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#NotMyFirstLady
It is well known that dictatorial regimes employ religious symbolism to appropriate God to their secular causes. The National Socialists in Germany in the ’30s (i.e., the Nazis) were an outstanding example of this, endorsing “positive Christianity” and asserting that “God is with us” on propaganda posters. The Trump regime has now taken the next step on their road to ultimate power by sending the First Lady of the United States, whom many until now regarded as an innocent, simpleton concubine of the great leader, to lead a mass rally of sheep in the Lord’s Prayer as a preliminary to a Trump rally.
So it begins.
Ms. Trump’s choice of prayer, also known to Christians as the “Our Father,” was clearly a deliberate attempt to invoke the idea of the Fatherland. The prayer is filled with autocratic, monarchial imagery of a subservient people, thanking the leader for a crust of bread and begging for pardon from the king. Numerous observant SJWs noted that Melania Trump, dressed in bright red reminiscent of the Nazi flag, appeared to read the prayer, and that her middle European accent was comical when it wasn’t blood chilling. Some even suggested that her hair was more blonde than usual.
Leni Riefenstahl could not have arranged a better motif and more convincing imagery for a dictatorship rally. But free Americans standing together for the rights of all races and creeds, for immigrants and for women and for the oppressed LGBTQ community are not duped by this vulgar circus. The case for impeachment is even stronger now with the wanton attempt by the First Lady to establish a state religion in violation of the first amendment.
Now is not the time to falter or sleep. Now is the time to maintain the #Resistance.
#NotMyFirstLady! Right on!
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I neither know nor remember what every member post on Ricochet. Being hearing impaired I do not listen to the podcast or radio type input. So what anyone post is what I read and will comment on. It might be helpful if at the end of your post you state it is satire. And to be honest, I am sick to death of all the negative snark and “satire” regarding our President and his First Lady.
Kay, it’s satire – like my recent song parody was. I think Melania Trump is a 100% class act, so the Left is trying to denegrate her as tabloid headline fodder in the grocery store checkout line. Rest assured, Michelle Obama is nowhere near Melania when it comes to poise, good taste, and . . . okay, this is superficial . . . good fashion sense.
It is an earworm, that’s for sure. Did you know the original of that song is over a hundred years old?
I think that is the part that takes me aback: that there are people who believe, and look for, and promote those kinds of connections, as truth.
I understand the satire, but angry mobs, not so much.
Damocles: your cut is in the mail!
I’m sorry, I can’t let this one just float over home plate
Which is why it is so easy to read it straight up. It is not so much different from anti-Trump posts we have seen on the Ricochet main feed.
And it was by a Ricochet podcaster, that’s two points in favor of it being real!
I do feel bad for always throwing Mr. Stopa shade as I enjoy the podcast and he’s good about minimal preening and hand-steepling for a Crimson dude. But still, it’s Harvard, and I took a solemn oath to always kick sand.
Henry the Eighth is prominent in my internal tape that plays in my head all day. I like to practice my cockney accent when singing it in my head or out loud when nobody’s around.
But what’s next on the album? “Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter?” If I sing Henry VIII through it should just come to me.
JLocked, my dad still has that album.
Because real Gs listen to The Kingston Trio!
I like Melania’s accent. And she seems like a good Mum.
I do have a question though: why didn’t her family come to the Inauguration? Where are they?
Is her family in the states?
I liked it. I do worry about Mike’s mental state given that he could produce such a perfect simulacrum of leftist hysteria, though. I’ll chip in a few bucks to the HLC Psychiatric Fund as my good deed for the day.
Great show that guy has!
You need to pay more attention.
Well, we learned long ago that conservatives do much better at predicting Leftist reactions than Leftists do at predicting conservatives’ reactions.
I thought it was pretty funny – good satire – even though I just posted comment this in another thread:
Yes. It really frightened me–but the relief when I realized it was satire was like waking from a nightmare! So THAT was a pleasure!
First paragraph is finest parody of Jay Nordlinger I’ve read to date.
I recall @roblong writing about the difficulty of satirizing the Clinton administration because every time he came up with a ridiculous idea for a column they would do something even more outlandish.
After a few leftist diatribes you start to wonder why you needed touch with the ground in the first place. We’re all crackers in this box.
What a country!
the fact that so many ricochetti were duped by this utterly transparent satire shows how deranged are both the Left and the unforgiving Never Trumpers
I think there’s some correlation between not being able to get a joke and misunderstanding certain kinds of communication.
In both cases, there’s a certain insistence on literal-mindedness.
Imagine explaining things to Margo Dumont (the lady in the Marx Brothers movies)… kinda like explaining things to the Nevers, right?
I don’t follow you. I thought it was “The Lord’s Prayer,” and she acted like she meant it. What’s to be deranged about?
I think the satire being referred to is the OP.