LOL Quote Of the Week: Trump – "I am an innocent man"

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   das monde on March 4, 2019 at 10:43 am

   Almost clear, Trump Co is communicating on some supra-verbal level and having much fun with that.

   Why Donald Trump could win again, by Dave Eggers

   The incongruity of the music played at Trump rallies is one of the distinct pleasures of attending these events. There is a high likelihood that there is a prankster hiding inside the Trump campaign machinery, and this prankster has been put in charge of the playlist. At the first Trump rally I attended, in August 2016, the song played immediately after Trump finished his speech was Elton’s John’s “Tiny Dancer”. Trump had recently made the size of his hands (and presumably, his feet) a campaign issue, so the choice of “Tiny Dancer” could not have been accidental in a day that had otherwise been planned down to the minute. I had admired that DJ greatly and am sure that she or he is still on the job, for the musical choices played before and after Trump rallies still makes no conceivable sense unless it’s understood as a wry commentary. Never is there simple country music, or music by anyone who actually supports Trump. Instead, the music is meant to make us think.

   This day in El Paso, as the attendees filed into the Coliseum, a 30-minute mix of songs, instructions and archival recordings played in a loop, the juxtapositions evidence of the same prankster’s wit. There was a lot of Queen and again, Elton John. “Free Bird” was followed closely by the Village People’s “Macho Man”. Shortly thereafter there was a recording of a newscast from the night of the 2016 election, wherein the newscaster counted the electoral votes and declared Trump the winner. This itself was strange enough, coming two years after the election. Stranger still, that this recording was followed by the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil”.

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     Arthur Gilroy on March 4, 2019 at 11:52 am

     This sounds to me like part of a William Burroughs-style confusion cut-up. Subject people to contradictory information until they give up all hope of “understanding” and just stand there, passively obeying the loudest voice.

     Whic of course in this instance was Trump’s.

     One of Burroughs’s thought experiments appears in his great book, “The Job.”

     Stop. Go. Wait here. Go there. Come in. Stay out. Be a man. Be a woman. Be white. Be black. Live. Die. Yes. No. Do it now. Do it later. Be your real self. Be somebody else. Fight. Submit. Right. Wrong. Make a splendid impression. Make an awful impression. Sit down. Stand up. Take your hat off. Put your hat on. Create. Destroy. React. Ignore. Live now. Live in the past. Live in the future. Be ambitious. Be modest. Accept. Reject. Do more. Do less. Plan ahead. Be spontaneous. Decide for yourself. Listen to others. Talk. Be silent. Save money. Spend money. Speed up. Slow down. This way. That way. Right. Left. Present. Absent. Open. Closed. Up. Down. Enter. Exit. In. Out.

     These commands are constantly being imposed by the environment of modern life. If the suggestion tape contains the right phraseology, and listeners hear it in the right situation (while doing something else), they will be forced to obey the suggestion. It is like giving someone a sleeping pill, without his knowledge, and then suggesting sleep.

     At the unconscious level, any contradictory suggestion produces a brief moment of disorientation, during which the suggestions take place. This is important to remember because this is something you can – in a pinch – employ yourself. (Con artists, spies, military strategists, and social climbers use such diversions to their advantage. Why can’t you?)

     This moment of disorientation is not unknown to the human body, because contradictory suggestions are an integral function of human metabolism: “Sweat. Stop sweating. Salivate. Stop salivating. Pour adrenaline into the bloodstream. Counteract adrenaline with epinephrine.”

     Since contradictory commands are enforced by the environment and the human body, contradictory commands are especially effective. All tape recording tricks are useful: speed up, slow down, overlay, run contradictory commands simultaneously, add superfluous “echo” recordings for large spaces, etc.

     Like dat.

     Trump.

     Burroughs.

     HMMMmmmm…!!!!

     AG