What does your reflection say each morning when you look in the mirror? |
Oh Lord it's hard to be humble
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when you're perfect in every way.
I can't wait to look in the mirror
'cause I get better lookin' each day.
- Self-deceiving narcissist's classic country and western ditty
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Oh Lord it's hard to stay sane and cheerful, when Trump's nightmare America is in the news every day, but my daily feed from The Onion helps me laugh my Trump cares away.
Yes, the satirical online American newspaper The Onion ("America's finest news source" its masthead boasts) is gratefully exploiting the godsend of the ludicrous Trump administration.
If we are to have any chance of staying sane during this Trump era then we are going to have to be able to laugh at Trump and his cronies. My daily feed from The Onion, its writers inventively, absurdly, viciously (but fairly) mocking Trump and the Trumpians, is a precious prop of my teetering sanity.
One of The Onion's irresistible targets is US vice-president JD Vance and one 'news story' of recent days reported, with a verifying news photograph, a story headed JD Vance booed by own reflection in mirror.
This news story, of which more detail in a moment, moved me to think about the rich discussion of mirrors in folklore and literature and to wonder about prominent Australian political figures and their relationships with their reflections in their mirrors. Do our elected figures ever get the sorts of shirtfronting, wake-up-to-yourself lectures of hard truths from their mirrors' reflections of themselves that JD Vance gets from his?
Here is an excerpt from The Onion's story.
"WASHINGTON: In an expression of outrage at the vice president for his perceived ineptitude and lack of principles, JD Vance was........