- Sep 22, 2013
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Modern consumerism has spread across the globe, so it's a Starbucks/Facebook/McDonald's universe. People think about 'Planet Hollywood culture' and 'Vegas politics' (i.e., Wall Street).
Maybe, just maybe, we should contemplate the demons of piracy lurking in our profiteerism-gauged media-political 'TrumpUSA' this Memorial Day...
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Paul Monash was a beautiful baby who grew up to become the ruthless Vegas mafia tycoon known as 'Kingpin.' Kingpin had turned the casino-lit city of Las Vegas from a neon tourist-spot into an opium playground. Journalists from around the world were saying that the capitalism-subjective Trump Administration had failed to tighten the mercantilism-culture screws into modern America enough to deter the likes of Kingpin. Some were even saying, "Las Vegas is haunted by the phantom of a bloodlust pirate --- Yellowbeard!"
Yellowbeard folklore grew over the first couple of years of the Trump Administration. The name 'yellow-beard' was meant to signify someone who was present (a presence!) but undesirable (and prompting fear/anxiety). Lovers of anti-Trump politics started believing Yellowbeard was a potentially real ghost haunting Caesar's Palace. Meanwhile, Kingpin's opium syndicate flourished and his casino the Kingpin Kreme was very lucrative and even invited President Trump to a Siegfried-and-Roy show there. Soon the FBI were consulted. Americans were becoming wary about monopolies.
There was never any evidence of a ghost called 'Yellowbeard' haunting Kingpin Kreme soon thereafter. Three American media-personalities/celebrities (Tom Cruise, Kurt Russell, and Dinesh D'Souza) joined an idealistic Internet-blogging self-proclaimed 'Vegas vigilante' named Ajay Satan on a joint ghost-hunting mission (calling themselves the 'Quartet') at Kingpin Kreme --- to hunt down Yellowbeard. What they found were numerous casino patrons basking in the warmth of a gambling-vapored TrumpUSA. There was indeed a ghost called Yellowbeard haunting Kingpin Kreme, and he decided to begin stalking the Quartet, trying to ogle them into nudging President Trump to destroy 'consumerism dizziness'. Kingpin pulled out a photo of himself as a beautiful baby and muttered to himself, "Innocence is a venture."
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KINGPIN and BABY PAUL MONASH:
CRUISE, D'SOUZA, AJAY, and RUSSELL:
Maybe, just maybe, we should contemplate the demons of piracy lurking in our profiteerism-gauged media-political 'TrumpUSA' this Memorial Day...
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Paul Monash was a beautiful baby who grew up to become the ruthless Vegas mafia tycoon known as 'Kingpin.' Kingpin had turned the casino-lit city of Las Vegas from a neon tourist-spot into an opium playground. Journalists from around the world were saying that the capitalism-subjective Trump Administration had failed to tighten the mercantilism-culture screws into modern America enough to deter the likes of Kingpin. Some were even saying, "Las Vegas is haunted by the phantom of a bloodlust pirate --- Yellowbeard!"
Yellowbeard folklore grew over the first couple of years of the Trump Administration. The name 'yellow-beard' was meant to signify someone who was present (a presence!) but undesirable (and prompting fear/anxiety). Lovers of anti-Trump politics started believing Yellowbeard was a potentially real ghost haunting Caesar's Palace. Meanwhile, Kingpin's opium syndicate flourished and his casino the Kingpin Kreme was very lucrative and even invited President Trump to a Siegfried-and-Roy show there. Soon the FBI were consulted. Americans were becoming wary about monopolies.
There was never any evidence of a ghost called 'Yellowbeard' haunting Kingpin Kreme soon thereafter. Three American media-personalities/celebrities (Tom Cruise, Kurt Russell, and Dinesh D'Souza) joined an idealistic Internet-blogging self-proclaimed 'Vegas vigilante' named Ajay Satan on a joint ghost-hunting mission (calling themselves the 'Quartet') at Kingpin Kreme --- to hunt down Yellowbeard. What they found were numerous casino patrons basking in the warmth of a gambling-vapored TrumpUSA. There was indeed a ghost called Yellowbeard haunting Kingpin Kreme, and he decided to begin stalking the Quartet, trying to ogle them into nudging President Trump to destroy 'consumerism dizziness'. Kingpin pulled out a photo of himself as a beautiful baby and muttered to himself, "Innocence is a venture."
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KINGPIN and BABY PAUL MONASH:
CRUISE, D'SOUZA, AJAY, and RUSSELL: