One reason why I think respectability is stupid is because it's often used as a mask. Such judgements are rarely about the clothes themselves, but more often about the bodies beneath them. To wit, no one raised an issue when Elon wore a graphic t-shirt and ball cap to meet the Trump cabinet.
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It’s about the money beneath.
The difference is, Zelensky is right (he is affecting the style of a leader whose country is at war, which he is & it is) while Elon is wrong.
But MAGAs think it's the other way around.
Some might see a henley. I'm married to a Ukrainian, however, so I see a respectable & relevant a cultural reference
Because apparently you don't have to show up looking smart if you've had 17 billion dollars in government contracts and you're about to kill a Verizon contract so you can have $2.4bn more.
Vance is forever a donkey.
We see the game. Loud & clear. And we’re not impressed
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What’s with “masculinity” and its inability to look in the mirror?
A) he's a bully
B) the reporter was told to ask that question
C) he's classless
D) all of the above
Don't forget trump also commented on his lack of a suit upon greeting Zelensky, setting the tone.
Elon brought a toddler instead of a suit
sorry, eyeballs just popped, blood and aqueous humour on screen, will have to finish reading later
I work in a sector where business casual rules, so I'm not insisting on suits and ties, but goddamn, an adult male shouldn't go out in public like Dennis the Menace
I think our country would be in a better place if Trayvon was still around and Mark...wasn't.
All domestic visitors?
If they’re asking for trade expansion is that the same as asking for money?
You can put lipstick on a pig…
FDR appointed Joe Kennedy to the post, whom he didn't particularly like, and rather viciously teased him that his bandy legs would look silly.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000v99n
https://earlyamericanists.com/2017/02/15/roundtable-ambassador-in-a-hat-the-sartorial-power-of-benjamin-franklins-fur-cap/
The coonskin cap as a symbol of the 'American frontiersman' was already so common it verged on cliche by the 1780s, when Franklin was ambassador to France (and when Crockett was born)
And that crack is a put down to Appalachian coal miners, one of the hardest jobs for which they pay a hefty price with their health.
Taxes on VC aren’t nearly high enough.
Security in the pharmacy does live announcements about shoplifters because they’re watching me on CCTV when the guard on the shop floor is busy somewhere else.
It's now his personal trademark.
Vance, Trump and the fuckwits they credit as journalists can fuck right off.
Trump should be in an orange boiler suit and chains.
That was the most immature question I have ever seen a member of Congress ask of a dignitary
https://redloraine.wixsite.com/website/post/principles-of-abuse-and-the-internal-failures-of-racists
Only Musk was disrespecting the US. Big time.
Trump looks shit in a suit. If Ukraine’s hero had worn one, Donald would have looked like the crass, dumb bloated blimp that he is, in his oversized, shoulder-padded navy blazer and ding faux proxy dong front tail tie.
Give me a hero in a sweater any day. Right?
https://bsky.app/profile/sadworld.bsky.social/post/3ljbk4cay322u
-MAGA sophisticated fashion.
They don't care about what the clothes are, they care about who's in them and will use any vector to attack them.