Deflection Detection - or - What's Hillary Been Up to?
I confess that my literacy extends to reading nutritional information labels on my groceries and not much else. It is an effort to lumber up the slopes at c99--one does have to dry off once in a while.
This is not to say there is a complete disinterest in events current. I do peer above the brine at times:
As we know, the ClintonCreature has been making noises about re-entering the presidential debacle in 2020. I hope she does so because that will be the final nail in the coffin of the moribund DemoncRATic party.
Why did the Evil Queen run such a horrible campaign and lose to an orange Baboon? Confident in her charisma and reputation for honesty as well as the Great Fix of 2016 (plus media blackout of Bernie), how could she have thought else wise?
Being of a particular mind-set, marked by characteristic flexibility, HRC clearly intends upon manufacturing anything that will keep her in the news. It is for that reason that a recent trial balloon having Medusa run for Mayor of Gotham ran out of air. She is not giving up.
The DemocRATic party obediently follows the leader of the shrinking party in blaming her awesome failure on somebody else--Vladimir et. al.
Now comes the latest chapter in the Killary playbook of Lie, Cheat, and Steal: obtaining classified information to which she had no right to.
Of course, the Conservadems howl, it is the divine right of Queens to do as they choose without fear of repercussions.
Not uncharacteristically, the gullible are believing the Russian Big Lie.
So, with a time tested method for deflection, HRC et. cie. are just pushing harder on their one song "Russia in the morning, Russia in the Day, Russia at night" As many people, not just limited to those of c99, are realizing the MAJOR thing absent from both sides of the Debacle of 2016 was ISSUES. Remember them? In years past, the people would discuss issues more weighty than the size of Kim Kardashian's booty
Now for the great work of detection I warned you about.
What information can one glean from this evidence of recent political name-calling campaigning? The truly observant will note:
1. a floor
2. a wall plus a bit of another
3. a mirror
4. a mirror reflecting another mirror etc.
A prize, to be announced later, will be awarded to anyone who can glean more information from this illustration than that. P.S., to anyone who can glean more information than listed above, please submit your resumé to David Brock.
Comments
A more expansive commentary of the Great Deflection
That quotation appeared in a book review of the Trump-Russia conspiracy trap.
This is the evil perpetrated by Hillary and T-rump alike. Hiding the ugliness amongst all variety of non-issues.
Mirrors ...
The thing to remember about narcissists is, it's all done with mirrors.
Also, seems like there's something missing in that scene with the mirrors. Shouldn't there be smoke, too? Especially when Dem establishment operatives are involved.
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
mirror, singular.
Using more than one mirror could open the perspective to seeing more than the one angle. The effect of multiple mirrors is Photoshopped, fake, and empty, also a pattern with narcissists.
@dance you monster Nope, two mirrors...the
Nope, two mirrors...the pattern on the frames is recognizably different.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
You might be right.
But look more closely at the frame's pattern. The one mirror's frame is reversed in the next shot, then back in the next, etc., something you can do readily with a single image in Photoshop. In real life, if the pattern is inherent to the material and not a printed surface pattern shared by every mirror of that make, it would not be identical from one frame to the next.
I actually hadn't looked that closely before now, though. I made my surmise based on the light, which would not be so uniform in a reflected room: one side of the room would be darker than the other. Honestly, I think the room is fake, too, and possibly the mirror frame itself, just images of surfaces produced or gathered together digitally and fudged with shadow at the corners. But it really is unimportant.
Personal opinion...
I believe there are two mirrors with perspective being slightly to the right of first reflected mirror. Photo shopped version would be easier as an infinite regression centered. Easiest way I know, without Photoshop, of centered regression is to scrape a bit of silver from the back of the mirror in the center and place the camera lens against the scraped area. The mar in the reflection is hidden by the reflections.
I also notice the camera and the person operating it. Okay, you can't see them, but y'know they gotta be there.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
Being a contrarian, I would add
that you surmise that there is another photographer taking the picture. What if the camera was unmanned, say like being positioned in situ by a drone? I love assumptions, especially when arguing with lawyers--hope you're not one of them since you seem really nice.
Thought of that,
but ultimately someone was operating the drone, therefore the camera, even if programmed to run at some time in the future.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
That wall is not painted with flat or eggshell, looks textured
or speckle painted. How observant is that? Also nice marbled edging on the reflection mirror.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Very nice eye for fine detail, RL
but as exact as your additional observations are, there is lack of substance in the picture, no matter how finely detailed your perception is. One could foresee Dumbocrats debating endlessly the question of whether the texture is textured or is it speckled, this will not yield anything of moment to the discussion. Instead, such observations, while correct, lead us further away from the glaring fact that the mirrored picture has very little substance, now matter how finely we delve into the particular shade of off-white or degree of speckling. And that indeed is the very purpose of deflection--getting people to abandon the big picture, so vacant as to lead to no further comment
Something alive reflecting would be more satisfying,
even an alligator. Which would add myriad more interest: why is an alligator in an empty room? And can it see those reflection(s) of itself and recognize self?
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
etc. seven reflections
conjectures as to the hypothetical photographer's intent to convey meaning through the use of the symbolically rich number seven would fill the emptiness of the room.
bygorry
Very Zen observation
but still no issues. That's the point.
@Alligator Ed
The room is (edit: otherwise) empty, in fact?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
According to Dems, the room is not empty
It is filled with reflections. Right? So of course it's not empty--or is it? What if a reflection reflects nothing? Can such be said to exist? You have 45 minutes to answer this essay question. The correct answer will earn you AND a companion a full week's tuition at the David Brock school of obtuse thinking.
@Alligator Ed
Who needs facts when you have reflections!
This seems strangely appropriate in an odd sort of way:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest
The sound of one hand clapping, btw, is a faint swishing noise; if a tree falls in the forest and no-one's around to hear it, the meaning is that wild-life's all dead along with the oxygen supply because we let the corporations and billionaires kill us all off in draining and poisoning the Earth while politicians and the corporate media threw dust in our eyes in order to shut down our minds.
Let's leave them in our dust, for a change. Something to meditate on while planning action.
Edit: and if I'm in the running, I'd rather win the lottery than the offered prize, please and thank you! Buy myself a few political parties and C-9 people can make public policy in the US while I make it in Canada. That'd work while we were restructuring political systems.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Masterful Zen tale
Note: even trees hear. So they would hear the sound of the falling of another tree. Perception need not be human. Sometimes, like the monks in the allegory, I wonder what purpose of a contest is, when they despair of it as already lost. Solve the problem, flee for your life.
@Alligator Ed
Actually, I was kinda thinking that the trees were falling because the forest would be dead, too. We are headed that way, in multiple profitable-for-some directions, especially with the global damage of now-Presidentially-accepted 'geoengineering' by spraying ozone-destroying, sun-dimming industrial toxins into the stratosphere which will shower down globally to pollute everything and acidify soil and water, among other things...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Clear as day:
"We're going to lead with our values by fostering growth and opportunities by creating jobs by fostering opportunities and growth."
A perfectly mirrored argument!
I can glean that whoever set
I can glean that whoever set that up has the money to buy at least two big-ass mirrors and has the money to either hire a photographer or equipment expensive enough to warrant a tripod. They also have enough money to pay for the square footage of an empty room with no other use, or they have enough money to pay for movers professional enough to remove everything from the room without a single scuff mark or footprint. They also have no children as witnessed by the clean walls.
And if they did everything themselves, then they have way too much time on their hands. That, too, tells me they have money.
In other words, no 99 percenter did this.
What do I win?
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." - Mark Twain
Late Again, You win the coveted Sherlock Holmes Award
To collect your prize, please present yourself to 241B Baker Street, London, U.K.