What does a BIDEN Presidency look like?

Started by Caliga, November 07, 2020, 12:07:22 PM

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Tamas

But that at some point BROKE tradition. It's not nice to continually piss on old customs like that.

Eddie Teach

Err, what's wrong with bridesmaid dresses?
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Josquius

I expect the trumpies are up in arms about that?
It's funny how much hate left leaning celebrities get. They're painted as a shadowy elite ruling the world.
The real elite of course doesn't much appear in the gossip pages these days. Well. Most of them. Trump does of course.
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Sheilbh

I think it's fair to call a literal Getty heiress part of the real elite by anyone's measure :P
Let's bomb Russia!

Savonarola

Quote from: Sheilbh on November 14, 2021, 05:03:11 PM
I think it's fair to call a literal Getty heiress part of the real elite by anyone's measure :P

A Getty heiress whose wedding was officiated by the United States Speaker of the House, attended by the Governor of California and had Earth, Wind and Fire perform at it.  The article reads like The Godfather wedding as written by Edith Wharton.  In what possible sense could these people not be considered "The Real EliteTM"? 
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Eddie Teach

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The Brain

Quote from: Savonarola on November 15, 2021, 02:02:43 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on November 14, 2021, 05:03:11 PM
I think it's fair to call a literal Getty heiress part of the real elite by anyone's measure :P

A Getty heiress whose wedding was officiated by the United States Speaker of the House, attended by the Governor of California and had Earth, Wind and Fire perform at it.  The article reads like The Godfather wedding as written by Edith Wharton.  In what possible sense could these people not be considered "The Real EliteTM"?

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Josquius

Quote from: Sheilbh on November 14, 2021, 05:03:11 PM
I think it's fair to call a literal Getty heiress part of the real elite by anyone's measure :P
Would it be making the news if not for celebrities?
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Eddie Teach

It's also fair to call Nancy Pelosi part of the elite.
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Admiral Yi

Quote from: Tyr on November 15, 2021, 04:31:16 PM
Would it be making the news if not for celebrities?

Of course not.  You have to be someone for your wedding to make the news.

Sheilbh

Quote from: Tyr on November 15, 2021, 04:31:16 PM
Would it be making the news if not for celebrities?
I think so - if only because of Pelosi presiding.

But also it made the news in Vanity Fair and was then picked up elsewhere. It strikes me as very much a story you'd expect Vanity Fair to pick up - attactive multi-billionaires will always attact gossip column inches. Bit weird, but appropriate, to see it given full royal wedding treatment by somewhere like CNN though.
Let's bomb Russia!

Josquius

That's my point. Regular multi billionaires who pull the strings of the global economy....you don't really hear about them because they aren't publically rubbing shoulders with celebs and aren't so overt with their political connections.
They're the true elites.
Not the chick from queen's gambit.
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Barrister

Quote from: Tyr on November 15, 2021, 06:48:14 PM
That's my point. Regular multi billionaires who pull the strings of the global economy....you don't really hear about them because they aren't publically rubbing shoulders with celebs and aren't so overt with their political connections.
They're the true elites.
Not the chick from queen's gambit.

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Jacob

Would you mind dialing the anti-semitism down a notch there Beeb?

Razgovory

Quote from: Jacob on November 16, 2021, 08:24:27 PM
Would you mind dialing the anti-semitism down a notch there Beeb?

I don't think you are get what he's saying...
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