By popular demand, we have made two versions of this design - cute and rebellious - pick whichever feels more "deplorable" to you. Pick one for your toddler, too!


The real American outcasts today, in terms of public perception and cultural attitudes, are the American conservatives. For decades they have been demonized by the media, academic, and cultural establishments, who stereotyped them as "deplorable" long before Hillary uttered this word from the pulpit. But now the outcasts have rebelled and are on their way to taking back the country, proudly wearing the establishment's slur as a badge of honor.

The Rebel:


Scared but standing her ground:


See them at the store!


To read about the character in the picture, go here: Cosette.

Original illustration by Émile Bayard (1837-1891):

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I thought I recognized sad little Pamalinsky and her furry friend...
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High time for an overhaul of the Marseillaise.

Allons enfants de la patrie,
les déplorables ... sont arrivés!
Contre nous, de la tyrannie,
le corps d'Hillary s'est levé (bis)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir les médias traditionnels?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Égorger la vérité avec des mensonges!

Aux armes, citoyens,
Lisez le People's Cube,
Marchons, marchons!
Que Donald Trumb
Devient le Président!

(Translation, to make it fit in the cadence of the song:)

Let us rise, my fellow patriots,
The deplorables... have arrived!
Against us, now behold the Tyrant
Hillary's corpse has risen from the grave, (repeat)
Do you hear, in the countryside,
The roar of the mainstream media?
They're coming right into your arms
To kill the truth with political correctness!

To arms, my citizens,
Read the people's Cube,
Let's vote, let's vote!
So Donald Trump,
Becomes our president.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marseillaise

Thank you, Minitrue, for you linguistic escapades!

Unfortunately, while our work here is gaining international prestige and worldwide recognition, at home we are being held down as if we were some bassinet of déplorables.

To wit, the online store Zazzle.com, which we used to sell our products, has banned our "Les Deplorables" design based on an alleged "copyright infringement."

We have written them back, saying that the girl's face is in public domain and the rest of it is just the visual feel, which isn't copyrightable. I also sent them the picture below. If they refuse to cooperate, we'll post our correspondence here in more detail. And we'll raise some palpable stink on the Internet and on social media about Zazzle protecting Hillary's copyright to the word "Deplorables."

The world has turned upside down. The poseurs exposed. The left was always a movement for a new aristocracy. Themselves. And now they too must go. Everything goes full circle.

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Stay strong, Red Square!
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(I'll bake you a cake once in a while...)
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Silly squirrel, the size of the broomstick doesn't matter! I've been saying that for years...

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I think we've lost Red Square! He's been in the Zazzle State Prison for less than 24 hours and already he's all tatted-up! Poor Mrs. Red Square!!
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Comrade Putout, those are all temporary tattoos - good for embellishing one's cred during a short stay in Zazzle prison. And it was a short stay - my letter to their legal department has apparently convinced the Zazzle tribunal of my innocence. (Pulling the Party rank didn't hurt either).

But, while I was there, just in case, I prepared an escape route and set up some products with this design at another store, with somewhat lower prices -

Les Deplorables on Spreadshirt.com
- SpreadShirt has now removed them, too. The designs are now on...


Les Deplorables at CafePress


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I've been thinking that our side has done the same with "the deplorables" as the punks did in the 1980s - took a derogatory term and turned it into a self-name. That is usually the behavior of people who have little or nothing to lose. Says something about the state of affairs in today's America. We just have to win this one!

WARNING: ONLY FOR HISTORY GEEKS

When the Spanish Empire started its crackdown on the protestant Netherlands (in their possession at the time), the catholics described their opponents as mere 'beggars' (gueux in french, at that time an important language at the court of Margareta of Parma.

The protestants took this name as their battle cry! They called themselves the "beggars" (Geuzen in dutch, "gueux" in french), and this movement started the Dutch war of independence. The protestant noblemen were known to convene dressed as beggars, carrying beggar-bowls and rags.

PS: because of the secession of the northern Netherlands, the golden age of Antwerp ended and many academics and entrepreneurs fled to Amsterdam...

As our comrade Marx rightly said, history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce...

Go deplorables!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geuzen

Thanks for the info, Minitrue!

Wikipedia wrote:In the Dutch language the word geuzennaam is used for linguistic reappropriation: a pejorative term used with pride by the people called that way.

So this is what "The Deplorables" or "Les Deplorables" is - linguistic reappropriation: a pejorative term used with pride by the people called that way.

I know a little about this history and the Geuzen movement because as a kid I really liked to read the Russian translation of "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak" by the 19th century Belgian writer Charles de Coster. Since you live in Belgium, you surely have heard of him and this book.

This book was being popularized in the Motherland, perhaps, because it described a hero of an anti-colonialist, national-liberation movement and at the same time made fun of the Catholic Church (since the Geuzen were Protestants). There was a Russian-language film, an opera, and an oratorio based on this book as well.

There's a Wikipedia page about this book - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legen ... me_Goedzak

This is the book's front matter - in French and Russian:

Tyl Uylenspiegel in Ukraine? Wow...

Thanks comrade Square, for reminding me it's a small world.

Go deplorables!

You're welcome, Minitrue. Now that you got me thinking about other linguistic reappropriations...

Wikipedia wrote:In the American colonies, British officers used Yankee, from a term used by the British to refer to Dutch pirates, as a derogatory term against colonists. British soldiers created the early versions of the song "Yankee Doodle," as a criticism of the uncultured colonists, but during the Revolution, as the colonists began to reappropriate the label "yankee" as a point of pride, they likewise reappropriated the song, altering verses, and turning it into a patriotic anthem.

Other similarly reappropriated words include Tories, Whigs, queers, etc.

And today the most obvious and significant, at least here in the US, is the N-word. Black people turned this pejorative term on its head and are now using it for fun and with flamboyance, just like the Dutch "beggars," then the "Yankees," and now the "Deplorables."

I think I now better understand the reason why some blacks keep using the N-word. The sentiment here is similar to that of the millions of Trump supporters who appropriated the D-word for themselves. And that is why I don't think any campaigns to ban the N-word from usage among blacks are going to have any effect.

Linguistic reappropriation:

[img]/images/Trump_Deplorable_Please.jpg[/img]

UPDATE:

Zazzle has just sent us an email stating that our designs weren't approved and so they're removing the products from our store. I'm not sure what happens if you have already ordered one.

Just in case, here's a link to another store that may actually be a little cheaper:

Les Deplorables on Spreadshirt.com
- SpreadShirt has now removed them, too. The designs are now on...


Les Deplorables at CafePress

Red Square wrote:UPDATE:

Zazzle has just sent us an email stating that our designs weren't approved and so they're removing the products from our store. I'm not sure what happens if you have already ordered one.

Just in case, here's a link to another store that may actually be a little cheaper:

Les Deplorables on Spreadshirt.com

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Thanks for letting me know not to do business with Zazzle.

Free at last! After several days of back and forth I have received this:

Zazzle wrote:We have checked your articles and designs and released them for sale in the Marketplace.

Released from Zazzle prison! I can wash off those temp tattoos now.

There's also a matter of a certain amount of dollars lost due to order cancellations at the peak of the demand, but who counts? We are all supposed to be equal, selfless, and non-greedy here (with the exception of the legal eagles who watch over my submitted designs and earn very unequal salaries for keeping me and the rest of the unwashed equal inside our designated communal sty).

Comrade Svyet has sent us his picture wearing our design he ordered from Spreadshirt. He says it's of an excellent quality, both the print and the fabric.

Is this is made in the USA?

Hammer and Loupe wrote:Is this is made in the USA?

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I asked Zazzle this:

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[table][tr] [td] Subject: [/td] [td] Specific product question [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] Message: [/td] [td] Hello. I have two questions about your shirts; I could not provide a specific URL because you offer so many. I would like to know if your they are printed in the USA and if the shirts themselves are made in the USA. Thank you for replying. [/td][/tr][/table]

And they came back with this:

All of our t-shirts are produced and print in the USA. Mostly california
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 Danielle
Customer Support Hero
Zazzle Inc.

Grammar and formatting has been preserved. Based on the grammar, I think that "Danielle" is actually a "Durka Durka". And based on my extra "your" in the question, I think I was switched off when I was typing the email.

Hand crafted by 12 yr old (non-union) Nicaraguan refugees? As long as its done in the USSA.

Deplorables do vote - while wearing our shirts. Here's one submission:

I would expect the Munchkins to be denounced as deplorable -- after their Dear Leaderess had the unfortunate excessive moisture problem... Wish I could put an illustration together, but I seem to suffer from painting cretinism...

Thank you for the latest(?) news from Zazzle. I've also run into a roadblock with them, and have been trying to discern whether their strange behavior is political or just idiosyncratic.

I tried to order a self-made (no intellectual property issues) bumper sticker saying


They refused to make it, saying . . .

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"This content did not adhere to our content guidelines as it referenced a group that has been labeled as a "terrorist group".
Zazzle does not sell / produce merchandise referencing any such groups, regardless of the context. Whether the design is for or against the group in question, Zazzle does not sell / produce any merchandise referencing them.
"In this instance, your order contained a reference to the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, which Zazzle is not currently able to produce on merchandise as the design does not adhere to our content guidelines."
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I'm astonished that any company dealing in the marketplace of ideas can't even name an extremist group, even one so overwhelmingly rejected in the States as Boko Haram (or maybe not?)

I suppose that leaves Zazzle products rather limited to either hunky-dorry "Life Is Good" smiley faces or else indirect, between-the-lines references which undergrounds are good at coding and decoding, but which aren't as useful for "consciousness raising" among the sheeple.

Should we just "go elsewhere" to Spreadshirt, or stay at Zazzle to make a transformative precedent, or both? Perhaps Red Square could make a most-equal executive decision for us to just go with, to concentrate our hard-earned rubles?

Minitrue wrote:High time for an overhaul of the Marseillaise.

Thank you, Minitrue, for this most inspiring anthem!

Perhaps if the new Dear Leader (besides Red Square, PBUH) continues his "direct" rallies, this could be sung before or after the other anthem -- with intellectually coded postures: standing, sitting, kneeling, or lying prostrate.

Minitrue wrote: Contre nous, de la tyrannie,
le corps d'Hillary s'est levé

(Translation, to make it fit in the cadence of the song:)

Against us, now behold the Tyrant
Hillary's corpse has risen from the grave

Question about a possible double entendre that could be used in the text above:

Is it true that "corps," in addition to meaning "corpse," can also mean "military unit/body"?

If so, could "le corps d'Hillary" also by extension refer to any one of the following? . . .

. . . a mob (e.g., Portland)
. . . a professional protest group (e.g., the ANSWER Coalition, Socialist Alternative, BLM)
. . . a black ops group (e.g., Bob Creamer's Democracy Partners, Scott Foval's Americans United For Change)
. . . a 527 Group (e.g., MoveOn.org, ACT--Americans Coming Together)
. . . a DNC administration (e.g., Wasserman Schultz, Brazile)
. . . a parliamentary group (e.g., Congressional Democrats, Congressional RINOs)
. . . a media “corps” (e.g., MSM)
. . . an industry (e.g., Hollywood, Wall Street, K Street, Silicon Valley)
. . . an intellectual mentorship (e.g., Saul Alinsky, who Hillary Clinton wrote her senior thesis on)
. . . an éminence grise (e.g., George Soros' “Shadow Party”; the Davosoise)

And if so, could “le corps d'Hillary” be made plural? “Les corps d'Hillary”?

Contre nous, de la tyrannie,
les corps d'Hillary s'est levé

Against us, of the tyranny,
the corps of Hillary rise

If you merit so much opposition & such opposition, you must be doing something right.

Victor Laszlo: “Play the ‘Marseillaise.'. . . Play it!” . . . . . . . [/font]

Cube of Influence wrote:If so, could "le corps d'Hillary" also by extension refer to any one of the following? . . .

. . . a mob (e.g., Portland)
. . . a professional protest group (e.g., the ANSWER Coalition, Socialist Alternative, BLM)
. . . a black ops group (e.g., Bob Creamer's Democracy Partners, Scott Foval's Americans United For Change)
. . . a 527 Group (e.g., MoveOn.org, ACT--Americans Coming Together)
. . . a DNC administration (e.g., Wasserman Schultz, Brazile)
. . . a parliamentary group (e.g., Congressional Democrats, Congressional RINOs)
. . . a media “corps” (e.g., MSM)
. . . an industry (e.g., Hollywood, Wall Street, K Street, Silicon Valley)
. . . an intellectual mentorship (e.g., Saul Alinsky, who Hillary Clinton wrote her senior thesis on)
. . . an éminence grise (e.g., George Soros' “Shadow Party”; the Davosoise)

plus, in the ligth of freshly baked insights :

"le corps d'Hillary" could also refer to the following . . .
. . . Major Fu-kup (cf., TheFineReport, Military "corpse")



P.S. ... [Cube of Influence] Casablanca, that 'Marseillaise' ... _I'm shocked, shocked.


P.P.S. and, referring ... [Cube of Influence] les corps d'Hillary s'est levé ... :

[color=#999999]Genosse Dummkopf[/color] wrote:... the progressively whipped-up BDS, Bush Derangement Syndrome, morphing into comm-org puppeteered THP, Trump Hypermanic Paranoia.

THP is now in acute incubation stage. Full outbreak scheduled on Jan. 20, 2017.

UPDATE #2

After Zazzle removed our Les Deplorables products in September, I sent them a letter of explanation (above), and recreated the products. It lasted for a while, and this week the products were removed again. I protested with the same message as before. This time they responded a few days later, with this. I'm under the impression that it's not the theater that complained first, but the reviewer who didn't like our products first removed them, and after I protested he contacted the theater and got them to request this removal. Given my history with Zazzle, this wouldn't be surprising.

Your products were removed due to an infringement claim by the intellectual property rights owner. Zazzle has been contacted by legal representatives of Cameron Mackintosh Limited, https://www.cameronmackintosh.com/produ ... miserables, and at their request, have removed the products from the Zazzle marketplace.

We are sorry for any disappointment, but hope you understand our position in this regard.

If you have any further questions about Zazzle's Content Guidelines (https://help.zazzle.com/hc/en-us/articles/219144348), please don't hesitate to contact us by replying to this email.

Thanks for using Zazzle. We look forward to seeing more of your creative designs!

My second choice was SpreadShirt, but they removed Les Deplorables, both products and the artwork, without even letting me know.

The designs are now in our CafePress store. I haven't visited it in a long time, and the site has undergone some serious improvements. Let's see how long Les Deplorables will last there.

Les Deplorables at CafePress

Red Square wrote:UPDATE #2
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Your products were removed due to an infringement claim by the intellectual property rights owner. Zazzle has been contacted by legal representatives of [highlight=#ffff00]Cameron Mackintosh Limited[/highlight], https://www.cameronmackintosh.com/produ ... miserables, and at their request, have removed the products from the Zazzle marketplace.
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It seems that Zazzle, like Youtube, has a crappy "delete first, ask questions later" form of copyright policing.

And Mackintosh's people, if anything, should be getting THEIR asses sued off for trying to stipulate that they own the copyright or worked on the musical. He did nothing when it came to writing the book, nor the musical. He's just a producer I.E. one who profits off of other people's work, and I don't think that a producer holds copyright, the writers do. I at least can't find anything that says that he owns the copyright. In effect, he's leasing a car, but his people think he owns it and that nobody else can use or have it.