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Classless https://www.dailykos.com/news/Classless News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 05:03:37 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 05:03:37 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) From Ice Cold to Blood Red. Good Grief https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/11/26/1815326/-From-Ice-Cold-to-Blood-Red-Good-Grief We have many problems in this country and should not concern ourselves with such trivial things as the appearance of the decor of the White House, except it is representative of The People’s House. Does Melania Trump have any style in her body, whatsoever? I see these trees and I see blood. I see RED. I see Russia. I see MAGA. I see UGLY. I sure don’t see America but that seemed to disappear long before she took that stroll admiring Those Handmaiden Trees. I sure don’t see Christmas. She went from the Nightmare before Christmas Trees to Blood Red Christmas. This woman has no sense of style. Do they even celebrate Christmas where she is from? Has she even heard the song… Blue Christmas that describes a tree...Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree. Like everything else in this tragedy of an administration, she will have everything backwards and probably put green on a red Christmas tree, if she doesn’t have little sawblades adorning it or Russian flags. I think I liked the nightmare last year better. rss@dailykos.com (Vetwife) Christmas Classless MAGA MelaniaTrump Recommended redtrees Russia _1815326 Mon, 26 Nov 2018 21:31:24 +0000 Trump Tweets Classless New Year's Greeting to His Supporters and His "Many Enemies" https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/31/1615924/-Trump-Tweets-Classless-New-Year-s-Greeting-to-His-Supporters-and-His-Enemies As president elect, Donald Trump should be trying unite a bitterly divided nation. But instead of taking the action that is needed to unite this country, he insists on pouring extra salt into the wounds of the people who did not support him. Take a look at Trump’s New Year’s Eve message to America: <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don&amp;#39;t know what to do. Love!&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/815185071317676033"&gt;December 31, 2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; '><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/815185071317676033">December 31, 2016</a></blockquote> </div> Very classy and very presidential, right? A president elect wants to start off his administration riding a wave of good will from the people that he will represent. The Bushes had it, Clinton had it, as did Obama. Trump will be arriving at the White House barely treading water. He will begin his tenure with the lowest approval rating of any president-elect in history. And his petulant actions as the new president-elect foretells a presidential tenure that will eventual be submerged by the ill will that he is fostering. What was America thinking? rss@dailykos.com (Eihenetu) Classless NotMyPresident Recommended _1615924 Sat, 31 Dec 2016 16:28:37 +0000 That time Trump wanted O.J. Simpson for 'Celebrity Apprentice' and joked about Nicole Simpson https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/13/1582098/-That-time-Trump-wanted-O-J-Simpson-for-Celebrity-Apprentice-and-joked-about-Nicole-Simpson Donald Trump’s self-promotional stylings have led to numerous appearances on the Howard Stern show. He and Howard Stern were friends enough that Stern attended Trump’s second marriage to Marla Maples in 1993. Of course, a lot of people were at the Trump wedding, including then-friend O.J. Simpson. <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/12/media/donald-trump-oj-simpson/" target="_blank" title="">CNNMoney</a> has pulled up the time Donald Trump and Howard Stern talked about the wedding and in passing Trump mentioned how he had wanted O.J. for Celebrity Apprentice and NBC executives nixed the idea. "I do have to tell you about O.J. and The Apprentice," Trump said in July 2008 on the Howard Stern Show. "NBC went totally crazy when I wanted to put O.J. on The Apprentice." Now, the Donald dropped Simpson as a friend long before the show when Trump “realized he killed his wife.” Of course, having Simpson on Apprentice would have been a ratings coup and when you are Donald Trump, ratings are more important than anything else. According to CNN Money, an earlier interview with Trump led to his retelling of seeing the (deceased) Nicole Brown Simpson and OJ at a restaurant. <blockquote> "I'm sitting having dinner and O.J. came up to me — I was sitting with very important people, big bankers, nobody that you know, big, big bankers, and we were sitting there, there were six of us, and O.J. came up," Trump said. "And he was talking to us for about three minutes, and Nicole, was with her mother I think, and she came over, and she started screaming at him, 'get over to the table, what the hell are you—' she was rough, in all fairness." "So, he decided obviously to kill her," Trump said, laughing. "It might have been right at the [restaurant] that he decided it," Stern responds. "She was very tough," Trump continued. "She came over and she really embarrassed him, she was screaming at him. She didn't care. And that was before 'The Apprentice' so she didn't give a damn about me. Now she'd be kissing my ass. Now I'm the biggest star on television, she'll kiss my ass.” </blockquote> Forget about the bad joke. Forget about the fact that Trump is in essence blaming Nicole Brown for her murder. This mother of two children, brutally and violently murdered, would “kiss his ass.” IN THE PRESENT TENSE? That obsession of Trump with people kissing the ring so to speak, is beyond alarming—it’s pathological. <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block"> <div class="remove-embed-content">x</div> <a class="iframe_placeholder dk-x-embed" href="#" data-height="400" data-src="//w.soundcloud.com/player/?visual=true&url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F287084357&show_artwork=true" data-width="100%">Embedded Content</a></div> rss@dailykos.com (Walter Einenkel) Audio Classless HowardStern Murder NicoleBrownSimpson OJ OJSimpson Recommended trump _1582098 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 22:10:27 +0000 Conservative candidate in Utah trolls people memorializing dead gay teen https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/9/30/1576412/-Republican-candidate-in-Utah-trolls-people-memorializing-dead-gay-teen Jason Christensen is running for state Senate in Utah. Jason Christensen’s claim to fame is that he’s super religious and his last name has “Christ” in it! Christensen’s other claim to fame is that he’s a homophobic waste of cosmic dust. <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/utah-gop-state-senate-candidate-lectures-mourner-of-dead-gay-teen-about-the-sin-of-homosexuality/" target="_blank">Raw Story</a> picked up a Reddit post and it is going viral. This past week <a href="http://www.lindquistmortuary.com/notices/Braxton-Taylor" target="_blank">19-year-old man Braxton David Taylor died</a>—the result of an apparent suicide. A woman who lived near Taylor posted a message saying how tragic it was that a young gay man felt so sad that he chose to end his life. That’s when Christian “patriot” Jason Christensen rode in and this exchange took place. <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="blurred.jpg" src="http://images.dailykos.com/images/306095/large/blurred.jpg?1475259638" title="blurred.jpg"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> After the post went viral, Christensen privatized his social media accounts and posted this: <div class="align-center"> <figure class="image-captioned"><img alt="Screenshot-231.png" src="http://images.dailykos.com/images/306103/large/Screenshot-231.png?1475260832" title="Screenshot-231.png"> <figcaption></figcaption> </figure> </div> Which is the height of cowardly hypocrisy. Christensen for his part is all in when it comes to being insane about his religious and political beliefs. Here’s his <a href="http://jasonthepatriot.com/?cat=22">jasonthepatriot.com page.</a> <blockquote> To make the best and educated decisions we only have to return to the basics! Those basic principles include God’s laws and the U.S. Constitution, which He gave to mankind to govern ourselves. The Constitution wasn’t anything really new, but was a continuance of the Mosaic Law, that God gave to the children of Israel, in order to govern themselves after leaving Egypt. Within these Sacred Laws we find such commandments as: “Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not covet they neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet they neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is they neighbor’s.” Both of these commandments deal with the right to be safe within one’s own property, safety to worship how one pleases, makes money as they please (intellectual property or ideas) as well as their physical property and money; the right to defend that property and all lives within that property. </blockquote> His ideas seem to be a putrid salad bowl mixed with conspiracy, religion and some strange federalism that is mostly based in how hot these Founding Fathers looked with horses and such. Unfortunately for Mr. Christensen, there is no God in the universe that can make those terrible terrible thoughts, the ones that burn inside of him and fuel his sweaty nights, go away. rss@dailykos.com (Walter Einenkel) Classless Conservative jasonchristensen LGBT Religion StateSenate Suicide Tragedy Troll Utah _1576412 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 18:52:31 +0000 Talking Dirty: The Last Taboo https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/4/25/1519815/-Talking-Dirty-The-Last-Taboo It is now possible to hear every one of George Carlin’s seven dirty words on prime-time television. Indeed, things that Carlin would never have said to his highly sophisticated audience are now accepted subject matter for shows aimed at minors. The clinical details of violence are routinely included in PG movies. Does that mean that, as Cole Porter would have said, “anything goes” in the 21st century? Well, no. You can check this out for yourself. There is one kind of information that is conveyed on television and in films only by either pointing to a piece of paper or whispering in someone’s ear. Think about it. That’s right—money. How much is a character paid? How much did she pay for her house? What does her new car cost? Ssshh. We can’t say that out loud. Let’s get back to the fine points of fellatio. There may be practical reasons for this convention. Nothing dates an old movie or a rerun faster than antiquated numbers. “It’s a Wonderful Life” gets its quaintness and loses its immediacy because of the numbers in the bank panic episode. Today’s technology may be able to solve that problem—if Turner could colorize Casablanca, why can’t computer technology come up with today’s equivalent for the salaries and prices in a film or rerun from ten years ago, and just change the figures in computer-sim dialogue? And change them again next year, and so on? The fact that nobody is discussing that possibility tells us that the real issue is something else altogether. In the real world, we don’t talk real numbers either. At some workplaces, telling your fellow employees your salary is grounds for firing. Miss Manners, who has quite successfully adapted Victorian etiquette to modern circumstances in other areas of life, says it is still the height of rudeness to ask someone his salary or the cost of any major purchase. Parents who have managed to tell the children all about the birds, the bees, and Mr. Stranger-Danger’s agenda, and even why Mommy lives with a girlfriend instead of with Daddy, still don’t tell them how much Daddy and Mommy bring home or the size of the mortgage and car payments. Indeed, the younger generation is likely never to gain that knowledge until Daddy and Mommy are retired and need their children’s help with finances. Which is one of the reasons the younger generation begins its economic life in a state of near-total financial incompetence. They generally get started by running up unmanageable credit-card debt, getting behind on bills, and hoping to solve the problems with their next raise or promotion or new job. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. When it doesn’t, the result is a financial catastrophe that often leaves divorce, desertion, or even petty crime in its wake. Even among more competent self-supporting citizens, financial ignorance is rampant. For instance, back when I practiced divorce law, I kept running into soon-to-be-ex-husbands who, with the best possible intentions, wanted their child support payments to go into the child’s college fund. They honestly believed that the money would not be needed for the child’s ongoing expenses before college, because they honestly believed that the presence of one or more minor children does not increase a family’s expenses. These were not deadbeat dads in the making, they just didn’t know what it costs to raise a child. Many high schools now teach “consumer education”, which helps a bit. But the high school teacher teaches abstract figures, averages and medians, not the real numbers in the students’ own lives. Those numbers are unavailable, even to the students themselves. They are the most private part of the family’s private lives, more private even than sex or emotional problems or the ingestion of illegal substances. Secrecy about money is a taboo in which all levels of our society collude. We impose it on ourselves, our children, our employees, and the mass media. Where does the power of this taboo come from? From above, it is partly a tactic to divide the workforce and head off the forces of the free market as applied to wages. If the workers don’t know each other’s wages, they don’t know whether it is safe to demand more, and they don’t have the information it takes to file sex or race discrimination charges with EEOC. They cannot bargain effectively. Mostly they can’t bargain at all. From below, the taboo is a mechanism by which we protect ourselves from the shame of discovering we are at the bottom of the totem pole, from the envy of others who may be underneath us, or from the arrogance of those above us. It is how we maintain the great American myth that we are all “middle-class,” in a “classless society.” But no law binds us to this code of silence. No mob boss lies in wait to slash our throats and cut out our tongues for breaching omerta’. What would happen if we just started wearing a button announcing our financial data to the world at large? Maybe other people would start doing it too. Which might enable all of us to see how our employers, our landlords, our car dealers, set us all against each other while making each of us believe we are getting some special “deal.” If we really believe in the free market economy, why can’t we operate it in the open? Why shouldn’t everybody know the real cost of the goods we buy, the real markup and profit, the real wages of the people who provide our services, the real wages of the people we work with and for? That would be a first step toward making those real numbers really equitable. Let’s start talking dirty, and maybe we can help clean up the economy. rss@dailykos.com (Tzivia L) Classless Economics Rescued _1519815 Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:42:40 +0000 Sickening Behavior by the GOP https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/9/779470/-Sickening-Behavior-by-the-GOP Yelling at the President WHILE HE WAS SPEAKING, holding up fliers and handwritten signs, and not actually listening to what he had to say. High ranking GOP official Eric Cantor was too busy texting to pay attention. This is sickening and completely unacceptable behavior by elected representatives. I don't care who they are or what constituency they represent, this cannot be tolerated. rss@dailykos.com (buildrail) Bush Cantor Classless GOP HealthCare Obama townhall _779470 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:26:17 +0000 Boy King meets Queen and winks (photo essay) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/8/332423/-Boy-King-meets-Queen-and-winks-photo-essay yesterday i diaried about how the Commander Guy got his history wrong with the Queen --- and thought she was around in 1776 to celebrate the bicentennial. Well today we get a bird's eye view of Boy King and Queen Elizabeth in their historic garden encounter rss@dailykos.com (distributorcap) AngelaMerkel Classless ElizabethII George W. Bush GeorgeWBush _332423 Tue, 08 May 2007 19:27:52 +0000