Global Lipstick Inventories Plunge as GOP Seeks Cosmetic Miracle

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by Betty Crackerat8:11 am on April 23, 2016. It has 118 Comments.

This past week — as we Democrats were bickering over which of our two presidential candidates has the better strategy for ameliorating wealth inequality, addressing structural bias, reducing student debt and securing world peace — Republican poobahs were hearing a new campaign chief’s presentation on plans to repackage the short-fingered vulgarian for general election purposes. From the NYT:

Addressing about 100 committee members at the spring meeting here, many of them deeply skeptical about Mr. Trump’s candidacy, the campaign chief, Paul Manafort, bluntly suggested the candidate’s incendiary style amounted to an act. “That’s what’s important for you to understand: That he gets it, and that the part he’s been playing is evolving,” Mr. Manafort said, suggesting that Mr. Trump was about to begin a more professional phase of his campaign…

“Fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixing character negatives,” said Mr. Manafort, claiming that Hillary Clinton suffered from negative. “You can’t change somebody’s character. But you can change the way somebody presents themselves…”

Sorry, Republicans. There’s just isn’t enough lipstick in the world to beautify the oinker who is your frontrunner. Trump hasn’t merely pretended to be a repulsive pig to appeal to the GOP’s swinish base. He is and always has been an embarrassing, racist, chauvinist pig.

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Trump believes that a woman’s worth directly correlates with her looks and that a man’s worth directly correlates with the eye candy on his arm.

I was struck by a similar thought the other night while watching Trump’s post-NY primary victory speech, which the Beltway press deemed a magnanimous pivot to a more presidential tone. But it wasn’t anything Trump said that caught my attention — it was the visual image:

Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Speaks At New York Election Night Event


Nothing against tall, willowy, blond, white ladies who wear their hair long and part it in the middle: I was one myself before I started going grey. But can you see that photo and NOT imagine a Trump stage manager herding all the short, visibly middle-aged or portly women — if such women there be with power connections at a Trump event — to the rear of the dais, or better yet, backstage? What would it look like if Hillary Clinton tried to pull off a similar power tableau? Maybe something like this?

clinton fabios


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https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/04/23/global-lipstick-inventories-plunge-as-gop-seeks-cosmetic-miracle/

[Trust Buster]

1. Hilarious thread title.

[kimbutgar]

2. I thought the same thing about seeing skinny blonde straight hair women surrounding him

As a woman with dark curly hair I saw the message of his bigotry in a subtle way.

I worked with a NY jerk who was nice only to women in our office who had stick straight hair. I later found out that he was a racist who believed that pure white people only had straight hair. It was a weird fetish he had. Years later I met a women who knew him and told me about it.

[awoke_in_2003]

3. I always preferred brunettes...

especially of the Latin variety

[whistler162]

4. Reports show that the porcine

population running scared.