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A "feminine" "pansie" - as

artappraiser — Thu, 28 May 2020 21:25:52 +0000

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A "feminine" "pansie" - as opposed to the more masculine ones. pic.twitter.com/9dwpc7tcFZ
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 28, 2020

And she noted Trump’s

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 28 May 2020 04:59:25 +0000

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And she noted Trump’s longtime pattern of using the deceased to advance his own agenda, mocking the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and suggesting that the late Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) might be in hell.

Cupp said Trump was “punching down” by attacking those who can’t defend themselves.

“Punching down — even at the dead — isn’t the mark of a strong, secure, courageous man,” she wrote. “It’s the mark of a small, weak, insecure coward with no impulse control, compassion or common decency. That’s our president.”

So does this do any good, or it only invigors his Beavis and Butthead base? Or is it a fool's errand to even think some kind of shaming or ridicule will ever affect Trump's flock?

Well if it squeals, he prolly

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 28 May 2020 03:48:00 +0000

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Well if it squeals, he prolly hit the right one.

Re: Melania, maybe it's what's on the tin, just quiet, likes her privacy, let Donald do all the talking.

Protesters hung Kentucky's governor in effigy yesterday - I wonder if they worried about his 9- and 10-year old kids the way the GOP fretted about Kathy Griffin playing Medusa with Trump's head.

oh I see Drumpf did mention

artappraiser — Wed, 27 May 2020 21:26:12 +0000

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oh I see Drumpf did mention Barron once last month, used his supposed unhappiness with isolation as an excuse to open up the country. Sharing the link only cause the photo is amazing, the kid is truly YUGE at 14, not just tall but big too:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/coronavirus-trump-barron-isolation-quarantine-covid19-a9447841.html

my main attraction to the

artappraiser — Wed, 27 May 2020 21:17:42 +0000

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my main attraction to the article was strictly that Tom admits it upset diehard Trump fanboys more than anything else he had written, that it roused the Trump troll swarm in defense against what he said in it.

As to Melania, just a reminder that running for president appeared to breach the bounds of the transaction from her view of things. She really really didn't want to go there and she still mostly acts like nothing about that has changed, does as little as possible on the public front. One thing that is truly amazing is how much Barron is kept out the fray given how rules about what is appropriate for attack have been repeatedly broken. Maybe is part of a transaction? As to the Drumpf himself, he had no qualms about the privacy of any of this other children growing up.

Ridiculing the troll instead

artappraiser — Wed, 27 May 2020 21:06:53 +0000

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Ridiculing the troll instead of feeding him. Also, all publicity is good publicity:

The editor of @TheAtlantic has a new bio pic.twitter.com/AuUYViHzEL
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 27, 2020

Great article, but still

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 27 May 2020 07:34:00 +0000

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Great article, but still doesn't answer anything for me. I don't imagine a huge groundswell of men nostalgic for their pimply inadequate self, or wishing they could've stopped development at 13 while garnering success...

I can imagine a fair amount of support for "fake it til u make it", of that old college try, they guy who's always pimping himself even at 3-4 a.m. at the end of a good drunk. He doesn't drink - he's always ready to sell that toaster. He's Glengary Glenn Ross - both the guy breaking in to get the leads (even tho rich) and the one always-be-closing 24x7. He wants that Rolex more than a job. For every woman who hustled real estate or did some home mail-order or other doubtful pyramid level marketing business, he's a model - rent out your name? One can only wish. Motivational speaker with YouTube channel? Or even Ted Talks - Donald in some way paved the way. I'll come up with theories for miners and farmers later.

As for Melania, funny Tom would bring her up. From what I can tell, she's an intelligence call girl/handler par excellence. Einstein Genius visa, did maybe 2 photo shoots over the years, never had her model card in NY or however it's called, which is critical for working in the business at all - just hung out for 2-3 years w/o going out much (odd for a NY model looking to break in) and then got introduced to Donald, bam, official squeeze #3 (with Trump-paid body makeover). For all the shit Hillary got for her marriage being presumed transactional, Melania's is a total by the books show marriage. But if you read Brit Ekland's bio for example, there's an era where women just fell into relationships - this kind of bargain is accepted and desired for many. To a large extent, the 60's feminism thing never happened - Melania's not that different from Kim Kardashian or Kylie Jenner, admired and followed by many a teen, billionaires for seeming beautiful and billionairish - the dress for success., as Kanye might note.

How Melania was treated by the press was also instrumental - of course she speaks 5 languages, even though she can barely mutter 3 word in French to school kids. Of course she had a degree, even though she didn't. If course she had a proper visa for gifted East Europeans, even though she was obviously just a model. The press just doesn't expect much from women and expects half of it to be ditzy lies, so all got a pass. (US customs no doubt had palms greased for any modeling business). Part of the suspiscion towards Hillary in my eyes is that almost all successful or well-attached women are somehow faking it, one of the spouses in JR or a Leona Helmsley businesswoman. That any light fibbing Liz Warren pulled re mnative American ancestry is 1/100th if what Trump lies on any given day highlights that tilted playing field, and no doubt Warren's "fake it til u make it" was a lot less fake and a lot less subsidized by Daddy than Donald's. But even Ivanka is treated often as if she did something herself, rather than playing off of Daddy's knee. Tom doesn't begin to address all this.

AHA EUREKA, appears to be a

artappraiser — Wed, 27 May 2020 06:54:53 +0000

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AHA EUREKA, appears to be a key to the male part of the Trump cult (another Atlantic piece that no doubt set him up):

I've written about how I'd vote for Hillary over Trump, how he is a gold mine for enemy intel, how he is a menace to the rule of law and should be impeached, how he is a spiritual black hole.
Yet this is the piece that has his cult totally triggered.https://t.co/xRdplS9czc
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 26, 2020

probably the reason for the

artappraiser — Wed, 27 May 2020 05:46:43 +0000

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probably the reason for the attack on The Atlantic:

The Malignant Cruelty of Donald Trump - The Atlantic https://t.co/LsZKoYux75
— David Alexander (@davidalexander5) May 27, 2020

For more on that story, see my other thread about Trump and Twitter here.

SHOT: https://t.co/rvPLoEcIcI

artappraiser — Wed, 27 May 2020 05:23:32 +0000

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SHOT: https://t.co/rvPLoEcIcI

CHASER: https://t.co/eobWtr54eN
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 26, 2020