He who lives by the slop must die by the slop
It's all so tedious... On again, off again. Will he, won't he? To TACO or not to TACO? Oh, well, the latest news is yet another big TACO.
After talking big again about "wiping Persian civilization off the map," the orange shit stain that is now the American President suddenly did that thing he increasingly does—inventing a fake negotiation narrative to not do what all the experts are telling him would be sheer madness. The Iranians then chimed in to agree to a two-week ceasefire, knowing that the opposition to Trump can only grow in that period.
But this is no guarantee against further madness from the senile Boomer-in-Chief further down the line. Or maybe he just needs the pause in order to cook up another looney war to distract Fox viewers, one that he can actually win, like against Cuba or Denmark.
Honestly, who fuckin' cares!?
The worst part of this is that it takes up all the attention and oxygen from more important matters, while also providing cover for evil actors like Israel to launch yet another genocidal war, this time against Southern Lebanon.
It is no surprise that Israel is taking full advantage of the media's "Centaurian focus" on a single, big, dominating issue to wipe Lebanese villages off the map and annex territory all the way up to the Litani River.
The worst part of all this is that the Ukrainian War has now been reduced to a minor news item, when it should be the leading item. But there is so much else that is being starved by Trump's constant media oxygen theft, like his failure to deport significant numbers of illegals, the main issue he got elected on. In fact, Trump is lagging behind other Presidents:
And remember, neither Biden nor Obama campaigned 24-7 on deporting people. Trump did.
Here, the cruelty of ICE works as "magnifier of the miniscule," making the unimpressive number of deportations more "emotionally satisfying" to the easily deceived MAGA voter base that voted for them (and definitely not unnecessary wars with Iran).
The performative slop elements of this administration represent the cancerous nature of modern Western politics.
Hopefully, where we are headed is towards a backlash against those negative aspects of Trumpism, and towards a rejection of the performative and manipulative aspects of politics. But for that to happen the entire slop-o-verse of the internet will have to be radially cleaned up.
Instead, we are more likely to have a woke backlash for a couple of years followed by more fake right-wing stupidity, amplified by the giant AI-enabled slop-o-verse.
The only plus side is that the next generation of politicians will have a dead-eyed look to them, while the cultural core of America that Trump found surprisingly potent ways to resonate with will be much more blackened, weakened, and hollowed out. Even if they are more cunning than Trump, they will lack his power to cause chaos.
After talking big again about "wiping Persian civilization off the map," the orange shit stain that is now the American President suddenly did that thing he increasingly does—inventing a fake negotiation narrative to not do what all the experts are telling him would be sheer madness. The Iranians then chimed in to agree to a two-week ceasefire, knowing that the opposition to Trump can only grow in that period.
But this is no guarantee against further madness from the senile Boomer-in-Chief further down the line. Or maybe he just needs the pause in order to cook up another looney war to distract Fox viewers, one that he can actually win, like against Cuba or Denmark.
Honestly, who fuckin' cares!?
The worst part of this is that it takes up all the attention and oxygen from more important matters, while also providing cover for evil actors like Israel to launch yet another genocidal war, this time against Southern Lebanon.
It is no surprise that Israel is taking full advantage of the media's "Centaurian focus" on a single, big, dominating issue to wipe Lebanese villages off the map and annex territory all the way up to the Litani River.
The worst part of all this is that the Ukrainian War has now been reduced to a minor news item, when it should be the leading item. But there is so much else that is being starved by Trump's constant media oxygen theft, like his failure to deport significant numbers of illegals, the main issue he got elected on. In fact, Trump is lagging behind other Presidents:
"Overall, deportations under Trump are lower than deportations under former President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama, who immigrant rights advocates dubbed the "deporter-in-chief." But the Trump administration’s limited data release makes it difficult to compare.During the last full fiscal year when Biden was in office, from October 2023 to September 2024, DHS deported about 778,000 people. Biden’s figure includes people deported at the border and people deported inside the U.S. Because of the high number of people who crossed the southern border under Biden, it’s likely that a large share of the deportations happened there.Obama deported around 962,000 people in fiscal year 2009, from October 2008 to September 2009. As with Biden’s data, that included deportations at the border and inside the U.S."
And remember, neither Biden nor Obama campaigned 24-7 on deporting people. Trump did.
Here, the cruelty of ICE works as "magnifier of the miniscule," making the unimpressive number of deportations more "emotionally satisfying" to the easily deceived MAGA voter base that voted for them (and definitely not unnecessary wars with Iran).
The performative slop elements of this administration represent the cancerous nature of modern Western politics.
Hopefully, where we are headed is towards a backlash against those negative aspects of Trumpism, and towards a rejection of the performative and manipulative aspects of politics. But for that to happen the entire slop-o-verse of the internet will have to be radially cleaned up.
Instead, we are more likely to have a woke backlash for a couple of years followed by more fake right-wing stupidity, amplified by the giant AI-enabled slop-o-verse.
The only plus side is that the next generation of politicians will have a dead-eyed look to them, while the cultural core of America that Trump found surprisingly potent ways to resonate with will be much more blackened, weakened, and hollowed out. Even if they are more cunning than Trump, they will lack his power to cause chaos.
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