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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 15, 2021 23:50:46 GMT -5
DJ, notice the gold lipstick & gold toe nail polish too? no. curse you, kd.
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Post by teen persuasion on Sept 16, 2021 8:40:21 GMT -5
the gold plated buckle on the plane seat bothers me. Wasn't there a thread a while ago about Trump's plane, rotting away somewhere? There was discussion about how much he spent just to goldplate all the hardware like seatbelt buckles. So I just assumed the buckle's obvious placement was deliberate, to signal that she's on Trump's gold plated private plane. But, yeah, the whole photo screamed Bond girl fantasy to me. Awkward, over the top, ridiculous parody of how the uberwealthy live.
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Post by Tiny on Sept 16, 2021 9:37:49 GMT -5
The photo is stamped with a GQ Britain mark. I'm guessing the picture is a Magazine cover or a photo that goes with the story the magazine published.
It's total marketing. I wonder WHO the story in the magazine was about - her OR trump? If it's trump - that makes it super creepy. If it's about her and her life as Mrs. trump - it's a little less creepy.
It doesn't help that GQ is "soft porn" like Sports Illustrated was back in the 90's (not sure what it is now... )
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Post by happyhoix on Sept 16, 2021 14:00:37 GMT -5
DJ, notice the gold lipstick & gold toe nail polish too? no. curse you, kd. So maybe the photographer is making a statement that Melania is a golden girl, gleaming and beautiful as a pile of money. Maybe that’s what attracted Trump to her. Or maybe she’s the personification of a gold digger. I think this was probably a pre- Trump photo of her, so I don’t think it was a personal comment.
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Post by happyhoix on Sept 17, 2021 17:30:41 GMT -5
GOP Representative Gonzalez is not running for re-election because he says the GOP has been poisoned by Trump. He has to have security to protect his family (he voted to impeach Trump after 1/6.) www.thedailybeast.com/gop-rep-anthony-gonzalez-says-hes-not-running-for-re-election-in-2022-because-of-donald-trumpThis guy had serious conservative cred, used to be a football player, was only in his thirties - most people thought he had a great future in the Republican Party - but not now that it’s become the party of Trump. There was another GOP member, I think a New Hampshire state rep - who decided to become a democrat because of the GOP’s position on how to deal with Covid. The 2022 midterms will be interesting - the GOP seems to fully embracing the caustic, white centric, anti science platform that is alienating conservative upper middle class voters. I would guess a good number of women are irate at the GOP stance on abortion. Will the GOP be able to energize their Trumpian base enough to off set the voters who are leaving - either to vote for a third party, hold their nose to vote for a Dem, or simply stay home and not vote? www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-republicans-are-scared-of-texas-new-abortion-ban/ar-AAOyA8W
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 17, 2021 19:16:49 GMT -5
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Post by happyhoix on Sept 26, 2021 10:31:11 GMT -5
Trump was in Perry Ga last night talking to his minions. He talked about how the Arizona audit that just wrapped up absolutely uncovered massive fraud - hmmm, ok. Then he also not only bashed Kemp, the GA governor, he said he would prefer Stacy Abrams, the Dem GA voting rights activist, as governor rather than Kemp. So if Kemp gets the GOP nomination, Trump may influence GOP voters to maybe not vote for Kemp, but maybe to not vote at all - kind of how Trump helped get two Dem senators elected in GA in 2020. Once again, Trump helps the GOP lose in order to seek vengeance against his personal enemies. When will the GOP figure out that Trump is not pro GOP, just pro Trump? www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-stacey-abrams-might-very-well-be-better-as-georgia-s-governor-than-gop-s-kemp/ar-AAOQ4soOf course, I think Abrams is fabulous and would be happy to see her as governor, but I’m not used to being able to vote for someone who actually ends up winning in Georgia - normally I vote for the losers. Until Trump, that is.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 26, 2021 10:43:41 GMT -5
What If 2020 Was Just a Rehearsal?One of the nation’s foremost experts on the laws that hold together democracy in America, Hasen used to be concerned about highly speculative election “nightmare scenarios”: the electrical grid being hacked on Election Day, or the pandemic warping turnout, or absentee ballots totally overwhelming the postal service. But now, what keeps him up at night aren’t fanciful “what if” exercises: It’s what has actually happened over that past nine months, and how it could truly blow up in the next presidential election. For the first time in American history, the losing candidate refused to concede the election — and rather than dismissing him as a sore loser, a startling number of Americans have followed Donald Trump down his conspiratorial rabbit hole. The safeguards that ensured he left office last January after losing the presidential election may be crumbling: The election officials who certified the counts may no longer be in place next time he falsely claims victory; if Republicans take Congress, a compliant Speaker could easily decide it’s simply not in his interest to let the party’s leader lose. “You could look at 2020 as the nadir of American democratic processes, or you could look at it as a dress rehearsal,” says Hasen, a professor of law at UC Irvine. To understand this fragile moment for American democracy, you could take a 30,000-foot view of a nation at the doorstep of a constitutional crisis, as Robert Kagan recently did for the Washington Post. Or you could simply look around you at what’s happening at the ground level, in broad daylight, visible to the naked eye, as Hasen has been doing. As he sees it, it’s time for us all to wake up. “I feel like a climate scientist warning about the Earth going up another degree and a half,” Hasen told POLITICO Magazine in an interview this week. “The rhetoric is so overheated that I think it provides the basis for millions of people to accept an actual stolen election as payback for the falsely claimed earlier ‘stolen’ election. People are going to be more willing to cheat if they think they’ve been cheated out of their just desserts.” Hasen has ideas about how to preempt some of this — they range from the legal to the political, and are the subject of a major conference taking place Friday at the Fair Elections and Free Speech Center, which he co-directs at UC Irvine. But even as he and other elections experts warn of a three-alarm fire, he’s troubled that Democrats in Washington seem to lack the same sense of urgency and focus. Complete article here: link
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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 26, 2021 15:05:06 GMT -5
i agree with that article, Tenn. the big moment is probably 2022. if the Democrats lose big, watch out.
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Post by Value Buy on Sept 29, 2021 9:20:34 GMT -5
i agree with that article, Tenn. the big moment is probably 2022. if the Democrats lose big, watch out. Yes, the riots in the democratic strongholds will be large again. Of course it is their God given right (although they do not believe in God) to destroy the cities without repercussions again.
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Post by dondub on Sept 29, 2021 9:26:35 GMT -5
i agree with that article, Tenn. the big moment is probably 2022. if the Democrats lose big, watch out. Yes, the riots in the democratic strongholds will be large again. Of course it is their God given right (although they do not believe in God) to destroy the cities without repercussions again. Are you predicting more police murders?
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Post by pulmonarymd on Sept 29, 2021 9:38:32 GMT -5
But ransacking the capitol is OK according to republicans. Spare me your faux concern
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Post by andi9899 on Sept 29, 2021 10:30:51 GMT -5
i agree with that article, Tenn. the big moment is probably 2022. if the Democrats lose big, watch out. Yes, the riots in the democratic strongholds will be large again. Of course it is their God given right (although they do not believe in God) to destroy the cities without repercussions again. I vote Democrat and I believe in God. My grandparents vote Democrat and they also believe in God. They're about as religious as you can get. Just because someone votes one way has nothing to do with their religion.
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Post by dondub on Sept 29, 2021 11:10:16 GMT -5
Yes, the riots in the democratic strongholds will be large again. Of course it is their God given right (although they do not believe in God) to destroy the cities without repercussions again. I vote Democrat and I believe in God. My grandparents vote Democrat and they also believe in God. They're about as religious as you can get. Just because someone votes one way has nothing to do with their religion. Perhaps VB should be more concerned about all the phony Christians on his team. Didn’t he vote for Trump?
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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 29, 2021 14:12:56 GMT -5
i agree with that article, Tenn. the big moment is probably 2022. if the Democrats lose big, watch out. Yes, the riots in the democratic strongholds will be large again. Of course it is their God given right (although they do not believe in God) to destroy the cities without repercussions again. I am having a mental lapse.
what cities were destroyed? and since when does anyone advocate property destruction?
guessing another whoof response by you on this. have a nice life.
edit: oh, and if it is liberals you are complaining about above, 88% of us believe in God. but you will never tire of trotting out these false allegations, I am gathering?
www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/belief-in-god/among/political-ideology/liberal/
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Post by djAdvocate on Sept 29, 2021 14:18:00 GMT -5
I vote Democrat and I believe in God. My grandparents vote Democrat and they also believe in God. They're about as religious as you can get. Just because someone votes one way has nothing to do with their religion. Perhaps VB should be more concerned about all the phony Christians on his team. Didn’t he vote for Trump? he is completely amoral, imo. if you have been waiting for the AntiChrist, you found him. and Republicans voted for him. and he won. and now, he is a curse upon us, along with the plague, to which he actively contributed.
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Post by hurley1980 on Sept 29, 2021 14:46:12 GMT -5
Trump is the antichrist, and covid is the first sign of a slow moving apocalypse. War, famine, and climate change will kill off what covid doesn't. Okay, I'm an atheist, so I don't actually believe in that, but its kind of scary how it could really work that way. God fearing folks should be scared, instead they are praising the devil!
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