Maybe she's depressed because her values are fucked up and she made some terrible choices in life. Fuck her for being complicit.
― Patton Oswalt Defense Lawyer (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
I've never understood the logic either. She could divorce him and upend his whole shit if she wanted to and she'd have a ton of support from all kinds of corners, but there's no real indication she actually wants to mess with anything. xp
― Simon H., Monday, 29 January 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
Like, you don't have to marry the American because he has a helicopter. It's not like he rescued her from some miserable life.
― Patton Oswalt Defense Lawyer (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
it mainly strikes me as another hopeful but baseless fantasy of #resistance that people cling to tbh, unless there's some actual substantive statements of hers I've missed
― Simon H., Monday, 29 January 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
honoring trump with any kind of nickname is ridiculous, you're just entering into his own game. it's silly but it's also exactly what he loves doing with anyone he doesn't like
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
You guys should read this important piece from the progressive newspaper called the New York Times: The Quiet Radicalism of Melania Trump
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
the resistance is coming from inside the white house: the first term of melania trump
― omar little, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
She is terrible. I don’t know how anyone could spend time with trump and then marry him. Fucking gross. The reason a lot of people try to spin her as a good person trapped in a hellhole is because the reality of trump is so far apart from our own lives that they resemble tv show characters more than real people. A tv show needs at least one sympathetic character for the audience to identify with, somewhere, and she’s the least worst option.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
lord almighty that ny times piece
the quiet radicalism of doing absolutely nothing
makes u think
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
xpost lol yeah I read yet the other day. Classic clickbait title! She is a radical because she hates her husband so much and refuses to use her position to help people or take up some sort of cause that she believes in.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
none of the trumps are worth a shit. people are making the mistake of thinking that because maybe the trump marriage isn't great, that means she actually gives a fuck about the people his policies are affecting. i would say the chances of that are pretty low.
― omar little, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
She sees the opportunity as First Lady to try to make sure that at least ONE good thing happen during her family’s time in power, and she radically says “no”
― Karl Malone, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
She seems acquiescent, definitely. Complicit, maybe. Is that the same as terrible? I don't know.
In any case it is like fifty-seventh on my list of priorities right now. Is M. a basically passive person who thought she was signing up for luxury and ease, but got accidentally thrust into a media maelstrom because of her new husband's toxic cocktail of id, greed, and ambition? Or is she Lady MacTrump, urging him on to greater heights of monstrousness? Or somewhere in between?
Don't know, don't really care; I'm much more alarmed by the Trumpoid march through the agencies, like HHS sidelining women's health and refugee issues to focus on "religious liberty." With the Department of the Interior headed by an oil pipeline executive and an oil industry CEO as Secretary of State, how long until Federal employees' adherence to environmentalist causes becomes a disqualifying factor?
I know that people can walk and chew gum at the same time: we can oppose the president's horrible policies AND still find time to mock his tacky-ass household furnishings. But jeez, do we need to pick on the 10-year-old?
― claude rains down in africa (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
it's like when people creepily idealize Ivanka, gee i wonder why. anyway they're all terrible.
― omar little, Monday, 29 January 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
The nation was torn, the democracy imperiled, but she stepped bravely to the fore and presented a line of caviar-based skincare products.
― Pumpkin Soup and Mandy Patinkin (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
she (melania) supported the birther campaign in the press too. vile
― maura, Monday, 29 January 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
Is there a version of the Darwin awards for people who don't die but rather willfully maneuver themselves into a personal hell and then inexplicably choose to remain there? Because Melania would be a recipient of that award. Yes, I'm sure your life sucks. What exactly did you expect when you married and had the child of someone who has never hidden the fact that he's an irredeemably-awful person?
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
Wealth without responsibility
― Karl Malone, Monday, 29 January 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
The life of almost all other wealthy people
The Pete Rose Prize
― Pumpkin Soup and Mandy Patinkin (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
who gives a shit about the kids or anyone else not in a position of power in the trump admin. ivanka is the only one with any kind of power
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 January 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
flappy otm
― claude rains down in africa (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
I don't know, the sons may be chumps but they have business interests that certainly impact the president's decision making. It's a kind of power in the administration that's worthy of concern.
― Pumpkin Soup and Mandy Patinkin (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
Eric might be more pleasant if they finally remove the multiple fecaliths from intestine
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
― Pumpkin Soup and Mandy Patinkin (Hadrian VIII), Monday, January 29, 2018 11:27 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sure, maybe the sons. don jr. is involved in the mueller probe in a big way. but they're effectively sidelined, by all accounts not doing much & by many accounts trump doesn't think much of them ("they were in the back of the room when god was giving out brains")
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 January 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
Here’s an anecdote from Tina Brown’s Vanity Fair Diaries about Trump pouring a glass of wine down Marie Brenner’s back as revenge for a bad story and slinking away pic.twitter.com/Rfu1Ur1qM7— Jia Tolentino (@jiatolentino) January 31, 2018
― j., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
guessing no one watched it but Stormy Daniels on Kimmel last night was one of the weirdest interviews I've ever seen, she basically telegraphs up front "everything you read is true but I can't say a word about it"
she seems nice
― frogbs, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
sam rockwell to play her as female chuck barris
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
I met her once, about a decade ago, at a mutual friend's book party. She was professionally friendly. Nina Hartley was also there - she was genuinely nice.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
I watched some of it. The "you might think that, I couldn't possibly comment" about how the signature on her press-release denial of the affair not actually being hers meant that the denial was not to be believed was a curious opener, but she didn't seem bright enough to make dancing around not being able to say anything else actually fun or funny.
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Thursday, 1 February 2018 01:03 (six years ago) link
The only reason anyone wants to interview her right now is because of what she's not allowed to talk about, so the whole exercise is futile and stupid in a meta pomo way. Which I guess is appropriate for the current cultural moment?
― I'm my own emotional support animal (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 February 2018 01:06 (six years ago) link
this isn't 'new' anymore but it is very eye-opening
A new report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzes news coverage of President Trump’s first 100 days in office.
The report is based on an analysis of news reports in the print editions of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, the main newscasts of CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC, and three European news outlets (The UK’s Financial Times and BBC, and Germany’s ARD).
Findings include:
President Trump dominated media coverage in the outlets and programs analyzed, with Trump being the topic of 41 percent of all news stories—three times the amount of coverage received by previous presidents. He was also the featured speaker in nearly two-thirds of his coverage.Republican voices accounted for 80 percent of what newsmakers said about the Trump presidency, compared to only 6 percent for Democrats and 3 percent for those involved in anti-Trump protests.European reporters were more likely than American journalists to directly question Trump’s fitness for office.Trump has received unsparing coverage for most weeks of his presidency, without a single major topic where Trump’s coverage, on balance, was more positive than negative, setting a new standard for unfavorable press coverage of a president.Fox was the only news outlet in the study that came close to giving Trump positive coverage overall, however, there was variation in the tone of Fox’s coverage depending on the topic.
― maura, Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:07 (six years ago) link
Worth another look: In the Company of Men.
"Now, he's a new...breed of fuck. Like a special strain of fucker. Oh, I hate that little prissy cocksucker."
― clemenza, Friday, 2 February 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link
President Trump dominated media coverage in the outlets and programs analyzed, with Trump being the topic of 41 percent of all news stories—three times the amount of coverage received by previous presidents.That is an astonishing statistic
― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 February 2018 04:02 (six years ago) link
nsfw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHwOMWGAg_o
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link
That is an astonishing statistic
Yes. True. But we are speaking of a man who comes from an entertainment industry background where the byword is that there is no such thing as bad publicity or too much publicity. He actively courts media coverage on an hourly basis, almost to the exclusion of all else, and because he is president, he gets that coverage.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 04:21 (six years ago) link
So is that clip of his "hair" real or not? I don't know any more.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
The concepts Reality and Truth are meaningless.
― StanM, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
also Hair
― j., Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
we all died on december 21 2012 iirc
― he facked his death (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
"I slept [with] you because I like you."
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 16 February 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
interception: "a low-rent racist, a shameless misogynist, and an unbalanced narcissist [. . .] an unrelenting liar and a two-bit white identity demagogue"
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/16/trump-russia-election-hacking-investigation/
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 16 February 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
Americans must live with the uncertainty of not knowing whether Trump has the best interests of the United States or those of Russia at heart.
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 February 2018 23:00 (six years ago) link
"By the way, I try like hell to hide that bald spot, folks, I work hard at it," Trump tells CPAC -- rare moment of self-deprecating humor!— Eliana Johnson (@elianayjohnson) February 23, 2018
― j., Friday, 23 February 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
Bald "spot?"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 February 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
You mean, your head?
This really happened. pic.twitter.com/DxI1AQG0hs— VICE News (@vicenews) February 23, 2018
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 23 February 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
no humanizing of unmitigated evil pls
― this machine slightly inconveniences fascists (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 23 February 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
oh it's inevitable
― flappy bird, Friday, 23 February 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
Scott Adams probably nutting his Dilbert-shaped boxers right now
― frogbs, Friday, 23 February 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link