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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2018 18:28:44 GMT
Genius president man says his lawyer was not really his lawyer, thus undercutting his own legal argument that raiding Cohen's office and using whatever was found there against him would be a violation of lawyer/client privilege.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2018 18:33:22 GMT
Genius president man says his lawyer was not really his lawyer, thus undercutting his own legal argument that raiding Cohen's office and using whatever was found there against him would be a violation of lawyer/client privilege. He didn't say that he "was not really his lawyer." He said he did " more public relations than he did law." (P.S. I would lose Facebook friends if I pointed to this nuance there.) (P.S.S. This all said, if they were conspiring to commit crimes together, I don't think that's protected anyway.) |
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Post by YankeeFan on Dec 14, 2018 14:29:59 GMT
Maybe someone with a college education can break this down for me.
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Post by doctorquant on Dec 14, 2018 14:54:52 GMT
I'm rather enjoying watching from afar a very learned discussion w.r.t. the Flint water crisis.
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Post by YankeeFan on Dec 14, 2018 15:25:43 GMT
Melanie coverage continues to be insane.
What, if anything, does it mean that Melania Trump is now blonde? As ever, social media has offered a range of snarky readings: Melania and Donald are now using the same hair dye. Melania is trying to look like Ivanka. Melania bleached her hair to blend in better with Fox News women, in advance of her Sean Hannity interview on Wednesday — and the meanest and most fanciful: Melania is growing Donald a new toupee.
We could ignore Melania’s blondification—it’s “just hair” after all, as her defenders will insist. Women all over the country change their hair as they please. But because Melania’s primary mode of communication is her appearance—grooming, dress, and make-up, her decisions cannot go without scrutiny. She is a creature of virtually pure surface and adornment, so it is legitimate to wonder about her latest metamorphosis.
Within the context of her FLOTUS role, a hair color change like this has greater significance than would mere alterations to wardrobe or make-up. First Ladies have traditionally maintained the open fiction that their hair color is, if not “natural,” at least stable and hence, natural-ish. It is very unusual for a First Lady, or a woman politician for example, to make this drastic a change to her hair — it risks suggesting instability or excess vanity. Imagine if Nancy Pelosi turned up a redhead tomorrow. Or if Amy Klobuchar got extensions. They simply can’t. Because within the performance codes of Washington politics, cosmetic alterations or enhancements — surgical, tonsorial, or otherwise — must come in subtle increments and with visible deniability.
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Post by doctorquant on Dec 14, 2018 15:33:31 GMT
I'm sure she changed it to distract coverage from the fact that the CBP murdered a 7-year-old last week ...
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Post by YankeeFan on Dec 14, 2018 15:46:34 GMT
The folks at New York Magazine's The Cut, are apparently constantly searching for meaning in whatever Melania does:
What should we make of Melania Trump’s festive gauntlet of all-red, elongated — nearly Giacometti-like — Christmas trees lining the East Colonnade of the White House? Why does this decorating choice feel so peculiar?
The press and social media have been on the case. So far, the trees have been compared to Atwood-style handmaids all in a row (a sinister riff on “eight maids a’milkin’?). Some have imagined they see a row of large angry Muppets with googly eyes. Many find the trees downright frightening, likening the color to blood. Some read them politically, one observer suggesting the trees represented a compensatory “red wave” standing in for the one the midterms failed to bring. And the Washington Post helpfully pointed out that lethal radioactivity can turn fir trees this color, and that the woods surrounding Chernobyl have been renamed the “Red Forest.”
Typically Melania has had little to say, insisting simply that the trees looked “fantastic” in person (of course how many of us will see them that way?). And her office claimed that the monochromatic trees were actually a nod to the red pales or stripes on the presidential seal, and that the color stood for “bravery” and “valor” — an answer meeting the usual White House quotient of truthiness.
We get nowhere reading Melania’s trees for hidden imagery — cryptic, nuclear, faux-patriotic, or otherwise. Instead, let’s read the relationship we seem to have established with them — to understand why we feel so compelled to make sense of these damned trees, and why they generates so much un-ease.
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Post by Da Man on Dec 14, 2018 15:51:06 GMT
There MUST be hidden meanings in all this!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2018 16:15:02 GMT
I'm rather enjoying watching from afar a very learned discussion w.r.t. the Flint water crisis. Where is this discussion occurring? |
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Post by rustinjice on Dec 14, 2018 16:32:16 GMT
I'm sure she changed it to distract coverage from the fact that the CBP murdered a 7-year-old last week ... Do you think she bought the hair dye with leftover inauguration money? |
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Post by doctorquant on Dec 14, 2018 16:39:53 GMT
I'm rather enjoying watching from afar a very learned discussion w.r.t. the Flint water crisis. Where is this discussion occurring? touche |
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Post by doctorquant on Dec 14, 2018 16:42:01 GMT
I'm sure she changed it to distract coverage from the fact that the CBP murdered a 7-year-old last week ... Do you think she bought the hair dye with leftover inauguration money? Doubtful ... more likely somebody skimmed a few mill out of those boatloads of cash Trump ships daily to Putin. |
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Post by neutralcorner on Dec 14, 2018 18:45:52 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2018 18:49:10 GMT
I'm afraid you will have to wait.
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Post by xanadu on Dec 14, 2018 19:34:01 GMT
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