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Maru Kitteh

(28,303 posts)
14. Distress signals my ass. Pay attention. She's JUST as awful as any other Trump. She belongs.
Sun Sep 6, 2020, 02:11 PM
Sep 2020

Her only "distress" is that we are not properly worshipful of her.

hlthe2b

(101,699 posts)
4. There is nothing about Melania that is unintentional. Hardly first episode of "symbolic" dress
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 02:09 PM
Sep 2020

Melania's pith helmet in Africa was not "just a hat."

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cspanlovr

(1,470 posts)
5. When I first saw it...
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 02:18 PM
Sep 2020

...I thought of "Ninotchka" immediately, and that she was signaling Putin with it. But it could go Nazi too.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,846 posts)
7. Possibly a Nazi sympathizer since her ancestry is German.
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 02:24 PM
Sep 2020

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 it’s been proven at this point that she’s 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


Deuxcents

(15,776 posts)
11. She is the perfect
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 04:04 PM
Sep 2020

Cold hearted partner for the current occupiers in our W H. She’s far from naive. IMO

Retrograde

(10,068 posts)
16. I actually like the dress
Sun Sep 6, 2020, 05:25 PM
Sep 2020

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.

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