The People's Cube - Political Satire

Our friend Zombie strikes again - this time with a Sugar-Coated Satan Sandwich.

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Well, it looks like we've just entered the Sugar-Coated Satan Sandwich era — better known as the post-Debt-Deal Age.

The more entertaining title derives from the instant-classic metaphor concocted earlier today by Emanuel Cleaver, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, who described today's debt compromise as a “sugar-coated Satan sandwich,” by which I assume he meant he planned to vote against it — unless Satan meat is a new food trend I somehow managed to miss.

Anyway, on the infalliable principle that there already exists somewhere on the Internet a picture of anythingand everything, I did a Google Image Search for “Satan Sandwich” and just as I suspected — yes, Virginia, there is a picture of a Satan sandwich:

But that's not quite what I had envisioned, to be perfectly frank. I want to see Satan himself in a sandwich, and it's got to be sugar-coated. I thought about trying to create such an image myself, but alas my Photoshop skills are few and far between, and my artistic skills are non-existent.

So I thought: Let the people speak!

What is your vision of this new sugar-coated Satan sandwich we're all stuck with? Create your own image, either with Photoshop, a set of felt pens, or even a camera snapping a picture of a real Satan sandwich of your creation, and then submit it to the Tatler. The image can either contain allegorical political references, or just be a straight Satan sandwich with no trimmings.

All* entries will be displayed here.

(* = subject to the whims of my Satanic opinion.)

The more entertaining title derives from the instant-classic metaphor concocted earlier today by Emanuel Cleaver, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, who described today's debt compromise as a “sugar-coated Satan sandwich,” by which I assume he meant he planned to vote against it

Actually, I'm pretty sure he's going to vote for it; the CBC and Lucifer have been pals for years.

This is clearly a call for those with More Equal Photoshop Talent to share with those who have none!

((And I think most of Congress has Lucifer on Speed-dial, if I may be OOC for a monent.))

As you know, I have no Photoshopping skills, but when I think of a Satan sandwich, I just think of two slices of bread and George W. Bush, with egg and tomato all over him.

If Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul stood on either side of say Charlie Rangel, that would be a Satan sandwich. Oh. Not Satan; Charlie told us that he was not a bad congressman and that he didn't do anything wrong as he failed to declare income.

So that's okay then. Obviously that would a California roll Satan sandwich, with the Satan on the outside.

Zombie has already posted two submissions that give a direct visual, but little metaphorical value or layers of meaning (make it a double-decker!). Although I do like the tail - a subtle hint to a not so subtle circumstance.

If I were a Democrat, I'd stay away from any sandwich metaphors, especially in the vicinity of Chris Dodd.

New York Magazine wrote:Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd, for instance, who participated in the famous “waitress sandwich” at La Brasserie in 1985, while their dates were in the bathroom -- have tended to get out of it by claiming that their boyish high jinks had simply gotten out of hand.

1989 Penthouse magazine article, summarized by the Washington Times wrote:"...Kennedy and fellow Senator Chris Dodd were having lunch at famous Washington D.C. restaurant La Brasserie. Kennedy requested the attendance of waitress Carla Gaviglio.

"When she put in an appearance in their private retreat - 'The Teddy Kennedy Fun Room' - the Massachusetts senator picked her up and heaved her onto a table. The crystal candlesticks and champagne glasses shattered as he grabbed her again and flung her on top of Dodd.

"Then Kennedy threw himself on top of the woman. The waitress implored Mr. Kennedy to 'Get off me!'

"Another waitress entered to find 'things all tipped over and Kennedy was on top, [the waitress] was in the middle and Dodd was on the bottom.' At that point the sandwich was disassembled."

We're getting warmer.

I followed the lead of the "waitress sandwich" and stumbled upon a whole Satan's menu of Sugar-Coated Satan Sandwiches. Pick your poison!

For those with especially kinky taste buds....

Speaking of Satan Sandwiches, Obama munches on them every Wednesday and Friday. His favorite on the menu is item #666.

This Satan Sandwich was brought to you by NARAL

And this one is what NARAL lobbyists feed to their pet politicians in Washington.

Is this anything like the Sh*t Sandwich which will soon be required dining?

Satan Sammich onna silver shovel!

Raum Emmanual Goldstein wrote:Is this anything like the Sh*t Sandwich which will soon be required dining?

This is how this sandwich looks like:

Oh, dear. Such temptation. Well, not really considering the topic. Red Square, I simply must dive into dangerous waters and comment on the pictured sammiches. Sammichs #1 & #2 beg the observation that the nethers of the ladies involve have to be just TINGLING with...well, I'll stop there. Too obvious. And the look on San Fran Nan's face in Sammich #4 just begs too many nasty possibilities and Bawney's unseen right hand. Oh, wait, didn't think he was "bi". Oh well. The rest, well, brilliant and probably far too true from what we know after the last 18 months of the Prez's reign.

Sad to say that this evening's news that the House approved the latest BS from the Congress and White House negotiations causes me to conclude that what Comrade Khrushchev and his successors could not accomplish ("We will bury you!"), we have, at the hands of OUR elected Representatives, Senators and Presidents, accomplished ourselves. From all conservative accounts, the agreement is a "crap sandwich" at the least. It does nothing to fix the debt and spending problem and gives the Prez a $2T blank check. I offer this link that seems to summarize the key points of the agreement:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/20 ... tupid.html

Ms. Barnhardt is quite a fire cracker and pulls no punches on her blog. What she has posted tends to agree with other news sources, conservative sources that is. It's going to be a rocky road in the coming years. This agreement may well, indeed, be the CBC person's "Satan Sandwich" that America will probably choke on. Of course, MHO. I humbly yield the floor.

M84 wrote:This is clearly a call for those with More Equal Photoshop Talent to share with those who have none!

((And I think most of Congress has Lucifer on Speed-dial, if I may be OOC for a monent.))

M84, I'm sure most of us have known that for years. After all, look at our situation. It didn't happen overnight but over decades. The instigators simply passed along his phone number. Cretins.

It's not quite a sugar coated satan sammich, but it is the ...

Ivan Betinov wrote:Satan Sammich onna silver shovel!

Bullwinkle, I read the bull of Ms. Barnhart and she is a thug, of course. But what do you expect from a conservative psychopath? Oh, I repeat myself.

What worries me is that Paul Ryan said that they got 2/3 of what they wanted. Let's hope that he was merely beaten down by Barry's Troops.

Also Dr. Paul Krugman, who is perhaps the proudest wearer of the Superheterodyne, Phased-Antenna Array Tin-Foil Hat, is positively hysterical in Pinch's Dive Bomber. I'm told that Maureen Dowd is too; it is unproggish to discomfit two such eminent socialists.

And smarmy and self-righteous too. I love them. Good progs both. Wouldn't trust them with a burn match. Lenin, but they are fine.