Writing in Salon.com, Chauncey Devega explains how the vile AI video of the unhinged Malignant Fascist dropping excrement on the No Kings marchers was an ominous sign of where he is headed with the country. An excerpt, but please read his entire piece:
Trump’s video was immature and gross. But it was also deeply dangerous. It revealed how the administration and its agents use spectacle and absurdity to reinforce authoritarian control.
The video showcased the president’s taste for 'mediated destruction”'and 'gonzo governance,' said media and communications scholar David Altheide. 'His regime seethes contempt for millions of Americans who took [to] the streets in opposing his dictatorial cruelty. The target, the graphic sewage, and the meaning are clear: You are all crap, worthy only of the weaponized poop stream on your heads. The gross humor has reached millions of Americans who oppose Trump.'
Trump’s message, Altheide said, was clear: also offers this warning: 'Any person, institution, organization, or entity that opposes Trump and his MAGA movement are outsiders, beyond the pale, symbolic waste, the most vile, who can be deported or otherwise dealt with.'
In a press availability aboard Air Force One on Sunday, the president doubled down: 'I looked at the people. They are not representative of this country.'” (our emphasis)
The almost daily outrageous conduct -- flooding the zone in other words -- is a means of softening us up, of numbing us to his goal of absolute power and the dismantling of the Constitution. It must be met with constant pushback and a reminder to him of his growing unpopularity.
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