April14_2025
That's the Point: Donald Trump is so obvious
Badness itself is in the audience, unpopularity is popular.
The obviousness of Donald Trump is the problem, it is an audience problem, it is a Tony Clifton performance, but it is reality itself - not just entertainment.
Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack 1980 monomyth media patterns, it is that obvious. That's my core point. That is why I telephoned the Pentagon Monday, August 17, 2015 afternoon. We are talking 9 to 5 with Dolly Parton, and Donald Trump playing Franklin Hart Jr. from year 1980 monomyth story patterns, Mr. Montgomery Burns himself!
I knew we were dealing with bit-flipping in the mind of core values. I did not know August 17, 2015 about Cambridge Anlyatica, I didn't know about the Internet Research Agency, but I recognized the persistent patterns of monomyth mind-fuck on Reddit social media comments that had not gone away. People avoidant of rich complex understanding in favor of hyper banality as described by Rick Roderick in 1993.People ere attracted to the antics of MAGA / Trump and people did not see the flocking reactions to Donald J. Trump as a threat.
it is BECAUSE Donald Trump was so obviously bad, badness itself being sleeked out by people in interpretations of complex ideas, that I knew this was huge.
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism. Published year 1951
August 16, 2025
https://bsky.app/profile/roundsparrow.bsky.social/post/3lwkppxn7ts2f
https://autistics.life/@RoundSparrow/115041475227865077
June 16, 2015 campaign rally speech at Trump Tower in New York City
I hope that now, August 16, 2025 - we are reaching a point that the saturation of Donald Trump bullshit is smelling so bad that ALL people are waking up that for over 10 years rural people have trusted NYC City Slicker.
September 1, 2025
Front page of Reddit social media site.
https://old.reddit.com/r/NoShitSherlock/comments/1n5oh75/jasmine_crockett_torches_maga_after_the_president/
“The entire WORLD can see that Trump is absolutely unqualified to lead… but those red hats shield their brains from taking in facts & data”
Yes, the ENTIRE WORLD can see that Trump is unqualified to lead a free-thinking democracy of educated people who understand media ecology. But what Trump is QUALIFIED to do is Reality TV "The Apprentice" and "Truth Social" meme-speak. Donald Trump is qualified to lead a society of media addicts who can not resist mocking Tony Clifton performance that Donald Trump has mastered. A blend of Surkov Russian year 2011 scripted governing methods (entertainment-based governing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9_L9GRRsQo ) with Tony Clifton audience improv. The "No Shit, Sherlock!" community of Reddit is exactly the kind of reactions a Tony Clifton performance gets from audiences. This has been going on for over ten years and two months.
October 29, 2025
Trump symbolism is OBVIOUS. That's the mind exploit. That's the brain loophole. The blinding obvious of the signal. Signal strength over message, the medium of the signal is the message (Marshall McLuhan, University of Toronto).
Front page of Reddit, top upvoted comment. Mind blown on Reddit by media clip of Trump. How OBVIOUS the situation is. But the message is still tiny-short and reactionary. Acting like this just started in year 2025. People are attracted to self-harm, including those who hate upon Trump. Mocking a Tony Clifton performer is not resisting a Tony Clifton performer. Hate itself wrecks the mind. (Hate of Trump, hate of MAGA) The 1954 Equation.
Monday, January 12, 2026
https://old.reddit.com/r/UnderReportedNews/comments/1qatvnl/george_conway_donald_trump_is_a_man_who/
Yes, it is all so obvious. And prizing badness is going to create bad outcomes. People unwilling to promote and quote Dr. Bandy X Lee since year 2017 when she went public... have dug a hole of mocking people who are sick of the constant cheering on of bad things.