I do not for one second believe that Melonhead gives two fucks about abortion as long as she could get one if/when she needed to. This is a woman who wore a jacket that said she didn’t care, IIRC. Her “concern” extends to “will someone really pay $40.00 for my book?” Looking forward to it going to the bargain bin where all junky books go to die.
This divorced white woman doesn't care what Melania thinks about anything. Thank you, Stephen, for not falling for her "concern," as it's the same as the "concerns" of the Bush first ladies. And the timing is suspect, because trump is losing suburban white women, married or not, to the real pro-life candidates - VP Harris and Governor Walz.
After the 2022 midterms, Jesse Watters said, “We need these ladies to get married. It’s time to fall in love and just settle down. Guys, go put a ring on it.”
Which Wattersports did a second time after stalking a much younger female co-worker, deflating her car tires so he could cosplay a ‘knight in shining armour’ to ostensibly date her. While he was married to another woman.
And he called us women "it," ok, maybe he was specifically referring to the ring finger, but the implication is that all women want to be married, and a guy has to do, is demand marriage, not even ask. Not true, but cons don't care about the truth.
Once again, Jesse Waters shows he’s absolutely clueless about what’s going on. Many women are remaining single by choice, because they can’t find a male who isn’t a privileged, misogynistic asshole. It’s not the man’s choice to put a ring on it, but the woman’s. At least for now.
Yes, I have come to believe the growing entitlement of American (white) men is part of what has created the political gender gap.
I think All Americans have issues with entitlement, but the white guys afraid of losing power seem to have the most obviously blinding entitlement issues.
I'd narrow it down to "she's trying to hawk her book and any 'news' she can make would help sell it, so she'll just say any crap" or "this is more calculated to signal to suburban women that hey if Trump is ok with his wife saying this about abortion, maybe he won't be so extreme on the issue, hint hint".
Republicans have long played this shit--don't worry, they won't really overturn Roe, don't worry, they won't really ban anything, don't worry they're just posturing for their base. But all that went out the window when Trump's SCOTUS did their thing. Now any voter who gives a crap about this issue will trust Democrats more, because they see what happens when Republicans have just enough power.
Babs Bush had a stillborn fetus in a jar?! How long did she keep it? Did it pass down to a family member in her will? This is going to haunt me for days!
It sounds very hard to believe at all. Like some piece of this story is missing, something a kid misunderstood, a “my mom had a stillborn baby” and a school visit to a museum or a science kit of the ‘50s being conflated into “my mom had her stillborn baby pickled,” right? Like that time my aunt announced my mother only had one kidney (she had two) due to some kind of misunderstanding about a surgery and how it was explained to the aunt when she was a child, a “fact” that was not true but that was thoroughly stuck in my aunt’s head through adulthood.
But also, the whole idea of “passing it down” is horrifying, no? I have dealt with several family death cleanouts in the last few years and I would like to gently suggest to everyone that they bury or otherwise dispose of their pet’s ashes asap, because What Am I Going To Do With These Ashes When You Kick Off is a real problem. It’s illegal to bury them with you and I don’t want to decant them into your ashes myself.
Then again, is it beyond belief that the Bush family had one, and tortured their children with it? "Do you want to be put in a jar?! Then eat your greenbeans!"
My buddy kept his wisdom teeth. They're in a baby food jar. When his kids were little and they were arguing over something he would declare "CONSULT THE TEETH" and the kids would watch him roll them like dice and tell them what the teeth said they should do.
Melania Trump doesn’t give a flyin’ fook about abortion. The timing of the drop of this tome screams “Donnie has gone too far again, as usual, so let’s trot out the little lady to have a differing ‘opinion’ to try to mitigate some of the political damage the GOP has created for themselves.” Yet another futile and stupid gesture, signifying nothing. sorry for mixing National Lampoon and Shakespeare together.
That seems to be the reasoning, I suppose. Although if “ladies” are going to vote for Donnie, they’re going to vote for him. I doubt Melania’s book is a game-changer for them.
This will be won in fractions of percentages. There are plenty of people in that margin who can be swayed by feelings of community. This is why we phone bank. This is why that’s in her book.
I think I'm saying something different, though perhaps not writing well.
I'm saying there are people who can be convinced one way or the other, and they may be swayed by a social feeling. Phone banking is one way to connect with the public, writing a book is a other.
I read your comment "I doubt Melanis's book is a game changer for them" to be the opposite of what I was trying to get across, which is there is some small fraction that can be swayed with these various forms of ourreach.
What I’m saying is no one’s going to buy Melania’s book, let alone read it, much less be swayed by it. The pro-abortion stance she affects will have little influence on those voters who are already inclined to vote for Trump. It’s a desperation attempt to soften the grave miscalculation Repubs made with their war on women’s reproductive rights.
[Melania Trump has] released a trailer for the book that boasts the production values of a hostage video.
Yes, I'm always praising one turn or another, and while sycophancy may be an adequate explanation, I don't think it's a necessary one. I remember writing, in comment now lost to time, that I've loved SER's metaphor and wit since an afternoon we spent drinking mint tea at an outdoor café in Istanbul, just as news of Howard Carter's Tutankhamen excavation was reaching the world. As it happens, I misremembered the exact date and circumstances, but I have loved his writing for quite some time.
Moving on to today's topic: Discussing the abortion opinions of Mmes. Bush and Reagan seems a good opportunity to remind people of the evergreen Joyce Arthur piece, The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion:
While Trump appears to go beyond the reproductive rights stances of Bush, Bush, and Reagan (as well as the women in Arthur's piece), the moralizing plain in
>> “Occasional political disagreements between me and my husband … [are] part of our relationship, but I believed in addressing them privately rather than publicly challenging him.” <<
carries exactly the same spirit. The only moral way to express one's opinion on abortion is Trump's way, she clearly asserts.
Strangely, this new book and its emphasis on the daylight between the two Trumps reeks with anger at how others have allowed Donald's image to define the women in his orbit, and yet her anti-feminist insistence on shutting up and letting the husband handle questions of public interest is -- predictable as gravity -- exactly what eclipsed that daylight in the first place.
I like to imagine Drumph and Melania discussing writing. You know, their preferred writing styles, the first person narrative vs third person narrative and which is more appropriate for a memoir, the rush one gets from finishing a chapter, the outlining process and how it deals with the little joys and trubulations one has faced. Their favorite authors, the value of reading in their first language or a second language, how translating is itself an art. They probably discuss their favorite poems and laugh about when they didn't understand the art of a poetry slam relating to rap music and the tenets of hip-hop.
I'm sure they go on duscussing who wore it better, Jane Austen or Leo Tolstoy.
I can just imagine the literary conversations when one author tells another, "Write what you believe."
LOL Pull the other one, Racist Birther Trophy Wife!
Kinda wonder if she plagiarized the writing about abortion rights from Michelle Obama too.
As we all know, accountability for sticking to one's principles only applies to Democrats under Murc's Law. This article also gives a really deep dive into the fakery of so many of the "pro-choice" Republicans (especially 'Concerned' Collins and Murkowski); when it counts they will always toe the party line.
I disagree.They're literally slightly better, though one inch above the bottom of the barrel ain't saying much.
The urge to hold women to a higher standard than men then blame them for not meeting a higher bar is not something to use when wanting a true measure of the situation.
Good cop, bad cop . It’s a bunch of bull
I do not for one second believe that Melonhead gives two fucks about abortion as long as she could get one if/when she needed to. This is a woman who wore a jacket that said she didn’t care, IIRC. Her “concern” extends to “will someone really pay $40.00 for my book?” Looking forward to it going to the bargain bin where all junky books go to die.
This divorced white woman doesn't care what Melania thinks about anything. Thank you, Stephen, for not falling for her "concern," as it's the same as the "concerns" of the Bush first ladies. And the timing is suspect, because trump is losing suburban white women, married or not, to the real pro-life candidates - VP Harris and Governor Walz.
She was also right in there with the Obama Birther scam...
Fook Creesmas!
Who cares what Melania says? She clearly has ZERO INFLUENCE.
After the 2022 midterms, Jesse Watters said, “We need these ladies to get married. It’s time to fall in love and just settle down. Guys, go put a ring on it.”
Which Wattersports did a second time after stalking a much younger female co-worker, deflating her car tires so he could cosplay a ‘knight in shining armour’ to ostensibly date her. While he was married to another woman.
And he called us women "it," ok, maybe he was specifically referring to the ring finger, but the implication is that all women want to be married, and a guy has to do, is demand marriage, not even ask. Not true, but cons don't care about the truth.
Once again, Jesse Waters shows he’s absolutely clueless about what’s going on. Many women are remaining single by choice, because they can’t find a male who isn’t a privileged, misogynistic asshole. It’s not the man’s choice to put a ring on it, but the woman’s. At least for now.
Yes, I have come to believe the growing entitlement of American (white) men is part of what has created the political gender gap.
I think All Americans have issues with entitlement, but the white guys afraid of losing power seem to have the most obviously blinding entitlement issues.
And how many stupid women will believe her? Far too many.
Add the mass deportations to the mix of horror that a Trump administration will bring to create extreme havoc to this country.
We must not let the monster win.
I suppose If anyone know what's it's like to lose one's freedom and bodily autonomy to a gross asshole, it would be her.
Of course, she made that choice and has been and will be compensated financially.
I'd narrow it down to "she's trying to hawk her book and any 'news' she can make would help sell it, so she'll just say any crap" or "this is more calculated to signal to suburban women that hey if Trump is ok with his wife saying this about abortion, maybe he won't be so extreme on the issue, hint hint".
Republicans have long played this shit--don't worry, they won't really overturn Roe, don't worry, they won't really ban anything, don't worry they're just posturing for their base. But all that went out the window when Trump's SCOTUS did their thing. Now any voter who gives a crap about this issue will trust Democrats more, because they see what happens when Republicans have just enough power.
Babs Bush had a stillborn fetus in a jar?! How long did she keep it? Did it pass down to a family member in her will? This is going to haunt me for days!
We nicknamed it Jarbara when word came out.
It sounds very hard to believe at all. Like some piece of this story is missing, something a kid misunderstood, a “my mom had a stillborn baby” and a school visit to a museum or a science kit of the ‘50s being conflated into “my mom had her stillborn baby pickled,” right? Like that time my aunt announced my mother only had one kidney (she had two) due to some kind of misunderstanding about a surgery and how it was explained to the aunt when she was a child, a “fact” that was not true but that was thoroughly stuck in my aunt’s head through adulthood.
This is exactly what I was thinking 😅
But also, the whole idea of “passing it down” is horrifying, no? I have dealt with several family death cleanouts in the last few years and I would like to gently suggest to everyone that they bury or otherwise dispose of their pet’s ashes asap, because What Am I Going To Do With These Ashes When You Kick Off is a real problem. It’s illegal to bury them with you and I don’t want to decant them into your ashes myself.
Then again, is it beyond belief that the Bush family had one, and tortured their children with it? "Do you want to be put in a jar?! Then eat your greenbeans!"
My buddy kept his wisdom teeth. They're in a baby food jar. When his kids were little and they were arguing over something he would declare "CONSULT THE TEETH" and the kids would watch him roll them like dice and tell them what the teeth said they should do.
That’s absolutely hilarious
Right?
Outstanding 🤣🤣
The first time I saw this I just about died holding in my laughter.
He's a good dad and the kids are creative, smart and kind.
Melania Trump doesn’t give a flyin’ fook about abortion. The timing of the drop of this tome screams “Donnie has gone too far again, as usual, so let’s trot out the little lady to have a differing ‘opinion’ to try to mitigate some of the political damage the GOP has created for themselves.” Yet another futile and stupid gesture, signifying nothing. sorry for mixing National Lampoon and Shakespeare together.
Then the ladies who want an excuse to vote for Drumph can find it because they identify with her.
That seems to be the reasoning, I suppose. Although if “ladies” are going to vote for Donnie, they’re going to vote for him. I doubt Melania’s book is a game-changer for them.
This will be won in fractions of percentages. There are plenty of people in that margin who can be swayed by feelings of community. This is why we phone bank. This is why that’s in her book.
“This is why that’s in her book.”
Yeah, pretty sure that’s what I said
I think I'm saying something different, though perhaps not writing well.
I'm saying there are people who can be convinced one way or the other, and they may be swayed by a social feeling. Phone banking is one way to connect with the public, writing a book is a other.
I read your comment "I doubt Melanis's book is a game changer for them" to be the opposite of what I was trying to get across, which is there is some small fraction that can be swayed with these various forms of ourreach.
What I’m saying is no one’s going to buy Melania’s book, let alone read it, much less be swayed by it. The pro-abortion stance she affects will have little influence on those voters who are already inclined to vote for Trump. It’s a desperation attempt to soften the grave miscalculation Repubs made with their war on women’s reproductive rights.
First, let me praise a turn of SER's phrase:
[Melania Trump has] released a trailer for the book that boasts the production values of a hostage video.
Yes, I'm always praising one turn or another, and while sycophancy may be an adequate explanation, I don't think it's a necessary one. I remember writing, in comment now lost to time, that I've loved SER's metaphor and wit since an afternoon we spent drinking mint tea at an outdoor café in Istanbul, just as news of Howard Carter's Tutankhamen excavation was reaching the world. As it happens, I misremembered the exact date and circumstances, but I have loved his writing for quite some time.
Moving on to today's topic: Discussing the abortion opinions of Mmes. Bush and Reagan seems a good opportunity to remind people of the evergreen Joyce Arthur piece, The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion:
https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/
While Trump appears to go beyond the reproductive rights stances of Bush, Bush, and Reagan (as well as the women in Arthur's piece), the moralizing plain in
>> “Occasional political disagreements between me and my husband … [are] part of our relationship, but I believed in addressing them privately rather than publicly challenging him.” <<
carries exactly the same spirit. The only moral way to express one's opinion on abortion is Trump's way, she clearly asserts.
Strangely, this new book and its emphasis on the daylight between the two Trumps reeks with anger at how others have allowed Donald's image to define the women in his orbit, and yet her anti-feminist insistence on shutting up and letting the husband handle questions of public interest is -- predictable as gravity -- exactly what eclipsed that daylight in the first place.
I like to imagine Drumph and Melania discussing writing. You know, their preferred writing styles, the first person narrative vs third person narrative and which is more appropriate for a memoir, the rush one gets from finishing a chapter, the outlining process and how it deals with the little joys and trubulations one has faced. Their favorite authors, the value of reading in their first language or a second language, how translating is itself an art. They probably discuss their favorite poems and laugh about when they didn't understand the art of a poetry slam relating to rap music and the tenets of hip-hop.
I'm sure they go on duscussing who wore it better, Jane Austen or Leo Tolstoy.
I can just imagine the literary conversations when one author tells another, "Write what you believe."
Yes, that totally happened.
LOL Pull the other one, Racist Birther Trophy Wife!
Kinda wonder if she plagiarized the writing about abortion rights from Michelle Obama too.
As we all know, accountability for sticking to one's principles only applies to Democrats under Murc's Law. This article also gives a really deep dive into the fakery of so many of the "pro-choice" Republicans (especially 'Concerned' Collins and Murkowski); when it counts they will always toe the party line.
If she says she and he husband spoke about it it's a clear sign she plagarized it.
Well, her people sent a message to his people.
Collins and Murkowski are arguably worse than any of them. Disingenuous slimy turds.
I disagree.They're literally slightly better, though one inch above the bottom of the barrel ain't saying much.
The urge to hold women to a higher standard than men then blame them for not meeting a higher bar is not something to use when wanting a true measure of the situation.
Sadly, not true. The legacy media has fallen for her BS.
Truly. It's quite the contrary, she's asking them to play along.