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And Now, Some Deep Modern Noir From Charlie Hunter & Lucy Woodward: "Gloomy Sunday" (Feat. Miwi La Lupa)

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Dangerman1/12/2022 9:23:34 am PST

re: #153 The Pie Overlord!

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a rando’s take:

tfg is increasingly out of touch with even the people who voted for him. He won the nomination in 2016 because he was actually more in touch with the GOP base than most of the GOP—he figured out what they wanted to hear, and fed it back to them—he’s good at that. All confidence men are (that’s how they win your confidence, and then your money).

But lately—nah. He just doesn’t get it. He’s lost the thread. He tells them to vaccinate and they boo him. They want him to keep feeding the nonsense back to them, but he figures they work for him now, and they’re supposed to be parroting HIM.

He’s turning into a figurehead. A symbol.

It’s pretty clear in 1984 that Big Brother either never existed as a real person, or has died/retired—he’s a symbol of the totalitarian state, not the active head of it.

Trump is still the symbol of the MAGA movement. He’s not running it. He doesn’t really understand it. He just wants it to serve him. And it’s increasingly refusing. It wants the symbol. Not the man himself.