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Charlie Kirk must have learning disabilities.

 

I need this cross-stitch on my wall.

 

Originally posted by Jake From State Farm

 

Dementia. Absolutely no question.

 

Trumpists are a scourge on our nation.

 

Breathing a sigh of relief

GOP leaders in 4 states quash dubious Trump bid on electors

 

I kind of feel bad for Emily Jane Fox, who has basically made a career of deep-backgrounding the Trump clan’s private lives and now has to make the same transition many others are going to struggle with, but the reader’s schadenfreude is strong here.

Among the social set that Jared and Ivanka would prefer to rejoin—the one they occupied aboard Adriatic-anchored yachts and on the carpet at the Met Gala—there is a sense of looking around for who, if anyone, will welcome them back. Case in point: an article speculating that Ivanka would attempt to reenter the New York art scene spread around their social circle and wound up in my inbox a dozen times. (For what it’s worth, people familiar with the first daughter’s art collection referred to it as “unimpressive before COVID,” but, post-COVID, “virtually unsaleable.”)

The vast array of responses I’ve collected over the past week have amounted to a few key takeaways: The couple will be accepted, whether in New York or Palm Beach, by a combination of society-adjacent couples and real-deal Republicans, but not by the group of people to which they would like to belong, and not without social consequences for those who do choose to pal around with Jivanka.

“They’ll be welcomed back by people who know the Trumps are as close as they’ll get to power,” one former friend told me. “But everyone with self-respect, a career, morals, respect for democracy, or who doesn’t want their friends to shame them both in private and public will steer clear.” As another longtime former acquaintance explained, “They will probably be welcomed by real estate types and that group of Upper East Side and Palm Beach families that read about themselves in Quest magazine but don’t matter.”

“There will always be private dinner parties for them to attend, but they will be the entertainment,” this person continued. “And Ivanka is no Princess Margaret and Jared is not the Duke of Windsor regaling guests with amusing bon mots to a captive audience. No one wants to hear about Sarah Huckabee’s pies or Steve Bannon’s shirts.”​

1stADD, just because:

 

Speaking of batshit crazy

Did Bill Maher Own Trump Campaign Lawyer Jenna Ellis?

 

If Trump saw a picture of the Bad Boys he'd denounce them.