…When you say sh*t like this:
“As he puts on plastic gloves to serve food at NRG Stadium…President Trump turns to press and says: “My hands are too big!”
Dude. Special pleading like this only makes it harder to ignore the obvious inference. Seriously, Donald. Can we talk? I don’t care about your sense of adequacy, or its absence. Just let it lie, you know. This whole subject.
In other quotes from the nation’s Disaster Tourist in Chief, we find this gem:
Leaving the shelter, Trump told the survivors and gathered reporters to “have a good time.”
Ummm.
I’m sure everyone there felt the love.
Lastly, here’s the sober sitrep from a guy who, we were told by The New York Times, is all over the long-term impact of water on structures:
When asked about the devastating flooding still covering much of the region, he replied: “The flooding? Oh, yeah, yeah, there’s a lot of water, but it’s leaving pretty quickly. But there’s a lot of water, a lot of water, but it’s moving out.”
I’m not even going to get into Melania’s Stiletto-gate, Take Two (AKA Spikes of Compassion). Who cares? She has her job to do, which seems mostly to involve distracting the Ferret-Heedit Cheeto-Faced Shit-gibbon as he obsesses on hand size.
I’m thinking that all those stories about how Harvey would give Trump the platform he needed to become, at last, a president, are aging well. Don’t you?
Open thread.
Image: Rembrandt van Rijn, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, 1632.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
He’ll let the grudges go when he dies and not a second sooner.
Is?
Hunter Gathers
The Pivot is the new Friedman Unit. If we just give him more time………
JMG
Trump’s visit is being hailed on cable news as a display of grandfatherly love that will endear him to the nation. They don’t care about words, they just want reassuring pictures. A month from now, when Houston’s population is still struggling with disaster, cable news will have forgotten it happened. Trump is the perfect President for that medium, since his attention span is even shorter. BTW, why is it considered presidential for the Chief Executive to arrive on the scene at a disaster for a photo-op and generally get in the way of those actually working to help. That’s not Trump’s fault, if any President doesn’t do it, they get ripped. There were big hurricanes when I was a kid, but I don’t remember Ike of JFK showing up at any shelters nor any public outcry when they didn’t.
Ken
The writers were half-right – Harvey could have been such a platform. What they missed (and at this point they have no one to blame but themselves) was that given a platform, Trump’s instinct is to jump up and down on it screaming “Look at me! Look at me!”
JPL
ABC’s feed has this
I assume that’s in response to CNN’s reporters actually saving people.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Like with Fredo’s collusion email, this is one of those things you can’t quite believe is so on the nose. And there’s video.
Were you watching MSNBC? I couldn’t believe the way they were gushing because trump managed not to step on his dick for once. Alex Witt gave Kellyanne about ten minutes of video to serve trump with his Sunday morning farina.
trollhattan
@Hunter Gathers:
Heh. “Apply ointment to affected area daily for two pivots, or until supply is used up.”
Recalling Sarah Palin’s 360-degree pivots with a twinge of nostalgia.
Tom Levenson
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: “those stories…are”
efgoldman
OK, he’s a Narcissist sociopath. What else is new.
The scary thing, for him and those around him, is that he’s clearly incapable of learning enough to fake sincerity and compassion.
What a shitty excuse for a human being. He, and all ~62 million or however many voted for him. They’re just as bad.
Jeffro
@JMG: fortunately most of the nation is off having its Labor Day weekend festivities, and is not watching whatever media knob-slobbering might be going on.
Sad that anyone anywhere would give this jackass a do-over
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Hunter Gathers:
Why are pundits and journos so desperate for The Pivot anyway? Do they love comeback stories that much? Or deep down do they realize the GOP will never remove him from power and that Trump is the Next Generation of GOP leaders and this terrifies them?
@Tom Levenson:
You’re right. For some reason I thought you were talking about somehow Trump aging well because he doesn’t really do the job, therefore not much stress.
trollhattan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Now he’s “grandfatherly”? Lock up the grandkids. Donny’s not going to like being called a grandfather, even if he in fact is a grandfather.
trollhattan
@efgoldman:
Here’s the entire thought process prior to the Texas visits: “Lots of cameras, right? Okay, I’m going.”
eclare
@efgoldman: I refuse to call the POS a human being, he is a carbon based life form. That is all. Shit would be more useful, it can be used as a fertilizer.
efgoldman
Clearly the Wolverines aren’t ready for prime time
JPL
When you volunteer at food banks and such, you wear gloves. They don’t slide on easily, and his performance with the gloves, indicates that he has never used a pair before.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
TRMS did a segment on this. IIRC it was LBJ who started the tradition, making what was more or less a surprise appearance at a shelter after a hurricane. Some people who couldn’t see what the cause of all the commotion was started yelling, “What’s going on?” and LBJ shouted back: “This is your president and I’m here to help you”.
It’s the pantomime of loading trucks and passing out supplies that bothers me, even if it was Obama doing it. But I’m a phlegmatic sort and maybe the people there do get some kind of boost from it.
Did you catch the lady who said her husband had met president trump and his wife “Melivanka”, and now he could die happy because the only thing better would be meeting Jesus.
eclare
@efgoldman: Neither offense is. SEC alum, go Gators!
trollhattan
O/T Nice work, Alabama cops.
Tinare
I’m sorry, but I just don’t get the need to make wardrobe changes. Is she in the middle of a concert or an awards show? How many regular people change clothes on a plane with one destination? It just weird.
satby
And other than Melania making it obvious that it’s all photo op stagecraft, no one would give a shit what she wears on her feet.
Redshift
@JMG: I think what happened is this: Shrub got rightly trashed for the horrible job his utterly unqualified appointees did for Katrina, and not showing much interest (including the fiddling-while-Rome-burned McCain birthday celebration.)
So when Obama was in charge, the right wing had to trash him for everything Bush had gotten trashed for (vacations, golf, etc.) even if it was a complete lie. Obama made FEMA competent, so they flushed that part of Bush criticism and pretended there was only made-up partisan crap about empathy, and attacked him for staying away from disaster zones until it was appropriate.
So now that it’s a Republican, he has to go blunder in even while it’s a bad idea, to continue to support the false narrative, and feed the new false narrative that he’s somehow showing he cares. (And hide the reality that they’re all against government action that could help, except for mouthing platitudes in the immediate aftermath.)
eclare
@trollhattan: Jeezus. Hope you’re staying cool out there, still only 84 in Memphis, crazy.
trollhattan
Speaking of Harvey, preliminary flood maps.
There’s no “maybe” about redrawing the flood zones. Whole lot of people outside the current 100-year zone will find themselves inside and with mandatory flood insurance requirements on their mortgages (or does Texas have deeds of trust?).
eclare
@Tinare: I have the same question, why not just wear the same clothes getting onto the plane as you do getting off of the plane?
trollhattan
@eclare:
Instead of being outside I’m inside being useful on the internet. :-)
Lawn can die in lieu of being mowed but I do need to go shopping. Maybe I’ll wait until it gets hotter!
germy
We were switching channels and saw our local TV news station (sinclair-owned). They’ve started a charity drive for the victims of Harvey. They’ve got a logo and everything. You know where they’re donating the money?
Salvation Army.
Tom Levenson
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: To be fair, I’m missing a comma there, after “a president” — which would make it read more clearly. Adding now.
germy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Didn’t Paul Ryan elevate that to high art when he showed up at a food bank and pretended to wash clean pots and pans?
Redshift
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
It’s of a piece with their repeated anointing of a new “reasonable conservative” (McCain, Ryan, Kasich…) They’ve painted themselves into a corner by deciding that “objective” means “treating both sides equally,” and having a president who’s objectively horrible makes that untenable.
eclare
@trollhattan: Ha! I’m multi-tasking by being useful on the internet and watching the Florida/Michigan game. Lawn won’t die, some of the best advice I’ve gotten is that as long as the sod has had a few years to take hold, it is hard to kill a lawn. Haven’t watered mine in years. Pretty loose on mowing intervals.
Redshift
@Tinare: It is weird, but it seems to be about being a former model. After the first Harvey incident, someone pointed back to coverage during the campaign about her changing outfits several times a day, unrelated to travel.
Redshift
@eclare: Yeah, a few years ago there was a sight in Northern VA, and some local officials were worried there would have to be water restrictions, but instead, most people (including us) just stopped watering, and it all came back okay.
eclare
@Redshift: So life is just a photo-op? Gawd, that is awful.
Mnemosyne
@JPL:
I believe Trump’s little show with the gloves about as much as I believed OJ’s.
@germy:
Our local independent TV station seems to be running a fundraiser for animal shelters in Houston. Yet another reason I like living in a sensible region of the country.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Redshift:
Yeah. “Objective” is not the same as “balanced”. The GOP clearly isn’t reasonable anymore and hasn’t been for several decades. Trump and the current GOP has made that worse.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@eclare: Remember, we’re talking California here. 6 to 8 months of not watering the lawn can’t be good.
Redshift
@eclare: Or, to give it the most charitable interpretation, she spent years showing off fashions at every turn, until it became a habit.
(Also, now that I think of it, she also probably knows that if there was ever a news report that she didn’t look great, Trump might divorce her.)
Mnemosyne
@Redshift:
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if people looked back and saw that Michelle Obama would similarly change outfits. But Mrs. Obama was actually good at the PR job of being the First Lady and knew how to dress appropriately for any occasion, so nobody noticed or cared.
Screaming Harry Pecadillo
WaPo showed the way to this vid on YouTube of an albino screaming hairy armadillo. Looks muchly like POTUS. Even mistakes his tail for an erection.
Lizzy L
I’m indoors, hydrating. It’s 107 degrees out there, and the air is foul. California burning.
I’d like to spend a couple of hours/days/months in the universe next door in which global warming is not a thing and neither is Donald Trump. Grumble.
eclare
@?BillinGlendaleCA: True, I have not encountered that level of drought. I am commenting on people around me watering two times a week, every week, regardless of rainfall.
James Powell
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
It’s because the pundits and journos of the Beltway Courtiers have a lot in common with Trump and the Republicans. More specifically, they hate the same people: bloggers, academics who cling to reality & science, people who have needs and expect the government to help them, people with no money or power. In other words, like Trump and the Republicans, they hate us.
They loved this last election because they hate Hillary Clinton. They believe that when she lost they were proved fucking right. Now they want Trump to be successful – or at least to be seen as successful – because they know it will confound and aggravate the people they despise and disdain: us.
JPL
@Mnemosyne: He’s a petty man with little fingers.
trollhattan
@eclare:
We’re having landscape plans drawn up to go lawnless and the contractor lady chided me about bringing mine back to life in order to then really kill it. Hard to do when we’re only allowed two days/week, at least this summer! (Doesn’t rain here from May to October, sometimes November.) But the bermuda grass will invade everything if it ain’t killed right dead (even then, don’t turn your back).
Timurid
What alarms me more than Trump’s behavior is that people are acting as if the performance of ceremonial duties by a President who stood up for fucking Nazis is meaningful in any way. Talking about Trump’s Harvey trip is like talking about Ed Gein’s stamp collection.
It’s stunning how total the administration’s victory on Charlottesville has been. The press is back on the pivot hunt and you have everybody from Democratic heavyweights like Nancy Pelosi to die-hard NeverTrumpers like David Frum whining about “b-b-but Antifa!”
Baud
@Timurid:
That’s nuts.
JPL
It’s 78 and the low is going to be 59 tonight. I live outside of Atlanta and this is not normal. I’m enjoying the dry coolness of the breeze. Sorry to sound boastful, but it’s unusual for us.
Baud
@James Powell: I tend to agree.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
This guy could screw up saying good morning. What he should have said, “well good thing they have small gloves, right?” and turned it into a joke and not tell the whole damn world that upsets him.
Mike in NC
Who’ll be the first “journalist” to state that “Hurricane Harvey was good news for Donald Trump”? Their attention span and memories are about as ridiculous as his.
eclare
@trollhattan: Good luck! My next door neighbor went lawnless before I bought my house. It’s beautiful with pebbles, benches, small shrubs. Don’t see much of that here.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@eclare:
Little to no rain from April through October is kind of normal here. Drought is when it doesn’t come until January.
efgoldman
@Baud:
That’s nuts that it’s stunning (the comment is correct) or the comment itself is nuts?
The Baudies want to know.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Because they live in the same country we do and they cringe like we do over Trump’s childish behavior and would rather he act like an adult. For better or worse (and it could get much “missiles stikes because Trump’s steak was undercooked” worse)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan:
That’s right, you’re in the wet part of the state.
JPL
Someone needs to ask Trump what he thinks about the weather patterns.
50 inches of rain is not normal
106 in San Francisco is a record, and is not normal
78 and dry in Roswell.
PsiFighter37
What a fucking tool. The media needs to fucking realize that you don’t measure this moron by whether or not he clears the bar he has buried under the ground. You measure him by the fucking standards that a president is supposed to have them set to.
When the government shuts down and a pittance of the actual aid that Houston and the area needs is stalled in the House because of jerkoffs from the House Freedumb Caucus, I hope people start realizing that the GOP’s motto isn’t “Pull yourself up by the bootstraps”; it’s “IGMFY”.
eclare
@JPL: 84 in Memphis, saw the forecast low one day next week is in the 50’s, it’s crazy.
Baud
@efgoldman: The comment is nuts.
efgoldman
@JPL:
Why? We can make up our own incoherent answers.
JPL
@eclare: Wildfires in Los Angeles also.
Mnemosyne
@Timurid:
The administration didn’t win the fight over Charlottesville. Boston did. The Nazis turned tail and ran as soon as they saw how overwhelming their opposition actually is, and all they have left is sitting on the sidelines sputtering, But but but antifa!
We won. Stop giving our victory away, dummy.
Lizzy L
@JPL: There are always fires in California summer to fall. Global warming may increase their size or frequency, but we’ve always had them.
Frankensteinbeck
There’s a tweet going around with a fake news story about a mosque that refused to help non-Muslims during the flood. Two news stories, actually, since they claim victims stormed the mosque to get shelter anyway. But that’s just a background detail. The tweet is labeled #DrainTheSwamp.
I really should have put together sooner that ‘drain the swamp’ means ‘ethnically cleanse America.’
scav
@trollhattan: Well, all I can hope (in theory, HA) is that Alabama will be equally scrupulous about calling a halt to all trials where a judge has ever spoken favorably of police, in order to preserve that O So precious appearance of impartiality / lack of impropriety.
Immanentize
I wonder if David Frum hated Inglorious Bastards? I mean, the Golem is not just a fairy tale….
Nora
@scav: I doubt you’d be able to find ANY judges in that situation.
Immanentize
@scav: This is actually a brilliant response. I am contacting my peeps at SPLC
Millard Filmore
@PsiFighter37:
You have bootstraps? If that’s the case the police have not been doing their jobs handing out tickets with big fines so we can suck those excess dollars out of your pockets.
trollhattan
@eclare:
Thanks, hardest part so far has been finding a contractor who will show up a second time. I should shower more.
A decade or so ago the city went after a couple who converted part of their front lawn into a vegetable garden but since the drought ditching the lawn has been encouraged. We’re actually oddballs at this point–across the street in one direction two houses have converted to foothill oak woodland and in the other direction they have a coastal Mexico garden. It’s fun watching what folks come up with.
SoupCatcher
Wheeeee. 111 in south San Jose and the power is out. PG&E trucks were swarming last night.
The haze is a bit better today, but we’re getting a decent amount of smoke from the Yosemite area fires across the state. And yet still much clearer than the smoggy seventies era LA skies of my childhood.
Cheryl Rofer
@satby: This is precisely what is wrong with Melania’s stilettos:
This article expands on that, and I’ll expand further.
The messages that this administration sends about women is that they are ornaments to men of power. Photos of the cabinet are of old white men with a few token women and people of color dropped in. The Trump women have made themselves into a particular kind of stereotypical object: arm candy. All the talk in the world about Ivanka’s liberalism and good intentions don’t change that. We can recall Trump’s campaign comment that he’d like to have her for his own, um, arm candy.
I will restrain myself on the subject of women being forced to wear those abominations. It’s pretty close to foot-binding.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
Yeah, pretty sure she would never have worn 5″ stilettos to a disaster zone.
The difference between the two FLOTI is that Michelle wore her clothes. With Melania, the clothes wear her.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
reassuring to know that our president has a keen idea of what the Coast Guard does, and the media.
also, from an ally of convenience
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
Graydon Carter got it exactly right all those years ago: Trump is a short-fingered vulgarian.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@efgoldman: Actually, Michigan looks like they’d be a really good team with a quarterback who threw his TD passes to the right guys.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
It has been absolutely glorious today!
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@efgoldman:
The comment itself is nuts imo. The admin didn’t win jackshit on Cville. Trump more forcefully and obviously outed himself as a white supremacist. A WHITE woman died because of Nazi terrorist. I mean come on.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
I want to agree with this interpretation.
bystander
@Mnemosyne:
MO used fashion to express who she is. Melania uses fashion to cover herself up, purely for facade.
JPL
@Cheryl Rofer: It would not surprise me, if the pre-nup has a clause that he can approve what she wears.
bystander
@SiubhanDuinne:
You beat me to it, and more precisely.
mike in dc
Hope Mueller has a set of extra-small handcuffs.
sukabi
So have they identified the advance person who had children’s sized gloves ready for Drumpf?
eclare
Holy FL catch!
Ruckus
@germy:
Not a fan of the Salvation Army, but they could pick far worse charities to support. At least they know about feeding people and supplying shelter. Or they did once upon a time anyway.
Captain Oblivious
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: @satby:
I’m going to offer up a half-assed, unsympathetic partial possible defense of Melania: many women who mostly wear heels, which is almost always the case with fashion models, find wearing flat shoes to be painful and difficult. I worked with a woman (not a model) who simply could not wear flat-soled shoes. So without knowing the facts, people should really should just STFU about her damn shoes.
eclare
@Ruckus: Yeah, especially after all we’ve seen about the Red Cross. My gym is affiliated with the Salvation Army, incredibly diverse, young, old, white, minority, have seen women in hijabs there. Friday night soccer night is huge, very big ethnic presence.
Frankensteinbeck
@Captain Oblivious:
An ex-girlfriend was like that. She blamed ballet classes for giving her a really high arch. Now she’s more comfortable in heels than flats.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: That said, Speight is terrible. Not in a “not ready for prime time” kind of way, just really bad.
NoraLenderbee
Thank you. It’s no different from criticizing Michelle O. for her sleeveless dresses or Hillary for her pantsuits.
Melania married the asswipe, which tells much more about her than her choice of shoes.
barb 2
@JMG: Ike nor JFK showed up BUT — the military did show up. My dad was US Navy and it was all hands out to rescue people stranded by deep water. SF Bay area — during Ike’s time. He helped out during several natural disasters throughout his military career.
I was shocked that GW Bush didn’t send out the military and it seems like Trump doesn’t know about that option either.
Either the military has changed into a don’t give a shit organization or the Prez could care less. During GW’s reign, while people were drowning in New Orleans — the Air Force — not too far away was playing Volley Ball. Of course, that was the AF — we Navy brats were raised with certain biases (grin).
Ruckus
@eclare:
What I don’t/didn’t like about them was when I was a mental health counselor we took a trip down to LA’s skid row and one of the places we went was the SA. They would feed and find beds for the people that came in. But they made them pray to get help. I thought that was tasteless, tacky and just plain wrong. Trying to convert people to eat and sleep? I did notice however that a fair number of the local street inhabitants would not bother with them. Would walk right on by the open door.
smintheus
If his hands were too big, it just means the workers there gave Trump extra-small gloves.
SiubhanDuinne
@smintheus:
Well, but that’s quite understandable. Who among us would not?
Major Major Major Major
Funny picture/writeup of a cat escaping the flooding.
Shana
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: The man has no sense of humor, and certainly not about himself.
I read the quote about the gloves to Hubby, who said Graydon Carter is living rent-free in Trump’s head along with Obama.
Cheryl Rofer
@JPL: I would not be surprised either.
SiubhanDuinne
@mike in dc:
Hahahahahahahaha!!
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: I hope he is safe now, poor sodden orange thing. I would be pissed too.
eclare
@Ruckus: That is wrong, severely wrong.
Cheryl Rofer
@Captain Oblivious: It is true that after wearing high heels most of the time, one can no longer wear flats. The abnormal posture shrinks some ligaments and stretches others. So after the pain of doing that, yes, high heels are more tolerable. Given the way they mash toes together, it’s hard to say comfortable. A painful transition period, like the one involved in wearing high heels, will allow wearing normal shoes.
Shana
@JPL: Or how much she weighs. I remember a story from a few months ago where they were both being interviewed shortly after Barron’s birth and the interviewer had remarked that Melania looked great so soon after having had a child. Trump looked over at her and said she still has some weight to lose. Dick.
Ruckus
@barb 2:
It may also have been that the military has changed a lot since Ike’s time. The military used to do everything from feed the troops to run the base dry cleaners. They don’t do that as much as they used to, many troops/sailors are what used to be called combat or combat ready troops and the background work is done by contractors. There may just be fewer grunts to do that work. And helping others is about #94,752 on a list of things that might concern them, unless someone is paying them to do be concerned.
smintheus
@SiubhanDuinne:
Wouldn’t be surprised if Hope Hicks has a set of extra-small handcuffs.
eclare
@smintheus: @smintheus: Mee-ouch!
Ruckus
@eclare:
I have no idea if they still do this or what they actually attempt/do accomplish these days. All I see now is the donation centers and stores.
eclare
@Ruckus: I don’t know either, but I am an atheist, and so far the gym hasn’t been overtly religious. Then again, I’m in the south, so overtly religious is probably different for me than for others.
Steeplejack
@Tom Levenson:
Unnecessary and grammatically incorrect.
The comma makes no sense there.
Ruckus
@Shana:
And we already have had an asshole republican president named Dick, who was a dick. Is this full circle? It does seem to be as good as republicans get. Didn’t the dick beat off 16 others to win?
patrick II
An interesting mix of powerful fascist and an insecure eighth grader.
Tuna
[email protected]Jeffro: Most of the country got to have a day without Trump. They watched all that college football and ate the BBQ. He does not get a do over as there is no reason he did not get it right the first time. Only the Trump faithful are interested in his do over.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
I think it’s going to be a long season for Ms. Cracker.
Ruckus
@eclare:
I was forced to go to a catholic HS for one semester and I was not raised catholic and was already an atheist then so I’ve seen religion up rather a lot closer than I liked. But the SA was not what I’d call overly religious, just the regular amount. Unless you asked for help.
Hungry Joe
@trollhattan: We xeriscaped our front yard 15 years ago, our back yard about 10. Water use for the land is now pretty much restricted to the fruit trees, which at least give fruit in return.
Even xeriscaped yards need a little maintenance, but I can let them go for two or three months if I’m feeling lazy. I do water a couple of times every summer. Last week, in preparation for the heat wave to come (it’s 98 in the back yard right now), I was out there soaking things down for the second time since 2016 when a guy drove by, stuck his head out the window, and yelled, “So much for water conservation!” You can’t win. At least, I can’t.
As for bermuda grass … after all these years, it still tries to come back. You can never declare it GONE.
MomSense
I can’t stand trump. He’s a small minded, small handed, selfish asshole who doesn’t care one bit about anyone but himself.
Ruckus
@patrick II:
I think you’ve given him way too much credit. He’s way less mature and far more insecure than most 8th graders.
efgoldman
@MomSense:
@Ruckus:
True and true
Grung_e_Gene
Short fingers got no reason
Short fingers got no reason
eclare
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Yep. Gators offense did not look good.
chopper
@JPL:
Jesus, it’s like the way homer talks about flanders.
Juju
@eclare: Maybe FLOTUS changes clothes on a one way trip as a way of spending less time with her husband.
eclare
@Juju: I can buy that….but hey, she can leave him anytime…
efgoldman
@eclare:
I expect there’s a pre-nup in a file that leaves her with little or nothing.
eclare
@efgoldman: Principles, how do they work?
SiubhanDuinne
@smintheus:
Whoa!!!
SiubhanDuinne
@Frankensteinbeck:
OTOH, I haven’t taken ballet lessons since I was about eight years old. I’m 75 now, and still have (if I do say it myself) beautifully high arches. And I haven’t worn shoes with higher than a 1-1/2″ heel for at least the past two decades. Whenever I see photos of Melania, or any woman, wearing those high stilettos, my feet just curl up in vicarious pain. I don’t get it.
Kathleen
@James Powell: Nailed it as always.
Bex
@Captain Oblivious: It’s not about her shoes. It’s about the really bad PR and the fact that neither she nor anyone in the Trump camp has any idea of how to present themselves to their best advantage. They are either stupid or they don’t give a f*uck, and so they need to be endlessly mocked. Snakeskin 5-inchers are eminently mockable.
J R in WV
The high today, here in lowland WV, was 65F… We have had the heat on the last few nights, as it’s been into the upper 50s, and with a window open, it can get a little bit chilly. We’ll probably pull the feather comforter over us this evening once the Football is over.
Ran a bunch of errands today, got home and MRs J was in bed with a touch of virtigo. Seems better now. Dinner was a big yellow tomato, fresh bread and soft cheese in EVOO with spices, etc. Followed by cake from the same bakery that made the bread. sweet….
Now hoping to see FS beat Alabama…
stinger
@Frankensteinbeck: I have naturally high arches, but always hated wearing heels higher than 1.5 inches. (These days I wear Skechers.) But we’re not talking about me, we’re talking about a woman who rather ostentatiously switched from 5″ stilettos to tennis shoes. She seemed comfortable enough in the latter.
stinger
@efgoldman: She could easily find another rich old man.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@stinger: speaking of Melania… as Charlie Pierce said, Quinn Cummings has won the captioning contest for September already, maybe for 2017
ETA: and if anybody looks at that thread, who is that guy they’re suggesting is Melania’s bit on the side? at first I thought it was Gen Kelly
Steeplejack
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I don’t know about that picture, but the rumor is that the guy is an executive at the Tiffany’s in Trump Tower New York.
Amir Khalid
@Ruckus:
I wish I hadn’t seen what you did there. Eew.
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
You are welcome.
My mind works in mysterious ways. Even worse sometimes I just have to share.
Paul Begala's Pink Tie
@Ruckus: I see what you did there.
We live in Houston, and yesterday friends were volunteering at the convention center. Who should walk in but Trump and Melania. My friend (who is Jewish and not a R voter) texted a photo of her kid w FLOTUS, and when I expressed disgust, she said she was “keeping it light” and it was a “once in a lifetime” type of thing. Uh… Fuck No. Reconsidering this friendship, sadly.