Originally published at: Latest Person To Give Alito A Gift: German Princess And ’80s Party Scenester-Turned-Catholic Reactionary - TPM – Talking Points Memo
In 1985, Vanity Fair described Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, a member of the German aristocracy, as “a wild version of her friend,” Princess Diana. Known in the tabloids as “Princess TNT,” she hosted royalty and celebrities such as Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger and was photographed endlessly sporting towering, technicolored hair and dresses…
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The through line in all this is simple. Ignorance.
The low-IQ, poorly educated “my country first” MAGAts around the world (German, American, Russian, doesn’t matter) are exactly like the global rich assholes who hold staggering wealth. Both are insulated from actually learning anything that doesn’t affect them.
The dumbshit MAGAts have zero clue what’s going on above them and are easily manipulated by far right media because it gives them something and - more important - someone to blame for their shitty circumstances. At the other end you have clowns like this SNL character waiting to happen, Fat Hitler, Musk, etc who never had to bother caring about anything but themselves, a self-imposed narcissistic stupidity.
In the end, they both end up clueless and stupid, with the small rich group easily able to manipulate one another for their own nefarious ends while weaponizing the large dumb poor group against the rest of us.
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The Princess Pious & and her kind are wonderfully revealed in these beautifully curated photographs.
I recognize this twisted Catholic subculture. Vapid old women of means wooed out out of their money by celibate charmers to fill the coffers of Holy Mother Church.
It was funnier before the fascism.
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Gee I wonder if Sarah Huckajesus is still looking “the humble” among the Supremes, if so she might want to lecture Alito rather than Kamala.
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Is she married and how many children does she have?
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What I see in these pictures is a lifelong poser. Punk is more than just a fucking hairstyle - she was never punk.
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She shares something with Trump, other than rich forebears: thirst for the spotlight.
What vacuous farts.
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‘Eighties Eurotrash heiress of nonexistent throne revealed as Old World wingnut oligarch.
Actually, I once almost had occasion to meet Princess TNT, as Princess Thurn und Taxis was dubbed in her MTV-wannabee heyday — or it at least seemed a possibility.
Back in the early 1990s when I was working for a medical school, I met with the committee planning the annual gala fundraiser. The chairwoman was also the head of the local Chopin Society chapter and was involved in other cultural activities and scholarship groups. Apparently there was a chance that the medical school ball was going to coincide with a trip Ms. TNT was expected by some to be making to the area for a cultural event, and the women on the committeewere planning for that possibility.
She never did attend our ball, however.
Apparently TNT’s family was descended from a family that several centuries ago was granted a royal concession to operate something like a postal service and royal and papal courier service, and they were able to acquire a great fortune and political influence because of it. The family had an Italian branch known as Torri o Tasso.
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“I recognize this twisted Catholic subculture. Vapid old women of means wooed out out of their money by celibate charmers to fill the coffers of Holy Mother Church.”
You didn’t happen to have read W.F. Buckley’s Stained Glass, a novel that described this Church/Fascist relationship 40 years ago?
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Reminds me of all the dipshit British aristocrats and wealthy American expats in Europe who went all-in on fascism in the inter-war period. “The staff keep complaining about their wages” or “people won’t doff their caps and let me cut to the front of the line anymore” → time to end democracy.
Listen to the Bad Gays podcast episode about Philip Johnson for one of the most egregious examples.
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Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis makes my stomach turn and taxes my patience.
(Though, I must admit, I admire her willingness to experiment with unconventional hairstyles.)
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Princess Poop Head…I am being kind.
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Opus Dei Diva of Doofusdorf.
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Jesus, I really thought the Marvel Cinematic Universe had completely run out of steam …
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From the recent NYT article on TNT:
“The only thing that I care about in politics is that somebody is fighting abortion and helping reproduction rates go up,” she said in the interview. “I think that killing our own offspring and reducing our reproduction rates, eventually, we will kill our own kind.”
Dear effing God. I’ll bet she had an abortion or two before hooking up with the Very Important and very wealthy Prince Thurn und Taxis. And she had only 2 kids - where are all the others she should have had to “help reproduction rates go up”? Perhaps that is the responsibility of the masses?
This is more than enough crap from a Very Important self-styled evangelist for social engineering. I get that she has Very Important Friends. But she can stuff it.
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“Thurn und Taxis” sounds like an airplane maneuver.
I think that most of these Eurotrash types were more or less conservative all along underneath the New Wave get-ups. They just didn’t want to seem stuffy or uncool. I don’t know what’s hip and cool about hardcore Catholicism, but I guess the smells and bells will get to you. 
I remember pictures of her popping up in the media, and TBH I’m more shocked that she turned into such a frump than that she turned conservative. Also if she only had two kids, why isn’t she doing her part for the next generation? If anyone can afford it, she could. She’s wealthy enough to have six kids and still outsource all the grunt work. And have the time and energy for fun dressing.
Now the ones I’m really disappointed in are the American GenX/ “Generation Jones” (that nebulous cohort that Barack Obama and perhaps Kamala Harris inhabit) who were all in on punk and smash the system and down with Ronald Reagan in the 80’s, cheered when the Berlin Wall fell, and took a hard right turn and went full Trump. Some of my old friends group is trying to reason with one of them. There’s much, much more to this, but I largely blame the Great Recession hollowing out the job market for anyone without a degree, and inhibiting upward mobility even for those with one.
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Catholicism is fascism that focuses on cross-dressing, child rape and incense.
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Rich women are the ones who have abortions as birth control. not the poor. Why? Because taking birth control is for “loose women.” So in order to maintain the fantasy that they’re “moral” they eschew birth control and simply have Doctor Amphetamine abort the pool boy’s spawn.
This woman is crazy as a bedbug. Always has been. And now she supports Alito? Yeah OK. Excuse me if I am skeptical that she found ‘God’.
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She was married from 1980-1990 and has 3 children, a boy and 2 girls now 41, 42, and 43 (#1 born 6 months after the wedding [just sayin’]).
Here’s maybe her problem: only 1 grandchild. Child #1, Maria Theresia Ludowika Klothilde Helene Alexandra Prinzessin von Thurn und Taxis, has only one daughter while her sister and brother have none.
“Are we not supposed to reproduce?”
,says Grandma.
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