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Pluvious

(5,395 posts)
Sun May 12, 2024, 06:54 PM May 2024

Ron Filipkowsky with the Mother's Day SNAP post of the day...

Last edited Mon May 13, 2024, 11:12 AM - Edit history (1)

Heh

Edit: looks like Reddit deleted the image, here's original tweet...





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Ron Filipkowsky with the Mother's Day SNAP post of the day... (Original Post) Pluvious May 2024 OP
I guess I am a failure. Irish_Dem May 2024 #1
Ouch. MOMFUDSKI May 2024 #2
True Love Ways czarjak May 2024 #3
What I don't understand is why Melania hasn't gotten the hell outta there. calimary May 2024 #4
Barron graduates later this month - TBF May 2024 #6
She doesn't even have to leave the country, unless she really wants to. ShazzieB May 2024 #7
Hey, you know something? That REALLY does explain it for me, ShazzieB! calimary May 2024 #9
Me guesses, time will tell 😏 Pluvious May 2024 #10
It makes sense to me too, calimary. dmr May 2024 #11
nah. barbtries May 2024 #28
Absolutely - and if Barron actually is high functioning autistic TBF May 2024 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author ShazzieB May 2024 #8
She's not finished learning her 6th language. rubbersole May 2024 #13
Because she loves the money she stupidly thinks he has NanaCat May 2024 #16
"The woman who marries for money... alterfurz May 2024 #20
I'm sure she has a few million reasons for staying...... lastlib May 2024 #24
TSF reportedly had happy feet May 2024 #25
She is a piece of shit. Don't think otherwise. twodogsbarking May 2024 #5
She was a poor girl from a totalitarian country chowmama May 2024 #14
WTF? She didn't have a rough beginning! NanaCat May 2024 #17
And a birther. Let us not forget. twodogsbarking May 2024 #19
Fair enough chowmama May 2024 #30
I don't really care, do you? onecaliberal May 2024 #15
You go, girl! dchill May 2024 #18
(Image deleted)? lastlib May 2024 #21
Thanks for reporting this... Pluvious May 2024 #22
Thanks! lastlib May 2024 #23
So, considering what a truckload of excrement the guy is, grumpyduck May 2024 #26
No mention Mblaze May 2024 #27
Who the F is Bridgitte Gabriel? wolfie001 May 2024 #29

calimary

(90,021 posts)
4. What I don't understand is why Melania hasn't gotten the hell outta there.
Sun May 12, 2024, 07:52 PM
May 2024

Why does she stay? Even if it IS living in separate residences for 17 years and counting?

TBF

(36,669 posts)
6. Barron graduates later this month -
Sun May 12, 2024, 07:59 PM
May 2024

I expect her to bolt after that. She takes him to Europe to "visit family". If she has a brain in her head & put away enough cash she never returns.

ShazzieB

(22,590 posts)
7. She doesn't even have to leave the country, unless she really wants to.
Sun May 12, 2024, 08:25 PM
May 2024

Barron's 18 now, so TSF can't give her any static about custody. If she tried to leave earlier, he could have waged a nasty custody battle, and probably would have, just because that's the kind of hateful asshole he is.

He can't use child custody as a way to complicate her life, now that the "child" is an autonomous adult. Divorce proceedings in the relatively near future wouldn't surprise me one bit.

calimary

(90,021 posts)
9. Hey, you know something? That REALLY does explain it for me, ShazzieB!
Sun May 12, 2024, 08:41 PM
May 2024

Yep. I BET you got the rationale. Barron IS 18 now, and he can get his own place if he wants to. And you're right - there won't be a child custody issue to fight over.

Maybe that's the main reason she's stayed?

dmr

(28,705 posts)
11. It makes sense to me too, calimary.
Sun May 12, 2024, 08:55 PM
May 2024

As much as I've thought about it, I never considered child custody.

I wouldn't doubt that the two of them have had big arguments over Baron. There's no way Melania would permit TFG's influence on her son. The only way to control it all is to play TFG's little game.

It'll be interesting to see what happens after Baron graduates.

My very best to Baron.

TBF

(36,669 posts)
12. Absolutely - and if Barron actually is high functioning autistic
Sun May 12, 2024, 09:10 PM
May 2024

she would've been very protective. She would just back down and bide her time. Now that he has turned 18 and graduates soon she can leave - whether he goes with her or not. It will be interesting.

Response to TBF (Reply #6)

 

NanaCat

(2,332 posts)
16. Because she loves the money she stupidly thinks he has
Mon May 13, 2024, 02:58 AM
May 2024

Because she's as awful as he is, so they have plenty in common.

She's also well past the gold-digger sell-by date. Nobody's going to foot the bill for a 50+ woman who wants to do nothing but shop, go to Pilates, get kidney updates and sit on her arse reading fashion zines all day, which seems to be the full extent of her skill set. Well, that and knowing how to say ''Leave the money on the nightstand' and 'Anal $50 extra' in five languages.

alterfurz

(2,681 posts)
20. "The woman who marries for money...
Mon May 13, 2024, 08:43 AM
May 2024

...usually earns every penny." -- Slovenian proverb /s

chowmama

(1,096 posts)
14. She was a poor girl from a totalitarian country
Sun May 12, 2024, 09:28 PM
May 2024

Ok, I don't know how poor, but certainly without any desirable future at her beginning. This doesn't make her a good person - she isn't. But it might give us some predictive clues as to her behavior.

I think she'll survive as best she can. I'm (mildly) impressed that she seems to want to bring her family and son along with her.

I still wouldn't trust her behind me.

 

NanaCat

(2,332 posts)
17. WTF? She didn't have a rough beginning!
Mon May 13, 2024, 03:09 AM
May 2024

I don't know where you got that idea, but it isn't remotely true:

In contrast to the privations that so many suffered in Communist times, the Knavses lived well. Melania’s mother, Amalija Ulčnik, worked developing patterns at a factory that manufactured children’s clothing. She had met Viktor Knavs in 1966 while he was the chauffeur for a nearby town’s mayor.

{snip}

The family struck a worldly image, too, vacationing in France, Italy, and Germany. Every room of their apartment in Sevnica was painted a deep, lush color—blue in the living room, red in the kitchen, yellow in Melania’s room. Amalija, who got to travel to France and Germany for work, returned with colorful paints for the home, a rarity in Yugoslavia. She also came back from business trips with Western fashion magazines, which Melania’s friends watched her flip through constantly. “They had more than the others,” remembers Melania’s childhood friend Mirjana Jelančič. (She is now the principal of the school she attended with Melania, where there is talk of installing a permanent exhibit on Mrs. Trump, the school’s most famous graduate.)

Jelančič remembers Melania’s father, Viktor, spending every Saturday lovingly washing his antique Mercedes, another rarity. “It was like a ritual,” Jelančič tells me. After leaving his job working for the mayor of Hrastnik, Viktor, then a member of the Slovenian Communist Party, became a salesman at a state-owned car company.

{snip}

While working for the car company in Ljubljana, Viktor had an apartment there, in one of the city’s first residential high-rises. It was a prestigious address and provided the girls a place to stay in the capital so that they could attend design school—another luxury. Meanwhile, in Sevnica, a place where most people still lived in drab apartments doled out to them by their factories, Viktor managed to build a house situated in what was considered the toniest part of town.


https://www.gq.com/story/melania-trump-gq-interview

She's just as much of a spoiled, over-entitled scumbag as her husband, so spare us the poor pitiful Slovenian Skeeve routine. It doesn't remotely relate to reality.

chowmama

(1,096 posts)
30. Fair enough
Sat May 18, 2024, 11:26 PM
May 2024

I didn't know that.

However, I don't think that any woman would become a soft porn model and escort if she had better options. She has a survivors mentality for a reason. Doesn't make her a good person, just somewhat more predictorable.

Pluvious

(5,395 posts)
22. Thanks for reporting this...
Mon May 13, 2024, 11:14 AM
May 2024

I acquired the original tweet and updated the post

Cheers

grumpyduck

(6,672 posts)
26. So, considering what a truckload of excrement the guy is,
Mon May 13, 2024, 11:48 AM
May 2024

and if she leaves, will he then start mouthing off about how proud he that she split? "Real men get divorced three times" kind of bullshit.

Wouldn't surprise me one bit.

Mblaze

(1,040 posts)
27. No mention
Mon May 13, 2024, 12:20 PM
May 2024

That the internet is flooded with nude pictures of her including her waving a pistol while buffo.

wolfie001

(7,667 posts)
29. Who the F is Bridgitte Gabriel?
Mon May 13, 2024, 05:41 PM
May 2024

What a clown. Is this the deleted pic of our elegant former FL?

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