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WEEK 010 / 073 The Aura Made Visible
 Chapter 2The Debate Stage · Aug 18 – Aug 24, 2015
Manga panel 1 of 5, Week 10 “The Aura Made Visible”: imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense eyes, strong jowled jaw, long dark suit, very long red necktie flowing like a battle banner enthroned at a great…
August 20. The aura becomes visible to all. The chroniclers of the age set his face upon their cover.
On the cover of @TIME Magazine—a great honor!
Manga panel 2 of 5, Week 10 “The Aura Made Visible”: Imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense eyes, strong jowled jaw, long dark suit, very long red necktie flowing like a battle banner at a lone podium in…
Alabama was great last night, amazing people. 30,000 folks was largest crowd of political season. Nice!
New Reuters Poll just came out and has me at 32%, highest number yet.The silent majority is back and we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Manga panel 3 of 5, Week 10 “The Aura Made Visible”: Stooped elderly man with flyaway white hair, round glasses, pointing finger frozen at a rally podium in the middle strip of the square frame as shadowed figures wrench the microphone from his grasp…
Across the field, in the other kingdom, an omen: the wild sage cannot hold his own stage.
How is Bernie Sanders going to defend our country if he can't even defend his own microphone? Very sad!
Manga panel 4 of 5, Week 10 “The Aura Made Visible”: Extreme close-up of heavy thumbs over a glowing phone screen at the bottom of the square frame; beyond it a jagged black tidal wave crashes across the middle strip over a skyline of bank towers…
Markets are crashing - all caused by poor planning and allowing China and Asia to dictate the agenda. This could get very messy! Vote Trump.
Manga panel 5 of 5, Week 10 “The Aura Made Visible”: tall tired middle-aged man with rimless glasses, slightly stooped shoulders, neat suit, gentle defeated eyes steps from shadow onto a churned dueling ground of facing podiums on the right half of…
Now that I started my war on illegal immigration and securing the border, most other candidates are finally speaking up. Just politicians!
The field now fights on ground he chose. And at its edge, the heir-knight of the fallen dynasty at last steps forward to contest it.
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

The aura becomes visible to all: the chroniclers of TIME set his face upon their cover, thirty thousand fill a night stadium in Alabama, and a Reuters reading of 32% marks his highest number yet. Across the field the wild sage loses his own microphone, and as markets shudder under China's weight, he claims the immigration war as his own making. At the field's edge, the weary heir-knight steps forward at last.

Readers' Corner

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