Donald Trump is an evil man

Came across this twitter thread (via Sean P. Dailey) that divulges what transpired in that moment during Trump's inauguration when he turned around and Melania's face changed instantly from a big smile to stone cold opposite:

It may not have been their first face to face that day, but it still holds.

The timeline in the GIF that I always saw is way too clipped, and I knew there was something more going on. But I knew that Melania's change in expression was due to something that Trump did when he turned around. 

The change in expression wasn't the relaxing of a public posture; it wasn't a rictus smile giving way to regular disgust. I figured he gave her a hard cold look or something, like some kind of sick dominance thing going on. But if you watch the longer sequences you will see that Trump communicates something to her. He mouths something to her that is the cause in her change of expression.

It is the shocked and humiliated expression of one having received unexpected verbal abuse, out in public, under the circumstances of such an important national ceremony.

It's because Trump mouthed the words "Fuck you".

Think that's a stretch? Like, really, a guy would do that to the First Lady during his inauguration? Isn't that something like Gene Hackman in Absolute Power? If you think it's a stretch, you have no idea of what kind of man Trump is.

Trump is a predator. He knows that how to hurt depends on the when. He doesn't need to think about it; it's all part of his "flow". Abusive words spoken in the context of a private exchange are indeed harmful, but those words or similar will land with far more hurt, far more stunning humiliation, when they are spoken (or mouthed) in a context (such as a presidential inauguration) where they are least expected, even least expected by one who may be used to said verbal abuse, and may even engage in speaking such words herself.

The moment is actually not at all ambiguous. You can see it clearly.

 

You have to pay attention. The stacked planes make it look like Trump is communicating with Melania right away. But you can see when Trump turns around, he is first exchanging facial communication with Ivanka. Trump is raising his eyebrows in a "wow, look at us" kind of moment, or something like it. You can see this also by the fact that Ivanka responds by also raising her eyebrows in the same fashion.

Trump then turns his face farther back towards Melania and mouths the words, "Fuck you". And then turns his face back forward with the most incredible look of smugness.

One thing that people miss is the look on Ivanka's face at that same moment. Even though half her face is cut off by the screen, you can tell that she sees what Trump mouths to Melania, and her expression too also instantly changes in a similar way. It almost looks like she might cry.

Was Jim Jones the White Savior?

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I asked myself that question after recently learning that the majority of People's Temple were African-American. So I googled "Jim Jones White Savior" and I found this interview: Jim Jones, deadly white savior: The tragic legacy of the Jonestown massacre. 

It's an interview with author Sikivu Hutchinson who wrote a novel about the Jonestown massacre, White Nights, Black Paradise.

I think her words here in particular are very important:

The truth of Jonestown has been lost because it’s been demonized to a certain extent. The impression was that you had these “zombie-esque acolytes running over there and bowing down to this white man.” It just creates a very sordid and unsavory picture. Also, it took place in San Francisco, a city that has always been mythicized as a white space. You had a white pastor, so many white bohemian liberal-to-radical members involved quite prominently and that becomes a big part of the ethos. That this is a “free love” church, that it was a new age-y kind of confab, when it’s really coming from the heart of Pentecostal, charismatic spirituality.

Remember the days when certain Christian conservatives harboured panicky fears about Gays going around and poking people with AIDS infected needles? Remember the fears of them spreading "their" disease through toilets and such?

It was proven to be a disease spread through sexual transmission, yet that didn't prevent many a conservative from treating them as lepers, given a wide berth of social distancing, lest one, or one's children, contracted AIDS.

The conservative cultural consensus was something like, "You need to keep your distance lest you infect us with the disease of your licentiousness!"

Anyways, welcome to 2020! In which a highly infectious, deadly, and incapacitating (to many of those who recover) disease spread through air droplets and surface contamination, and which can be prevented through simple effective ways, is met by those same conservatives with, "Look, buddy, we all die, alright? My pride and freedom licentiousness says I won't take preventative measures for your sake!"

It's not summer until the lawns and fields of grass have gone bronze and tawny and glinting gold. That grass, those lawns, they should nearly reflect the sunlight, be burnished and wonderfully hurt your eyes! Come on, what's the matter with you, Pacific Northwest? Almost mid July now! But go ahead and be that way! Summer is cancelled. Fall is here! I get it! You win!

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These so-called "fragrance free" hand sanitizers at the entrances to various places - they most definitely are not fragrance free. What is that smell? Three day stale baby vomit? Come on, put some fragrance in that shit! This is persecution!

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Gotta love the stalwart crusaders who pontificate about not hiding your faith and how "I love the mass so much you cowards I am unafraid to tell the whole world" shaking in their boots and crying persecution over having to write their name and number on a piece of paper in the vestibule of the church. LOL.

And it's even worse, indeed, an absolute VIOLATION, if it's for confession! Like there's some stone cold commie agent pilfering parish lists and poring over them, saying, "Now I wonder what this one said in confession!"

Go to confession! they never tire of saying. You should go to confession! Don't be afraid! You need confession to be made clean! St. Damien of Molokai shouted his sins across the water and everybody heard! These are the same ones who are protesting over putting down some ink that a fellow parishioner (who also wrote down their name and number) can read (which they won't, because who the hell cares) and see that you went to confession? Like, huh? Methinks you need some fresh air.

Ooooo, "contact tracing" - that's so sinister sounding, isn't it? Well, I suppose it is, if you want to purposely remain ignorant about what it actually is and like an adolescent (as Pope Francis said) cling to your own stupid selfish paranoia instead.

Like, are you ready to be a martyr for your faith?! Are you ready to sacrifice?! Because the times are coming when...oh I have to write my name and number down? Oh but my right to privacy! My religion is my own private affair!

LOL. Not that contact tracing lists are any such thing. They are completely provisional, and after a few weeks or whatever and no one from the list came down with Covid, then you toss the lists. So scary, like the parish registry. But I guess the commies couldn't get access to the parish registries?

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It's a twenty for your twenty. The year you got what you gave. Or something like that.

Ah, the dirty caravans seeking to get into the US - rapists and drug dealers! Many carry diseases! Close off the border! Build that wall! Keep them out!

Gotta take care of the Homeland! Like killing the pandemic response plan and letting Covid "wash over the country", making for a third of the world's death toll in three months (and rapidly escalating).

And here's the twenty to your twenty, president dipstick: both Mexico and Canada are adamantly and steadfastly keeping their borders closed to your country, refusing to hear the interests of US governors that seek to re-open them, and saying, look to your own disease petri dish backyard, because of your negligent homicidal criminal virulently destructive self-protective vile and scummy fake president cancelling every proper course of action letting the virus "wash over your country". Oh, and lots of other countries that don't share a physical border with you - yeah, they're closing their borders to you as well.

He didn't just ignore or "did nothing", in the sense of a negative. He actively jettisoned and obstructed any and all proper courses of action. You want to see cancel culture? Look no further than Don the Con.

Trump is one who dirties the waters. He is one who dirties the waters as his first step in every single circumstance, and it's a form of self-protection.

That's why the US has the numbers it has. But that is not why the other countries are closing their borders to the US. They are keeping their borders closed to the US simply for the protection of their own countries. Those countries cannot afford to have their effective courses of action (and they are effective) turned to nothing by infection from a country that, because its "president" carries a deadly moral virus, is in the worst state in all the countries of the world with regards to the pandemic.

It so happens that is the same country which could have, and ought to have been, with all that is available and at its disposal, a leader and trailblazer, in cancelling the Covid pandemic.

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You know the champs who valiantly come to the defense of Capitalism, saying how it raised us out of poverty and disease, how we would all be dead at thirty and dropping dead from all the various diseases that Capitalism progressively cured us of and vaccinated us against, and so on in pioneering this cure, and so forth in developing that vaccine, bringing us general longevity and relative ease?

Yeah, those are the same people who are anti-vaxxers.

The Airline Virus

I have idea.

What?

Let's have virus labs. People pay to sit in labs.

Because?

Because labs are too big to fail.

Okay.

They infect each other in the labs. Like big viral load.

And?

The labs will have wings. We propagate virus in the sky.

Then?

We'll land the labs down in various countries. Open them up.

This is fine.

provocateur

That's an oft used word in places like Quebec.

Double o assonance followed by vowel a, and beginning r consonant book-ended by r consonant at the end of "teur" (e before the u, or u before the e?).

Gotta totally ROFL love how someone is brought in on special occasions to cobble Spray Tan's tweets.

LOL