These are the Biden holiday decorations, just unveiled by our first lady, Dr. Jill Biden. My first thought was, βWhat, no blood red scary trees, symbolizing the blood of our enemies?!β Itβs sure nice to have normal back. In so many ways.
To be fair, I think people were overcritical of Melania's decorations. They weren't the traditional decorations, but I thought they were quite stunning.
I dunno. I loathed everything about Trump's in the White House but I kinda liked Melania's Chirstmas decor. I mean it had a little Beetlejuice vibe but Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
The White House belongs to all Americans, not just Christians. Whether or not the Bidens celebrate Christmas, the White House should have decorations year round to mark everyone elseβs traditions and those should get equal fanfare.
Official Christmas decor without non-Christian representation promotes the dangerous notion that this is a Christian nation.
@Opusmarta okay, sure. Except the White House is calling it a Christmas tree so the problem still exists regardless of what you personally call it.
This argument strikes me as being really intellectually dishonest and a bit like youβre intentionally distracting from the core complaint that religious minorities are not recognized equally in public life.
@taephoenix no, ofc not. I just think winter soltice is non-religious, it has just been appropriated. But your point is valid, and I understand especially when it has such a christian name in english. @georgetakei
Beautiful!! So glad there are no more demonic, blood red, Russian themed Christmas decorations! So wonderful to have a tasteful beautiful Christmas Decor again.
The FFL had a knack for modern decorations.Nothing wrong with that,but I found them to be cold and uninviting.Those red trees looked like someone died cutting them.
Melania Surveys The White House at Xmas β In the Biden home, the trees are green And extremely ordinary And nobody knows why the fake winter snow's Not whiter than Matthew Perry
And their stockings are hung by the chimney, among The holly, placed there with care And every single Christmas light twinkles Instead of a glassy-eyed stare
But perhaps the most vexing, really perplexing Part of their holiday cheer Is the fact that the people are so quite agreeable To have them come back next year!
The Bidens sure do "cozy" very well - much more welcoming to a family. Reminiscent of a 1950's, classic, working family's living room, during Christmas. Whereas the red Trump trees all looked like they had been passed from a cold, sterile, robot, which was powered on the tears of generations of overworked and underfed children.
That's because Dr. Biden is a normal, caring person. That being said, the staff went the extra distance for her and made window shades out of ribbon and bells. Beautiful.
It also seems very normal in scale. It doesn't feel like it's taking over the whole room. That's decor you might see in a person's actual house. The blood color was kind of nice IMO because I love red, but the shapes and scale were hella unwelcoming and overwhelming. Which ruined any enjoyment I might have found in the color itself. It was just too much toomuchness.
We have a ways to go to have normalcy back George. We just had a former president dine with a Holocaust Denier. Arkansas is trying to ban healthcare for transgender youth and the right is eying gay marriage lasciviously. Yes, the White House now has human beings in it but Americans are a mess.
Itβs ok. I would have maybe liked it a little more decorated, but thatβs ok. Itβs fitting for their home. Looks like she did it herself. Im just a sucker for glass icicles and frosted trees is all. Wonder what it will look like in the visitor areas?
while normal is certainly better than that horror show from before, 'normal' still had me starving down to a death weight back when I was trying to live on my own. Because 'normal' is still a perfect storm for too many of us. We have a long ways to go together
You may find this morbid and if so, I apologize. Seeing your picture and your posts reminds me of my father. The last movie we watched together two days before he died was Star Trek: The Voyage Home. He suffered a Glioblastoma. For the time we started the movie, he was lucid. He told me he loved me. And he was aware throughout the movie. He really loved you and the rest of the cast. Called it 'Reality'. It was his hope for the future. His 'Reality'.
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•The White House belongs to all Americans, not just Christians. Whether or not the Bidens celebrate Christmas, the White House should have decorations year round to mark everyone elseβs traditions and those should get equal fanfare.
Official Christmas decor without non-Christian representation promotes the dangerous notion that this is a Christian nation.
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•christ - mas.
Jesus.
You know, Christian.
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•This argument strikes me as being really intellectually dishonest and a bit like youβre intentionally distracting from the core complaint that religious minorities are not recognized equally in public life.
Thatβs not what you meant to do, is it?
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•As you say, the appropriation of the symbols is entrenched, so I think weβre on the same page about where the problem lies.
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In the Biden home, the trees are green
And extremely ordinary
And nobody knows why the fake winter snow's
Not whiter than Matthew Perry
And their stockings are hung by the chimney, among
The holly, placed there with care
And every single Christmas light twinkles
Instead of a glassy-eyed stare
But perhaps the most vexing, really perplexing
Part of their holiday cheer
Is the fact that the people are so quite agreeable
To have them come back next year!
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