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Louise Linton gaffe

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Louise Linton is a British actress, married to treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin.

Over the past few days she has made his life a little harder than it should.

First she hash-tagged the designers she was wearing as she got off a US Airforce executive jet. At best it was a bit insensitive towards those ordinary Americans who were paying for the trip but who cannot afford those kinds of designer clothes, at worst it cold have breached regulations regarding endorsements.

Then she got into a spat with people who complained and said:

Did you think this was a personal trip?! Have you given more to the economy than me and my husband?
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One response was:

I had my first daughter in Germany, alone, while my husband,was off fighting in the Gulf war. Tell me again how you do more?
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Now it turns out that the trip may have been timed and routed to make the best of the eclipse:

A watchdog group suspects an official trip by the US treasury secretary may have been planned around the solar eclipse.
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No doubt time will tell.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41032306
 
Don't be so critical of Ms Linton! She has very usefully provided my wife and me with a nice new phrase for our flirting repertoire: "You're adorably out of touch".

I just love that. It's my new catchphrase.
 
Just goes to show that the cream of society, it's best, brightest and, might I add, most compassionate, rise to the top.
 
She is probably right that by most measures, her family's contribution to the economy outweigh the service of a single veteran. There is still plenty to critique, but the other side have been less than artful. But that is consistent with expectations of the intelligence level of likely enlisted military families.
 
Isn't she the one who wrote about her time in Africa being adored as an 'angel' and menaced by nonexistent rebels?
 
This is the 21st Century version of "Let Them Eat Cake"

Linton should remember that Marie Antoinette ended up in the fond embrace of Madame La Guillotine.
 
Heh. I was wondering when this would show up here. I'm a little surprised it took as long as it did.

dudalb said:
This is the 21st Century version of "Let Them Eat Cake"
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Not really. LTEC was apocryphal, and likely fiction, later attributed to a woman who was only 9 years old when the account was first published.

This, on the other hand, is an actual documented attribution, whose author deserves scorn because of it.

Linton should remember that Marie Antoinette ended up in the fond embrace of Madame La Guillotine.
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And we should all remember that what we are taught as history, while often truthy enough, is not always actually true. But your endorsement of a popular revolt, and mass executions of the 1%, is duly noted.
 
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crescent said:
Don't be so critical of Ms Linton! She has very usefully provided my wife and me with a nice new phrase
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And not only that.

Thousands of media employees are kept in jobs by these useless pieces of gossip, and it gives millions a reason to continue their dreary inconsequential lives. In fact, the entire country's economy is dependent on the population being placated by such entertainment.

Linton is right, she really has given more to the economy than any random detractor.
 
BobTheCoward said:
She is probably right that by most measures, her family's contribution to the economy outweigh the service of a single veteran. There is still plenty to critique, but the other side have been less than artful. But that is consistent with expectations of the intelligence level of likely enlisted military families.
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No, she's a trophy wife and her husband and his partners illegally accelerated foreclosures on thousands of people while running OneWest Bank.

We can do without that kind of "service".
 
Donal said:
No, she's a trophy wife and her husband and his partners illegally accelerated foreclosures on thousands of people while running OneWest Bank.

We can do without that kind of "service".
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Probably still worth more than a soldier.
 
Haters gonna hate.

She's in her little world and tweets about it. One of the billions of people on this planet that will lash out immediately at any online post they find objectionable and lives to do so responds and the fight was on.

There's a guy I follow on YT that shows guitar and bass guitar repairs. He's a bass player. No political stuff, he cusses when he encounters problems, has a good sense of humor and knows his stuff. Anybody that has to stop their vid so they can make lasagna for dinner is OK by me.

In one vid, he gets out the Rickenbacker bass he purchased new in '75. He tells a funny story about why he bought it, what the salesman told him when he bought it (which is extremely funny if you know the bass in question) and he goes on to disassemble the bass to put it back to playable condition.

Along the way he points out the weak points of the design - every instrument has them and the Ric is no exception.

The comment section was an insane asylum of Ric fanboys throwing dung at the vid and the man that made it. I have no rational explanation for the reactions, I can take a swag that certain posters loved Ric 4001 model basses and couldn't accept that there are actual design flaws related to the bridge and neck adjustment so they immediately began taking shots at Dave.

In the tweets, a fashionable woman with the financial ability to indulge her pursuits did a bit of "look-at-me-and-my-fine-things" braggadocio and someone took offense - the Tweeter then made the mistake of replying - never reply to a negative comment on your video - and at that point the circling sharks smelled blood and that was it.

I don't believe there is anything past pretty normal modern human behavior here. The argument can be made that the wife must be beyond reproach and when Linton made the original tweet she was out of line. I don't believe so. The reaction to her tweet was as predicable as the rising sun. I don't think that her response was appropriate. Even if she poured the finest of olive oil on the troubled waters it would have made no difference.
 
BStrong said:
I don't believe there is anything past pretty normal modern human behavior here. The argument can be made that the wife must be beyond reproach and when Linton made the original tweet she was out of line. I don't believe so. The reaction to her tweet was as predicable as the rising sun. I don't think that her response was appropriate. Even if she poured the finest of olive oil on the troubled waters it would have made no difference.
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I like it because I just loved how deeply and profoundly arrogant Linton was, along with how utterly unaware she was of the hypocrisy of her reply. I mean, that's Cruella DeVille level arrogance and elitism.

Tell me again, which one was "adorably out of touch"?

Now there are some FOIA requests in to see if the trip was perhaps timed to be in the totality of the eclipse. This story has legs.
 
It's almost as if the ability to instantly tell millions of people anything that pops into your head has negative outcomes sometimes.
 
At first I was going to cut Ms. Linton some slack thinking she was probably in her 20s and too young and too self-absorbed to be attuned to the basics of public relations. But it turns out that she is 37, so she certainly had sufficient opportunities to acquire enough discretion and intelligence to handle her new public roles. So- no slack- any half-way smart person would have predicted the comments she received and the reaction to her own response to these comments.

But at least she is "only" 18 years younger than Mnuchin, so it's not one of those examples of a hideous,, disgusting old fart of a wealthy person marrying some physically attractive individual 24 years younger than themselves.
 
crescent said:
I like it because I just loved how deeply and profoundly arrogant Linton was, along with how utterly unaware she was of the hypocrisy of her reply. I mean, that's Cruella DeVille level arrogance and elitism.

Tell me again, which one was "adorably out of touch"?

Now there are some FOIA requests in to see if the trip was perhaps timed to be in the totality of the eclipse. This story has legs.
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I could throw in a gratuitous shot at British "Upper" class behavior but they don't have a patent on the mindset.

I've seen it enough in RW that for me it's normal. I know a bunch of folks that were born on third or even home base that believe they are there because of their greatness. Until you're heard with your own ears someone who inherited stock bitterly complain that the approximate $240,000.00 per year they receive in shareholder distribution is "a mere pittance" and "an insult," you haven't really encountered RW arrogance and entitlement.

In that little drama, a lawyer sitting behind me whispered to me "I wish somebody would insult me like that" I agreed.
 
crescent said:
I like it because I just loved how deeply and profoundly arrogant Linton was, along with how utterly unaware she was of the hypocrisy of her reply. I mean, that's Cruella DeVille level arrogance and elitism.

Tell me again, which one was "adorably out of touch"?

Now there are some FOIA requests in to see if the trip was perhaps timed to be in the totality of the eclipse. This story has legs.
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I don't see anything hypocritical or unaware. They possibly have done more for the country than anyone else replying to them.
 
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