Did Melanie Trump copy Michelle Obama's speech?

[Deleted member 848]

Why? How come people like someone who says horrible things, gets called out for saying them, and then goes on the attack and says more horrible things?
What is the appeal there?

*crickets*

 

[moevillini]

This is what I do not understand. Republicans for some reason suddenly do not care about whether their candidate is religious, faithful to his wife, honest, kind, "Presidential," etc. This has all changed in the past four years. I've asked my mother why this stuff suddenly doesn't matter, and she acted like she had no idea what I was talking about because of course it's not a big deal. This from a woman who has been hyper critical of Michelle Obama's sleeveless attire (the hussy) who now suddenly doesn't care that the potential First Lady has nude photos on the internet. While I don't mind that she is expanding her horizons a bit, I cannot figure out how it has happened. She hasn't been caught up in social media and reality TV and all the other things that I think have changed society for good and evil. It's weird.

a very good friend of mine (and her husband) are both Republicans (we're live in a very Democratic community so they joke they're 2 of the 4 Repubs in town) - they were for Rubio (she was a "never Trump"-er until he became the nominee)- but now they've bought into his message hook, line and sinker. (that's for you, Trout)

They're very anti-everything they consider "liberal" and feel society has coddled the needy to have no incentive to work; and they support policies that are almost archaic in their treatment of women. What's especially ironic to me is that she had been married before (ended in divorce) - had an abortion - and lived on welfare herself for a brief time in the late 70's. Though often the worst are the folks with a "hey if I pulled myself up, so can anybody" without acknowledging the societal supports that helped them through. This family seriously looked at moving to SLC about 6 years ago because of it's values (they're not Mormon) but the job her husband wanted (a transfer within his company, Goldman Sachs) wasn't available in their SLC office.

At any rate, she blames "government" for all of our problems, without any acknowledgment that government provides lots of vital services: ambulance, fire, police, parks, library, schools etc. Doesn't matter, government is BAD and all the bad things that happen are due to government policies. It's like they're a mix of the most extreme Tea Party anti-government attitudes with the worst of the evangelical Christian social attitudes. She wanted to skip her nieces wedding because it wasn't "legal" since it wasn't taking place in a church, but she felt her sister would never forgive her if she didn't attend. So she went, and all we heard afterwards was how terrible it was that there wasn't a single mention of "God" during the entire service.

I guess the only policy where they would deviate from the party line are related to gun issues.

At any rate, I have no answers either.

 

[Stoked]

*crickets*

lol, besides possibly Joe who did you expect to in some way defend him?

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

Why? How come people like someone who says horrible things, gets called out for saying them, and then goes on the attack and says more horrible things?
What is the appeal there?

I don't know the answer. It hasn't caused me to like him.

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

lol, besides possibly Joe who did you expect to in some way defend him?

Lol. I said that there was no evidence that Trump was lazy and that his kids were douches (in two separate conversations) and somehow it has caused everyone to think I'm the site's Trump fan. My point was that there are plenty of legit things to criticize him for. It makes no sense to make up fake things.

Didn't you notice that I was the one who made the comment about his horrible statements in the first place?

 

[Stoked]

Lol. I said that there was no evidence that Trump was lazy and that his kids were douches (in two separate conversations) and somehow it has caused everyone to think I'm the site's Trump fan. My point was that there are plenty of legit things to criticize him for. It makes no sense to make up fake things.

Didn't you notice that I was the one who made the comment about his horrible statements in the first place?

I'm not debating any of that. It just proves that depending on the situation you are possibly the most likely to defend him. Even if that means only 15% likely and everyone else is 10% likely lol.

I'm not saying you are a supporter of his.