It could well be that these statements from Melania Trump are sincere. But that does not mean that her choice to make them now, at a moment when they are maximally politically beneficial to her husband, is not cynical. The Trump campaign, after all, has been frantically trying to project an image of moderation and reasonableness on abortion rights over the past few weeks, responding both to the overwhelming voter support for the issue in elections held since the Dobbs decision, and to a changed race in which their new Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, is dramatically more comfortable and effective at campaigning on abortion rights than her incumbent predecessor, Joe Biden.
Bird writing about an election is shocked, shocked, to find people doing politics during the course of an election.
Perhaps Kinky had the right idea:
Get Your Biscuits In The Oven & Your Buns In The Bed
You know, rather than this idea of a career putting words in order?
Melania is a very beautiful woman. The guardian much have searched a long time before uncovering that atypical photo of her.
Incidentally why do they always feel the need to lead with the phrase “Slovenian born former model”?
Alternately, one bird writes about censoring another bird.
* – As the old joke goes, they’re called birds because they pickup worms.
The guardian does it again: my colleagues at the Guardian published a leaked excerpt of the former first lady’s memoir
Last week it was an “exclusive” from a wastepaper basket in Fleet Street, today it’s intrepid investigative journalists find a cast-off review copy. Golly! (as we used to say).
Presumably the same reason, John, they always feel the need to mention Tommy Robinson’s real name.
Now that we read newspapers online and most chippys don’t use newspaper any more, I can’t think of a use for the Grauniad. I always thought it was mean of them not to print it on strategically perforated paper so its best use was made more complicated. Not that it was very absorbent anyway…
Don’t you know that calling women ‘birds’ is now sexual harassment, according to a judge?
The Presidency is a federal position. SCOTUS decided (quite rightly) that abortion, under the Constitution, is a matter for the people or the states. So what do the Trumpster’s views matter?
dearieme
If the people or the states deal with it, they might have the wrong opinions too.
So it’s essential that the plebs be ordered to do what is right by an autocratic authority.
@John
Incidentally why do they always feel the need to lead with the phrase “Slovenian born former model”?
Dunno but ‘Kenyan born former president’ has a nice ring to it.
Don’t you know that calling women ‘birds’ is now sexual harassment, according to a judge?
What the fuck are we meant to call them?
Can’t call them women because that’s not been defined by TPTB.
I’d use lass, bring a Yorkshireman and all, but no doubt that’s taboo as well. Diminutive or some bollocks.
Girls? Mysoginist.
Ladies? Like the Disney dog?
It’s getting so complicated, it’s easier just to not talk to any of them.
Except luckily I live in the north where this rubbish isn’t common at all
To my eyes has she has a rather hard edge but Melania is beautiful all right; a damned sight more beautiful than any of the plain, barren shrews at the Graun, and they hate her for it.
They also hate her for having intelligently and dispassionately evaluated her assets – including the intelligentce to speak 5 languages – and made the very most of them to acquire an ultra-rich lifestyle as a trophy wife.
The shrews regard this transactional relationship as a form of prostitution. I’d like to know how they think this differs substantially from arranged marriage with dowry, a practice carried out by a substantial proportion of the human population and which would be untenable without the positive involvement of women.
How many babies need to be aborted to make Moira Donegan’s miserable Irish face look happy?
Like, if we steam-cooked 40 pink, wriggling, bawling babies in an oversized brass statue of Moloch, would she crack a smile?
John – She’s pretty and de gustibus etc, but Eastern European women do nothing for me.
Asian babes with pretty smiles and sweet English accents, on the other hand, make me turn into Terry-Thomas.
I see your Terry Thomas and raise you a Leslie Phillips.
Steve, you need to get your front teeth fixed.
John – Ding dong.
BiC – Rather.
Not that it was very absorbent anyway…
And the ink tended to come off the paper.
Melania Trump might have been beautiful once, but now she’s a stretched-faced triumph of the plastic surgeon’s art.
And, Melania, what first attracted you to the multi-millionaire prat Donald Trump?
Ah, but what is the prat Theophrastus worth?