{"id":12986,"date":"2024-03-11T16:40:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=12986"},"modified":"2024-03-11T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:06:51","slug":"misc-media-politricks-trumpinator-bobblehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=12986","title":{"rendered":"MiSC\/MEDiA\/POLiTRiCKS: Trumpinator Bobblehead!?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The stuff of chemically induced (chlorinated?) nightmares.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Trumpinator Bobblehead, no less. Aimed at so-called \u2018US Patriots\u2019. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea of marrying the bloated Crapitalist\u2019s head to an already extant Arnie Bobblehead is pure Crapitalist marketing heaven; thinks of the cost savings? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there\u2019s that wonderful tie-in: \u2018I\u2019ll be back\u2019 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Say wha\u2019\u2026 ???<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I love how the above image – and I use the word love here in the same way Michael Jackson used the word Bad<\/em> – ties in The Trumpinator\u2019s preferred m.o. (shoot first, ask questions later<\/s> NEVER<\/em>) with the cosier, gentler plant loving, sensitive musical side of modern American fascism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A more apt setting for Terminator Bobblehead?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d like to suggest to the purveyors of this abomination – ok, it\u2019s amusing considered as an efflorescence of kitsch; but, in truth, it\u2019s terrifying for what it says about modern day humanity – that the images immediately above and below, culled (and I use that word very <\/em>deliberately; it\u2019s the kind of word lovely right wing types use to refer to the unfortunate and \u2018unavoidable\u2019 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leave Trump in charge, you\u2019ll get this, not pot plants and music.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

* UK media grandee – formerly of The Independent, now propagandising for the openly Tory Telegraph – Jeremy Warner chose to use the word \u2018culling\u2019 in relation to excessively high death rates amongst older folk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this wasn\u2019t an accidental faux-pas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also not only used the term \u2018elderly dependents\u2019 – a neo-liberal\/neo-fascist euphemism for what Hitler and co, more honestly and more forthrightly, called \u2018useless eaters\u2019 – but prefaced his remarks with the \u2018Not to put too fine a point upon it\u2019 fig leaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Suits. Apparently they make evil palatable.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s exactly what he said, whilst comparing Covid with the early 20th C. outbreak of so-called \u2018Spanish Flu\u2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot 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.\u201d 

Jeremy Warner Daily Telegraph, March 3, 2020<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Michael Rosen picked this as his \u2018Horrific quote of the year.\u2019 And I concur entirely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 \u2018US Patriots\u2019. Or, in less Orwellian double-speak and … <\/p>\n
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