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Pavlov’s Democrats
People who didn’t know what the CFPB was last Thursday are up in arms that Donald Trump appointed one of his people to head the agency (which is what presidents do with executive branch agencies). Likewise, now that Trump has called out Sen. Elizabeth Warren for claiming Native American ancestry, a lot of Democrats have decided that Cultural Appropriation is ok under certain circumstances (i.e., when a Democrat does it to advance her career) and it’s an outrageous racist slur to point out. The left also decided that violent street gangs are cool because Trump said they were not cool. Also, “Don’t be friends with anyone who doesn’t hate Trump” is an actual thing.
But all of those people are pikers compared to the Democrat leftists who are having a hissy fit because … I am not making this up … Melania Trump decorated the White House for Christmas.
Forget the Upside Down. The real strangest thing of 2017 is that the White House has chosen to get into the Christmas spirit by making the Presidential residence look like a dark alternate dimension where everything is dying and all hope is lost. I mean, it’s definitely appropriate, but it’s still a bizarre decision.
This isn’t just one left-wing media outlet’s take, either. Vox went there. The Daily Beast went there. Quite a few places went there, actually.
Such are the wages of Trump derangement; anything that Trump or anyone in his family does sends the left into fits of spittle-flecked derangement.
I realized yesterday that Trump doesn’t have a pet, and I think that’s for the best. I’d hate for millions of kittens and puppies to get slaughtered just because Trump critics turned on them.
To be fair, Melania’s White House Christmas décor isn’t to my taste, but then neither was Michelle Obama’s “Suburban Mall on the Verge of Bankruptcy” Christmas look from last year.
“Suburban mall on the verge of bankruptcy”. Priceless!
When I was living in NoVA, MS13 was butchering people in the street with Machetes.
My take on the bare branches: The season of Advent in the Christian tradition is one of quiet contemplation, not revelry and glitz, in waiting for the Nativity. I think the branches exemplify that well.
Those Santa haters blocked the chimney!
Just out of curiosity, where exactly did Bill Kristol go into a fit of derangement over the Christmas decorations? Or is that accusation just a symptom of KDS?
Probably just a round up of the usual suspects.
The critics are nuts. I have seen several pictures of this allée of snow-drenched Christmas trees, and I just love them. Congratulations to the Trump decorators. It’s beautiful:
VTK,
No, we mustn’t allow anything Trump does to be seen as positive. Surely if we pollute the media with poisonous rhetoric we can destroy this Trump thing. We are the masters of the universe we are the media.
Unfortunately for the media, superior taste and honest character are hard to mask. Melania wins the day.
https://youtu.be/w5qcfsZUSxg
Regards,
Jim
Um, the picture included in the post above is from the Obama White House. Scroll to the bottom of the linked article:
Melanie’s taste is exquisite. The most beautiful White House Christmas we’ve ever seen, even without the Mao and Obama on Mount Rushmore ornaments. Ahem.
Yeah the decoration stuff is nuts. The problem is that all the critics are city folk.
I don’t have a problem with Mrs. Obama’s decorations either.
WestC,
I don’t think the children were actors or actresses (remember when Hillary pulled that stunt). They responded to Melania naturally. An angel. I think they’d have run from Michelle. The Wicked Witch of the White House.
Regards,
Jim
You beat me to it. Klavan brought this up yesterday as well. It just won’t be the same without Mao and Mt. Rushmore Obama.
God bless Melania Trump.
Ok, trigger warning please! That “Suburban Mall on the Verge of Bankruptcy” link takes you to a TeenVogue page that, after mooning on about the Obama’s last Christmas, has a video of a round table with Hillary Clinton sharing her wisdom with a bunch of 21 under 21 Teen Voguers. Seriously, you need to warn people before subjecting them to that.
I second this.
Wow, could we invent a more perfect goodwill ambassador?
Cato,
Or at least provide enough Pepto-Bismol to get through it.
Regards,
Jim
Write-up that accompanied the video you posted. The video felt like winter wonderland to me…ballerinas add to that feel.
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/traditional-decor-for-white-house-this-holiday-season/4142068.html
More still shots of the decor.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/11/28/white-house-christmas-decorations-2017/