The White House Virus, Double-Speak and the Pope
Today’s artwork comes from John Yates, a dear friend and an inspiration for decades.
Today’s public newsletter comes a little late for several reasons. One, I have been trying to play catch-up with the last 72 hours post Trump’s announcement of having contracted Covid-19 and trying to make sense of the apocalyptical onslaught of opinions since then. I wrote a lengthier analysis of it for the subscription-based newsletter earlier that you can always check out by hitting the button below.
Before I get into today’s newsletter, let’s start with something fun: This weeks playlist is now up and running and it is hugely unapologetic, lot’s of fuck you in your face punk, jazz, more punk and post punk because, well, just because. Enjoy.
So…I am probably right in assuming that everyone’s last 72 hours have been just as entertaining, frustrating and confusing as mine have with the race to whom will become the new, or old, puppet of Capital to lead the free world in its final stage of absurdity. Yes, do read that with a truck load of sarcasm please. Think what you may of Trump’s illness, and what it means, but let’s be assured, this is only the beginning, the next 3 weeks are going to so much more intense and we all need to buckle up and make plans. No matter what, my feeling is that we will see a serious breakdown in the US and I need you all to make plans accordingly. With that out of the way, here is a my take form Friday till today.
Carole Cadwalladr, one of the brilliant journalists behind breaking the Cambridge Analytica story tweeted this most accurate analysis in regards to Trump and Covid
Just as I was finishing up my own analysis earlier, Trump went on one of his insane twitter sessions that to me, to this day mind you, represents the most brutal case of Orwellian Double-Speak I have yet encountered.
To finish off today, we have the Pope of the Catholic Church with his own moral and economic analysis. Here is an idea, live like Jesus did, give everything you stole, hoarded and accumulated to the poor and do yer fucking job mate.