a burger on it and they were outside

But even if they were inside, it's still weird - standing around the window drinking from red cups at 9 in the morning ...

[LeftInTX]

29. Someone on Paxton's twitter says the windows were only 18 inches wide.

Very amateur painting, but even worse that Paxton is tweeting something with the quality of a Velvet Elvis

[StarfishSaver]

33. Yup

[Silent3]

30. It's supposed to be inside. Notice the reflection of office ceiling lights.

The window is all wrong, however — not the height, but the width. Nearly all windows in the original towers were tall, but very narrow, so you would always feel physically supported while looking out a window.

As I recall, this was because architect I. M. Pei had a fear of heights.

[cinematicdiversions]

31. The artist is aware that the world trade center was an office building

And the attack wasn't on Saturday afternoon?

[Bucky]

42. This painting still represents an attack

... on taste

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. From the comments

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[Bucky]

43. Oh, let me guess: the break time between "ass-kickin' sessions"?

LoL 😂 these goobers, I swear 🤣

[Blue Owl]

36. What a sick fuck painting

[BGBD]

37. A number of posts in this thread

are equally as disgusting.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

39. Paxton deleted tweet

Link to tweet

[LeftInTX]

44. LOL