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Demagogue Pattern

from Death, Taxes and Empathy (Part 2) by NCN

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This track is a montage of 5 tracks which are 4 collage tracks by other artist or groups which get successively more intense, and then a conclusive piece at the end.

The theme is the totalitarian ambitions of the Trump administration in The United States and its implications for the future and it's roots in the past.

The first piece is from a group called 'American Tea Party Idiots' and is called 'QAnon Rap - The Donald Trump Matrix Remix'. The video for this is here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq1IqBfJQ3c&t=53s

At the beginning is a rarely seen video clip of a reporter getting President Donald Trump's reaction to news of a Trump fringe group called Qanon. For more info on Qanon see:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

Trump's reaction to the reporter: "Is that supposed to be a bad thing, or a good thing?" is further explored in the next piece by WTFBrahh called 'Trump VS Biden - It's A Good Thing Not A Bad Thing REMIX' which can be found here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9wKhX_DQSo

After this, the tone tone of the piece turns darker with the next item called 'DO NOT VOTE!' by Vic Berger heard in its entirety. You can see the video version of this collage here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U_wGyba1bc

This segues seamlessly into a collage called 'Trump and the Descent into Dictatorship (Death of Democracy 2020 Remix)' by Diran Lyons.

The coda to the collage section to this track is a couple of clips from the TV series Twilight Zone episode episode called 'He's Alive!'

During the production of this track, we considered including as a comic relief, a track called 'Sieg Hal!' from Vol. 3 of our 'Best of the SubGenius Show 90's' series which seems to spoof this scene and its phrase '...we! we! We are the minority!' But we decided against including it in the official production as we felt it would nullify the intended seriousness of this track's message. We do however included 'Sieg Hal!' as a bonus track outtake in this Part 2 download package on Bandcamp.

Also, in regards to this last coda piece, we modded it a bit with an almost subliminal sample from Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention song called "It Can't Happen Here".

The track ends with precisely 6 seconds of silence.

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from Death, Taxes and Empathy (Part 2), released November 1, 2020
American Tea Party Idiots; WTFBrahh; Vic Berger; Diran Lyons: The Twilight Zone: Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

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The National Cynical Network San Jose, California

The National Cynical Network (NCN) is a long-running, SF Bay Area alternate programming media remix project. It originally consisted of a trio of SF Bay-Area based radio collage artists: Phineas Narco, Ronald Redball and Alexander T. Newport. NCN seeks to play *with* music , using sound, and video media samples in the process of media collage or 'mediage'. ... more

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