# Melania Trump is a piece of shit **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2018, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555 "2018-06-22T03:24:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delicious)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/261 "2018-06-23T19:47:26Z")
> [@fervour](#): > > You don’t have to read a thread. It’s totally within your purview. But if you really didn’t contact your senators and representative, shame on you. I did, I called them up and told them, just as you told everyone to, that they should increase the level of child imprisonments. I don’t really agree with it but I’m flighty like that. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/262 "2018-06-23T20:23:31Z")
> [@fervour](#): > > What is the politically correct term for a person who married for money? I’m told “whore” is out of favor. But I don’t think I’ve been told what the correct term is. Do you know? Gold digger used to be popular but may now be questionable. It would be my go-to. “Trophy wife” is probably pretty safe. “Marriage of convenience” applies not just to monetary but any reason other than love or formal arranged marriages (those would be “love matches” and “arranged marriages”) and has the bonus of being gender-neutral. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/263 "2018-06-23T20:54:08Z")
> [@fervour](#): > > What is the politically correct term for a person who married for money? Here’s the politically correct term for that: Stay out of other people’s fuckin business, it’s none of your goddamn beeswax who other folks fuck or why, that’s the politically correct term for that. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/264 "2018-06-23T20:54:36Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Pelosi and Feisstein are working on this. I plan to vote for both of them again. And again. And again. George Will, now a former Republican, wants you to, although [you may not agree with his reasons](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/vote-against-the-gop-this-november/2018/06/22/a6378306-7575-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html). The man is always good for a fine bout of harrumphing. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/265 "2018-06-23T21:02:08Z")
> [@fervour](#): > > I’m angry. I’m angry with good cause. Sometimes mistakes are made. Sometimes anger can be channelled into productive efforts. Sometimes it is destructive to achieving desired ends. And I leave that there. Me, I’m pacing myself angerwise. Things to be angry about in the current world, in my country, represented somehow by a President Trump … this is not the name of a sprint event. More like an endurance one. I’m more concerned that those of us who are horrified can go the distance. ---
**Author:** ![fervour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@fervour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fervour)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/266 "2018-06-23T21:39:03Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Here’s the politically correct term for that: > > Stay out of other people’s fuckin business, it’s none of your goddamn beeswax who other folks fuck or why, that’s the politically correct term for that. Haha! Lots of words when one should do. > [@DSeid](#): > > Sometimes anger can be channelled into productive efforts. Sometimes it is destructive to achieving desired ends. > > And I leave that there. > Me, I’m pacing myself angerwise. Things to be angry about in the current world, in my country, represented somehow by a President Trump … this is not the name of a sprint event. More like an endurance one. I’m more concerned that those of us who are horrified can go the distance. I’m out of here too. I can’t encourage people to talk to their reps anymore. Maybe it did some good. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/267 "2018-06-23T21:39:41Z")
> [@fervour](#): > > Go to hell, troll. You ruin every thread you show up in. ☹ Fine, now I’m going to vote for Melania next election. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/268 "2018-06-23T21:57:31Z")
> [@fervour](#): > > I’m out of here too. I can’t encourage people to talk to their reps anymore. Good. You sound like a fucking broken record. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/269 "2018-06-23T22:10:47Z")
> [@fervour](#): > > … Maybe it did some good. If making yourself feel self-righteous is some good then I am sure it did. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/270 "2018-06-23T22:43:01Z")
Well then. Trump has accomplished one thing. Managed to turn some of his detractors against each other. May I make a gentle suggestion that we turn our ire against him? We can snipe at each other when the bullets aren’t flying overhead. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/271 "2018-06-23T22:46:00Z")
> [@fervour](#): > > I thank you for your efforts. I went to a June 14 rally----the only one in the south. Georgia? South Carolina? North Carolina? Tennessee? —Nope. Montgomery, Alabama. I guess there’s a reason it claims the birth of civil rights. > > Frances Fisher was there------Kate Winslet’s mom in Titanic. Unforgiven. The Guiding Light. Well if you are interested IMDB her. What does it matter which has-been actress was there? Are you so hung up on pop culture that this important to you or are you stealth bragging? “Envy me. I was in the same crowd as Clint Eastwood’s ex.” Anyway, my senators are Dick Durbin, minority whip and father of the Dream Act, and Tammy Duckworth, born in Thailand to a Thai mother. My rep is Raja Krishnamoorthi, born in New Delhi. I’m fairly sure I know where they stand on this issue and and their staffs don’t need me clogging their phone lines. > [@cochrane](#): > > Good. You sound like a fucking broken record. Played on lousy speakers. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/272 "2018-06-23T22:55:42Z")
IF YOU HAVE SENATORS/REPS WHOM YOU ARE COMPATIBLE WITH POLITICALLY IT IS _STILL_ WORTH A CALL. Seriously, this is one of the best ways they know that their positions are supported by their constituents and how much it can cost them to cross that support. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/273 "2018-06-23T23:48:12Z")
My congressman is on it. Just a note, you probably don’t have to pick up the phone. Most of them have websites and you can post your opinions there as easily as you can post them here. Also, I think it’s okay to use whore as a derogatory word. This is a word that has many uses, and insults are one of them. If you start by calling someone a piece of shit, I don’t see that whore is any worse. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/274 "2018-06-23T23:54:33Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Well then. Trump has accomplished one thing. Managed to turn some of his detractors against each other. May I make a gentle suggestion that we turn our ire against him? We can snipe at each other when the bullets aren’t flying overhead. …fervour has accused good people in this thread of being “apologists for the Trump regime.” Nearly everybody in this thread have told fevour that they have contacted their reps. That outside of this messageboard, they are working their arses off to work in many different ways to oppose Trump. And guess what? None of that is fucking good enough for fervour. Fuck that. Fervour doesn’t get a pass for the sake of “unity.” You are making the same mistake as fervour. There isn’t a “correct way” to fight the fight. I’m not calling my rep. But I’m doing my thing. And if someone is going to say “I’m doing it wrong” I’m going to call them out. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/275 "2018-06-23T23:58:29Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Well then. Trump has accomplished one thing. Managed to turn some of his detractors against each other. May I make a gentle suggestion that we turn our ire against him? We can snipe at each other when the bullets aren’t flying overhead. As has been said, **fervour** has been the one responsible for derailing this thread. Trump, or Melania, had nothing to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/276 "2018-06-24T00:01:48Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Played on lousy speakers. Quoted just so I can give propers. Excellent callback, sir. > [@JohnT](#): > > IF YOU HAVE SENATORS/REPS WHOM YOU ARE COMPATIBLE WITH POLITICALLY IT IS _STILL_ WORTH A CALL. > > Seriously, this is one of the best ways they know that their positions are supported by their constituents and how much it can cost them to cross that support. Quoted so I can give more propers. Everyone who wants to resist Trumpism should please read the [Indivisible guide](https://www.indivisible.org/guide/) put out by ex Obama admin staffers just two months into Trump’s term. Phone calls are more effective than you realize, even to representatives who are fully resistant -or even fully Trumpist. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/277 "2018-06-24T00:27:10Z")
Exactly. While one can contact via email and web forms, the problem with those is anyone can fill it out and they are easily ignored/dismissed. A phone call works better as it _literally interrupts the day_ for your issue. If you don’t know what to say… write a script and read it. That’s what I did with the kids: > [@](#): > > Hello! I would like to leave a message to the Senator/Congressman from a constituent. Are you the one I speak to? > > My name is \, I am \ years old, and I live in zip code \. > > I am calling \ to express my disgust at your parties war against children. In the past two years, the Republicans have either initiated, or stood by and watched, as: > > 1. You watch us getting shot in our schools, and do nothing. Repeatedly > 2. You actively take away money from education to give to the wealthy while ensuring we get burdened with crushing student debt > 3. You held childcare hostage for Tax negotiations in the CHIP scandal > 4. You are destroying our internet by your anti-Net Neutrality position. > 5. You are now placing children in concentration camps. > > I cannot vote. Yet. But you have lost me, for years, and you have lost my generation. > > To close, I demand that you join the Democrats to end this Dachau of our soul and join _us_ in demanding the Trump administration stop their persecution of children. > > Thank you. > > \ ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/278 "2018-06-24T00:31:27Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > As has been said, **fervour** has been the one responsible for derailing this thread. Trump, or Melania, had nothing to do with it. I fully endorse the above post. And while I would never, ever do it, Fervor is so fucking obnoxious that he makes me want to call my reps and tell them I support breaking up more families in the wash should be more vigorously enforced just to spite him. Again I don’t believe that nor would I do it and I’m certainly not proud of the feeling, but that’s the gut level reaction I have when I hear his crazed rantings ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/279 "2018-06-24T00:52:19Z")
Thanks for that, JohnT. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555/280 "2018-06-24T02:57:31Z")
I don’t understand how anyone can think that Melania is trapped in her marriage. If anything, she has the power. With what she knows about Trump, this media circus would only get more insane. I’m sure she could access a lot of incriminating proof to back up her stories. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-trump-is-a-piece-of-shit/816555.md?page=15)