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(11,575 posts)SaveOurDemocracy
(4,397 posts)cayugafalls
(5,629 posts)The Wielding Truth
(11,411 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)Her only "distress" is that we are not properly worshipful of her.
hlthe2b
(101,699 posts)Melania's pith helmet in Africa was not "just a hat."
lame54
(35,130 posts)Response to hlthe2b (Reply #4)
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cspanlovr
(1,470 posts)...I thought of "Ninotchka" immediately, and that she was signaling Putin with it. But it could go Nazi too.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,846 posts)Melania's family even changed their surname back to the Germanic, Knauss.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/is-melania-trump-a-gottscheer
The 2016 Presidential election brought the community a rare chance to shine. Melania Trump, née Melanija Knavs (she later updated the spelling to Knauss), was raised in Sevnica, Slovenia, a town Gottscheers used to call Lichtenwald.
I think its been proven at this point that shes a Gottscheer, Wagner shouted over the band at the coronation ceremony.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottscheers
Gottscheers are the German settlers of the Kočevje region (a.k.a. Gottschee) of Slovenia, formerly Gottschee County. Until the Second World War, their main language of communication was Gottscheerish, a Bavarian dialect
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)be fair, she hadn't had her 'kidneys' operated on.
Deuxcents
(15,776 posts)Cold hearted partner for the current occupiers in our W H. Shes far from naive. IMO
Hekate
(90,189 posts)Initech
(99,909 posts)Retrograde
(10,068 posts)but then olive green (not brown, like Riefenstahl) is one of my favorite colors; it could lose the belt, though. My biggest objection was that she was the only woman not wearing red, white, or blue (or black) to feature at the GOP convention. It stood out, in a "who cares about the country and its symbols" way.