Trumpies don't do 'subtle' So a couple days ago, GQ ran a profile of Melania Trump that portrayed her as a pretty smart woman (hinting that she's actually smarter than her husband) who's private, ambitious, and like Donald, astonishingly gifted at giving opaque answers to questions. Author Julia Ioffe's big "get" is her discovery that Melania Trump has a half-brother who's barely acknowledged by her family. Ms. Trump originally denied to Ioffe that such a person even existed, then, when Ioffe sent her the Slovenian records she'd found, wrote back saying she'd misunderstood Ioffe's question, adding "I’ve known about this for years...My father is a private individual. Please respect his privacy.” So far, she sounds like a Trump, all right!
I would sadly argue that most of them DON'T know better. These tweets-for-brains have been raised in the responsibility-free environment of *cough* social media, so that any little thought-like firing of neurons, no matter how rancid, immediately goes out, unfiltered by any sense of reason or civilized behavior.
Hey, if a faction of the Independent Democratic electorate wants to burn the whole place down in order for the seed pods of the Glorious Revolution to open, why not anti-Semitism being good news for Palestine?
After all, being hit by a bus can be a good experience (as long as it's somebody else).
Which helped create the cozy myth of the 1950s being "a more innocent time". Which it was -- if you left out the racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia.
Actually "a more innocent time" can be roughly defined as the decade in which the speaker was in grammar school and didn't know what the fuck was going on other than what the Parental Units told him/her.
Women's clothes, makeup and hairstyles were enough to generate some very bad memories. My older sister was in middle school in the late 1950s and her yearbook pictures showed page after page of young girls whose hairstyles and makeup made them look like 40something matrons.
Job's god was such a stitch. Asked why all this shit was going down he skipped that part about an ego-inspired wager and strutted around boasting about how insanely wonderful he was.
We abandoned democracy when we abandoned public elementary education. Democracy only works when there is a preponderance of citizens who understand how it works.We are diving into a situation where entire State's populations are unable to grasp the basics of Constitutional rights and protections.
And got slapped across the mouth if "it" dared to ask a question. Yep, "innocence."
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This is the one article that I didn't laugh at. Very unsettling.
I would sadly argue that most of them DON'T know better. These tweets-for-brains have been raised in the responsibility-free environment of *cough* social media, so that any little thought-like firing of neurons, no matter how rancid, immediately goes out, unfiltered by any sense of reason or civilized behavior.
It would seem Der Donald now has his own social media Einsatzgruppen.https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
Somewhat reminiscent of the "only good Indian is a dead Indian" line heard in Classic Western Movies.
Hey, if a faction of the Independent Democratic electorate wants to burn the whole place down in order for the seed pods of the Glorious Revolution to open, why not anti-Semitism being good news for Palestine?
After all, being hit by a bus can be a good experience (as long as it's somebody else).
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Which helped create the cozy myth of the 1950s being "a more innocent time". Which it was -- if you left out the racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia.
Actually "a more innocent time" can be roughly defined as the decade in which the speaker was in grammar school and didn't know what the fuck was going on other than what the Parental Units told him/her.
Women's clothes, makeup and hairstyles were enough to generate some very bad memories. My older sister was in middle school in the late 1950s and her yearbook pictures showed page after page of young girls whose hairstyles and makeup made them look like 40something matrons.
Job's god was such a stitch. Asked why all this shit was going down he skipped that part about an ego-inspired wager and strutted around boasting about how insanely wonderful he was.
Sort of like Trump, come to think of it.
Youarerite. Ask anybody at Salon.
Which is sure to inspire Concerned Folks to exhort you to not vote for her. Be the better person.
Wouldn't that make them... nihilists?
We abandoned democracy when we abandoned public elementary education. Democracy only works when there is a preponderance of citizens who understand how it works.We are diving into a situation where entire State's populations are unable to grasp the basics of Constitutional rights and protections.
Freedom isn't free, you know.