2 minutes ago, Vee said:

Those are harmless compared to some of the suspicions I've seen floated about poor Barron (and which I cannot entirely dismiss).

 

I said on FB that he gives me "the creeps."  (Bad choice of words -- but what else is new?)  Friends thought I was picking on him (I wasn't) and schooled me (which was more than fair).  I removed the post and moved on.

 

Look, I'm not perfect.  I put my foot in my mouth, in life and online, all the time.  But I admit when I've gone too far and I apologize.

10 minutes ago, Khan said:

 

There wasn't.  There was the Gameboy joke, a joke about the expression on his face while watching the festivities ("Barron, a voting majority shares your horror"), another joke about how he looked on as his dad was "bopping his head to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir," and a final one about CNN cutting him out of the frame ("Don't box the Barron," or words to that effect).

 

Many felt outraged and accused Bowen of bullying Barron.  If you ask me, though, at least some of those individuals likely had no issue with calling Chelsea Clinton a "dog" or the Obama girls a "couple of monkeys."

 

I think the second one is a bit tacky, but harmless. The others don't mean anything. I guess because she's well known (and Republicans love Modern Family, apparently), she gets more heat. 

 

It still amazes me sometimes to think that 1993 was supposed to be a more civilized time yet people still mostly laughed or looked away when Limbaugh would call her a dog. 

 

Sadly I wasn't surprised by the comments about Sasha and Malia, or Michelle. The only thing I was surprised by was that the media and the GOP's efforts to make people hate Michelle Obama or make her a divisive, toxic figure never really took hold. She had to put herself in a box, but even in the last year, when she was finally more like the Michelle I remembered from 2008, people still liked her. Maybe sometimes not everything in America always has to go backward.

1 hour ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Well, at least, according to THR, CBS/Moonves didn't seem to get much benefit from their "wall to wall" coverage of the inauguration and deservedly so.

 

Good.

Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn't these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2017

 

And then....

 

Peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy. Even if I don't always agree, I recognize the rights of people to express their views.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2017

Edited January 22, 20178 yr by JaneAusten

34 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

 

Reading this article Leaders Abroad, Joyful or Wary, Face Uncertainty of Trump Era, I have to admit this this paragraph stood out to me and I could barely suppress a chuckle.

 

“My parents have only been in America for a few months and they don’t know much about it, but even they could not bear what Trump said,” Mr. Zhang wrote. “My father asked me, ‘This president, why does he describe the United States as a society that is worse off than China’s old feudal society?’”

 

The part about the anti-American protests in the Philippines, even as their president likes Trump (for the minute, anyway), is the reverse of how things were there a few months ago. I guess it will make their politics more interesting...

 

It seems like German leaders like to put focus on how they're stepping in to a void left behind by the US. The question is how many in Germany actually want that to be the case. 

First of all, Donald, shut up.  Second, that is not what I'd call unifying the nation, you schnook.  Third, it was more than just celebrities out there marching.  Fourth, you don't know how many out there had voted or hadn't voted, so again, shut up.  And fifth, get back to work!!

3 minutes ago, JaneAusten said:

It's like someone read the first tweet and went to him, saying "Mr. president....stop being a reactionary [!@#$%^&*] idiot and tweet THIS sir." he wakes up at 5am and starts his garbage, but the TVMSM then waste most of their day talking about what he tweeted.....like they wasted yesterday arguing about him being mad about the size of the crowd at his coronation. 

13 minutes ago, marceline said:

 

I think the truth about Barron has already been stated and, sadly, disregarded.

 

Are you talking about Rosie's claims that he might have autism?

This is going to be so much fun blasting him every day he's in office....he's only tweeting this crap to distract an easily distractible TVMSM from all the real garbage he's going through right now.

1 minute ago, Roman said:

It's like someone read the first tweet and went to him, saying "Mr. president....stop being a reactionary [!@#$%^&*] idiot and tweet THIS sir." he wakes up at 5am and starts his garbage, but the TVMSM then waste most of their day talking about what he tweeted.....like they wasted yesterday arguing about him being mad about the size of the crowd at his coronation. 

 

The media has got to learn what merits REAL coverage with this man and what doesn't.  Or else the only media left standing in this country will be Breitbart and Fox News.

1 minute ago, Khan said:

 

Are you talking about Rosie's claims that he might have autism?

 

Yes.  I have a number of relatives on the spectrum and their caregivers have expressed the same concern about Barron. Not out of malice but because his behavior is familiar.

No one-word sentences?  No spelling or grammar errors?  Yeah, the second tweet is clearly not from him.

Every picture I see of Barron Trump he always looks so sad. Melania always looks uncomfortable next to Trump as well.

1 minute ago, marceline said:

 

Yes.  I have a number of relatives on the spectrum and their caregivers have expressed the same concern about Barron. Not out of malice but because his behavior is familiar.

 

See, I don't see that behavior and think "spectrum disorder."  I see it and I feel very, very afraid.

 

But I say that and people think I'm just being mean to the kid because I don't want his father to be president.

18 minutes ago, Khan said:

First of all, Donald, shut up.  Second, that is not what I'd call unifying the nation, you schnook.  Third, it was more than just celebrities out there marching.  Fourth, you don't know how many out there had voted or hadn't voted, so again, shut up.  And fifth, get back to work!!

 

When celebrities put themselves out front, they get the attention, and most of them are happy to do that, and to act like morons. More people will remember Madonna cursing than remember most of the rest from yesterday. You think about the marches of the '60s and how actors genuinely did their best to lend what support and credibility they could without making it all about their myriad attention-seeking issues, and you wonder where those ideals are today. 

Edited January 22, 20178 yr by DRW50