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Trump the Gorgon

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When I was a child I was very fond of reading, and one of my favorites was a book of ancient myths, with beautiful pictures. I read it over and over, but the stories I liked best were the tales of Ceres and Persephone, Cupid and Psyche, and Icarus. The grieving mother searching for her abducted daughter and neglecting her earthly tasks so much that she caused winter, the young woman who doesn’t trust her mysterious lover, and the man who flies too close to the sun exerted a pull and fascination I felt but could not quite explain.

For the other stories in the book, it was more the drawings that held my interest. That was true of Perseus and the snake-haired Gorgon Medusa. The book’s illustrator had chosen to draw, not the bloody denouement that most illustrations and statues feature, but the moment in which sword-weilding Perseus is looking at the Gorgon in the mirror in preparation for the kill, having been warned (this is the quote I remember from my book, which must have been rather old even back then), “Thou canst not look on the Gorgon’s head and live.”

Wish I had that book now, because almost all the illustrations I can find online are of Perseus holding the bloody head aloft. Mine was more subtle; the moment before the blow, with Perseus setting up by looking in the mirror in preparation for the kill. The idea that there was a creature so dangerous that merely glancing at her face could turn you to stone was quite a lot to wrap my little mind around, and it certainly made an impression.

Why am I writing about this? Well, for one thing, I remember that book fondly. But the real reason is that last night I read this RedState piece entitled, “Social Media Removes Interview With Donald Trump Because the Sound of His Voice Has Been Banned.” So Donald Trump has become the auditory Gorgon, whose very voice is so dangerous it can turn people to stone and against which they must be protected:

As reported by the New York Post, both Instagram and Facebook took down a conversation between POTUS 45 and his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.

Lara posted the screenshot of an email she received concerning an episode of The Right View With Lara Trump.

The message from Facebook employee “Katelyn” read as follows:

““We are reaching out to let you know that we removed content from Lara Trump’s Facebook page that featured President Trump speaking.”

Why was it shown the door?

That’d be because of how it sounds — it features noises emanating from The Donald:

““In line with the block we placed on Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, further content posted in the voice of Donald Trump will be removed and result in additional limitations on the accounts.”

They don’t explain why his voice is so dangerous, but my guess is that, if asked, they would cite something about the supposed “insurrection” he supposedly “incited” – which would be ironic, considering that both of those assertions could be considered “misinformation,” if stated as fact rather than as a positions or opinions.

But leftists don’t want to have to argue against positions or facts with which they disagree, allowing the give and take of open discussion. They have decided it’s much simpler and easier to just eliminate those facts and arguments they don’t want to engage, and label them “misinformation” – which of course is a conclusion rather than an argument or discussion. Arguments from the right can be so upsetting that it might make the leftist hearer turn to stone, and so speakers like Trump must be silenced. The combination of social media and the MSM hasn’t been able to utterly silence him yet, but they can certainly come very very close to doing it because they control so very much of modern day mass communication.

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Trump the Gorgon — 22 Comments

  1. Sounds like there’s more bribe money from China than domestic media, defense contractors and wall street. Or maybe they’re on the same team.

  2. Great analogy. I fully expect that when Trump passes the Fascists will dig up his body and hang it like Cromwell. Like the Wahhabi sect of Islam that destroyed Mohamed’s tomb all they know how to do is destroy. Look at how over the bend Pelosi and her ilk are. He destroyed their comfortable world view and they want it back so bad they will put up a fence to keep it. But like the French and Russian aristocrats when the great change comes with the debt crisis they will have no place to run. No expensive freezers for ice cream. No private jets to fly them away. Just cold hard reality.

    Strange times we are in.

  4. Remember Margaret Thatcher banned the Gerry Adams’s voice from the media. The BBC would overdub his voice with actors’. It was stupid when she did it too. Will we see the same, voiceovers? Someone should contact Adams and get his opinion on Trump’s banning.

  5. Yeah, so the intellectual and moral sons of Stalin are busily attempting to make Donald Trump a non-person.

    “Thank the godess of Wokeness”, they are thinking, that Adobe Photoshop exists. Air brushing, razor blades, and negative dodging were such comparatively crude, care demanding, and labor intensive tools.

    Just wondering when Mark Zuckerberg starts sporting cadet collar button up tunics, and grows – or more probably given his glabrous Idaho baking potato face, pastes on – a Super Mario mustache.

  6. “Thou canst not look on the Gorgon’s head and live.”

    I know that! It’s what Doctor Morbius says in the movie Forbidden Planet as he shows Detective Frank Drebin the secrets of Krell power …

  8. They are “canceling” Donald Trump. They will simply eliminate him from history.

  11. When the time comes, we’ll know how to cheaply and effectively torture these people: padded cell with Trump speeches on endless loop.

  13. DNW,

    There was no Detective in the movie Forbidden Planet, nor I believe was there a character named Frank Drebin. Leslie Nielsen, the captain was friends with Warren Stevens playing the doctor, were the one’s shown the wonders of the Krell. Big fan here of that very influential early sci-fi flick. Star Trek’s Roddenberry and Lucas were among those influenced by that movie. The Day the Earth Stood Still is another one.

  14. Silencing Trump simply adds to his martydom. Very stupid to create a martyr.

  18. Sorry Neo,

    Cannot delete a contentless comment that went up with a GD^*%^%*% misfired YouTube embed performed precisely according to their instructions.

    I was attempting to reply to this,

    “DNW,

    There was no Detective in the movie Forbidden Planet, nor I believe was there a character named Frank Drebin. Leslie Nielsen”

    With this,

    Right. It was a Joke

    But try as I might, no formula I had would end the snippet.

    Guess, I had better find some new code.

  20. I feel like Trump is off his feed a little.

    Once upon a time, I would have expected him to take this as a challenge. “Oh, so now recordings of my voice are censored?? Here you go.” I could imagine him recording a great many things, just to watch Facebook et al squirm as they have to decide whether or not to censor him.

    I would also have expected a fun time for conservatives who can do a credible Trump vocal impression. Will Facebook censor someone who SOUNDS like Trump? (Alec Baldwin, are you listening?)

    The Left is in power, and is being ridiculous. The Right, being out of power, has a job to do: point it out, and goad them to be ever more ridiculous.

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