Kentucky Fried Chicken has apparently taken the novel step of branding the planet itself with a giant KFC logo in the southern United States. One of KFC’s soulless marketing drones makes the following vacuous remark:
The Colonel is truly a global icon and we want everyone in the universe to see KFC’s new look of [...]

Not content with reinforcing the perception of ‘the West’ as a monolithic entity whose values are under assault, however, Blair goes a step further and refuses to countenance any attempt to distinguish between a rejection of the current US administration and the United States, the country, itself.

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