Be more positivity
Melania Trump says to be nice.
Melania Trump on Sunday urged students at a conference of a youth and safety organization to be a “positive force” in the lives of those around them and to treat their peers with respect.
“You have the power to be the positive force in so many people’s lives,” the first lady said at the Students Against Destructive Decisions gathering in Tysons Corner, Virginia. “Kindness, compassion, and positivity are very important traits in life.”
That’s true, but it’s abrasive mockery coming from her. She’s married to a relentlessly hateful, hate-fomenting, malevolent man who hate-mongered his way into the presidency. She joined her husband in pushing birther lies about Obama. She sued a disabled blogger for damaging her opportunities to make money from her new role as “First Lady.” She wore that jacket spelling out that she really doesn’t care, the classic statement of callous fuckyouism throughout history. She has no business saying a word about kindness and compassion while she’s giving cover to that man.
Her encouragement to students Sunday to “speak words of kindness” came after the president spent the weekend lambasting political opponents and others in public and on Twitter.
During an appearance in Nevada Saturday night, he called Rep. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) “wacky” and referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as “Pocahontas.”
And she puts a pretty face on all that, when she’s not wearing a Fuck You jacket.
It gives people who really want to like the Trumps something to grab on to. You have some evidence for A and not-A; you want to believe A; you don’t want to believe not-A; so you seize on the evidence for A to believe it and not believe not-A while denigrating or ignoring the evidence for not-A.
If someone kept an open mind and considered it all, not-A (the Trumps do not give a shit about human beings as such) would be clear, despite tokens like this. It’s superficial and the rest of it goes deep and into substantial hate and indifference. But that assumes an interest in truth over fantasy.
I was raised in a fairly liberal Christian church (a racially mixed Episcopal church in Chicago’s near-south suburbs, to be precise). I was an acolyte, meaning I had to pay attention during the Gospels, specifically. There’s precisely two times in those four books where J.C. (the guy all the Trump supporters claim to be following) gets visibly angry, and tells someone (in politer language, of course) to go fuck themselves–Satan, during the temptation in the wilderness, and the moneylenders in the temple. Everyone else gets a combination of gentle nudging, forgiveness and disappointed disapproval of their current actions, but never outright condemnation.
On those two notable occasions, Christ uses the same word in both instances, as he drives the offenders from his sight: ‘Hypocrite’. That’s it–that’s literally the one unforgivable sin identified as such in the Gospels. It’s something you think these folks would be aware of.
Hypocrisy gets a lot of defense from creative thinking. (Creative ignorance, specifically.) For instance, people reading those Scriptures can take away from it that the objectionable things are (1) doing business in the temple and (2) Satan. It’s a skewed, unimaginative, and superficial reading, but it does mean that so long as they’re not conducting currency exchange in church or working with Lucifer, they’re not getting Jesus’ ire.
In fact, when whatever they want to do is the will of Jesus (because they know that, in their hearts), they’re automatically Satan-negative and everyone who disagrees with them is therefore pro-Satan. They can thank you for the reminder of their righteousness when you intended a condemnation.
Endorsing Trump is a devil’s bargain if ever I saw one
Did no smart ass ask the question, ” So we SHOULDN”T be like your husband?”