Chit-Chat: The Feels

[tearknee]

The anti-immigration right is currently very busy trying to set up schemes to make the undesirables someone else's problem so as to deflect responsibility – this is happening in the US with El Salvador, in Italy with Albania, in the UK and Germany with Rwanda, and in Israel with an extremely hypothetical country to relocate the Gazans to. Yes, I know the Gazans aren't immigrants. No, there's no practical difference. The German--Turkish guest worker treaty predates the Six-Day War.

The problem for the anti-immigration right is those schemes don't scale. They're nothing but modern-day Madagaskarpläne. They're celebrating single flights to El Salvador or Rwanda or whatever as successes when you'd need tens of thousands of airplanes to even make a dent into demographics. The tentative first-draft Solution to the Jewish Question involved remigration; the Final one didn't.

[Yeah No]

On 4/25/2025 at 1:51 PM, PRgal said:

He's EXACTLY what certain demographics think is "high class."  It's gold EVERYTHING.  He's a character.  It's also very stereotypical "new money."  But to the extreme. 

Trump's taste is an example of what a lower class person thinks looks high class.

On 4/25/2025 at 1:58 PM, fastiller said:

@EtheltoTillie - I understand.  Thanks for the comment.  It was actually the best thing he could've done for me.  Made some of my dearest friends in Ireland and got to know my family there much better than my siblings (who were all 'cooked' by then and out of HS (Jamaica HS, incidentally)) did or do.  Also gave me the opportunity to travel in the UK and Europe as a teenager; wouldn't have had that had I stayed in Queens.

Wow, how fortunate for you. My husband would be jealous. He grew up in Washington Hts. in Manhattan. His father was born in Ireland and he has many cousins there. A few came to visit the US when he was still living at home but he never met most of them until 20 years ago when we visited Ireland.

[Lantern7]

45 minutes ago, Yeah No said:

Trump's taste is an example of what a lower class person thinks looks high class.

I go with John Mulaney’s description: that Trump is what a hobo imagines a rich man to be like. Short clip, but I cued it up to what he was talking about.

 

Edited 12 hours ago by Lantern7

[Soapy Goddess]

13 hours ago, Affogato said:

He pardons people who support him. He punishes people who defy him. It can change on a dime. 

 

17 hours ago, bluegirl147 said:

Birds of a feather and all that.

Fiore might not be free and clear even after the pardon. She still has exposure.

 

[Yeah No]

7 hours ago, Lantern7 said:

8 hours ago, Yeah No said:

Trump's taste is an example of what a lower class person thinks looks high class.

I go with John Mulaney’s description: that Trump is what a hobo imagines a rich man to be like. Short clip, but I cued it up to what he was talking about.

That was good, thanks! That made me think that it's not only what a lower class person thinks looks high class, but a lower class person from borough NYC over 50 years ago. Parents of a couple of my friends growing up had that kind of taste. Trump is stuck in a time warp in terms of his attitudes and his taste. He has not caught up to the present in any way, shape or form. I dated a guy a little older than me when I was in HS that had Trump's attitudes. But that was 50 years ago. Trump still thinks those things are the case today when they weren't even the case 50 years ago. Like the myth of the "welfare queens". I knew about that one 50 years ago! Needless to say I broke up with that guy with good reason.

[Dimity]

Another day another story  about liberal campaign signs being defaced or stolen. Funny how we never see this happening to conservative signs. Quite the coincidence...

Edited 4 hours ago by Dimity

[Affogato]

14 hours ago, Lantern7 said:

Someone call me when the people behind all those orders are dragged outside by their hair.

Yeah, I know, way too much to ask for. I’d be good with tar and feathers. Hell, the tar wouldn’t have to be boiling. Sticky would do just fine.

Oh, and Trumpty Dumpty made an ass of himself at Pope Francis’ funeral. Not that we would expect something different, of course.

Trump is a summer. Can’t wear something unflattering. 

[Cementhead]

My husband got a kick out of the fact that Biden never took down those gaudy gold curtains that Trump hung during his first round in the oval office.  He thinks he left them up so as to piss Trump off every time he had to see Joe sitting in front of them at the desk.  I have no idea if his theory holds any water but he got a laugh out of it for some reason. 

[annzeepark914]

48 minutes ago, Cementhead said:

My husband got a kick out of the fact that Biden never took down those gaudy gold curtains that Trump hung during his first round in the oval office.  He thinks he left them up so as to piss Trump off every time he had to see Joe sitting in front of them at the desk.  I have no idea if his theory holds any water but he got a laugh out of it for some reason. 

Trump should've been impressed that Biden was saving $$ by keeping those drapes 😇

[Dimity]

I saw a lot of criticism for Trump and his blue suit at the funeral but that pales in comparison to a grown ass adult man sitting in the front seat at a funeral ON HIS PHONE.  I'm sure his supporters will defend this to the death but I see it as Melania being the harried Mom in a social setting handing her fidgeting toddler a screen so she can actually pay attention to what is happening.

[Lantern7]

3 minutes ago, Dimity said:

I saw a lot of criticism for Trump and his blue suit at the funeral but that pales in comparison to a grown ass adult man sitting in the front seat at a funeral ON HIS PHONE.  I'm sure his supporters will defend this to the death but I see it as Melania being the harried Mom in a social setting handing her fidgeting toddler a screen so she can actually pay attention to what is happening.

He should start wearing a cap with "I'M SPECIAL" on the front. Maybe there would be a small propeller on the top.

Man, the Vatican is soft. How come a bunch of cardinals didn't escort him out of the service and teach him about manners?

[peacheslatour]

7 minutes ago, Lantern7 said:

He should start wearing a cap with "I'M SPECIAL" on the front. Maybe there would be a small propeller on the top.

Man, the Vatican is soft. How come a bunch of cardinals didn't escort him out of the service and teach him about manners?

Or a hand full of very strict nuns with their smacking rulers at the ready.

[Dimity]

I just saw a pro-Trump comment where someone defended his blue suit because "not everyone owns a black suit you know".  He can afford gold toilets but not a black suit?  Sometimes it's really better just to not say anything if your defense is that dumb!

 

[Lantern7]

32 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

Or a hand full of very strict nuns with their smacking rulers at the ready.

Or that one nun from The Blues Brothers that worked Jake and Elwood over.

11 minutes ago, Dimity said:

I just saw a pro-Trump comment where someone defended his blue suit because "not everyone owns a black suit you know".  He can afford gold toilets but not a black suit?  Sometimes it's really better just to not say anything if your defense is that dumb!

He didn't want to be mistaken for Johnny Cash.

[Absolom]

Etiquette says a black or navy blue suit is acceptable.  Black is, of course, the usual preferred choice.  I noticed Prince William appeared to be in a navy blue suit as is his usual preference for funerals.  Trump's was just that bit too bright and especially with a bright blue tie to be funereal.  I saw other bright blue ties, but they were with much darker suits.  It's the whole toddler attitude again.  

[Dimity]

[fairffaxx]

5 minutes ago, Absolom said:

Etiquette says a black or navy blue suit is acceptable.

I expect that etiquette may add a footnote to the effect of:  "Should the organizer of the funeral specifically request that black be worn, that request should be honored.  Especially if the funeral is organized by the Vatican for the Pope."

[Absolom]

You'd think the protocol offices for the heads of state would have given them the advice of what was appropriate.  Any deviations seem to then be at the discretion of the attendee so Donnie was as my mother would have said showing his hiney.  

He also has the lowest approval ratings at 100 days in the 80 or so years that such records have been kept.  I think he may hold the two lowest records. I'm still appalled that we have gotten stuck twice with someone only a third of the country thinks does a decent job.  

[Dimity]

Just now, Absolom said:

I'm still appalled that we have gotten stuck twice with someone only a third of the country thinks does a decent job.  

What's also appalling is a third of the country thinks he is doing a decent job!

[Absolom]

How can anyone think it's proper to remove a two year old citizen of our country?