1. One thing people really shy away from talking about -- I think because it's so disturbing -- is Trump's love of death porn: of stories of grisly murders by gangs, rioters, and terrorists.
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4. And in the Covid moment, death porn is more important than ever. It's a way of constructing an alternative narrative to the way most people are dying right now. More thoughts here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-rnc-biden/ …
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Spot on.
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His brain is just soggy tatters of NY Post headlines from the 80s
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I think the melodrama comes from his inability to feel emotion on his own. Everything needs to be painted in high contrast because he doesn’t know what everyday emotions feel like
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This is the New York Post bit from
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Connecd to 80s nypost type of reactionary salacious journalism that Trump learned from & was steeped in.
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Reminds me a lot of the narratives that white southerners promulgated about a world in which black people were not under their direct control. It’s the same garbage.
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It’s also the plot of Birth of a Nation.
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That’s the basic premise of almost every female (and a few male) saints. And many fairy tales. But aside from that, I’d bet the house Trump has a collection of snuff films tucked away. His eldest films his animal kills.
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