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Louise Linton gaffe

theprestige said:
Heh. I was wondering when this would show up here. I'm a little surprised it took as long as it did.


Not really. LTEC was apocryphal, and likely fiction, later attributed to a woman who was only 9 years old when the account was first published.

This, on the other hand, is an actual documented attribution, whose author deserves scorn because of it.


And we should all remember that what we are taught as history, while often truthy enough, is not always actually true. But your endorsement of a popular revolt, and mass executions of the 1%, is duly noted.
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*ahem*

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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Also, wasn't it Trump and his minions that just last year were threatening bloody revolt if they lost the election. And isn't it Trump minions like Roger Stone that are threatening it now?

Always with the Right, it's only wrong to do when they are potentially on the receiving end...
 
Hey, what can you expect from a basket of deplorables. Hillary called it and she called it true and certain!!!!!!!
 
Foolmewunz said:
Unless you're running over them with a train? No. It would be "verre". Ferré is train track or rail.
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Isn't it iron ?

As is "chemin de fer" - road of iron

ferré is more like steel-capped or hobnailed as in boots

At least in yurpy-French
 
The Don said:
Isn't it iron ?

As is "chemin de fer" - road of iron

ferré is more like steel-capped or hobnailed as in boots

At least in yurpy-French
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No. Fer is iron, and chemin de fer is a word for word translation for "road of iron" and means railroad or railway. But the actual rails are properly referred to as ferré.

Whatever! It ain't a glass.
 
Foolmewunz said:
No. Fer is iron, and chemin de fer is a word for word translation for "road of iron" and means railroad or railway. But the actual rails are properly referred to as ferré.

Whatever! It ain't a glass.
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Ferre (accent acute) is an adjective not a noun AFAIK
 
BobTheCoward said:
She is probably right that by most measures, her family's contribution to the economy outweigh the service of a single veteran. There is still plenty to critique, but the other side have been less than artful. But that is consistent with expectations of the intelligence level of likely enlisted military families.
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There's nothing special about her. Billionaires can always find a "model" to "marry". She'll age out of her looks and someone younger will take over the job of arm candy for hire.
 
Craig4 said:
There's nothing special about her. Billionaires can always find a "model" to "marry". She'll age out of her looks and someone younger will take over the job of arm candy for hire.
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And there is nothing special about a person in the army. There are far more replacements for them than her. So even on that grounds she comes out ahead to the person who drew the comparison.
 
Personally I sympathise with her. Vacuous spending on overpriced designer labels is probably one of the few pleasures she gets to make up for prostituting herself to a fat, older man....
 
BobTheCoward said:
And there is nothing special about a person in the army. There are far more replacements for them than her. So even on that grounds she comes out ahead to the person who drew the comparison.
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Actually, there are probably more knee-pad sluts for billionaires. There's a shortage of people who want to be in the Army, can qualify on the ASVAB and meet the minimum medical qualifications. However, there never seems to be a shortage of Models who want to get paid to hang on the arms of billionaires.
 
Ethan Thane Athen said:
Personally I sympathise with her. Vacuous spending on overpriced designer labels is probably one of the few pleasures she gets to make up for prostituting herself to a fat, older man....
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Steve-o may be the weasel he actually resembles... but he's neither fat nor old.
I'm almost a year and a half older, though I did feel an early twinge back in 2008 when I discovered I'm 3 days older than Obama. :eek:

And Louise is 36 or so, not exactly a child bride marriage (I was surprised to learn they just got hitched last month).

Surprisingly, he's not in the Billionaires Club either... worth about half what the individual Mega-Lotto winner just took home this past week. :D

Of course he did get divorced in 2014... that may have cost him half. ;)


As for the thread topic... my gripe at her original post was the "daytrip" tag.
As though it had been a shopping trip and spa day... on the people's dime.

The optics were just horrible... and her response managed to make it far worse.
But it's far from the worst thing to date about this administration. Just more unfortunate tone-deafness from Trump World. :(
 
Craig4 said:
Actually, there are probably more knee-pad sluts for billionaires. There's a shortage of people who want to be in the Army, can qualify on the ASVAB and meet the minimum medical qualifications. However, there never seems to be a shortage of Models who want to get paid to hang on the arms of billionaires.
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There are 540 billionaires in the US and 460,000 people in the army. I bet the math still works out on quality and quantity basis for billionaire wife.
 
Jim_MDP said:
Steve-o may be the weasel he actually resembles... but he's neither fat nor old.
I'm almost a year and a half older, though I did feel an early twinge back in 2008 when I discovered I'm 3 days older than Obama. :eek:

And Louise is 36 or so, not exactly a child bride marriage (I was surprised to learn they just got hitched last month).

Surprisingly, he's not in the Billionaires Club either... worth about half what the individual Mega-Lotto winner just took home this past week. :D

Of course he did get divorced in 2014... that may have cost him half. ;)


As for the thread topic... my gripe at her original post was the "daytrip" tag.
As though it had been a shopping trip and spa day... on the people's dime.

The optics were just horrible... and her response managed to make it far worse.
But it's far from the worst thing to date about this administration. Just more unfortunate tone-deafness from Trump World. :(
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18 year age difference someone said upthread and he's purportedly very rich but yeah, I'm sure it was his good looks and scintillating personality she fell in love with...
 
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Ethan Thane Athen said:
18 year age difference someone said upthread and he's purportedly very rich but yeah, I'm sure it was his good looks and scintillating personality she fell in love with...
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As Mrs Merton once famously said when interviewing (the lovely) Debbie McGee

Mrs Merton said:
What first attracted you to millionaire entertainer Paul Daniels ?
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BobTheCoward said:
There are 540 billionaires in the US and 460,000 people in the army. I bet the math still works out on quality and quantity basis for billionaire wife.
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The millionaire who has paid the bare minimum of tax has made greater sacrifices that the person who has lost a loved one, or indeed the person who has received life-changing injuries in the service of their country ?

Errrrr no.
 
Craig4 said:
And what's the overall contribution of the arm candy? It's the billionaire's money she has.
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In any case, she made reference to sacrifice for the country so even if the Mnuchins have paid a hatful of tax, is that a sacrifice on a par with losing a loved one or being made a quadriplegic by an I.E.D. in Afghanistan ?
 
The Don said:
The millionaire who has paid the bare minimum of tax has made greater sacrifices that the person who has lost a loved one, or indeed the person who has received life-changing injuries in the service of their country ?

Errrrr no.
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I didn't say sacrifice, I said contribution. However sad it is that person's death is, it ultimately contributes very little. Her words were how much was given.
 
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