MAGA loves
President Trump today as the national remains on edge: “MAGA is make America great again. By the way, they love African-American people, they love black people. MAGA loves the black people.”
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) May 30, 2020
He said that??
How to the black people pic.twitter.com/iCBXIKTI8N
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) May 30, 2020
He said it.
Love the detail of the fan blowing her hair. BTW for those of you who haven’t found this out yet, she’s also behind the ‘How to be successful without hurting men’s feelings’:
https://thecooperreview.com/non-threatening-leadership-strategies-for-women/
If ‘MAGA’, a slogan, can love anything, it presumably is also capable of any emotion one cares to name: love, hate, anger, joy, sadness, happiness… I could go on.
The same ‘stable genius’ who gave us MAGA also warned (in a tweet in the early hours of Friday, Washington time) that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”; the latter being an understandable and therefore from MAGA’s point of view (!), appropriate response to the former.
When I went to bed last night here in Canberra, twenty US cities were reportedly on fire to a greater or lesser extent. Others might see this as something of a pre-revolutionary situation, a hallmark of such being the existence of two governments vying with one another for a monopoly of power and control. Thanks to the US Founding Fathers and the Constitution, the US has always had such, in the institutions of presidency on the one hand and the legislature on the other.
Something is definitely being born here. Could be the ‘terrible beauty’ of WB Yeats; could be a monster: Trump as Frankenstein. (h/t Mary Shelley.)
Omar, I read that as monster Trump, missing the colon at first. The idea is horrifying. Trump the monster is bad enough. A monster Trump (say, larger than life?) would be even worse.
iiknklast:
There is commonly confusion between Dr Frankenstein and the monster he created out of body parts salvaged from morgues, medical schools and such and brought to life with harnessed lightning. If Donald Trump was cast as the over-confident Dr Frankenstein, he would probably be less than convincing; but as the monster prowling the dark and quiet streets of Washington DC, limping slightly from bonespurs and grabbing whatever took his fancy, he would likely scare the bejasus out of cinema audiences from coast to coast and sea to shining sea. I think it can only be a matter of time before some Hollywood mogul sees the potential in this and gets to work on it without further delay, with versions for all formats from Imax down to iphones.
I can’t see it being anything other than a license to print money, just on the US box office alone; never mind foreign sales, which would likely break records on all continents. A King Kong type of ending would be highly appropriate IMHO, with the monster climbing up a gold-plated tower clutching a screaming heroine and defying all and sundry from the Air Force, LAPD and US Marines all the way.
I still regard the original version starring Boris Karloff which I saw as a teenager, as the most horrible and horrifying horror movie ever made, and the cause of a sleepless night or two (hundred) for many a sensitive soul. But I reckon Trump could give old Boris a run for his money.
what the fuck
another australian
Maybe I am the victim of my own confirmation bias, but it seems that ~30-40% of the regulars here are Astrayn. How are you attracting so many of us??
My agents report (unconfirmed) rumours to me that out there on the Internet at large, B&W is referred to as Kangaroo Valley.
;-)
So he has shown without a shadow of a doubt that he, like his base, regards anyone other than white men as not-people, to be indulged only insofar as they are useful to white men.
Despicable.
(Australia gets its tentacles everywhere; I lived in Adelaide from February 2005 to February 2008, when I moved to Canberra. I lived there until May 2013 when I finally managed to get home, completing my planned six-month tour. Longest six months of my life.)
The Reification of MAGA. Sounds like a title for a play or an opera. An immorality play, perhaps.
Or like a historical event – like the defenestration of Prague.