Amongst the torrent of raw sewage that Crapitalism not only allows but actively encourages the worse elements of our sick society to spew forth, in such grotesque abundance, I was vomited upon, via my email inbox, by the above.
A Trumpinator Bobblehead, no less. Aimed at so-called ‘US Patriots’. Or, in less Orwellian double-speak and more dictionary definition correct terms, racist amoral brainless right wing reactionary bigots. And/or fans of mind-boggling kitsch.
The idea of marrying the bloated Crapitalist’s head to an already extant Arnie Bobblehead is pure Crapitalist marketing heaven; thinks of the cost savings?
And there’s that wonderful tie-in: ‘I’ll be back’ is clearly the perfect slogan with which this amoral crypto-fascist can smarm his way back into the Whitehouse, despite clearly being both criminal, political insurgent, and utter moron.
I love how the above image – and I use the word love here in the same way Michael Jackson used the word Bad – ties in The Trumpinator’s preferred m.o. (shoot first, ask questions later NEVER) with the cosier, gentler plant loving, sensitive musical side of modern American fascism.
I’d like to suggest to the purveyors of this abomination – ok, it’s amusing considered as an efflorescence of kitsch; but, in truth, it’s terrifying for what it says about modern day humanity – that the images immediately above and below, culled (and I use that word very deliberately; it’s the kind of word lovely right wing types use to refer to the unfortunate and ‘unavoidable’ deaths of those they choose to murder by neglect*) from the first Terminator movie, might be better and more realistic settings for their cutesy Bobblehead death-machine.
* UK media grandee – formerly of The Independent, now propagandising for the openly Tory Telegraph – Jeremy Warner chose to use the word ‘culling’ in relation to excessively high death rates amongst older folk.
And this wasn’t an accidental faux-pas.
He also not only used the term ‘elderly dependents’ – a neo-liberal/neo-fascist euphemism for what Hitler and co, more honestly and more forthrightly, called ‘useless eaters’ – but prefaced his remarks with the ‘Not to put too fine a point upon it’ fig leaf.
Here’s exactly what he said, whilst comparing Covid with the early 20th C. outbreak of so-called ‘Spanish Flu’:
“Not to put too fine a point on it, from an entirely disinterested economic perspective, the Covid-19 might even prove mildly beneficial in the long term by disproportionately culling elderly dependents.”
Jeremy Warner Daily Telegraph, March 3, 2020
Michael Rosen picked this as his ‘Horrific quote of the year.’ And I concur entirely.