why wouldn't she be allowed to sell her clothes?
I'm just waiting for her OnlyFans.
I was expecting a picture of her standing next to Trump smiling.
Melania? Classy??
'I really don't care do U?'
Democrats have 10 months to pull something out of the bag or be destroyed in the mid-terms.
like him or hate him, Trump is still a large political force. The democrats know this and currently cannot do much, the push-back from voters would be massive and could easily start social unrest.
Republican leadership want to distance themselves from him, but cannot. He has the majority of Republican voters support.
will he run again? I personally hope not! He will, however, have major influence on whomever does run.
I think they were being sarcastic.
The democrats know this and currently cannot do much, the push-back from voters would be massive and could easily start social unrest.
Please explain
Unless you are living under a rock, perception in the States by republicans is that Democrats are out to get Trump. Go figure….
die hard Trump supporters are…monied…vocal…loud…and armed.
living in the States currently, you get the feeling of a tinderbox with gun powder all around…. One spark etc…
Well this is interesting
I'd tend to think it's far more of the former than the latter. When has he ever taken actual legal advice and done the smart thing?
I'd say all the major media all told him they weren't coming and that he'd only have OANN, Newmax and that level attending.
The entire purpose of the event was to draw attention away from Biden and other things happening on the day - He has been told that it wasn't going to achieve that so he cancels , it's as simple as that.
It's not like he has anything actually important, new or relevant to say.
I think the item is a worn-once-specific for a diplomatic function and so was provided by the taxpayer. I might be wrong though, you find all sorts of idiots online...
Did the taxpayer pay for her clothes?
You are suggesting that justice should be intimidated by the extremist few.
**** that.
That's what I read, but it was speculation.
EDIT: after a bit of checking, it seems that outfits are often gifted to 1st Ladies by designers, but they remain the property of US govt. Don't know where the item of clothing (white hat she wore on trip to France) came from, whether it was gifted or hers to begin with.
FURTHER EDIT: The hat and gown were made for her.
Here's a screenshot of the announcement of the sale, sorry the image if f'ed up, the linking code on here dodgy af.
nothing there suggests that the taxpayer paid for the hat or that she received it as a gift. That she had the hat made by the designer who picked her clothes for her suggests to me that she paid for it herself.
Sort of hilarious and disgusting at the same time. Cryptocurrency ftw, too, doesn't trust USD (or maybe expecting a lot of overseas 'bidders.')
I wonder what the over/under is for the percentage of 'profits' turned into foster care / education grants.
Melania selling NFTs?
Man, I never would have thought she'd become my most hated Trump....
Yes, that's what I said in the previous post (after edit)
Didn't realize that the 'collection' was dubbed 'the Head of State' collection. Uhh.... FLOTUS is head of nothing.
And the gown she wore to the #2xIMPOTUS inauguration was at least stylish.
The problem is that his Klan can not, WILL not change their mind. He is bullet-proof to them. While they would happily burn someone alive for "taking the knee" (And don't their stars align beautifully that most of these people are black. Sheer perfection for them), if trump came out tomorrow and took a dump on the American flag, they would cheer him as they would then declare "This flag doesn't represent me anymore". MAYBE they'd have a problem if he simply Came Out :)
But his Klan will all turn out for the mid-terms and 2024. As is their right. But Democrat voters have a tendency to NOT turn up. They did last time and voted him out. But the biggest issue with Democrat voters is apathy. And, say what you want about trump, he is certainly more of a personality than Biden.
And trump's Klan will spot the usual Schrodinger's Covid arguments:
Sometimes within the same breath.
And the usual Schrodinger's Elite arguments:
So, as much as I hate to admit it, 2022 and 2024 WILL be a close one and it is too close to call. I mean, even the most ardent trump advocate here would have to agree that democracy has been permanently damaged in the US by trumps statements. They won't say it but deep down they will believe it (because it's an undeniable Truth). So, 2022 and 2024 will be close and EXTREMELY nasty and messy...... And THAT, above all else, will be trumps Legacy. That he sh4t all over American democracy. He will be remembered for no other policy decisions (The vast majority of which were rolled back or thrown out).
As for Civil War? Nah. Not going to happen. briany said it best:
I think when you get down to brass tacks, the numbers willing to take up arms would be too few and too disorganised in their aims. It would be such an odd mix of people. You'd have your militia types, but you'd also have lads in cosplay knight armour, livestreaming their attempt to take over a neighbourhood in Portland, Oregon, plus middle-aged women attempting to run people down in their gas-guzzling 7 seaters while rattling off a stream of consciousness rant about vaccines.
There's no organisation there. There is only so much you can do with some pick-up trucks, 4 teeth, a confedarate flag, your cousin, and a nebulous hatred of homosexuals, "dem t owelheads", Bill Gates nanobots, "Elites", liberals, RINOs, everyone who is not them ('cuz they all hate 'Murica) and Democrats (Who, let's not forget, are Satanist pedophiles.)
They may have vast amounts of firearms but it would never happen. Oh they'd come out: Squeeze into their camouflage gear. Cover their exposed bellies with their assault riles. Parade up and down a few streets in Oklahoma and Florida. Call themselves Patriots. The National Guard will come out (eventually. Even in these places). Shots may even be fired. If a National Guardsmen is killed, fox "news" will offer thoughs and prayers to the family. If an insurrectionist is killed, fox "news" will wail and throw their hands up in the air about the heavy-handed approach taken on innocent people expressing their right to bear arms.
But no, there will be no real "uprising". Just a lot of people with large, over-compensating guns preening about in costumes.
Might be hard to identify who paid for specific items , but I'm almost 100% that there is a "clothing budget" for the 1st lady to provide for the fact that she'd need to be buying clothes for high profile events etc.
That budget is perfectly fine and makes total sense , but if Melania is now monetising those items by selling them (and NFT's of her wearing them!!) then while probably not actually illegal it's just another distasteful example of them grifting for money at any available opportunity.
I am confident that designers all jostle for opportunities to donate clothing. Remember the 'eat the rich' gown AOC wore (to much right-wing pearl clutching?) It was very expensive, and donated.
The grifting is the disgusting part, but Melania really was forced to relent from the grifting while FLOTUS, now that she isn't, sell everything. Still I'm hyper-amused by her insisting on cryptocurrency as payment. Can't trust those bidders...
i'm not sure there is a clothing budget. FLOTUS can have items donated to her but those items remain the property of the US government. its not like she is paying full price for her clothes anyway.
Michelle paid for her own clothes. I can't see how it would be different for Melania.
Getting into bitcoin to avoid asset seizure maybe?
And not being able to trace where it came from either.
Selling NFT's using only crypto for payment really is a potentially great way to clean money, or to hide illegal payoffs and bribes.
If someone was that way inclined of course.
I'd say it's more likely that she wants to move to Bitcoin as an excuse to unsubscribe from Donald's emails asking for donations.
Not suggesting anything, just letting you know what the feeling is…. No spin, no agenda, no reporting affiliations
Trump has way more personality than Biden, but let's not forget that the pro-Biden vote was really more anti-Trump, and that means that America looked at Trump's ample personality in 2020 and decided that it was something they could do without being at the head of things.
And the thing of it is that Trump doesn't really appear to have changed in his outlook much. We hear from him less, which is great, but any time we do, it's pretty much the same old thing. If anything, he's gone darker and more bitter.
Although approval rates of Biden have dropped, imagine if Trump does run again. We know what kind of chaos and division he would actively foment as president, and we even have veiled threats by the likes of Bannon about 'doing it right' the second time, which sounds quite ominous.
This is a fairly key point.
Trump is utterly unchanged since he left office , indeed he hasn't really changed at all in the last 5/6 years.
He's more bitter and vindictive now - in truth he always has been , but his targets are now all largely public figures whereas in the past a lot of them were just other business people/partners so his petty vindictiveness is just more readily seen now.
Trump will never change and he will find it almost impossible to get anyone that voted for Biden last time to swap sides in 2024 should he run.
At best he might push some moderate GOP leaning voters to sit 2024 out , he's not going to get them to vote for him.
That doesn't mean that he couldn't win . The GOP are working on "fixing" all of the things that they feel contributed to Trumps loss .
I'm not talking about better policies or improved communications like a normal political party after an election loss , no I'm talking about them "fixing" the elections.
They are actively working on making it harder for certain types of people to vote - Specifically urban voters and lower income voters by limiting mail-in voting ,reducing access to polling places, purging voter rolls etc.
Oddly enough the voters most likely to be impacted by these changes typically don't lean GOP.
They are also "fixing" the state voting certification process so that they are shifting the power away from voting commissions or SoS level and putting the decision in the hands of the State Congress where they currently hold power in most of the key Purple states.
The GOP don't see Trumps actions and policies as the mistakes that lost them the Election , they see their inability to simply change the results to suit them as the mistake - A "mistake" they are actively working on ensuring doesn't happen again.
