US Politics

But it's hard to arrest your own president.

Depends on the continent, it seems.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/breonna-taylor-kenneth-walker-judge-dismisses-officer-charges/

Cue riots…

There are some photos of of JFK jr next to Trump who really brings out what a trashy nuveau riche buffoon Trump is. Yes, JFK is a hideous person on the inside, but he looks pretty damn good for his age and the suit he wore to that occasion was perfectly tailored to his frame. Next to him, Trumps awkward postures and ill fitting suits look just that much worse. Exactly the kind of shallow stuff Trumps base cares about.

he looks pretty damn good for his age

Does he? He looks like a crusty liverspotted old white man wearing bodybuilder’s competition spray tan.

I actually think that, given both are terrible, the Donald's suit looks better.

Trumps base

They know nothing about fashion. They think a polo shirt is formal wear, because it has buttons.

Princess Margaret has entered the chat.

Have you heard Kennedy speak?
The brain worm must have eaten that part of his brain.

Yeah but fashion lends itself to ever increasing pendantics, especially on liminal issues like what constitutes formal wear. If a group only wears polos on formal occasions, then that makes it formal wear, at least for that cultural group.

A similar phenomenon happens with shiny brogued leather shoes. They’re marketed as dress shoes and many people use them as formal wear, even as wedding attire, possibly thinking that the additional complexity of pretty geometric patterns must mean a more elegant and refined shoe. However, brogued shoes were originally developed for manual labourers to keep their feet ventilated and cool on the job, and the highest quality shoes are made of single cut leather pieces with no decoration at all. Does that mean people are mistakenly using brogued shoes as formal wear, or have brogued shoes become formal wear for those groups?

Tulsi Gabbard now explicitly backing Trump. Fuck me, petty personal gripes have no bottom for her.

All discussions about RFK’s outfits can start and end here
https://x.com/dieworkwear/status/1827453032134799818

Ironic that he’s wearing jeans and a leather belt in that video (when he’s in a gym, shirtless, incline pressing a respectable amount of weight).

The idea that Trump's base can make a critique of a suit is laughable. Anyone who disagrees is blind or hasn't been to the US. At least 99% of American men think that discussion of fashion is strictly for women.

Interesting shoe viewpoint, it rather begs the question of who patented patent leather, if formal wear is to be discussed?

Not sure if I’m expressing a viewpoint, tbh, other than what is and isn’t formal clothing is entirely dependent on the culture of a group/society, and it’s a bit of a moot point to judge it from the outside, even if it is as seemingly ridiculous as trump’s America’s take on presentable and formal attire.

I mentioned brogued shoes because, in the context of fashion lending itself to limitless pedantics, brogued leather shoes are an example of originally informal attire that has become widely accepted as at least semi-formal, but that a pedant could judge a social group that considers those shoes as formal wear. I’m not saying that Nick_h. was doing this, to be clear.

hi all, anyone got a link to this opinion piece 'the ghastly vs. the ghostly' from the NY Times that goes around the paywall please?

https://archive.is/xCD3c

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/08/supreme-court-help-trump-close-election.html

All according to plan.

Caveat this all you like, but this looks very good!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/30/2024-us-presidential-polls-harris-enthusiasm

Her interview performance wasn't exactly inspirational. I don't think she'll be much of a leader of the free world. But all that matters is that she defeats the blob.

When Bash pressed: “So, what would you do day one?”, Harris talked about the “opportunity economy”. The political consultant Frank Luntz was unimpressed, tweeting: “Her answer was so vague that it was essentially worthless. Not a good start.”

Then again, when Trump was asked the same question about day one, he said he would be a dictator. So there’s that.

Normally I wouldn't comment on such a thing, but in this particular case the complete lack of black people in the stock material they chose looks pretty damn sinister.

Dunno if the link will work, but Vance was allegedly in tears at having only 12 people attend one of his rallies.

Sweet sweet magat tears.

Analysts thinking this will endear him to trump voters are foolish and haven’t been paying attention.

https://thenewsglobe.net/?p=7063

https://thenewsglobe.net/?p=7063

Reputable news source, you reckon?