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Scary AustinHow tf did I not think of this?? 🤯
I've been a fan of Greek mythology since childhood.
Mind you, Narcissus was attractive and the pool was beautiful and clear.
KimGood lookin' out, that's exactly right.
AmgineIt was my first thought when I heard M Trump had personally become involved with a reflecting pool, before I learned which it was.
Some of his vogue posing indicates he really does practice in front of the mirrors. (A true *poseur*! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poseur#French)
And in case you missed it: his infamously badly applied orange make up? Think of his reflection on a polished mirror of gold.
ryd@MaryAustinBooks the normal enshitification.
Eric BonoWouldn't that just be the sweetest poetic justice ever?!
@EricBono
OH YES! That's why I talk about it so much. Of course, he does far worse things all the time, but this is so visible and humiliating it really is damaging his image even with the dumbest buggers in the country. I don't see him wasting away by the pool, but as much coverage as it's gotten, I do think it is seriously contributing to his downfall!
Plus, it's bags of fun to joke about. Score!
an actual bus@MaryAustinBooks Now if he could only drown in it
Large Format ProjectionistCompared to Cheetolini, the slimy, green, and toxic reflecting pool is squeaky clean.
@Benhm3
I know I'd rather risk arrest touching the fetid waters of that pool than come anywhere near Trump. Not that he's physically capable of rape any more, but we've all heard about the smell.
I know I'd rather risk arrest touching the fetid waters of that pool than come anywhere near Trump. Not that he's physically capable of rape any more, but we've all heard about the smell.
Swisstxlady@MaryAustinBooks @Benhm3 He's still capable of other forms of sexual abuse.
lankohr@MaryAustinBooks Mythology should be a warning. It's an infinite regress. There were gods/goddesses/deities jealous of humans, jealous of mountains, jealous of each other... It was never a happy ending. What's left?
@lankohr The goose/golden egg thing that has everyone making goose memes!
@MaryAustinBooks I think Jesus (the gnostic version) meant that as he said: "Your gods are animals."
Thomas Fuchs@MaryAustinBooks presumably because you're not obsessed with yourself?
@thomasfuchs
Well, hopefully not, but I *am* obsessed with Greek myths!
Well, hopefully not, but I *am* obsessed with Greek myths!
@MaryAustinBooks who amongst us
Chris@MaryAustinBooks tbf looking at flocs of algae beats seeing the reflection of this specific narcissus
@ASprinkleofSage
The pool probably smells better too, as much as I hear it reeks!
The pool probably smells better too, as much as I hear it reeks!
Dan Sugalski@MaryAustinBooks Ah, it does kind of track with Narcissus, since the reflecting pool is foul, discolored, has no circulation to speak of, and has paint caked on it that's peeling off. Pretty spot on, tbh.
Lord average
xs4me2The irony of it…
Simon
Too true!
"Haha, Trump made the Reflecting Pool green and stinky!"
"Stop, the Reflecting Pool is a distraction from the Epstein Files."
"Haha, Epstein's BFF made the Reflecting Pool green and stinky!"
See? We can multitask.
Kierkethumbs up convincingly@MaryAustinBooks @kintyre a tell-tale Ep
Karen D 🇨🇦"Narcissus was attractive and the pool was beautiful and clear."
... well the difference is appropriate then. 😁
Eric Lawton“all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. … the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”
— Karl Marx
Anders Gulden Olstad@MaryAustinBooks @briankrebs The old gods has a lot to learn us still.
Spicy but not too Flamey@MaryAustinBooks When you reflect on this concept, things start to become clearer, so to speak.
If Narcissus was so beautiful that he fell in love with his own reflection in the water of that pond, would our world be a reflection - an opposite one - of that world? Our Narcissus, Trump, beholding his own ugliness in the reflecting pool fiasco and allowing his self-loathing, which he tries to conceal, to consume and trap him, condemning him to have his every decision decided by it?
If Narcissus was so beautiful that he fell in love with his own reflection in the water of that pond, would our world be a reflection - an opposite one - of that world? Our Narcissus, Trump, beholding his own ugliness in the reflecting pool fiasco and allowing his self-loathing, which he tries to conceal, to consume and trap him, condemning him to have his every decision decided by it?
@PopTarts
Well today he is publicly crashing TF out over his humiliation with Iran and the pool, so I'd say yes.
Well today he is publicly crashing TF out over his humiliation with Iran and the pool, so I'd say yes.
Zhi Zhu 🕸️There is artwork also:
https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/116800765049231093
Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌@MaryAustinBooks Right, rather than a narcissist he's a megalomaniacal clone of arsonist psychopath Nero, without Nero's intellect, taste, wealth & empire, just a botched, cheap imitation with the label "Made in Russia/China" wiped away.
Dane Deasy@MaryAustinBooks and Trump wishes both that he were beautiful and that the pool was clear
Darth Hideout 🏳️🌈@MaryAustinBooks This isn't even the first time this theme has gone around.
Jo - pièce de résistance@MaryAustinBooks it perfectly reflects his stagnant swampiness now.
Palmdiggity@MaryAustinBooks
Just more distractions for the rubes guys….
Just more distractions for the rubes guys….
kali"He knows not what he sees, but what he sees invites him. Even as the pool deceives his eyes, it tempts them with delights. But why, o foolish boy, do you persist? Why try to grip an image? He does not exist—"
—Ovid, Metamorphoses
@kali And he was still less absurd than Clavicular. I don't recall Narcissus hitting himself with a hammer in the myths.
Bob Tregilus@MaryAustinBooks OMG -- right? How did this not occur to me as well? 🤯 I swear to god, if somebody tired to submit this crap as a story to a movie producer they'd be laughed off the planet.
ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊@MaryAustinBooks "Narcissus was attractive and the pool was beautiful and clear" —
So we're in a perversion of mythology.
D. G. MarshallAnd considering the rather active love life of Zeus, reality really had to go above and beyond to achieve perversion status.
@davidtheeviloverlord @MaryAustinBooks Fantastic point!
@dalfen @davidtheeviloverlord
I've always found it hilarious that the only two gods in Greek mythology who were even faithful to their wives were the god of the underworld and the god of drunken revelry.
And yes, reality managed to top that. 😳
@MaryAustinBooks @davidtheeviloverlord Oh so interesting!
I didn't know that about Greek mythology.
By "reality," do you mean trump being faithful to his wife (if we're comparing him to a Greek god lol... don't let him hear that or we'll blow up his ego more).
He was as faithful as a Greek God. Zeus.
@davidtheeviloverlord @dalfen
Besides marital infidelity, stalking and rape are completely normalized in Greek mythology. You read the kids' versions of the myths as a kid, fall in love, and then read the real myths. 😂 And still love it, but... yeesh.
Besides marital infidelity, stalking and rape are completely normalized in Greek mythology. You read the kids' versions of the myths as a kid, fall in love, and then read the real myths. 😂 And still love it, but... yeesh.
I've seen a quote somewhere that said the Greek gods were just what people would be, if no one was strong enough to punish them when they did the wrong thing.
Wish the sun to stand still 🌞@MaryAustinBooks But look at everyone else obsessing over it...
Look around you, the place is full of narcissists.
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin@MaryAustinBooks
Can we work Medusa in there somehow?
Can we work Medusa in there somehow?