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My wife thinks that, and she doesn't even follow politics. So, unfortunately your gut feeling is wrong.

Decent people like her.
I didn’t say anything about liking her. I’m talking specifically about the description of her as “classy.” And I’m not talking to your wife. I’m talking to you. As for your wife, she may not follow politics, but she’s around you, so she’s bound to pick up something, just like how my wife winds up humming the music I listen to.
 
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What’s absurd is how much the right fawns over her for being “classy” after having been so derisive of previous Democratic first ladies who were not only at least as “classy”, but also far more active in their public service pursuits. Michelle Obama is at least as “classy” in every respect and your side treated her like an animal (literally).

Unlike some on my side, I don’t have a problem with Melania. But the way you guys all fell in line behind that bit of propaganda makes it hard to take your opinions seriously.
Classy seems to mean rich, white and privileged with designer clothes and expensive hair and makeup. And thin - classy in the feminine sense means thin and botoxed.
 
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Classy seems to mean rich, white and privileged with designer clothes and expensive hair and makeup. And thin - classy in the feminine sense means thin and botoxed.

I view classy as modest and well mannered. Someone who thinks before they speak. Someone who's kind, and not antagonistic. Someone who's gentle and not rough...
 
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I view classy as modest and well mannered. Someone who thinks before they speak. Someone who's kind, and not antagonistic. Someone who's gentle and not rough...
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I view classy as modest and well mannered. Someone who thinks before they speak. Someone who's kind, and not antagonistic. Someone who's gentle and not rough...
In what way is she kind?

I think she fails at modesty as well if you take her career as a whole. In the biblical sense, there is no modesty in flaunting wealth. She has also lied about her accomplishments (lack thereof) and education which is the opposite of modesty.
 
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I view classy as modest and well mannered. Someone who thinks before they speak. Someone who's kind, and not antagonistic. Someone who's gentle and not rough...
Every first lady in modern history has been well-mannered and controlled in their speech. I don’t have a sense of how kind or gentle many were behind closed doors, but on that point, she doesn’t appear to stand out from the pack the way that Michelle Obama, Jill Biden and maybe Laura Bush have.
 
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Sounds empathetic. Yuk!
Everyone loves empathy. But it gets really complicated and messy when people take empathic ideas, and then apply them rough and militantly... That's where the weirdness comes in, and feathers get ruffled.

...That's a major part of why our politics have become so messy today.
 
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If that's the persona she portrays, then that's the actual her. To say she's faking it, and is actually someone else, sounds like a form of jealousy to me.

Like I mentioned earlier, her persona is similar to one of my daughters, who is genuinely that way. For some people, it is the real them.

Plenty of models get into it because they have some kind of psychological fixation or inner wound they can't or won't address. People like Melania can make a lifetime habit out of it, they are used to viewing their presence as a commodity.
 
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The description of her as “classy.” It’s a sentiment that’s been repeated a lot since the beginning of the first administration, often along the lines of “we finally have a classy first lady again.”

You didn’t all come to that wording independently. You were fed it.

"Classy" is shorthand for "non-threatening and socially conformist". I'd rather be known for integrity or honesty. But classy? That's part of the problem right there. Class has been used throughout history as a way to signal respectability among aristocratic or oligarchic scoundrels. There's nothing threatening about well-mannered arm candy, that's sort of the point.
 
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I view classy as modest and well mannered. Someone who thinks before they speak. Someone who's kind, and not antagonistic. Someone who's gentle and not rough...
Whoa...I don't know anyone, given those descriptions, would think of my wife. But if you asked them to name 3 women they knew that had class...she'd be pretty much in most of the top three picks.

Modest and well mannered? Thinks before she speaks? Oh, dear me...
 
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Whoa...I don't know anyone, given those descriptions, would think of my wife. But if you asked them to name 3 women they knew that had class...she'd be pretty much in most of the top three picks.

Modest and well mannered? Thinks before she speaks? Oh, dear me...
I'm sure your family is great. I don't doubt it, most Australians seem like good people.

This is a really 'good vibes' track straight from Australia. All good vibes! I can feel it.

 
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Breaking: This poster has called a press conference in two weeks. The topic will be addressing scandalous rumors of my affair with Halle Berry.
 
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I've become so cynical about this topic at this point that I'm convinced that everyone worth more than $50M dollars was on the sex island at least once... with the only possible exceptions being Keanu Reeves and Chuck Norris.
 
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Every first lady in modern history has been well-mannered and controlled in their speech. I don’t have a sense of how kind or gentle many were behind closed doors, but on that point, she doesn’t appear to stand out from the pack the way that Michelle Obama, Jill Biden and maybe Laura Bush have.
She stands out in one way.

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I've become so cynical about this topic at this point that I'm convinced that everyone worth more than $50M dollars was on the sex island at least once... with the only possible exceptions being Keanu Reeves and Chuck Norris.
 
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Everyone loves empathy. But it gets really complicated and messy when people take empathic ideas, and then apply them rough and militantly... That's where the weirdness comes in, and feathers get ruffled.

...That's a major part of why our politics have become so messy today.
To be fair it's also hard to be empathetic to people so clearly unsympathetic to others.
 
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