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Jeff Bezos throws lavish party at his new $23million, 11-bedroom Washington DC mansion
Posted on 1/26/20 at 10:58 am
Posted on 1/26/20 at 10:58 am
'Alfalfa Club' members have medals around their necks.
"While several presidents have been members and former presidents including George W Bush and Barack Obama spoke at the Alfalfa banquets in the past, Donald Trump is yet to be invited. Guests pictured arriving to the Bezos party."
"While several presidents have been members and former presidents including George W Bush and Barack Obama spoke at the Alfalfa banquets in the past, Donald Trump is yet to be invited. Guests pictured arriving to the Bezos party."
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Alfalfa Club member Dina Powell
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This post was edited on 1/26/20 at 11:16 am
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:02 am to cajunangelle
Were there child sacrifices in the basement?
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:03 am to cajunangelle
That look you get when you just spotted the child you want to molest that night.
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Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:06 am to cajunangelle
Holy crap, is that Mattis? He really is a swamp creature. Kelly Ann Conway is a bit of a surprise, but she’s married to a lib, so. Jared and Ivanka at a Bezos party is sorta disappointing, but they’re Libs too.
This post was edited on 1/26/20 at 11:08 am
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:07 am to PsychTiger
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List of Alfalfa Club members
Secretaries of Defense
Jim Mattis (current vice president of the club)
This post was edited on 1/26/20 at 11:09 am
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:11 am to cajunangelle
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The Alfalfa Club, founded in 1913, is an exclusive social organization, based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The Club's only function is the holding of an annual banquet in honor of the birthday of Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Seems like a worthy cause.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:14 am to PsychTiger
Fugly Ann has a horse Romney outfit alert, call Joan Rivers.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:14 am to cajunangelle
Ivanka gets invited ... but not Trump?
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:16 am to PsychTiger
He's auditioning for the opening eleft by Epstein's retirement
This post was edited on 1/26/20 at 11:17 am
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:16 am to cajunangelle
I'm not seeing the problem here. I'm not one of those who thinks Bezos is a Soros type either. He's not a crazy radical at the end of the day.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:18 am to cajunangelle
who's the lady in red?
This post was edited on 1/26/20 at 11:20 am
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:19 am to PsychTiger
don't tell the progs. they will ban the stupid club of the swamp.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:19 am to cajunangelle
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The Club's only function is the holding of an annual banquet in honor of the birthday of Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:19 am to ManBearTiger
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He's auditioning for the opening left by Epstein's retirement
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:20 am to goatmilker
Wonder if the Moloch effigy is poolside?
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:20 am to PsychTiger
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The Alfalfa Club, founded in 1913, is an exclusive social organization, based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The Club's only function is the holding of an annual banquet in honor of the birthday of Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Sounds like it should be a prime target for outrage culture. It just further demonstrates the biases of that culture. It's all cool when it's their people.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:28 am to PsychTiger
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The Alfalfa Club, founded in 1913, is an exclusive social organization, based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The Club's only function is the holding of an annual banquet in honor of the birthday of Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
That you know about.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:30 am to PsychTiger
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The club was named in reference to the alfalfa plant's supposed willingness to "do anything for a drink."
If in attendance, the President of the United States is usually asked to deliver remarks at the banquet. President George W. Bush spoke at the banquet each year of his presidency;] the Alfalfa Club was one of only three clubs that his father, George H. W. Bush, was a member of as president. President Obama attended and spoke at the banquet in 2009 and in 2012. Donald Trump has not attended the event.
Annual club president nomination
One of the evening's activities includes the playful nomination of a presidential candidate by the Club's leadership. The candidate is then required to make a speech. Several such candidates became President of the United States after being nominated, including Richard Nixon in 1965 (elected in 1968), Ronald Reagan in 1974 (elected in 1980), and George W. Bush in 1998 (elected in 2000). In 1969, it nominated Harold Stassen. In 2004, the Club nominated Jack Valenti, the former president of the Motion Picture Association of America. Its 2000 nomination was Australian-born James Wolfensohn, constitutionally ineligible for election to the U.S. presidency. In 2001, the presidential nomination went to John McCain. In 2011, Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female president of the club. In 2017, Michael Bloomberg was elected president of the club. In 2018, John Kerry was elected president. In 2019, Mitt Romney was elected. In 2020, David Rubenstein was elected.
History
The club was formed by four southerners in the Willard Hotel to celebrate the birthday of Confederate Civil War General Robert E. Lee. It began admitting blacks in 1974 and women in 1994. In 2009, President Barack Obama spoke at the club's annual dinner, saying, "This dinner began almost one hundred years ago as a way to celebrate the birthday of General Robert E. Lee. If he were here with us tonight, the General would be 202 years old. And very confused."
In addition to its January banquet in Washington, the club previously held an annual summer picnic.
In 1986, William H. Rehnquist's membership in the club became the subject of discussion in a Senate Judiciary hearing after Rehnquist was nominated to be Chief Justice of the United States. He described the club as one that "met once a year to listen to patriotic music and 'hear some funny political speeches'" and said "he did not think his membership in such a once-a-year group violated the canons of judicial ethics."
In 1994, after a boycott by President Bill Clinton over a lack of women in the club, the club admitted its first women members, Sandra Day O'Connor, Elizabeth Dole, and Katharine Graham, whose father, Eugene Meyer, had also been a member. Clinton's boycott had been the first by a U.S. president since Jimmy Carter.
During the 2012 dinner, Occupy D.C. protested the banquet.
This post was edited on 1/26/20 at 11:32 am
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