As Stephanie Grisham spoke at the Democratic National Convention, a screen behind her displayed a text exchange she said she’d had with Melania Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.
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An apparent screenshot of text messages between Grisham and first lady [Melania Trump appeared on a large screen as Grisham spoke. The messages show Grisham asking Melania Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, if the first lady wanted to tweet that there is no place for lawlessness and violence.
Grisham said Melania Trump simply responded, “No.”
Grisham said she was the first senior staffer to resign that day, as the DNC crowd applauded.
“I couldn’t be a part of the insanity any longer,” she said.
didn’t this text exchange get publicked a long time ago? maga voters don’t care. the party of “i hate cancel culture while i cancel everything under the sun” and “criminals don’t care about gun laws but we need bathroom laws to make sure women can’t use the ladies’ room” and “we should raise the voting age because 18 year olds aren’t mature enough to vote. btw this is my new 12 year old bride” – they couldn’t give less of a flying fuck about any ridiculous, stupid, wrong, false thing anyone on team maga says or does, as long as it’s “owning the libs”
MAGA also aren’t watching the DNC. This wasn’t for them.
right, the party of “tough on crime” who’s blindly loyal to their felon cult leader muppet
I’ve probably seen it before, but there’s so much over the years that it’s impossible to remember it all. Reminders like this are needed and welcome.
If you can show supporters of a populist that everyone else is jumping ship, they will too.
At the very least I hadn’t heard about it before. There was so much chaos in the aftermath that I’m sure there are a number of little factoids like this that managed to slip through the cracks for some folks.
Fun fact: Factoids aren’t actually true.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid
Edit: It just hit me that you could have also meant that this fact was buried under a lot of factoids.
Edit 2: Oh well. It was used incorrectly so often, that it now can also mean trivial facts.
Edit 2: Oh well. It was used incorrectly so often, that it now can also mean trivial facts.
I hate it when that happens. It sucks. It literally sucks.
Well, the data is clear on this.
Wanted to be pedantic so bad that they became the pedantee.
The first sentence in the article says it can also be a small real fact
Fun fact, that fun fact was a factoid. And not the true kind.
I prefer the term “factito”. But nobody knows what the fuck I’m talking about when I use it.
“He has no empathy, no morals and no fidelity to the truth,”
No shit
No, he’s full of that.
Unpopular opinion.
I like Melania because she’s given Donnie more grief than anyone else.
She refused to move to Washington until he gave her a better deal, then proceeded to make ‘cyber bullying’ her First Lady initiative.
She won’t so much as hold his hand in public.
Sure, she’s a loathsome human being in her own right, but anyone who makes Donnie squirm is a pal o’ mine.
She did fuck all with her initiative. Her slogan “Be best” was a dig at Michelle Obama’s “Be better” simply so that she could one up her.
She is against cyber bullying the same way I’m against carbs.
Lol I never knew that about the “Be Best” slogan trying to one-up Michelle Obama. I always assumed Melania was brain damaged and the people around her were just like “sure… Be Best… why not?”
To be fair, it’s both
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36832095
My personal opinion is that she didn’t want to do the thing, so she did it in a way that would embarrass her dear hubby.
“the same way I’m against carbs” is instantly now going to be one of my commonly used phrases.
My other favorite: The religious right are only Christians the same way that I’m a vegetarian – on Sundays only
Sunday mornings, to be precise. If they even bother to at all, they’re done with that shit by noon. Can’t miss the ball game or anything…
I wonder if this is why religiosity is lowest in California - NFL games start at 10 AM out there.
“Ask not what we can do for your country… just that we won’t do a poorly as the other guy.” -DNC
Shame on all the voters voting for the candidate promising to do better than their opponent.
/s
You really are a special kind of idiot.
No. They are promising to not do worse, while offering nothing better. Exactly the game that people constantly removed about the Democrats playing all the time - ratchet and pawl.
In fact this is barely different than the shit Republicans pull with Hunter Biden’s laptop.
What Melania thinks about the rioters has no bearing on anything, and we already know what Trump says about it because he constantly mouths off. Just like what Hunter Biden does has no bearing on Joe Biden as president and we can can find out about Joe Biden’s policies and opinions directly from him.
While everyone should be calling out Republicans for their continued attempts to overthrow the government, Democrats have to at some point actually offer to do something to fix the problem.
As it stands now, Dems have no reason to address the core problem because as long as Trump is in the picture all they need to say is they’re notasbadasTrump. And when Trump is out of the picture you can bet they’ll prop up the next guy so they can say they’re not as bad as them.
If voters don’t call out that nonsense, especially in blatantly obvious cases like this, it’s not going to change.
I agreed with that statement a month ago. Not so much today.
Yeah same, his view is simply outdated
Here we have a common example of Ignoramus badfaithius, making sure to do its daily activity of ignoring reality while sitting on the couch
You’re ignoring that Dems are using the same tactics you certainly removeded about Republicans doing then say others are ignoring reality and acting in bad faith?
Which tactics?
Awww. Wooks wike some people want to continue a two party system where one party constantly destroys stuff and the other party just promises not to make it worse while never actually fixing anything.
This is ancient fucking news. We knew Trump wouldn’t call the traitors traitors the day it happened…
The convention is one of the few places where you can safely explain why people should vote for you, instead of against the other guy, and it’s telling when they don’t take that opportunity…
Did you just reply to yourself?
Yes. That’s how threads work…
There is an edit button that allows you to add additional context to a comment that you think would be helpful.
As opposed to making a whole other reply and looking like a fucking loser talking to himself.
Sorry. You’re right. That’s the kind of thing I should be worried about rather than pointing out the systemic problem that means we lose a little bit of our rights every year.
In the future I will be sure to make sure my tone and format are more agreeable to you, so you can ignore the content in a more creative way.
Lol acting like you care about rights while attacking the best chance to protect them. Please, give up the act.
Did you agree with this the last several times it came up? Did you upvote it on Lemmy?
I… I feel the need to ask. Are you incapable of “worrying” about more than one thing at a time?
I’m guessing you saw someone else post that and thought it sounded clever so you’d reuse it the first chance you got?
Because it’s completely irrelevant here…
Worry 1:Republicans are fascists that use manipulative techniques on their base. Worry 2: Democratic leaders just used a similar technique Republicans used against Biden and Obama.
Sad.
