This is an unsurprising development. There has been quite the dust up over ads which encourage a woman to vote her own mind regardless of what hubby wants her to vote. Now that’s all well and good if a voting booth is the means of casting a vote. What has always worried me on this topic is the situation where people vote via mail-in ballot and if hubby demands to see the ballot that wifey filled out, then the poor woman is stuck. I honestly have no idea how many women find themselves in that scenario. I hope it’s not that many and my heart goes out to anybody in that position. That is truly tyranny. In any event, here’s Donald Trump with his two cents and notice where he stumbles in the video. Curious.
Are you sure Melania is voting for you? Maybe, she's tired of you too.
— Sage John Amenti (@SageAmenti) November 2, 2024
The way I heard it was that he was about to say “horrible marriage.” And then for some reason he corrected that to “bad relationship.” And I wonder why that is? Do you suppose that he and Mel have sat down from time to time and maybe she’s said to him, “Donald, we have a horrible marriage but I’m willing to stick it out if you revise my pre-nup to such and such? And pay me a quarter of a million dollars every time I have to pretend to like you in public?”
I just found it an interesting place to stumble and decide to reword something, especially coming from a man who never misses an opportunity to phrase something in the most confrontational and contentious way. Maybe I’m reading too much into this but my opinion is that he didn’t want to complete the sentence, “horrible marriage” because it was going to remind him of his own horrible marriage.
Again, we know nothing of what goes on at Mar-a-Lago or Trump Tower, only what we see. Or didn’t see, like Melania didn’t do squat for two solid years to campaign for her *husband* when she could have been out there every single day.
And I find it interesting that Barron’s political *career* got nipped in the bud. Remember that? It was his last year of high school and he was chosen as a delegate to the RNC — and then three days later, kaboom! Melania’s office releases a statement that he’s got “prior committments.” I totally wonder what committment could supersede the desire to get one’s father elected to the highest office in the land? I mean, what, a tennis date? A dental cleaning? I would seriously love to know.
My take on that when it happened was that there was some water-testing going on. I think Melania was ready to go along with it until the denizens of Twitter all rallied and said, “Fine. If Barron is entering politics, then he’s fair game, like his other siblings who have supported their father.” And I think that caused Melania to reconsider the entire thing.
Politics is a rough game, and it can be vicious. And nobody has inspired the vicious blow back more than Donald Trump, with his own vicious behavior. Had Barron entered the fray he would, right now, be on the receiving end of contacts to find out just what exactly his father meant when he spoke of “pointing nine guns” at Liz Cheney’s “face.” Trump himself chimed in on that and only dug the hole deeper.
for the third straight day, Trump daydreams about "the enemy" pointing guns at Liz Cheney pic.twitter.com/q5vGfATzjq
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 2, 2024
I don’t know about you, but if I had a choice of getting into a foxhole with Liz Cheney or Donald Trump, I know which one I would pick. Cheney put her career on the line for a higher cause. And while the woman never cast a single vote I agreed with (other than to impeach Trump) at least she shares the basic, bottom line values that all Americans share, that the Constitution is the foundation of the law of the land and must be upheld.
Trump and his thugs want to shred the Constitution, they want to gut the Civil Service, they want to pillage the public coffers. This weekend and Tuesday will determine whether they get to do that or not.
Marriage? I don’t see it. Of course the vows of marriage hold as much water as the oaths taken by our elected officials. A country that can’t abide by oaths or the truth.
I think that tweet and what you suggested is what’s going on with increased mail-in voting by Republicans. Since 2018 they’ve lost again and again and at the state level too. We know a LOT of GOP women have at least split their tickets when voting, and maybe more than just voting against Trump. Forcing wives to fill out their ballots in front of them is a way in which asshole MAGA/Republican men can control who they vote for. If things work out ok next week, look for in the years to come divorces where abuse is alleged – and one area is that some hubby abused the woman over filling out her ballot the way HE demanded she fill it out.
these women can always get a provisional ballot
Can I imagine a wife not telling her husband who she voted for? Why is this so hard for them to understand–voting is PRIVATE. The ballot is SECRET-that is how our elections roll. That is what makes democracy work.
Let us be brutally honest, and I wish one of those idiot trumps looked in on this blog, had we the type of elections where people merely caucused, raised their hands, or some other public show of who is voting for who, trump would NEVER have gotten elected. The man has been an embarrassment long before his little foray into politics but his klan rallies since 2015 would have made people think twice before raising a hand to vote for him-publicity could mean the loss of a lot of shit-wife/husband, children/family, jobs, connections, etc. Yes, there were people who have been waiting for this racist moron ever since David Duke did not get nominated/elected and eventually just stopped embarrassing himself but there were people in the swing states for instance who probably did not even make a choice in ’16 until they entered the voting booth.
Well, it’s just like all the polling done in 2016 where Trump had virtually NO chance of winning. The people who ended up voting for him (winning just enough votes in a few crucial states to tilt the Electoral College his way) generally hid their true intentions from the pollsters. Even though most polls (especially ones done by phone) are largely anonymous (I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone’s name mentioned in a poll’s results like “One respondent, Brad McKinnon, said he was voting for Trump because Trump made him feel he could call his African-American neighbor by the n-word and get away with it” or “Respondent Phil Simonson said that even though he’d voted for Bernie Sanders in his state’s Democratic primary, he could never support that “bitch” Hillary Clinton because she was such a c-word who should be in jail over the email scandal”), people in 2016–especially Trump supporters–tend to answer poll questions with answers they think the pollster wants to hear because they do think they’re being “judged” based on their answers.
And the informal, random “man-on-the-street” polls generally done by TV newspeople are even more prone to that “judgment” factor skewing results because they know there’s a very good chance their opinions will be seen and heard by family and friends and co-workers.