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The Mug Shot Is a Warning: Donald Trump’s booking photo was supposed to be an exercise in humility. He turned it into a threat (sad Atlantic)
The Atlantic ^
| 8/25/23
| Megan Garber
Posted on 08/25/2023 9:11:54 AM PDT by cotton1706
The Greek myth of Medusa takes many forms, but the most common is this: Medusa was a woman who, having angered the goddess Athena, was made into a monster. Athena punished Medusa by turning her hair into a writhing tangle of serpents, and then by ensuring that anyone who looked into Medusa’s eyes would be turned to stone. In shaping their story of a gaze made violent, the creators of that early democracy were prescient about the man who has tried to destroy ours. Donald Trump’s head may be covered in spray rather than snakes, but he is a Medusa all the same, reconfigured for the age of mass media: Once you look at him, your fate is already sealed.
Last night, the 45th president became inmate number P01135809 of Georgia’s Fulton County Jail. Trump had his mug shot taken. It was shared with the public. We looked, of course. And he was prepared for our gaze: hair, makeup, angle, pose. In the portrait—it is a portrait, in the end—Trump glares directly into the camera. He seethes. He glowers. He turns in a studied performance. Photos like this are typically exercises in enforced humility. Trump’s is a display of ongoing power. He treats his mug shot as our menace.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; megangarbage; megangarber; p01135809; theatlantic; thespewlantic; trumpmugshot; trumpnotaninmate
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HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They not getting the reaction and satisfaction they wanted.
Behind a paywall but likely not worth reading anyway.
To: cotton1706
Apparently they never saw the cover of Crippled America!
To: cotton1706
To: cotton1706
Yes, a threat to tyranny!
NEVER SURRENDER!!!!
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posted on
08/25/2023 9:13:24 AM PDT
by
Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: cotton1706
So nice to see the mentally ill see still employed.
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posted on
08/25/2023 9:14:41 AM PDT
by
Nekman
(The Dems are SocialistCommunistUtopianMarxists...SCUM for short...it FITS!)
To: cotton1706
He and “We the people” have not yet begun to fight.
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posted on
08/25/2023 9:14:53 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well those that did not make it back.)
To: cotton1706
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posted on
08/25/2023 9:15:03 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: Jim W N
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posted on
08/25/2023 9:15:18 AM PDT
by
broken_clock
(Go Trump! Still praying.)
To: cotton1706
Backfires in their faces once more...
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posted on
08/25/2023 9:15:32 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: cotton1706
Dims for years: I can't wait to see Trump's mug shot!
Dims today: Trump's such an evil SOB he made sure he got a mug shot!!!
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posted on
08/25/2023 9:15:58 AM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: cotton1706
"Doc Holliday: A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of himself. And he can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it."
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posted on
08/25/2023 9:16:12 AM PDT
by
Tench_Coxe
(The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
To: Tench_Coxe
“Doc Holliday: A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of himself. And he can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.”
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Excellent Post.
Well done.
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posted on
08/25/2023 9:19:12 AM PDT
by
unclebankster
( Globalism is the last refuge scoundrel)
To: cotton1706
You SHOULD be scared, Little Girl. You and your ilk are going to be getting it back in spades.
That mug shot is not a threat - it’s a warning. ;)
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posted on
08/25/2023 9:19:18 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
To: cotton1706
And the author, a pillar of salt.
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posted on
08/25/2023 9:19:53 AM PDT
by
TornadoAlley3
( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
To: cotton1706
exercises in enforced humility.
And that my friends, is what they have in store for
all of us...
...is that NOT what they are doing already?
Gay acceptance, multiple genders, the list goes on and on.
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posted on
08/25/2023 9:19:56 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: cotton1706
Photos like this are typically exercises in enforced humility. Not in a free country, Atlantic, not in a free country.
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posted on
08/25/2023 9:20:44 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: tet68
“exercises in enforced humility.”
Yup. That’s the very nature of power. We will FORCE you to do what you DO NOT WANT to do.
Coercion is the very opposite of Liberty.
To: Jim W N; M1911A1
H/t M1911A1
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posted on
08/25/2023 9:22:23 AM PDT
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: cotton1706
A proud slave must be broken before the contagion spreads.
Ever was it thus.
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posted on
08/25/2023 9:24:55 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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