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.
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“Photos like this are typically exercises in enforced humility.
Not in a free country, Atlantic, not in a free country.”
Right. The purpose of the picture is not for “forced humility” purposes. It’s so that the arresting officers have a picture of the charged, for their records.
BWWWWAAAAAHHHHHHHHAAAAAA! How didn’t see this coming?
It's not supposed to be anything other than an administrative action. And I wouldn't go tossing the Medussa word around loosely, Megan.
We live in troubling times.
This one-sided BS is getting to me as well and I have fairly thick skin.
Has anyone ever paid for a subscription to or bought an Atlantic in the past decades or so?
The Face That Crushed a Thousand
Libs.
humility my ass! suckit!
He was supposed to hang his head in shame and wear his crime on a sign hanging from his neck like the Chinese did during the cultural revolution. But he wouldn’t do it. And that drives them crazy.
he was indicted three previous times without a mugshot
She ain't no daisy at-all.
Donald Trump’s booking photo was supposed to be an exercise in HUMILIATION.
Boo hoo. It didn’t turn out that way.
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“They’re bugs, Wyatt. All that smart talk about live and let live. There ain’t no live and let live with bugs.”
Things never seem to work out the way libtards want them to for some reason.
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I wish he’d smiled in a “Howdy, folks” kind of way. Looking peeved was a lost opportunity imo.
Nah, there is zero humor in this.
Humility?
Humiliation might be more like it.
Threat? Menace?
No. Defiance!
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