When he was in the White House, all sorts of people and organizations were booking rooms or entire floors in that hotel to curry favor with him. I’m sure he made a pile of money. But now? Some percent of the people and companies won’t want to give any money to any group he’s associated with.
Yeah it’s a ghost town now. During his kleptocracy, it was quite the scene.
This is the downside of being so closely associated with one side of a deep partisan divide; half the people are going to hate you. Note that some people, like Dolly Parton, are careful not to take sides.
What the fuck does Dolly Parton have to do with any of this?
Honestly, nothing. Her name came to mind as someone who is careful not to take sides in the culture wars.
She might not declare a party, but her support for scientific research, helping needy children and belief in literacy means she’s not a fucking Republican.
Apparently this has been a bit awkward in light of multiple recent offers of the Presidential Medal of Freedom:
There’s also this: “I don’t think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time.”
Saying that people are equal is taking sides? Wow.
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Saying that people are equal is taking sides? Wow.
For one side, it is.
Yeah that was always something that gobsmacked me in regard to reactions to the BLM movement. In this day and age, where everybody falls over themselves to deny being racist, how does the mere assertion that the lives of black people are not intrinsically unimportant or unworthy get you labeled a raving left-wing fanatic?
That’s what the enemy in this culture war is all about, right?
The conclusion, of course, is that “not taking sides in the culture war” is not a virtue, and not an option for any civilized person. Although of course I recognize that Dolly Parton may as a strategic matter choose to represent herself as politically neutral, I don’t for a moment believe that her underlying beliefs are really “neutral” toward the values embraced by the current incarnation of the Republican Party.
Trump, pay to fix something? Naw, they just marketed the rooms under that leaking roof as “Rainforest Spa Rooms.”
I’m guessing.
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Dunno how DP votes, but she comes from a part of the world in which most white people were Democrats until the Nixon era, then became Republicans. She might well have been a Republican of the pre-Trump era.
But no thinking person who isn’t making money off a Trumpublican stance could be a Trumpublican, so I’m guessing (again) that Parton, as a thinking person, hasn’t been voting Deplorable in recent years.
To draw an extreme analogy, it’s sort of like a movement called Don’t Kill and Eat Children. If you don’t support the organization’s slogan, that doesn’t mean that you think it’s okay to kill and eat children, it means that you think it’s so obvious that you question the motives of people who think that you need to be told this. (However, a proper answer to “Don’t Kill and Eat Children” is indeed “why would you think I want to?”, and not “no one should be killed and eaten! That must mean you think adults should be killed and eaten!”)
That only works as an analogy in a hypothetical world where children are regularly being killed and eaten, far more often than adults are being killed and eaten, and nobody gives a shit. In other words, in a world where it does need to be said.
And in that world, if you oppose the slogan on the basis that as an obvious abstract principle “adults matter too, nobody should be killed and eaten”, then you are identifying yourself as one of the people who doesn’t give a shit.
That’s false. There are people who need to hear it. For instance, I enjoyed it when it was painted near the White House. But saying “no one gives a shit” is not really believable.
Mwuhahahahahaha.
From the article,…
You know that the CFSG & his enablers are going to immediately dismiss the Democrat prosecutors as part of the witch hunt; it’s a shame that the only Republican to “probe” is in Georgia, giving them an out - “oh, he’s only doing this because Fearless Leader has been dissing him.”
Oh, and a shoutout to the article (and pointing out to those who don’t know) -
This is the proper way to pluralize attorney general - “attorney” is the noun; “general” is the adjective. It’s one of the few times where the adjective comes after the noun.