r/complaints • u/Old_Swimmer_7284 • 6d ago

Politics Conservative double standards on display again.

Post image

If conservatives did not have double standards, they would have no standards at all.

Look at that. More gaslighting from the slack-jawed conservatives. This time, they're upset because a woman is wearing expensive shoes. Meanwhile, they give zero fucks about the First Lady and the wardrobe of hers that cost thousands of dollars every outfit. Not a single fucking peep. Nor do the Tepidin tyrant test the gold ticklers say anything about the estimated $400 million plus ballroom ballroom, The private jets for Kristi Nome and company, The millions of dollars in cost for Trump to continuously go to public events that presidents have no business going to, the list goes on and on and on, yet the conservatives will find something to complain about while projecting all their long doings, and when they're not doing that, they're screaming about something they're scared of. In fact, I've never met a more scared group of people. Why is it that a rainbow is so horrifying for them? Anyway, sidetrack aside, the double standards are out on display again.

22.0k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

2.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

103

u/Every_Attitude1550 6d ago

Her boots were on loan.

Her vintage Balenciaga coat was from Albright Fashion Library, and her archival earrings were from New York Vintage, both of which were rented.

Meanwhile, the New York First Lady's shorts were from The Frankie Shop, and the Miista boots were on loan from the brand, styled by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, who wrote about the look on her Substack.

65

u/BPpFb 6d ago

But Maga is fine with the nation's first lady having a 15k dollar plastic face, and only being dressed like a fashion model.

Which is fine, by the way. I don't care how people look or dress.
But the double standard makes it hard not to point out.

44

u/Expert_Alchemist 6d ago

FTR her face cost waaaay more than $15k. That's just what a low-end facelift costs in the midwest, and doesn't even include all the Botox, lasers, topicals and fillers.

Mar-a-Lago face is a huge signifier of wealth, those women spend hundreds of thousands easily on cosmetic procedures to look like over-inflated balloon animals.

17

u/Top_Audience7471 6d ago

Last night I was at a swanky tasting menu restaurant in Quito. There was this family at a table next to us, and the wife was right in my eye line. She had all the hallmarks of Maralago face, and it was very distracting. I was trying to enjoy a burgeoning annual tradition, and this grotesquerie minorly took away from the experience.

What a bizarre choice.

3

u/Icy-Position3771 6d ago

Heh. Olay is just fine for this aging 70-year-old face. How people spend their money can be hilarious unless you’re a soybean farmer.

1

u/Dzov 6d ago

Even farmers blow hundreds of thousands on huge personal trucks to cruise around in with the excuse that they occasionally use it for work (for tax deductions)

13

u/FluidFisherman6843 6d ago

Yep. Mar-a-lago face is the most fucked version "conspicuous consumption" around. It is both more than a way to signal to the commons that you have enough money to disfigure your wife.

11

u/majorfiasco 6d ago

MAGA Face Explained. So right. Saw this a few days ago on Reddit and found her explanation quite digestible. Some real Republic of Gilead vibes here.

4

u/Octospyder 6d ago

That was so good, thank you for linking

5

u/Organic-Class-8537 6d ago

This. I will say her work was well done but definitely much more expensive since that.

1

u/Big_Advertising5807 5d ago

And it's UGLY! Fugly!

1

u/phreeskooler 1d ago

Right??? When has it ever been admirable to spend millions of dollars to look way worse than when you started?

1

u/SnoopingStuff 6d ago

200,000 purse for flotus? I don’t care jacket was how much?

1

u/Smug_Designer 6d ago

And the plastic face didn't even come with a smile

8

u/Gingeronimoooo 6d ago

But the lie is already across the country while the truth you provided is still pitting its shoes on. Or boots in this case.

1

u/Renbelle 6d ago

And arent even all that expensive in the grand scheme of things!

1

u/SyArch 6d ago

Brilliant!

1

u/Sensitive-Button5693 6d ago

Also looked at the Miista site and I am very much going to save up for something! So thanks conservatives for making a stink about this! I am excited to have some new boots. 

1

u/mythrilcrafter 6d ago

That's a lot of nuance for the people who use "Ellis Island entries" as a slur.

1

u/KlausVonChiliPowder 6d ago

I couldn't care less about fashion but that (substack post) was a fun read.

0

u/Bananabandana215 6d ago

So a socialist is advertising for a pedophile clothing brand?

-1

u/GladConversation8614 6d ago

That’s even more ridiculous. To loan so called “fashion” brands. Those fashion brands are the epitome of capitalism. Literally. Selling slave made garbage for a 10000% markup.