By David Futrelle
When is Melania Trump not Melania Trump? When internet conspiracy theorists decide that the Melania Trump-looking lady standing next to our illegitimate president is a secret imposter. Never mind that this women is OBVIOUSLY MELANIA WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT.
You know what’s fake for real? Donald’s “concern” for fallen soldiers. And a lot of his much touted charitable contributions.
Here’s the tweet that started the whole #FakeMelania thing.
https://twitter.com/JoeVargas/status/920507354403233793
Others offered their own “proof.”
Did Melania have a nose job to make her nose BIGGER? Because it sure looks like she did.#FakeMelania #FakePOTUS #TrumpLies pic.twitter.com/69XAYLMMFm
— StrictlyRockers 🇺🇦🌻 (@christoq) October 18, 2017
THAT IS THE EXACT SAME WOMAN YOU DOOFUS HER NOSE ISN’T BIGGER IT’S THE LIGHTING JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.
https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/920730181647716355
Ok, wait, THAT is a lot more convincing. Her hair isn’t even the right color! Sloppy work there, Fake Melania handlers!
The evidence of conspiracy is piling up:
https://twitter.com/SJGrunewald/status/920779865908850689
https://twitter.com/Resist_NL/status/920732735953661952
https://twitter.com/cowboytuxedo/status/920736193624592384
https://twitter.com/AchillesHeelArt/status/920721783224971266
https://twitter.com/thetigersez/status/920774957415591936
The real Melania is the friends we’ve made along the way
— Orli Matlow (@HireMeImFunny) October 18, 2017
In other news, the very real Donald Trump is a fucking monster.
Trump to pregnant military widow on slain husband: "He knew what he signed up for."
Detestable man. https://t.co/nXrOV27q5Y pic.twitter.com/0BbIlkH2kk
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) October 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/920449283756904454
And his “charitable contributions” are basically nothing but hot air.
Trump National Golf Club in LA claimed $5 million in charitable contributions, but removed the claim after NPR started asking questions
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) October 18, 2017
And he seems to have killed the Obamacare fix he earlier said he supported.
Two days ago, Trump said Obamacare was "dead."
Yesterday, he said he supported the bipartisan plan to fix it.
Today, he says he doesn't.— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) October 18, 2017
Also, he says “billions and billions” a lot.
Billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions. https://t.co/GHaAWJWZy9 pic.twitter.com/LIP8EDqmOu
— VICE (@VICE) October 18, 2017
“Alt-right” shitheads continue to be shitheads.
Fascists put up flyers telling LGBT kids to commit suicide and @CLE_State's prez worried that "all voices be heard." https://t.co/hJ5V1JCMPa
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) October 18, 2017
This is why we need so many animal pics and vids.
https://twitter.com/dognkitty/status/920432799412129792
https://twitter.com/awwcuteness/status/920428985829511169
https://twitter.com/videocats/status/920224968209846272
https://twitter.com/MeetAnimals/status/920435528016760832
I will end with this important warning.
— [👁 ˍゝ👁 ] (@Kpluspics) October 17, 2017
@Oogly
*looks out at the molten wasteland that is the world right now*
I’m… struggling to see the downside. Let’s roll those dice, eh? 😛
@Axecalibur: Middle Name Danger
Dare we tempt fate?
I thought this was too good to be true at first, but it’s real! And so perfect.
Did that person just punch two Nazis simultaneously? Achievement unlocked!
I got distracted looking at the Girl Guides UK website. Much more interesting that the Trumps.
Prepare for a completely off-topic ramble about my years as a Guide.
I was a Brownie, Guide and Young Leader. Guiding was my life from the age of 8 to 19. SO many changes over the decades, thankfully moving away from its paternalistic, patriotism-soaked roots. I was there when girls started being allowed to join Scouts, in the mid-late nineties, and when the uniform changed from the brown or blue cotton dresses to t-shirts, sweatshirts and trousers or culottes. The Rainbows were still wearing tabards though. That must have been about 1991. Looking at the Girl Guiding UK website it looks like they’ve updated the uniforms and books again.
I’m still in touch with both my Brownie leaders and my Guide leader. They had a lot of influence on my life. They were integral parts of the community in my little town, my Guide leader was a Marie Curie Nurse, and the local vicar’s wife, and the Brownie leaders were teachers at a local primary school.
Go Go Gadget Nazi Puncher!
@Alan Robertshaw:
Does the nazi in question not realize he’s wearing his hair in the style of a Jamaican Rude Boy?
@Conspiracies: Shamefully, Conspiracy theories are rampant amongst Autonomists, Anarchists, Communists and Socialists here as well, and I know way too many otherwise decent comrades, who are quite into 9/11-truthing, Illuminati/Rothschild-conspiracies and a slew of other weirdness. For a lot of them, it stems from being brought in through “Awakened” hiphop from the 00’s or from not being quite critical enough, but it’s been a near-constant thing in all circles I’ve set foot in over the years, from die-hard anticapitalists, environmentalists, the punk scene (which is highly politicised over here). It seems that some people desperately need to dehumanise the architects of our oppression, by making it about reptillians, Freemasons and ancient conspiracies fostered by secretive cabals, rather than the very overt forces of Capitalism and Patriarchy.
Axe,
That’s Junior, and yeah, he’s pretty stupid, too.
Player: I punch the nazi pus-bag
DM: Roll to hit.
Player: *rolls a natural 20*
DM: Critical hit! You punch the nazi pus-bag so hard his head snaps back and hits the nazi behind him. Double damage to both, and I’m awarding you extra XP.
@Alan,
Where was that picture taken? Just wondering.
ETA: that last pic in the OP; referencing this?
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRxeulVFbGjb0RjZdluKb_YqHDdCYyTVwQZ7W0ZZlpTTkQMxrF2
@ redsilkphoenix
At a Spencer speech in Gainsborough.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.818233?v=9F27ED90CCA6EB02A8F49835CCC3A4B8
Speaking of assholes getting a whupping, a gang of guys in Israel this week were daft enough to hurl some gendered insults at a female IDF soldier; but she wasn’t having any of it.
Warning: contains scenes of wankers getting kicked.
https://youtu.be/3n8iHmdOYA4