Thursday, November 29, 2018

Don't listen to the haters, Melania's decorations are perfect.

Benny Johnson writing on Daily Caller then tells you the things not to listen to.  They're actually rather creative in a negative Middle School way; creepy, Christmas from Hell, spooky, a scene from The Shining, Christmas trees of death.

He left out the trees look like costumes for the Handmaiden's Tale.

Nevermind. Johnson is bragging about spending the night at the White House.

Much more at the link. Nice photographs. Most tableaus are very well done. I especially like the nativity scene arranged stacked on a tall antique broken architectural section on top of a cabinet with angels above on the wall and suspended in air.


If you would like more of what the haters say then check out any of the YouTube videos about this and drop down to comments. And that makes me wonder, if you hate somebody so much why bother watching any videos about them? To be further aggravated? No. To be further aggravating. They do it specifically for the opportunity to further express their hate. It's what they live for. And their comments say more about them than they do about the subject of the videos. 

8 comments:

edutcher said...

The red trees struck me as odd, but I missed the Vlad the Impaler vibe.

The media is getting like all the menopausal and pre-menopausal feminuts saying Trump has ruined their marriages.

ricpic said...

"The red trees struck me as odd..."

Ditto. And I don't get the "creepy" comment either. The rest of the decorations seem more or less standard.

I grew up with a table very similar to that beautiful long table of golden wood and a dark wood border. Yes, I've come down in the world.

MamaM said...

I am tired of polarization and haters. I like the old world charm of the nativity set up, and enjoy the way the ceiling lit with leaf shapes provides a visual lift. The red trees leave me cold. I wonder if they're Melania's way of giving the media something to focus on, similar to the fodder Trump provides, while the rest of the decorating appears to be tastefully done and "more or less standard" as ricpic said.

MamaM said...

I grew up with a wood dining room table that had it's own custom made table pads to protect the surface. The table had wave shaped ends and an inlaid top. In setting it for dinner (special occasions only) all that beautiful woodgrain and craftsmanship was covered with half inch thick folding pads, followed by a sheet and topped with a pressed table cloth that had been sent through the mangle. Those days are long gone now along with the table, and I don't miss them. Maybe it would be truer to say I don't miss the right/wrong fol-de-rol and focus on perfectionism that went along with my life in that era, though I appreciate the beauty and excellence that was also present as part of it. I did get out a washed and folded tablecloth for our Thanksgiving dinner and made a bouquet out of greens from outside the house and the few flowers left blooming in the pots I'd lugged inside before the first frost, as my tribute to the past that formed me.

While Melania's decorations are notable, look good, and appear to work with the rest of the WH decor, I'm not inclined to regard them as perfect. To my mind perfectionism runs close to blind idealism, the flip side of blind hatred.

Fr Martin Fox said...

Who cares?

I'm sure they are fine. Probably over the top, but it's Washington. Melania seems to be a decent person, so I doubt she's going to have tributes to Satan. Why should I even give it a thought? Why should anyone get worked up?

MamaM said...

Back to the boot post and the Garden of Eden comment posted earlier. It's a place to Judge.

With this coming up in my reading last night:
“We are not satisfied being God-like in our capacity to love; we also want to become God-like in our capacity to judge, which is how the serpent tempts us. But in aspiring toward the latter, we lose our capacity for the former, for unlike God, we cannot judge and love at the same time. The essence of sin is that we play God. We critically assess and evaluate everything and everyone from our limited, finite, biased perspective.”

Greg Boyd’s Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God.

Amartel said...

The decor is fine.
The haters are, as usual, just projecting their own insecurity and hate.
There's the Royal We (Obama, the Clampitts and other high level apparatchiks).
Then there's the Petty Borejaw We (the collective of acolytes and little satans, the madame dufarges of the internet, unencumbered by wisdom or even common sense much less any marketable skill other than taptaptapping on their keyboards in celebration of every head that rolls off the media guillotine, yearning for attention and clicks for being the best at being awful.

Amartel said...

That is a lovely nativity scene. I wonder if Melania has incorporated some eastern european/Slovenian accents into the decor. Diverse!