I just watched the Katie Britt thing and the most prominent thoughts I had were
- Is this an actual human being or a simulacrum programmed to methodically utter one focus-grouped 2 second statement after another?
- Do actual human beings ever conclude each sentence by pausing and freezing the parts of their faces into the same position for 0.75 seconds?
- Is that frozen position intended to resemble a smile by actual human beings or is it carefully modelled to replicate the facial expressions of models in sales literature for vacation time shares?
- Is this in fact an actual human being, an animatronic figure in a modern wax museum, or an AI superimposed on a CGI background?
- Are the people who generated this bizarre Lovecraftean nightmare video actually right that this imagery will successfully convince real Americans, addled and befuddled by decades of carefully crafted imagery and mendacity, to piss away their Republic in exchange for rule by kleptocrats, mobsters, and narcissistic megalomaniacs?
- If in fact this is, as the video seems to show, an actual stepford wife, what would it be like to be married to it? What does it say about America that this might in fact be in truth and fact, a true manifestation of our national ideal of marriage?
It is most bizarre. And, although, it's hard to listen to what she is actually saying due to the overacting and creepiness, if you do focus on her 'message', it's even more crazy because she is not really making the Republican case for anything at all. People are struggling financially? Okay, maybe, but Republicans killed the child tax credit and want to reduce social security, take away health care, give tax breaks to corporations, not increase minimum wage, etc. Okay, she tells us to be afraid of our cities, but if there is anything to be afraid of, it might be guns (that's a remote danger overall, but not a completely irrational fear in the US), and what are the Republicans doing on that? Republicans want to make open carry the law of the land; oppose banning assault weapons, etc.(BTW, when I look around, I do not see carnage; things are looking pretty good out there). She says she took a different approach about the border, but that consisted of getting to demagogue on a story about a woman who was sexually abused by cartels? What's the point? That was pretty awkward given where the Republicans as a whole landed with that one, even though I know she did work on that. But yes, I do agree with her on something. We are at a crossroads. I know which road I am taking.
I just watched the Katie Britt thing and the most prominent thoughts I had were
- Is this an actual human being or a simulacrum programmed to methodically utter one focus-grouped 2 second statement after another?
- Do actual human beings ever conclude each sentence by pausing and freezing the parts of their faces into the same position for 0.75 seconds?
- Is that frozen position intended to resemble a smile by actual human beings or is it carefully modelled to replicate the facial expressions of models in sales literature for vacation time shares?
- Is this in fact an actual human being, an animatronic figure in a modern wax museum, or an AI superimposed on a CGI background?
- Are the people who generated this bizarre Lovecraftean nightmare video actually right that this imagery will successfully convince real Americans, addled and befuddled by decades of carefully crafted imagery and mendacity, to piss away their Republic in exchange for rule by kleptocrats, mobsters, and narcissistic megalomaniacs?
- If in fact this is, as the video seems to show, an actual stepford wife, what would it be like to be married to it? What does it say about America that this might in fact be in truth and fact, a true manifestation of our national ideal of marriage?
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It is most bizarre. And, although, it's hard to listen to what she is actually saying due to the overacting and creepiness, if you do focus on her 'message', it's even more crazy because she is not really making the Republican case for anything at all. People are struggling financially? Okay, maybe, but Republicans killed the child tax credit and want to reduce social security, take away health care, give tax breaks to corporations, not increase minimum wage, etc. Okay, she tells us to be afraid of our cities, but if there is anything to be afraid of, it might be guns (that's a remote danger overall, but not a completely irrational fear in the US), and what are the Republicans doing on that? Republicans want to make open carry the law of the land; oppose banning assault weapons, etc.(BTW, when I look around, I do not see carnage; things are looking pretty good out there). She says she took a different approach about the border, but that consisted of getting to demagogue on a story about a woman who was sexually abused by cartels? What's the point? That was pretty awkward given where the Republicans as a whole landed with that one, even though I know she did work on that. But yes, I do agree with her on something. We are at a crossroads. I know which road I am taking.