#MetaphorDogWhistle #NarrativeTruthFabricationIdentifyAsAnimal #PhenomnPopularCultureFandomFurry #TheoryCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #AdvocacyNLTheEdmundBurkeFoundationNCCNatCon #EDUUKSchoolMichaelaCommunityKatharineBirbalsingh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MYOH2Gs5TQ&t=1104s
"...so why do I need to throw all of you into detention? Because you haven't been paying enough attention to the fact that our nation's culture is not only created in our schools but that it is our children who are leading the development of that culture in our schools adult authority is long gone. So here I am ringing the alarm. In 20 years many of us will be retired or sadly dead, and the children in our schools will be in important and influential positions in our institutions. As G.K Chesterton said the true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him but because he loves what is behind him. Well, I'm asking how much do you love your country, how much do you love the values that you claim to defend? Do you love them enough to tweet under your own name do you love them enough to change your child's school to one that's less woke and ignore the impact on your social status? Do you love them enough to do more than simply chat to your friends who already agree with you at dinner parties. For Heaven's sake man, stand up and be counted! As Russell Crowe says in the film Gladiator (a clip I regularly play for my staff): 'Hold the line! Stay with me!... what we do in life... echoes in eternity. Will your life echo hollow with cowardly hypocrisy or will it echo with courage, valiance and honour? The choice is yours strength and honour be with you all!' Now get yourselves to detention!"
#IRLHistoricalFigureGilbertKeithChesterton
#MetaphorWarfareBattleFight
#IRLActorRussellCrowe + #2000_Gladiator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g1xoz6djsI&t=97s
Supplementary: #MagazineUKTheSpectatorAngusColwell "The audience is quite reluctant to clap. But the people really go wild on one thing only: not Black Lives Matter, not woke history, but the madness of the trans stuff. It's something people can really feel angry about, but how widely is this sentiment shared? Last summer, an Opinium poll of Tory members found trans issues were 26th on their list of priorities.
I've heard little so far on crime, nothing on the cost of living, nothing on health at NatCon. We're dealing in abstractions here." https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-are-the-nat-cons-so-serious/ #IdentityLGBTQIATrans
Context: "'The White Man's Burden (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling)', Judge, April 1, 1899, Artist: Victor Gillam, Source: CGACGA - The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. #1899_TheWhiteMansBurdenApologiesToRudyardKipling https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/civilization_and_barbarism/gallery/pages/cb25-141_1899_judge__2d5989.htm
The U.S. follows Britain's imperial lead carrying people from 'Barbarism' at the base of the hill to 'Civilization' at its summit. In this blatantly racist rendering, America's newly subjugated people appear far more primitive and barbaric than the older empire's load." https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/civilization_and_barbarism/cb_essay02.html #PowerControlWhiteMansBurden #MagazineUSJudge i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_(magazine) #IRLAuthorRudyardKipling #CaricaturistVictorGillam
Supplementary: #PoliticsNationalismJingoism #NarrativeFrontierManifestDestiny
"YOU KNOW FOLKS , I never cared that you were gay, until you started shoving it down my throat, and I never cared what color you were ,till you started blaming me for your problems ,and I never cared about your political affiliation ,until you started condemning me for mine. I really never even cared where you were born , until you wanted to erase my history, and blame my ancestors for your problems you know I never even cared if your beliefs were different than mine, until you said my beliefs were wrong,but now I care, my patience and tolerence are gone, and I am not alone in feeling like this, there are millions of us who feel like this, " #MemeYouKnowFolks
Supplementary: "The most interesting thing about the initial post is the sense of victimization coming from the original poster. It seems to say that having to pay attention to issues of justice and civil rights and being asked to acknowledge the ongoing impact of historical oppression and what role each of us might play in keeping others down somehow takes something away from them. " https://www.upworthy.com/response-to-bigoted-viral-post #CatchcryDifferingOpinionsAsNeutralPerspectives #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation / #CharacterisationAggrieved #MetaphorDogWhistle #CatchcryShovedDownYourThroat
#NMUSLindellTVEmeraldRobinson https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1631122765565526017 #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #EDUUSNewCollegeOfFlorida #AdvocacyUSManhattanInstituteForPolicyResearchChristopherRufo https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1632264619325788160
Supplementary: https://www.thewrap.com/fired-newsmax-reporter-emerald-robinson-mike-lindell/ And https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-lindell-newsmax-reporter-vaccine-b1995455.html i.e. https://frankspeech.com/
#IRLSingerSongwriterChrisStapleton #IRLActorSherylLeeRalph
Context: "Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene praised white singer Chris Stapleton's rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner while complaining that 'we could have gone without the rest of the wokeness,' which the Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis correctly identified as a dog whistle for Blackness. Meanwhile, fellow Trumpian Lauren Boebert was quick to point out that 'America only has ONE NATIONAL ANTHEM,' asking '[w]hy is the NFL trying to divide us by playing multiple!?'" https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/black-national-anthem-lyrics-super-bowl-gop-b2281853.html #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPMarjorieTaylorGreeneMTG #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPLaurenBoebert #MetaphorDogWhistle
Context: https://unherd.com/newsroom/peter-thiel-wokeness-is-like-wahhabism/ #BeliefIslamismSunniWahhabism i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism
Supplementary: #EventLibertopiaConference2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgH7Lv2gQdk&t=290s #PoliticsAuthoritarianismAutocracyBroligarchy #PoliticsTechnocracy #MetaphorTrapEscape #1968_2001ASpaceOdyssey #PoliticsAnarchy #PowerControlRegulation #PoliticsSovereignty #TheoryAccelerationism ?
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianMarkOConnell "If you're interested in the end of the world, you would have been interested, soon after Donald Trump's election as US president, to read a New York Times headline stating that Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook, considered New Zealand to be 'the Future'. Because if you are in any serious way concerned about the future, you're also concerned about Thiel, a canary in capitalism's coal mine...
...he didn't like how they wrote about him; he is known for his public musings about the incompatibility of freedom and democracy, and for expressing interest - as though enthusiastically pursuing the clunkiest possible metaphor for capitalism at its most vampiric - in a therapy involving transfusions of blood from young people as a potential means of reversing the ageing process. But in another, deeper sense, he is pure symbol: less a person than a shell company for a diversified portfolio of anxieties about the future, a human emblem of the moral vortex at the centre of the market.
And the overwhelming suspicion was that he was looking for a rampart to which he could retreat in the event of outright civilisational collapse.
Because this is the role that New Zealand now plays in our unfurling cultural fever dream: an island haven amid a rising tide of apocalyptic unease." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand #OtheringOutGroupPrepperSurvivalist #ToponymOceaniaNewZealand #BrandOpenAISamAltman #NarrativeUtopiaEschatologyApocalypticism #NarrativeUtopia
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianArwaMahdawi "It's a new conservative dating app that promises to let you 'view profiles without pronouns' and 'connect with people who aren't offended by everything'. Despite this all being very predictable stuff, the app has been getting a lot of attention for three reasons: 1) the ads are unintentionally hilarious, 2) it was co-founded by former Trump administration officials and Ryann McEnany, the sister of former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, is the app's spokesperson; 3) creepy Trump-loving billionaire Peter Thiel, who has been called 'the most important person in Silicon Valley', has invested $1.5m into the project." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/04/want-to-date-a-hot-rightwinger-sick-of-all-that-woke-nonsense-ive-just-the-app-for-you #TechServiceRightStuffApp i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(app) #PleaPronouns #IRLPersonalityInternetRyannMcEnany #IRLUltracrepidarianKayleighMcEnany
Context: #WebsiteTheRightStuff
#MetaphorVersusUsThem #PoliticsNationalismAmerican ? #MetaphorBorderThresholdBoundary #MetaphorWarfareInvasion #OtheringOutGroup
Context: this *could* be useful as a reference for related ideas: https://journals.openedition.org/acrh/12040
Supplementary: #EDUSELundsUniversitetMartinWolgast, #EDUSELundsUniversitetSimaWolgast: "it should also be noted that the term 'race' in the present study is understood as the result of socially embedded processes of racialization (Miles 1993). In Sweden, where the present study was conducted, the concept of 'race' however is very rarely used and often seen as controversial in Swedish public discourse. In fact, with reference to the history of racial biology and eugenics, the concept of race is officially avoided and discarded (SOU 2015: 103). Instead, concepts like 'migrants,' 'migrant background' or 'ethnicity' are used as proxies for race in Swedish public discourse (Bredström & Mulinari 2022; Mattsson 2005). Despite this, these proxy terms are closely tied to an implicit notion of 'race,' and 'Swedishness' is intimately tied to racialized 'whiteness' (Hübinette & Lundström 2014; Mattsson 2005; Neergaard & Mulinari 2017)." https://journal-njmr.org/articles/10.33134/njmr.572 #TheoryProxyDiscourses #MetaphorPurityRace #ToponymEuropeNordicScandinaviaSweden
Addendum: the general tenor of this follows a similar logic to the #MemeYouKnowFolks, where the perspective evokes a #BehaviourPassiveAggressive / #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation and #CatchcryDifferingOpinionsAsNeutralPerspectives, which presumably functions as a type of #MetaphorDogWhistle for those who this message is intended for.
Context: "Most people who come to live in the UK have 'no recourse to public funds', meaning they are not eligible for benefits" https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/immigration-bill-home-office-priti-patel-asylum-trafficking-a9358296.html
"YOU KNOW FOLKS , I never cared that you were gay, until you started shoving it down my throat, and I never cared what color you were ,till you started blaming me for your problems ,and I never cared about your political affiliation ,until you started condemning me for mine. I really never even cared where you were born , until you wanted to erase my history, and blame my ancestors for your problems you know I never even cared if your beliefs were different than mine, until you said my beliefs were wrong,but now I care, my patience and tolerence are gone, and I am not alone in feeling like this, there are millions of us who feel like this, " #MemeYouKnowFolks
Supplementary: "The most interesting thing about the initial post is the sense of victimization coming from the original poster. It seems to say that having to pay attention to issues of justice and civil rights and being asked to acknowledge the ongoing impact of historical oppression and what role each of us might play in keeping others down somehow takes something away from them. " https://www.upworthy.com/response-to-bigoted-viral-post #CatchcryDifferingOpinionsAsNeutralPerspectives #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation / #CharacterisationAggrieved #MetaphorDogWhistle #CatchcryShovedDownYourThroat
#_Focal "YOU KNOW FOLKS , I never cared that you were gay, until you started shoving it down my throat, and I never cared what color you were ,till you started blaming me for your problems ,and I never cared about your political affiliation ,until you started condemning me for mine. I really never even cared where you were born , until you wanted to erase my history, and blame my ancestors for your problems you know I never even cared if your beliefs were different than mine, until you said my beliefs were wrong,but now I care, my patience and tolerence are gone, and I am not alone in feeling like this, there are millions of us who feel like this, " #MemeYouKnowFolks
Supplementary: "The most interesting thing about the initial post is the sense of victimization coming from the original poster. It seems to say that having to pay attention to issues of justice and civil rights and being asked to acknowledge the ongoing impact of historical oppression and what role each of us might play in keeping others down somehow takes something away from them. " https://www.upworthy.com/response-to-bigoted-viral-post #CatchcryDifferingOpinionsAsNeutralPerspectives #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation #MetaphorDogWhistle #CatchcryShovedDownYourThroat
"This is the USA. There is no one Coming to our rescue if things go Sideways. No one will be resupplying us. No one Will airdrop food, ammunition, medicine. There is no place to escape to for freedom.
This is It!"
#TheoryAffectiveResponseAnxiety #PhenomnBodyAdornmentTattoo #PoliticsGeoExceptionalismAmerican
#PowerControlViolationPaedophilia #MetaphorDogWhistle #MetaphorThreatVeiledHostility ? #MetaphorWarfareBattleFight
Addendum: is this look what's known as #TauntMAGAt (as the combination of the cap, beard, tattoos and #TheoryCodedMasculinityOver certainly appear to be an archetype)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL6lPdsCZIA #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryNWord #IRLHistoricalFigureLeeAtwater i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater #TheoryCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #PhenomnWhitePrivilege #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRonDeSantisRDS
Context: apparently, this is Lee Atwater who appears to be explaining the #CampaignStrategySouthernStrategy devised to turn voters towards the US Republican Party and to elect #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSRichardNixon. His mention of 'coded' here has come to be known as a #MetaphorDogWhistle. He explains:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL6lPdsCZIA&t=6s
"Here's how I would approach that issue as a...psychologist, which I am not, is how abstract you handle the race thing. In other words you start out and -now ya'll don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying 'Nigger, nigger, nigger.' By 1968 you can't say 'Nigger,' that hurts you, it backfires. So you say stuff like, 'forced bussing,' 'states rights' and all that stuff. And you're getting so abstract now you're talking about 'cutting taxes' and all of these things you're talking about are totally economic things and the by-product of them is blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract and that coded then we're doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me? 'Cause obviously sitting around saying 'We want to cut taxes,'
'We want to cut this and we want-' is much more abstract than even the bussin thing...and a helluva lot more abstract than 'Nigger, nigger.'"
#CauseActivismDesegregationBusing i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing
#CauseCivilRightsMovement
#LiteralFieldGenderStudies #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyBernieSanders #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump
Context: #TheoryIndividualismCompetitive versus #OtheringOutGroupTransgressiveDeviant #TheoryOfAffordancesLabourMarket #PhenomnStudentLoanDebt #SymbolHairColourPink
Supplementary: #MagazineCondeNastVogueLianaSatenstein "The idea of Fecal Matter, which acts as a platform for Dalton and Bhaskaran's affordable clothing line that they sell on DePop, their music that follows the tune of knife-sharpening and track-splicing, and their general visual agenda, is to make viewers feel a combination of queasiness and fascination. It's also intended to make people think about and question their surroundings. 'We like the idea that is it's called 'Fecal Matter,' even if we are labeling it as something disposable,' says Bhaskaran. 'The relationships that humans have with material possessions is something that we are trying to play with.'
The two had come up with the manifesto about two years ago during their last year in fashion school in Montreal. 'It's things that we don't like in the industry, like the child labor, the waste that goes on in the fabric industry, the dyes that are harmful for the environment,' says Bhaskaran. 'By talking about that, that is how we became friends. Through that, we decided to a platform of how to discuss uncensored ideas and promote critical thinking.' Another facet to the idea behind the platform? One has to really like the clothing in order to buy it. After all, 'Fecal Matter' doesn't exactly roll off the tongue when someone asks where you got that great jacket from. (For the record, the line does offer several great jackets.) 'You have to really like what you're buying into and you really have to love the design and the textile,' says Dalton. '[As] opposed to just buying it because it is Dior.'" https://www.vogue.com/vogueworld/article/fecal-matter-instagram-duo-to-follow #PhenomnEntrepreneurship #CauseActivismBrand #BrandMatieresFecalesHannahRoseDalton #BrandMatieresFecalesStevenRajBhaskaran i.e. https://matieresfecales.com/
And https://www.depop.com/fecalmatter/ #BrandDepop
the #NewspaperEGBrdshtAlAhramWeeklyHanyGhoraba article is effectively a #MetaphorDogWhistle playing to #TheoryAffectiveResponseAnxiety
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/410547.aspx
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden #PoliticsSocialism #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyBernieSanders #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyAlexandriaOcasioCortezAOC #OrgClassifPPCNChineseCommunistPartyCCPXiJinping #PoliticsCommunism #OrgClassifPPCNChineseCommunistPartyCCP #IRLHistoricalFigureChairmanMaoZedong #TauntLeftist #PoliticsCapitalism #PoliticsCapitalismConsumerism #TheoryGlobalisation #ToponymEuropeNordicScandinaviaSweden
illegal #PhenomnImmigration
#IRLHistoricalFigureAdamSmith #OrgRUSovietUnionOfSovietSocialistRepublicsUSSR #ToponymAmericaSouthVenezuela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7XqdeviKLg https://throughconversations.com/ #IRLScholarNoamChomsky #TauntCultureCancel #IRLConspiracistDavidDuke #CampaignStrategySouthernStrategy i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
Context: #MagazineHarpersBazaar "Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts. But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second. The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump, who represents a real threat to democracy. But resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion--which right-wing demagogues are already exploiting. The democratic inclusion we want can be achieved only if we speak out against the intolerant climate that has set in on all sides.
The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes. Whatever the arguments around each particular incident, the result has been to steadily narrow the boundaries of what can be said without the threat of reprisal. We are already paying the price in greater risk aversion among writers, artists, and journalists who fear for their livelihoods if they depart from the consensus, or even lack sufficient zeal in agreement.
This stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm the most vital causes of our time. The restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation. The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away. We refuse any false choice between justice and freedom, which cannot exist without each other. As writers we need a culture that leaves us room for experimentation, risk taking, and even mistakes. We need to preserve the possibility of good-faith disagreement without dire professional consequences. If we won't defend the very thing on which our work depends, we shouldn't expect the public or the state to defend it for us" (7 July #2020_). https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
Supplementary: #EDUUSUniversityOfCaliforniaUCLABerkeleyJohnPowell "These strategies, combined called the 'Southern Strategy', was designed to create a national Republican majority, built, in part, on white resentment.
The dog whistle worked because it was heard and understood by the conservative white base, yet not by more moderate and northern whites. It meant activating racial resentment for one part of the population while denying that fact to the rest. The Southern Strategy married the conservative politics antipathy to marginal tax rates and civil rights, labor, and environmental regulations of corporate elites with culturally conservative antipathy towards civil rights, women's rights, and gay rights." https://belonging.berkeley.edu/new-southern-strategy #IRLCommentatorKevinPhillips and #EventRepublicanNationalConventionRNC Chairman #IRLHistoricalFigureLeeAtwater #MetaphorDogWhistle
#SlurWhiteSupremacy #MetaphorDogWhistle
Context: reference to: "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the *content of their character*". On 28 August in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. #1963_IHaveADream #1963_MarchOnWashingtonForJobsAndFreedom
Supplementary: "Critics of affirmative action support their claim to a colorblind Constitution with disingenuous references to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,17 who famously dreamed of a time when people would be 'judged not by the color of their skin but the content of their character.' But King was denouncing a brutal regime of forced segregation, humiliation, and lynching of black citizens. There is little doubt he would find modest race preference an acceptable, indeed necessary, curative." https://www.nlg.org/nlg-review/article/from-dog-whistle-to-megaphone-the-trump-regimes-cynical-assault-on-affirmative-action-2/ #JournalNLGReviewASocialJusticeLawJournalMarkSBrodin #PolicyAffirmativeActionDiscriminationPositive #TheoryRacialColourBlindnessContentOfTheirCharacter
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump talks about #TauntLeftThe who are #PoliticsNationalismAmericanAnti and who are supposedly employing tactics based on #TheoryCriticalRaceTheoryCRT. In doing so, he compares this theory to #PhenomnChildAbuse i.e. https://news.yahoo.com/as-trump-courts-black-voters-critics-see-a-depression-campaign-225738896.html In doing so, the speech feels more like a list of #MetaphorDogWhistle #OtheringCaricatureTriggered for #PoliticsConservatismSocialSoCon.s than a recognisably serious analysis / description of the situation.
[screen name not defined]: @ObamaMalik @realDonaldTrump #WWG1WGA #WWG1WGAWORLDWIDE #Qanon #woke https://t.co/fq6l2hgA52
#IRLBusinesspersonMalikObama i.e. #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSBarackObama's brother.
Addendum: in this context is meant to symbolically send a message to other #ConspiracyTheoryCabalQAnon conspiracy theory-believers and Trump followers of some sort of 'truth' about Trump (through contrast with Obama). This kind of tweet could be seen as a #MetaphorDogWhistle to #CharacterisationTrumpsBase.
#ConspiracyTheoryTheGreatAwakening #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #HandleFacebookTheTrumpsStormGroup https://www.facebook.com/groups/THETRUMPSSTORMGROUP #MetaphorStormTheStorm #HandleFacebookMrPresidentTrump https://www.facebook.com/groups/MRPRESIDENTTRUMP/
Addendum: Trump represented as some sort of modern-day #BeliefDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah / beacon of light in the 2020 US presidential race (although, apart from the #BeliefChristianityCrucifix above Trump's name - I have no idea what the steam-train symbolism is meant to communicate - perhaps something about progress?).
I can only assume that the train refers to #CatchcryTrumpTrain - using alliteration as part of some sort campaign slogan, where "Each tweet is referred to as a "train car" and sometimes the train cars have numbers. Users included in each train car tweet are called "riders" and there are "conductors" that organize each train and dedicate a great deal of their time on Twitter to this activity" (Erin Gallagher, 16 September 2019) https://medium.com/@erin_gallagher/trump-trains-84bea1c3170d
"trains" can be used metaphorically to refer to coteries of support: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Donald-Trumps-supporters-call-themselves-the-Trump-Train https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/what-the-end-of-the-mueller-report-means-for-qanon.html
Mention of 'Train' in the Bible: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/words/Train #MetaphorBiblical #MetaphorWarfareHeroSaviour versus #MetaphorThreatGeneralisedNonSpecific #InvectiveBullShitBS #CatchcryEnoughIsEnough