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@StateDept @mercoglianos Oh! So THIS is how you manufacture a reason to withdraw from the UN!

SECRETARY RUBIO: We’re asking the UN to call on Iran to stop blowing up ships, remove the mines, and allow humanitarian relief. If the international community can’t rally behind this and solve something so straightforward, then I don’t know what the utility of the UN system is.

@SarahPalinUSA Cool. Fewer people in the world.

Don’t comply. This time, just don’t.

@forward_human @dieworkwear I think only because you choose to dismiss it. There is certainly subjectivity in art, but artistic theory is a thing. The rule of thirds, color balance, etc. The analysis here uses artistic theory to point out why this is objectively poorly done.

“The sky is blue” is an objective fact. There is no arguing that statement. There is nothing subjective about the sky being blue. There is subjectivity in art or decorative style. I can take an experts opinion that the style is gaudy or in poor taste, but not when followed up with a statement of bias against the person responsible for it. Art should stand on its own. Just like good music - I don’t judge the song by the politics of the person writing it. The song shouldn’t go from good to bad once I find out who wrote it. That’s the problem with the last sentence. It completely sabotages everything he said previously, whether merited or not.

The replies to this person's tweet lack a nuanced understanding of aesthetics. Let me tell you why I don't think this room works. First, the gold decorations make the room look like an ersatz Versailles. Go to Getty Images and type in "Oval Office." Then zoom in on the gold decor. You'll notice that the lines are very blunted and muddied; they lack the sharp lines and fine detailing that you'd expect on something made by an artisan. Hence why some people have suggested these decorations are from Home Depot (true or not, that's the impression). You can see the difference between the first and second photos. The first, of course, is of the Oval Office; the second is the reception room from the Hotel de Cabris in France, which was made during the 18th century under the direction of Louis XVI. Even at this distance, the second image looks much better because it was designed and executed by artisans working within a coherent visual language. You can really see the crisp lines and detailing. Second, the White House was designed by James Hoban, an Irish architect who migrated to the US for economic opportunities (what a great American story!). He originally designed it in the Neoclassical style, drawing on Palladian and Georgian influences. Neoclassicalism was a reaction against the Rococo movement, which reactionaries saw as overly ornate and frivolous. A bit of gold used sparingly and strategically can look fine in a Neoclassical building, but the amount Trump used has so radically encrusted the room that it's now in Rococo territory, making it look like a mismatch of aesthetics. You can see an example of gilded Rococo architecture in the third slide. Although it's not my thing, the effect is totally different because it's coherent. IMO, architecture sets the terms for you can decorate a space. Modernist furniture looks best in modernist buildings, just as Craftsman furniture looks best in Craftsman homes (see fourth slide). You don't have to do period recreations — sometimes mixing two aesthetics, or old and new, can make a space feel more natural — but having a sense of aesthetic history (art, architecture, furniture, fashion) can help you create better aesthetics. The Oval Office offends on at least three levels: the ersatz nature of the decor, the way it grates against Hoban’s Neoclassical vision, and the way it misunderstands the classical-republican symbolism that the White House was meant to project in the first place. As others have noted, this is the kind of decor you'd expect from dictators who rob their own country.

@forward_human @dieworkwear If I said, “the sky is blue and this Administration has taken a lot of steps which will affect that,” does it make the sky any less blue?

I don’t know. That’s the problem with obvious bias. I have to take every thing else that was said and consider that it was filtered through an extremely biased lens. So, while much of the critique might have some merit, it wasn’t given a chance to be fair and balanced, therefore it is likely that it’s not truthful.

@forward_human @dieworkwear Is there anything about that sentence which makes the rest less truthful or honest? (No.)

@dieworkwear “As others have noted, this is the kind of decor you'd expect from dictators who rob their own country.” And here I thought you were giving an honest critique, yet you threw it all away in the last line.

@mattvanswol Does July 4 ring a bell?

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?!!!!! YOU CANCELLED MY KINDERGARTENERS CLASSES TODAY TO COSPLAY A REVOLUTION???!!!!!!! YOU DO NOT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT MY KID!!!!! I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS. I’M TAKING A VACATION DAY FROM WORK SO YOU CAN GO DANCE IN A PARK?!!!!!!!!!!

@melissasteadman @Publix That “watch me” just slayed me!!

My husband said they were over a $40 value. We have several employees at Publix that regularly engage positively with our family. The sense of community truly keeps us shopping there instead of their competitors. @Publix - Frank at Store #123 deserves a raise!

Have to share. My 4yo daughter has become connected to this 70 yo checker named Frank at Publix. He is engaging, kind, always remembers her, shares stories, etc. My husband went there today with her to buy me some birthday flowers and a card...cont...

@InvictusUSA1 @JamesSurowiecki “You guys” certainly should be; and would if you didn’t have TAS (Trump Adulation Syndrome).

Nonsense. The DOJ does not get to unilaterally decide what it means when someone uses the expression "86." It can claim (erroneously) that it always means "to murder," and then prove that claim in court. But it has no constitutional authority to define an expression's meaning.

@Rob_ThaBuilder @mandylorianm How to tell me you’re not fat without telling me you’re not fat.

@mandylorianm Yawn. Nobody "hates" them. Ppl just dont find them attractive. That's like 99% of the "hate" that the body positivity movement claims exists, ppl finding obesity unattractive.

Look, I'm all for ppl getting healthier, and if they need Ozempic to helpnget there, do what you gotta do. But it is objectively hilarious that all the fat ppl held up as icons of the body positivity movement all got skinny af the second a weight-loss wonder drug became available. As suspected by everyone, it was cope all along. Another body blow to the Woke Left philosophy of brute forcing objective reality to match their theoretical models that completely disregard actual human nature in order to avoid taking any personal accountability, you love to see it.

@sickoflibbullsh @Ducnghia16 Shouldn’t that just go to show that “calories in, calories out” doesn’t tell the whole story?

@Ducnghia16 Great dancer. How can you be a dancer for a living and be overweight, though? Like isn't she burning calories like crazy?

The difference between both dancers, the one in the back is dancing.The one in front is telling a story!

@karolineleavitt Just ask her

Melania is the most beautiful and well dressed First Lady in history.

@IngrahamAngle You wish! We’re laughing our asses off because you still don’t get it.

Trigger Alert! The White House has waited months to make this joke. Coast to coast, humorless liberals are seething, veins bulging.

@GeraldoRivera Public sentiment turns in favor? You’re clearly listening to only a select few

As public sentiment turns in favor of the golden Ballroom in the wake of the assassination attempt, care must be exercised to ensure that-as the President promised-the ballroom will be funded privately by donations.

@arthur_laitman @SarahLongwell25 Hell, why not put a dome over Washington D.C.? You know, “just to be sure.”

@SarahLongwell25 After the attempted assassination at a hotel, I think the federal government should build a more secure location for such events. The military and USSS all want the ballroom to have added protections.

I’m sorry, I was reliably told this was going to be privately funded.

@realpeteyb123 Not only am I glued to the view out the window, but I still take photos. I’ve been flying literally since infancy (my dad was an airline employee for decades) but it remains magical to me. Not long ago, I flew cross-country and relished the scenery the whole way.

Amazes me that people will wait in long lines & purchase tickets for the best views but will sit next to an airplane windows, 35k feet above Gods creation & not open the window or look out. We flying over mountains, oceans, sunsets most people will never see in their lifetime.

@1BethDutton @komonews Hilarious. Sinclair Broadcasting, which owns KOMO, notoriously leans right. I mean, I guess they ARE responsible for the death of MSM, but not in the way I think you’re trying to suggest.

Hey @komonews . Gun shots. Can you report the damn news and say that? The shooter is dead. No wonder MSM news is dead.

@Leia1492 I cannot get over how well you’ve been brainwashed. Mail-in balloting was a bipartisan idea. Then the GOP realized the more people who voted, the worse they did in elections. So now the system is corrupt. Funny how that works.

With WA state's corrupt "mail-in ballots" it can't be any other way. We can't "vote them out." Since they count the ballots they always "win."

@PNWConservative You idiot. We want it for everyone - like this; not overdeveloped and clear-cut.

Washington leftists want this for themselves. Washington is not theirs. Stay and fight for her.

@FeridunRich @Ducnghia16 It’s not THAT old.

@Ducnghia16 What’s the point of colorizing these videos? It’s awful.

One of the greatest production songs ever to come out of the ’60s. Time has taken many of that era’s incredible performers, but their music still lives on.

@TheCinesthetic My absolute fave Disney movie. I dragged my husband to Portobello Road when we were in London because of this movie.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) is one of those Disney films people somehow missed, but if you grew up with it, you know how rewatchable it is, that mix of live-action and animation and just staying in that world for hours.