Nothing Will Ever Take Place
Jokes heard in the clinic: "Marriage is psychological - one is a psycho, and the other is logical." "What's Trump's favourite saying? It's good to be misguided." "A robber pulled out his gun at the bank, and told everyone to get to their knees. He asks the first man: "did you see my face?" The man nods, and gets shot. He asks the second man: "did you see my face?" The man nods, and gets shot. He asks the third man: "did you see my face?" The man responds: "I didn't, but my wife here did." *** As Jeff Sharlet notes in his interview with Chris Hedges, Trump rallies play the role of intellectual stimulation. A trump rally, or trumpism, is inherently participatory, and meaning is created by the populace. Whilst Trump is the figurehead of the movement, the force his followers exert represents a return of the hoi polloi. This was especially evident with Trump's attitude to the COVID vaccine - ...