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This is why I've been saying Kamala should pick Pete Buttigeg for VP. We could have a first and second gentleman at the same time.
Yeah, follow Germany 15 years later. (Angela Merkel as chancellor and Guido Westerwelle as vice chancellor)
Guido
oh no
I believe Kamala would also be the first president with no children of their own, but married someone with their own children.
Apparently they call her Mamala, which is adorable.
Washington had no biological children but had multiple step children:
https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/family
Mamala is very adorable.
I was not aware of that! Thank you!
please, don't look for what it means Mamala in Spanish xD
And don't look for what "Kamala" means in Finnish.
Hey, they couldn't sell the Chevy Nova in Spanish-speaking countries either.
My favorite counter to the myth about 'Nova' and 'no va' is that in english, you wouldn't refuse to by a dining room set called "Notable".
I never thought about that. Good point.
That’s apocryphal. Guess what the word for a stellar nova is in Spanish.
Well TIL. But then I'm guessing they won't have an issue with 'Mamala' in this context either, if they even learn about it.
I speak spanish "mamala" means "suck it" I guess some would understand some otgers would.laugh. I didn't make the conection until he mentioned really.
Yeah, for sure.
I thought it was the El Camino
I gotta admit, I had almost no concept of what Jill Biden looked like so I was pretty much "who the fuck is that."
Kinda thought it was Jenna Maroney at first glance
If American elections are going to descend to the level of chaos that this year has provided, I demand at least ro be compensated by a full, in-character Jenna preferential run.
First Lad
The Onion will have a field day with articles about Mr. Kamala Harris
Weird choice of image for Melania.
Is it though?
There are significantly less horny pictures of her to choose from.
Is it weird that there are significantly more horny images of her to pick from? I think it's interesting at least.
And yet
Its just misogyny, relax!
It's literally her in her professional setting.
Doug on a mug!
I can't wait to see what he does with the Christmas trees! And maybe the other winter holidays won't be just an afterthought shoved in a corner this year.
Looking forward to Christmas Hot Rods
First Bro ayyyyyyyyyyy
Oh nowninhope Harris wins. What's going to be the title? Does anyone know? First lady Doug?
First Gentleman is customary, but I dunno, I like First Spouse like in the post. Leaves an option for nonbinary eligibility.
He's currently called the Second Gentleman.
I'm hoping for First Dude but they're gonna do something more staid.
NOW you do? Not because of literally everything evil Trump and his goons want to do to destroy this country? The fuck?
Hillary is kinda....
This always bothered me as a kid when Bill was president. I grew up in a Rush Limbaugh house, and the right wing folks were always joking that Hillary was a man.
I'd ask my Dad why, but he would shake his head. The only reason Rush seemed to "joke" about it was because she wore pantsuits. But I wore jeans sometimes and shorts (they're comfy and easy to wear!) But I wasn't mannish. I was a little girl? Does changing my clothes change my gender? Should I only wear skirts?
Fuck that! I hate when it's hot and my thighs get all sweaty!
Then, of course, they seemed gleeful to turn those jokes into "we were right, that's why he cheated" at the end.
It wasn't until I got older and they skipped Laura Bush and went straight back to "she's a man!" about Michelle Obama, and I realized it wasn't ever about them actually being masculine. It was just that the greatest insult men can lob at women is to insult their appearance, their femininity. And I figure that's less about these women being mannish, and more because the worst thing you could've said about Rush was that he was a weak girlyman.
I figure... that's probably part of what the whole trans thing is. Kind of how "gay" was a massive insult until people realized, oh, wait, you can't just yell "gay" at someone and make them less straight somehow. They've been using "you aren't your gender" at people for so long that seeing it not matter was fucking them up.
...and I want to add, because I'm kind of a basic bitch in a lot of ways which means if I noticed it, so did other women. "She has amazing arms so she's a man" did not stick with a lot of women. I'm sorry, sis has a body we would kill for and you're trying to use that as an insult? I know women who would politely pretend that "joke" was cute, but as soon as the asshole left would say, "...she looks like a woman! A strong one! Who wouldn't want that?"
(I've worked on customer service in the south, don't judge us for humoring crazy people.)
This ramble was brought to you by; ADHD meds haven't kicked in yet and I got to work early.
None of it made sense to me. Especially when they started making fun of Hillary's looks right after Barbara Bush who, no offense meant to her, looked like a grandma. Hillary was 45 when Bill was elected and looked younger.
Exactly, I was just applauding her beauty in this pic, and they threw a whole ass paragraph (which I didn't even read btw)
Wouldn't be gentleman since it's a objectively classest term in it's origin and use. Especially is a dude who isn't common and isn't a Lord but of a "good family" which generally meant wealthy and white.