“Muleta”
Jordan Henderson
Muleta - Oil on Panel - 18 x 24 inches (46 X 61 centimeters).
The red cloth, used by the Matador, to maneuver the bull in the third and final stage of the bullfight, is called a Muleta. There are enough ways to respond to this painting that it is practically a political Rorschach test. So then…look at it and tell me what you see.
Colorado readers can view this painting in person at the Truth Show, in Pueblo Colorado, at Blo Back Gallery. The painting will be up for this month, alongside many other artworks on the theme of truth, including several more of my paintings.
Jordan Henderson lives in the Northwest of the United States. He works in oil paints, and charcoals. A portfolio of his works can be viewed at either of his websites: Original Paintings – Fine Art Prints.
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Nice, provocative.
I wonder….what about the same picture with rainbow flag?
Bulls are not going after fags.
Artist Statement
Stephanie McMillan, 2024
https://stephaniemcmillan.org/artist-statement/
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Art is a Weapon in the Battle of Ideas (a presentation by Stephanie McMillan)
https://youtu.be/9CTi74Pjygg?si=KvfEYAitx7fCYAlb
I got suspicious when I read this.
. $100.
First your “Art is a weapon…”, then the link explains her schooling in the 1980’es. Then she claims to head for “social transformation”. Then I looked after these signs in the art.
Conclusion, she is another schooled Marxists from the “days”. Its is not necessary bad bad, one can take her art as they wish. Taste or not. But nevertheless she and her work is marked by this influence.
“The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It is Russell Means’s most famous speech.”
Nov 12, 2011
Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”
By Russell Means
https://www.filmsforaction.org/news/revolution-and-american-indians-marxism-is-as-alien-to-my-culture-as-capitalism/
Not bad. I like his entrance and hug to a cosmic world.
His claim is more relevant than ever but I fear we see the last crumbs of cosmic connection these years. The Smart phone will erase it all.
In the future there will only be fake reality and Lucifer’s triumphant:https://www.kerrang.com/album-review-imperial-triumphant-goldstar
Before the article becomes stale….
As the artist requested, now that some of us have given our opinions on the painting, is there any chance that he will tell us what he actually meant by it?
Normally artists are keen to accompany their works with the background, inspiration and creative processes for said works. It is especially true for conceptual art, which is not the case here, where the ‘salespitch’ aids in offloading mediocre work for overinflated prices to people with more money than sense.
Interesting. I did not get a salespitch feel from the piece. And quite enjoyed the art.
I guess it’s in the eye of the beholder.
Neither did I sense a salespitch.
However, since artists are usually looking to sell their work, if only to make a living, it is often accompanied by a background story especially if the work is controversial.
Thank you for the comment and the request for some more explanation from me – I would not have provided anymore otherwise (and hardly will even now! :-).
I thought this was fun and interactive, leaving it open to interpretation. At least I’ve had fun seeing people’s different interpretations. For me to then come in and lay down the “right” interpretation after leaving it open I think might be a bit unfair.
Many of the interpretations so far have been quite insightful including the ones rather different from what I meant (that’s part of the fun, and there are multiple legitimate interpretations that fit within the logic of the symbolism).
I will say a little though, give a clue or two, that may help a few people who have interpreted my painting in a rather lame way, to see that there is much more depth to it, then what they initially saw: there are no Nazis, comparisons to Nazis, accusations of being a Nazi, or criticisms of Nazis in any of my paintings to date, because I’m not worried about Nazis, and certainly wouldn’t waste paint beating that dead horse (Azov battalion and Neo-Nazis notwithstanding – it’s a long dead horse – if the horse is ever resuscitated it will be because the excesses of the dead horse beaters will generate a pro dead horse reaction).
Now using paint to criticize the people and movements who are still beating that dead horse, raising that specter, justifying their actions in the name of fighting that dead horse, and trying to make the rest of us do the same, for various self serving reasons of their own (i.e the entire postwar order, and social consensus) . . . That makes for a much more interesting line of interpretation.
They were fake. The psyop was funded by the Kremlin and the Dual Citizens; and it was hyped by the BBC.
https://genius.com/Vladimir-putin-press-conference-on-the-situation-in-ukraine-annotated
Press conference on the situation in Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin of Russia takes questions from the Russian media on March 3, 2014, following Russian military action in Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.
Released: March 4, 2014
For example, Mr Kolomoisky was appointed Governor of Dnepropetrovsk. This is a unique crook. He even managed to cheat our oligarch Roman Abramovich two or three years ago. Scammed him, as our intellectuals like to say. They signed some deal, Abramovich transferred several billion dollars, while this guy never delivered and pocketed the money. When I asked him [Abramovich]: “Why did you do it?” he said: “I never thought this was possible.” I do not know, by the way, if he ever got his money back and if the deal was closed. But this really did happen a couple of years ago. And now this crook is appointed Governor of Dnepropetrovsk. No wonder the people are dissatisfied. They were dissatisfied and will remain so if those who refer to themselves the legitimate authorities continue in the same fashion.
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BBC Newsnight
Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine
Feb 28, 2014
BBC Newsnight’s Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the links between the new Ukrainian government and Neo-nazis
Thank you for responding. To me at least you have been very clear with your answer.
As I thought from my original comment (further down in the comments) you too see it as distraction, a dead horse as you put it, yet one that has been continually flogged to death to generate a Pavlovian reaction and to condition the populace to fear a non-existent threat. A look over here but not over there sleight of hand.
Shibboleth
Her work on her homepage is very cheap.
Ohh I mixed Stephanie and Henderson. I didn found prices on Henderson’s work but his gallery and art is very impressing, especially in coal.
Richie Torres (@11:00) makes the obvious point that Trump could have let the whole Epstein story whither away – and therefore there must be some reason why it’s been promoted. However, although it could be a distraction, it’s not necessarily so. It could be a play of some other sort.
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Tucker Carlson GOES OFF About Alleged Epstein Ties To Israel
The Young Turks
Jul 14, 2025
Tucker Carlson is demanding answers about deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged ties to Mossad. Cenk Uygur and Sharon Reed discuss on The Young Turks.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Tucker ties Epstein to Mossad
3:00 Indisputable parts of Tucker’s arguments
8:15 Naftali Bennett denies Epstein-Mossad ties
9:50 Mike Lawler annoyed CNN asked him about Epstein
11:00 Ritchie Torres
15:00 Government versus the people
17:30 Evidence of Epstein-Israeli ties
I see a symbolic painting of the Public being upset and outraged everytime they are being confronted with something that remind them of Nazism.
The global public is preconditioned to bull down any Nazi object. This is what I take from this of art!
What are the pre-conditions for this interpretation? The Spanish bull fight has a very ugly history of Spanish cowardice and sadism against one of the most majestic animals – the big black bull.
https://www.speakupforthevoiceless.org/2016/08/17/toreo-the-bulls-story-la-fiesta-nacional/
https://alicianfleming.wordpress.com/spanish-bull-fighting-otherwise-known-as-the-brutal-torture-of-innocent-animals-in-the-name-of-culture/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/inside-shocking-brutality-spanish-bullfighting-18985678
https://medium.com/@evalunes/its-summer-the-spanish-controversial-bullfight-tradition-is-here-again-148c813af41a .
This is the Spanish. Weakening the bull beforehand with vaseline in the eyes to blur its sights, cutting in its legs to slow its ability to move, slow cuts by sharp knives, to finally kill it with a long odd sword and minimum chance to defend its dignity.
The Portuguese way is far more sporty: They lock the bull into a small room and during the rodeo day they stick it frequently with a wood peg to stir the animal up.
At the rodeo a professional bull rider jump on its back with only a simple rope in his right hand connected to the bulls necklace and the door is opened.
The bull is jumping around to get the rider off the back similar to American rodeo and succeed after few minutes. The sport of the rider is to sit there as long as possible and jump off as far as possible from the bull to avoid its 300 kg kicking clows.
Maybe still animal cruelty but the animal has a chance and maintain its dignity and is not killed in public. https://youtu.be/7pZ9Atr1oSE .
Project paperclip brought the Nazis to America and are still leading the humans to their culling. We must stop 🛑 charging their distractions and stand tall in our armor for the love of life and no longer participate.
The herd is being set for the kill while it bellows rightiously against antisemitism.
The bull is essentially confused.
It’s looking for any signs of motion in a static ‘muleta’ to determine its eternal fate, which will of course never come given the static nature of an image that is eternally fixed ad infinitum.
Should it smash headfirst into the brown wall once the ‘muleta’ is cleverly whisked away or is the better option to receive the “look there not here” proverbial sword that lurks in the background. Either way it loses, it would seem.
A glance up at the scoreboard and to the left at the matador/magician directing the entertainment might temporarily help, with a “look here not there” recognizance, but only if such a bull could also escape the stadium subsequently after disposing of such types and the crowd that cheers along with the use of a horn or two. Otherwise it’s doomed. My two cents anyhow.
I’m reminded of a book I read decades ago – ‘Childhood’s End’ by Arthur C. Clarke.
I thought of that too only I read it last week
It shows the people who fought the Nazi’s are being culled. Put to the sword (COVID injection) by a prick in a suit. Probably a banker.
Or it could be the slaughter of farm animals to be replaced by strawberry-flavored swastika flies..
Or it’s the sword being a symbol of the upside down satanic cross (Shitty of London), being held aloft and ready to kill the ‘Bull’ financial market, ready for the digital concentration camp and the end of cash.
Why be cryptic when you could just show a plane load of Zionist bankers bombing the fk out of the human race.
The City and Wall Street funded the Nazi’s. The Royal Family supported the Nazi’s.
The Anglo-American elite created WW1 and WW11, as seen in Two World Wars and Hitler, by Jim McGregor and John O’Dowd.
I see a bull or perhaps cow trying to get a closer look at ww2 memorabilia flag at auction before bidding begins and one of the staff is kindly showing it but he’s busy and has another item for auction in his hand that he needs to store
Overall I’d say the bull cow is happy it’s authentic and excited for bidding to begin.
Why a crooked-cross when it could well have been a ‘star-of-David’ which is equally synonamus with evil. The German version of the cc is a little tiresome now as most people should realise that it is a propaganda-prop ‘immortalised’ by the money-printers as the distractor from their own evil deeds being played-out live in 2025. More dissappointingly is the entourage of Western-leaders who think it is okay to get-into-bed with the evil that befalls us all.
Quite frankly, the crooked-cross blurs, or morphs into the star-of-David each time I view it.
The painting will be up for this month, alongside many other artworks on the theme of truth,???
The above is another reinforcement psyop to keep you believing in the covid story lines propaganda from 70 + years ago to keep you believing in Jesus.
Do not ever forget Hitler and the Nazi’s and the concentration camps and 7 8 9 25 trillion Jews who all got killed.
10 million TV shows about it.
the 1200000000 Hollywood films about it.
666.000.000 books written about it,
the Holocaust memorials and museums in every city.
Must be so true.
and
IF you dont believe it. You will end up in prison as a denier and get cancelled lose your job.
The bull represents bullshit.
No mention of Epstein? Facts are so sacred we dared not upset the shekel donation stream.
Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell British-French-American former socialite and a convicted sex offender. She was found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offences in connection with the deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2021. In 2022 she was sentenced in federal court in New York City to twenty years’ imprisonment.
If you can’t beat em, ‘banish’ em.
Mastery of the matador:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/young-fighting-bull-entering-ring-dr-jose-delgado-of-yale-news-footage/510561239
(Ever make it to the Ludlow Massacre memorial down the road from Pueblo?)
The thumb down is to the ugly Spanish link and ugly Spanish experiment. and not to the presenter of the link.
Minus 3s and 4s on almost every comment.
Someone needs a dose of Epsom salts.
Shitty? Go watch Telly, it’s full of it.
More on The Great Technocratic Reset:
The Moscow Connection. What did David Rockefeller discus s in Moscow in 1964 ?
https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-moscow-connection
Legislated basis for 15 Minute Cities:
The Great Property Heist: How climate change policies are stealing Australian homes.
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-great-property-heist-how-climate
The ‘Covid’ fear campaign was a trial run of how to use people’s Fears Of Contagion to
stampede them into The Global Digital Prison…
And the US government is using ‘illegal’ immigrants as cover the ready its concentration
camps – for dissidents…
The bloke in the suit is distracting the bull with the spectre of Nazism (it could just as easily be socialism, terrorism, nuclear war, viruses or a host of others) as he thrusts his sword through the heart of the ‘aggressor’.
In 30 years times the Nazi psyop sign will be covid virus and the bull will be the vaccine and covid memory museums will be in every city.
Who the hell in 2025 still believes in nazi;s.
Nazis in suits.
Same Turds, different uniform.
Nazis? Or do you mean communists?
David Rockefeller in a NYT article on 10th August 1973 said:
“Whatever the price” my emphasis. Mass starvation and pogroms under Mao, resulted in possibly 60 – 100 million deaths. The true figure may never been known.
I have yet to meet a real life Nazi (Ukraine seems to be their last holdout), yet I have met plenty of communists who are proud of it.
So Nazism is bad for having murdered people, yet communism murdered many more. This double standard is tedious.
The elitists have an admiration of communism, it is currently called communitarianism. It is communitarianism that is Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030. All the false equality nonsense and the SDGs are totalitarianism wrapped up in fluffy language.
“You will own nothing……” cannot happen under the label of fascism since fascists respected INDIVIDUAL property rights, communists do not.
I am not endorsing either system, just simply pointing out the hypocrisy of railing against one but not the other. Let’s be consistent.
Chinese suits, USian suits, English suits.
Spot the difference.
Of many things said and written, the Nazis was said to have been more Gentlemen than US, UK, Russians toward women.
Americans, British and Russians were raping and murdering themselves through Europe. (Dresden 1945 as example).
Dresden was not even a military target. It was a city where hundreds of thousands of refugees from other places were sheltering.
As if bombing the place and every living being into oblivion were not enough, the allies used fighter jets to target civilians who had moved into open spaces such as parks and machine gunned them from the skies.
For an extra bit of sport the animals from the zoo were firebombed. It wasn’t the only zoo in Gremany to be bombed during bombing campaigns.
https://historylessonsdeleted.blogspot.com/2018/12/bombing-of-dresden-real-holocaust.html?m=1
https://www.revisionist.net/zoo-bombing.html
The German people have been brainwashed to hate themselves and believe the propaganda spun after WWII that they were (are) the world’s number one evil nation/race in history.
All because another ethno-religious group had a massive axe to grind even before the outbreak of WWII.
I think behind the curtain they know. For sure they bow their neck after these two WW’s but a part of Germany knows what was behind.
I have been in Germany a couple of times working as engineer in Construction. In one of the cases I were invited to tea party with three middle age German ladies.
They were quite frivolous in our closed party and told how the Doos in these day were sitting in a little too many key positions in the society and how Mr. Itler got popular by kicking them out and put Germans into influence again…….
When I came home to my company and told them part of it, they brushed it off as Nazi ladies.
The Versailles Treaty was off course a red scarf and completely impossible for a high civilised nation like Germany to fulfil.
Only birth to yet another WW.
So the story is not black and white but unfortunately still difficult to discuss because of the pre-conditional “the winner takes it all”.
Especially the Brits have made so much stupidity and bs around the world what many people still dont realize.
We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/13/2333183/-That-Jeffrey-Epstein-evidence-isn-t-missing-there-s-more-than-you-can-imagine
That Jeffrey Epstein evidence isn’t missing – there’s more than you can imagine
Bill Addis, author
Sunday, July 13, 2025
86 Comments
In 2019, there was a raid on Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion. Former Palm Beach State Attorney was asked about it on MSNBC this weekend about it, and described the raid. “There was a safe, and they had to use a saw to get in the safe. And there were hard drives or thumb drives in there. What’s on the thumb drives? We really don’t know. So, I think there are a lot of images. I think there are ties to individuals. And perhaps the DOJ thinks there’s not enough evidence to file a lawsuit, especially when you see that big celebrities like Diddy just got away with human trafficking, allegedly.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-saw-epstein-drives-safe
The what sounds like explicit evidence on the drives will be used to coerce influential folk into doing whatever group has the drives agenda – Epstein was a Mossad informant, and now he’s been put in a type witness protection programme ( dead? maybe, maybe not) the list (which Trump fears) will now be in the hands of CIA – will Trump try and force the CIA to hand over the non existent list? I’d imagine there would’ve been several copies made at least.
Hence the reference to Mike Pompeo. Prior to 2016, they (i.e. the Christian Zionists) had taken control of military intelligence – which they used to block the rigging of the election. Then in January 2017 they took control of the CIA. And then in January 2021 they invoked Continuity of Government and locked down DC – thereby getting control of lots more files. It goes way beyond Epstein.
in the professional world of spooks it’s called an “extraction”.
And often employs a fake “death” or fake “suicide” narrative for cover.
The plan (or so it appears) is to get Congress to demand the release of the files. Given that some GOP reps have already stated their support for release, the plan should be achieved by making the Dems think that Trump is against it. Also, although it’s possible there’s something on Trump, I think he was warned a long time ago about Epstein. The apparent friendship could be part of the ruse; i.e. it fostered the belief that Trump was as compromised as everyone else.
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Mike Pence says “time has come” for Trump administration to release “all” Epstein files
CBS News – The Takeout with Major Garrett
Jul 16, 2025
The Trump administration is facing criticism from some within the MAGA movement for its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Former Vice President Mike Pence joins “The Takeout” with his perspective
The plan (or so it appears) is to get Congress to demand the release of the files.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-epstein-congress_n_688158b4e4b0d55a3f191b25
House Subcommittee Votes To Subpoena Justice Department For Epstein Files
Three Republicans on the panel voted with Democrats for the subpoena, defying President Donald Trump and GOP leadership.
Jul 23, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House subcommittee on Wednesday voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein after Democrats successfully goaded GOP lawmakers to defy President Donald Trump and Republican leadership to support the action.
The vote showed the intensifying push for disclosures in the Epstein investigation even as House Speaker Mike Johnson — caught between demands from Trump and clamoring from his own members for the House to act — was sending lawmakers home a day early for its August recess. The House Committee on Oversight also issued a subpoena Wednesday for Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex offender and girlfriend of the late Epstein, to testify before committee officials in August.
Love your art, especially the social/political works! Yes, the red cloth is the one we are getting dangled before our eyes constantly to get us to hate the problems that do not exist, at least not in any major way. But most of us never seem to see the red flags in all this maneuvering, nor the hidden hand that’s doing the maneuvering or the place we will end up if we fail to open our eyes soon. Instead of head down, we need to look up and face the uncomfortable truth.
We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.
https://off-guardian.org/2020/06/22/this-week-in-the-guardian-9
Lost in a dark wood – Jun 22, 2020 11:52 AM
Freedland: Are Americans meant to feel grateful to John Bolton, the walrus-moustached, bellicose former national security adviser to Donald Trump? It’s tempting to say yes, as he serves up an election-year memoir that provides a veritable arsenal of ammunition for Democrats to hurl at the president between now and 3 November.
The game is like a bullfight with the Trump deep-state being the matador and the libtards being the bull. The persona of Trump is a capote; so too are “Russian collusion” and “Ukraine quid pro quo”. The Trump DS continuously wave these distractions in front of the libtards in order to pump up the derangement and to keep them chasing phantoms. It’s a form of trolling.
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https://madridbullfighting.com/blog/the-importance-of-the-capote-and-the-muleta-in-madrid-bullfighting
The capote is a large, brightly colored cape that is used by the matador, or bullfighter, in the first part of the bullfight. It is made of silk and is usually red and yellow, although other colors may be used. The capote is used to test the bull’s strength, speed, and aggression, and to begin the process of tiring the animal out before the matador faces it with the smaller muleta.
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Extract from HyperNormalisation (2016)
The real nazi here is the sword-wielder, playing the bull (us) like a puppet on a string.
The Q is – will be ever rise above our taken-for-granted-thicko level?
Anytime now, fellow Proles. The clock is ticking..
I am going to suggest another perhaps unintended interpretation: since the matador is more like a businessman (aka cowboy) and the Spanish word for cowboy is vaquero (or vacchero) a pejorative term for a sub-par matador, then this suited vacchero is wielding a sword (syringe filled with vaccine from the Latin “vacca” meaning cow.
We could give this Matador a name: Alberto Bourla perhaps? There is likewise a pile of bullshit involved.
Perhaps a snake-oil salesman cold be termed a ‘cowboy’ businessman i.e. not all in business are corrupt.
I see fascism/PTB luring the people/masses (the bull aka us) for the final blow.
The bull should be charging the matador…if it wants to live. Not the distraction, in this case the red rag being a Swastika flag.
Or to put it another way the people should be focussing on the controllers and their minions and not chasing the distractions eg fear of the non-existent far-right, laid out for them.
Expanding on your well-formed observation concerning the “controllers and their minions”, the matador in the Muleta painting is a well-heeled and finely-attired corporate archetype. Perhaps the suit is a Hugo Boss?
The doomed bull is western culture, the matador represents Zionism and its mastery over the western mind.
The other way around, Mossad is the CIA’s patsy, for MIL support.
Well done, Jordan. Great to see you rebuild your life so quickly, after leaving Ajax.
#YNWA
I see “the powers that shouldn’t be” raising a spectre for the masses to charge at, whilst they prepare to strike.
The bull’s anger comes between understanding and whatever there is that might have understood.
In this way it’s superior power is deflected from the anger’s provoke. When this is realized, it will already be too late
So we’re not living in a cartoon. We’re living in an oil painting.
I learned that men in suits are bad. I learned that bulls don’t like nazis.
Metaphors are hard.