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3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

One of the genuinely good things about the old GOP WASP era was the aesthetics, tracing a direct line back to old Yankees’ Protestant aversion to showy displays of wealth. Like driving an old Volvo. A confident and wealthy America secure enough not to rub your nose in it. 
 

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Nevermind the decor.  Why is a President working, reading, and writing?

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Posted
3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

One of the genuinely good things about the old GOP WASP era was the aesthetics, tracing a direct line back to old Yankees’ Protestant aversion to showy displays of wealth. Like driving an old Volvo. A confident and wealthy America secure enough not to rub your nose in it. 
 

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How did that differ from FDR, Truman, Kennedy, LBJ, Carter, Clinton, Obama, and Biden?

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1 minute ago, WhatTheBuck said:

How did that differ from FDR, Truman, Kennedy, LBJ, Carter, Clinton, Obama, and Biden?

For starters, tan suits, spicy mustard and too much melanin. You know, shit worse than child rape.

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6 minutes ago, softlynow said:

For starters, tan suits, spicy mustard and too much melanin. You know, shit worse than child rape.

And his wife's whorish exposed shoulders, which everybody knows are much less classy than exposed white implanted tits.

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1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

This is true. All the Texas oil people hated one aspect of New Orleans - no matter how much money they had - it would not magically allow them to join Comus or Momus or Proteus or Rex.  Nor a 100% guarantee to join the Boston Club.   The top end of New Orleans high society was not inclusive at all.

Now, none of that is a good thing, and it evokes bullshit nostalgia for a level of nativism and racism that is not healthy.   It apes more of a British class system thing.    

I did get a chuckle out of the old Volvo thing.   They were a fixture at many Garden District mansions.  Gaudy display of wealth is seen as uncouth by the wealthy, although it is the epitome of what poor people think of as rich.

But yknow, as long as the richies are doing it to other richies, wgaf?  As long as the richies aren't doing unto the rest of us.

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3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I’m trying to think of the old Dem aesthetic. Kennedy cool and modern was for sure a thing, different a bit, and really tasteful. Think the AF1 livery. Clinton’s White House to me looked like a well-done tv set at the time. Of the moment, not ostentatious.

 

 

The Ivy League Look was nonpartisan. Daniel Patrick Moynihan comes to mind as a contemporary Dem example. HW was the GOAT though. There’s a great photo shoot contrasting his rumpled sack suit and prep tie look against James Baker’s very boxy, modern suit. 


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2 minutes ago, We’reTexas said:

The Ivy League Look was nonpartisan. Daniel Patrick Moynihan comes to mind as a contemporary Dem example. HW was the GOAT though. There’s a great photo shoot contrasting his rumpled sack suit and prep tie look against James Baker’s very boxy, modern suit. 


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Which is ironic when you consider James Baker went to Princeton.

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2 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

This is true. All the Texas oil people hated one aspect of New Orleans - no matter how much money they had - it would not magically allow them to join Comus or Momus or Proteus or Rex.  Nor a 100% guarantee to join the Boston Club.   The top end of New Orleans high society was not inclusive at all.

Now, none of that is a good thing, and it evokes bullshit nostalgia for a level of nativism and racism that is not healthy.   It apes more of a British class system thing.    

I did get a chuckle out of the old Volvo thing.   They were a fixture at many Garden District mansions.  Gaudy display of wealth is seen as uncouth by the wealthy, although it is the epitome of what poor people think of as rich.

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Just now, David Dennison said:

Which is ironic when you consider James Baker went to Princeton.

But came home to H-town and got him some nouveau suitings.  Or really started buying anywhere expensive that wasn't J. Press.

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29 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

And his wife's whorish exposed shoulders, which everybody knows are much less classy than exposed white implanted tits.

Uh, Obama's "wife" was a male gorilla.  Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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Posted (edited)
4 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

And he doesn’t have a dog. That is the biggest red flag of them all. 

He fired his dog like a dog. He was the worst dog, a total disaster. I was doing him a favor by hiring him. His ratings are terrible.

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They say he's the worst dog ever. Very low-IQ dog. I barely knew him. 

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Posted
11 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

I attended a baptist wedding not too long ago, and I swear about half of it was how women should submit to their husbands. It was disgusting.

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Posted
5 minutes ago, Pancho said:

LOL

Fat Boy is now considering “Tariff Rebate Checks” 

 

They have no idea what they are doing.

Let me guess.  Only in red states.

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5 minutes ago, Pancho said:

LOL

Fat Boy is now considering “Tariff Rebate Checks” 

 

They have no idea what they are doing.

Trump's decision making reminds me of that one scene in Lean on Me when Ms. Levias says to to Joe "no one around here has any idea what you're doing" and Joe responds with:

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20 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I attended a baptist wedding not too long ago, and I swear about half of it was how women should submit to their husbands. It was disgusting.

Yep. Did that a few years ago for a family friend’s wedding. We all walked out like, “what the fuck was that?”

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7 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Those people don't know fuck all about Christianity or Jesus Christ.

Sure they do.  They are the things that allow you to treat unbelievers, women, gays, and others like complete and total shit exactly like fundamentalist islamofascists do, except it's actually good and just and virtuous, because you say "Jesus" and "I'm a Christian" while you do it.

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Just now, Brisketexan said:

Sure they do.  They are the things that allow you to treat unbelievers, women, gays, and others like complete and total shit exactly like fundamentalist islamofascists do, except it's actually good and just and virtuous, because you say "Jesus" and "I'm a Christian" while you do it.

Good job, Rome. See what you started?

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7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Sure they do.  They are the things that allow you to treat unbelievers, women, gays, and others like complete and total shit exactly like fundamentalist islamofascists do, except it's actually good and just and virtuous, because you say "Jesus" and "I'm a Christian" while you do it.

Sadly, you’re correct. They know light and willingly choose darkness instead.

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Just now, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Never have I been so proud to have been raised a Christian.  (To the extent Catholics are Christian.)

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Man. In my First Communion picture, I'm wearing a 1970s light burgundy suit.  Fucking LIGHT BURGUNDY.  That's a goddamn shitty wine, not a legitimate color, FFS.

Posted
13 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Just got a NYT alert that dipshit is firing the head of the IRS?

Yeah and the treasury secretary is taking over. Somewhat similar to what happened with the Transportation secretary and Nasa.

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4 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

if your wedding is at a church i'll see you at the reception.

I'll go if it's at a Catholic church just for the possibility of seeing the look on the Protestants' faces when they realize it's gonna be a full Mass.

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I love Christianity but it's hard not to despise certain Christians especially those who are so far removed from what the New Testament preaches and who use the Gospel to justify their hatred of others. 

Just now, David Dennison said:

I'll go if it's at a Catholic church just for the possibility of seeing the look on the Protestants' faces when they realize it's gonna be a full Mass.

We did a full Mass wedding once. Never again. And then no alcohol at the reception. 

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3 minutes ago, mdmost said:

We did a full Mass wedding once. Never again. And then no alcohol at the reception. 

Wait, Catholics don't drink at the reception?  Not the Catholics I know.

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1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

Wait, Catholics don't drink at the reception?  Not the Catholics I know.

The annoying ones my wife knew that made her want to attend this wedding did not drink any alcohol except the offering wine. 



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