JD Vance “couch couch couch” clown population, “Elon Musk LOL LOL” clowning around, basket full of clowns in USA year 2024 and USA year 2025 lead by the White House / Tesla Motors clown fanatics / X meme clowns. “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985 [email protected]