Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning Gaza as an ostentatious resort town where everyone parties as Trump and Netanyahu sip drinks by the pool.
Gaza in ruins after the Israeli airstrikes campaign, Feb. 10. (Jaber Jehad Badwan, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com.au
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President Donald Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning a future Gaza that has been turned into an ostentatious resort town where everyone parties amid showers of cash while Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sip drinks by the pool.
The video is intended to reflect Trump’s plans for a Gaza Strip that has been permanently ethnically cleansed of Palestinians.
If you haven’t watched it yet you definitely should, because words can’t do justice to just how terrible it is.
This video is simultaneously the most American thing that has ever happened and the most Israeli thing that has ever happened. Fake. Gaudy. Sociopathic. Genocidal. Emblematic of all the ugliest values that both dystopian civilizations have come to embody.
They used the most artless art medium in existence to digitally dance on the graves of mountains of dead civilians.
The most powerful government on earth celebrated the idea of Trump and Netanyahu presiding over orgiastic parties for the obscenely wealthy on a land that has been purged of its indigenous inhabitants following a year and a half of brutal slaughter.
Twerking to shitty AI-generated techno music surrounded by golden Trump statues and hundred dollar bills, because you are so happy that you finally found a Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem.
It doesn’t get any more American than this, and it doesn’t get any more Israeli. This soulless, artless, conscienceless expression of egotistic masturbation lubricated with the blood of dead children is the empire at its most honest.
This is the very best this globe-dominating power structure has to offer our world.
This entire civilization is diseased. Not just the United States and Israel but every nation on earth that is subject to the metastases of their cancerous influence.
They’re making us all dumber, sicker, nastier, crueler. Less creative. Less artful. Less caring. Less insightful. They are poisoning our minds and turning our hearts into shit.
I’ve always said that the only thing I like about Trump is that he puts an honest face on the empire. In terms of actual policy and actions he’s not much different from any other Republican president, but he has this compulsive inclination to constantly yank off the plastic smiley face mask of the empire and reveal the snarling blood-spattered face beneath.
This is a perfect example of what I’m talking about.
That one video, all by itself, tells you more about what the U.S. empire really is than every movie its PR agents in Hollywood have ever produced. This is the real America. This is the real Israel. This is the real empire.
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Thank you Donald Trump!
You have just shown me “Hell” on earth.
An earth without true love and compassion.,
An earth where self gratification is everything and
narcissistic values reign!
But I’m sorry to tell you…, love and compassion for Others will win. No matter how long it takes for humanity to wake up and defeat your insane, delusional dreams!
WE., will win through loving others.
These guys defy parody.
If I hadn’t been forewarned, I’d definitely have assumed this video was a parody.
i’m afraid even THIS won’t sway
policy and f.lawmakers in my
EU country who still consider
the US their best friend and ally
and who’d [n]ever criticize israel.
they, too, have long lost sight, heart and soul of
what the values they claim to uphold, really mean.
Speaking truth to those who will hear.
This is the reality, no doubt!
The real question is: How do we, the vast majority, “subject to the metastases of their cancerous influence” develop an effective defense, without first actively getting at the root cause, by physically eradicating it through actual excision of its cannibalizing contagion, before it completely devours the very essence of ‘humanity’.
With the diabolical Trump – the con artist extraordinaire (fooling most of the people, most of the time), insurrectionist instigator, having successfully goaded his minions on January 6th 2020, and thereafter, having regained the power of the purse of the state over all; exonerating their violence against the Constitution, setting the example for the prognosis now in process – as the surgeon-in-chief, having immediately begun his clandestine (no need anymore) operation to implant his autocratic dictatorial oligarchy of plutocrats, as the cure-all, yet literally randomly cutting and slashing what he regards as the “deplorable” detritus.
Correction: Should have written January 6th 2021.
Apologies!
It doesn’t get much more sordid than this detestable video.
“They are poisoning our minds and turning our hearts into shit.”
the result of mindless info/entertainment.
Indeed. The real face of the American empire; better the enemy that you can see than the one you cannot. So, what will the American and Western public do about this?
For the record I recently wrote here that unless lot of things happen, I fear I will not live live long enough to ever be proud of my country again. I should said government. The continent of North America could still be a very beautiful place, it is the people like Trump who trash it.
I should have added this,. All the result of a government that has been ripped from the hands of all good Americans. Not the wealthy or religious extremists , obviously, but those who work hard and. ‘ teach their children well’. Not hate, not to envy , and not to worship power, but to be human beings. The Cheyenne for instance. This not to exclude many other of the indigenous tribes. A simple positive example.
The multitudes by not taking voting and politics seriously and engaging civic duty have sat by in their little bubbles and gave up their freedom. . How hot is it froggies! Oh, I forgot you cold blooded. I guest that cold blooded thing explains Gaza.
I like that fire in you belly Caitlin, keep in going we all need it.
Did Trump ever go to Sun City? Does anyone remember Sun City? Sun City South Africa? During Apartheid, the then elites of South Africa tried to Glamor-wash Apartheid with a resort named Sun City.
I would not be at all surprised that a younger Donald would have gone to Sun City back in the day. But, there were a lot of people who would never have set foot in the place. A number of artists who turned down lucrative gigs to play Sun City.
Will you go to Club Genocide?
We’re already living in Club Genocide. Didn’t Chris Hedges remind us all that “there are willing victims, and there are unwilling victims?” Don’t be surprised by the roll of the dice dictating the future for us all. When you own the house, you own the outcomes.
You didn’t mention the elephant in the room, wisely. Maybe start if you can with who actually wrote, directed (prompted) the A.I.. Name names, location of such creation, which A.I. system was used etc. This will bring us a closer understanding of the Weimar/ Gilded Age level of values, beliefs, and attitudes celebrating the decadence seen in the video.