📌 Told y'all he is trash 🤮🐥
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That's at https://bsky.app/profile/bluskypolitics.bsky.social/post/3m3ka37hh7s2z if you want to look at the video
Maybe what he's doing here is asserting that he isn't king, at least not yet, in the sense that if he was king that's what he'd be doing, jetting around in his shitbombing jet with his crown on, shitbombing all his enemies in the urban streets, or maybe we should read it as a warning of what he's going to do once he's taken the final steps, or maybe we should read it as a metaphor for what he's already doing to his enemies, in which the jet stands for his weaponized Department of Justice and the shit for the bogus lawsuits and unfounded criminal investigations he's flinging at all the people who exposed his criminality, and he's claiming to be king already.
Then again, there's this one:
It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle. And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.
— Nick (derogatory) ✨ (@slothropsmap.bsky.social) October 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Original here: https://bsky.app/profile/slothropsmap.bsky.social/post/3m3j2mcriqk2x
To me it's considerably more sinister than the shit plane, which is really just a piece of toddler fantasy at the core of the imagery. This time isn't exactly a metaphor: alternating between shots of King Trump donning his crown and robe and then drawing a short sword; and shots of a kneeling audience getting down as if they mean to prostrate themselves in a kind of full-on koutou (叩头), about to bare the backs of their necks like people volunteering to have their heads chopped off—I don't know who they're supposed to represent, but it made made me think of reporters at a press gaggle (update: stupid me, it’s a congressional delegation led by Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer to pay respects to the murdered George Floyd, June 8, 2020—”edgy” Vance thinks that’s hilarious to pose them as offering tribute to his king). This is the fantasy of an extremely literal-minded adult narcissist. I don't know if it's significant that Vance posted this one and Trump the other; obviously neither of them did "their own research" or any of the creative work, but you know I don't believe Trump even does any scrolling at all, somebody has to print out posts for him if he's going to read any, and I'm sure Vance scrolls a lot.There were a lot of person-on-the-street interviews for the No Kings event asking questions like "Which was your favorite sign?" and "What are you protesting?" and I was a little surprised that nobody seemed to be bringing up the kingship concept itself, as I probably would have done if they asked me. Almost all of the things he does that I really hate aren't simply bad things but also things that an ordinary constitutional president would be stopped from doing or forced to compromise in, from the outlandish tariff ideas to the latest craze for blowing up fishing boats and killing their crews on virtually no pretext, which looks very much like willful murder, or the insistence on deploying the military to the imaginary hellscapes of Democrat-voting cities, where there's nothing useful the troops could do, even if the situation was as dire as Trump and his television set imagine. Or rule through the pardon power not only that fraud congressman George Santos can leave prison after serving 3/87 (about 4%) of his sentence, but also that he doesn't have to pay back $370,000 he stole from Republican donors that the court decided he should pay back. Or accept billions of dollars in lagniappes from foreign potentates for himself. Or appropriate the Article 1 power of the purse to himself and Russell Vought, deciding on their own to cancel or rescind appropriations that Congress has voted, without consulting Congress, or most recently to reallocate funds on his own when Congress is unable to vote (to pay salaries for active-duty troops during the ongoing government shutdown, which Congress doesn't really want to protest, but it's a really terrible precedent).
It's claiming the right to do the kinds of things Charles I insisted on doing in the 1630s and 1640s that ended up costing him his head, because in England even a king was not allowed to do them, as the people decided through war and negotiation and ended up formalizing in the Glorious Revolution of 1687.
Speaker of the House Mikey Johnson, asked to comment on the shitplane film, said,
“He is using satire to make a point. He is not calling for the murder of his political opponents, and that’s what these people are doing.... They’re trying to incite violence. It’s not funny. You don’t mock a president who has already had two failed assassination attempts on his life”
By "these people", Salon reports, he meant demonstrators at the No Kings celebrations carrying signs with the message "86 47", suggesting that the 47th president of the US needed to be tossed out like stale bread at the end of a restaurant shift, which is not to my way of thinking anything like a death threat. A death threat wouldn't be "mockery", either. Mockery isn't meant to incite violence, but laughter. "Mockery" would be alluding to one of the normal uses of "86" as a verb, suggesting he's too stale to serve to customers, or used up like a special of the day that's sold out, or such an obnoxious customer himself that the bartender has a right to order him out of the room, which might well be funny to some tastes, and certainly appropriate to an elderly president who is no longer able to come up with an idea that makes any sense to anybody and is at the same time undiminished in an obnoxiousness that was already legendary 50 years ago.
I think Mikey has a hard time understanding the concepts of satire and mockery, like many conservatives in our degnerate age—satire was the glory of English Toryism from Jonathan Swift to Evelyn Waugh, and now we've got Dennis Miller and Greg Gutfeld, and that's a pretty appalling decline.
And what's "satirical" about the shitplane video? What "point" is Trump making by posting it, as a literal shitpost?
The work of Swift is actually an extremely good place to look for answers to these questions, because of the great satirist's obsession with excrement, which plays a role in every episode of Gulliver's Travels. The immediately relevant case is in the Lilliput chapters, where Gulliver saves his tiny friends from a fire in the royal palace by pissing on it—that's how small they are; this initially enrages the king, as a show of disrespect, but he ultimately pardons Gulliver, who did after all save his and the Queen's lives (she, however, permanently moves out of the palace. The satire, I suppose, isn't making a single point, but a general meditation on how small we are, we and our politics, and how subject to indignity and shame.
Then, the King Trump shitbombing story is something of an inversion of Swift's pissbombing, in which it is the king, wearing his crown and grinning, who is dropping the excrement on us, the subjects, as we assert our liberty in opposition to kings, apparently to punish us, displaying his gigantic power and our puny inability to withstand it. Gulliver helps the Lilliputian royals with his undignified urinary capacity; King Trump harms the American commoners so we'll know who's boss.
But there's more to it than that, from the later and darker part of the travels, and the island where the superior animals are the horses, Houyhnhnms, generous, cultivated, admirable in every respect, while the humans are savage, violent, and vile tree-dwellers, specifically throwing shit at each other and at Gulliver when they encounter him. Disgusted Gulliver suggests to his horse tutor that Yahoos should all be gelded, as horses in Europe often are, presumably so they can be controlled more easily and not reproduce so promiscuously.
King Trump in the video is clearly a Yahoo, thinking he's the greatest thing in the world in his crown and his special airplane as he flings his shit over the crowds in the streets, and of course he's mistaken. He and his henchmen are the lowest form of conscious life. It's satire, all right, maybe too dark to be truly funny, but it's Trump the wouldbe king, and his accomplices like little Mike, who are its targets; I think that's the only way to understand it properly. The best joke is that Trump and Johnson don't know who's getting mocked.
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