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Poor kid - no way he can compete
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It is a breach of honesty & accuracy to portray political conservatism as compassionless.
Genuine conservatives may be skeptical about systematized government charity. U.S. federal government was not Founded as an instrument of wealth redistribution.
"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits." Thomas Jefferson
Genuine political conservatism is not the problem, it's more akin to the solution.
It is unwise and untrue to conflate pseudo-cons or MAGA Republicans with genuine conservatives.
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Not sure what to call the graphic in #885. A "graphic / slogan"?
How many Americans can be accurately quoted as saying: "It hasn't happened to me, so I don't care"?
meme  (mēm)n. 1. A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. 2. a. An image or short video clip, often accompanied by a humorous saying or popular catchphrase, that is transmitted virally, especially on social media. b. A humorous saying or popular catchphrase that is transmitted virally, especially as a caption for such an image or video clip. [Shortening (modeled on GENE) of mimeme, from Greek mimēma, something imitated, from mimeisthai, to imitate; see MIMESIS.] The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved. |
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I couldn't think of his name but Google had my back
"Shutting down the government in my view is not conservative policy. I don't think a two week paid vacation for federal employees is conservative policy." Sen. McConnell (R-KY) CBS-TV Face The Nation 13/10/20
"We don't have this [budget deficit / federal debt] problem because we tax too little in this country. We have it because we spend too much." Sen. McConnell (R-KY) CBS-TV Face The Nation 13/10/20
"We don't have this [budget deficit / federal debt] problem because we tax too little in this country. We have it because we spend too much." Sen. McConnell (R-KY) CBS-TV Face The Nation 13/10/20
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But the Trumpists keep telling me that the economy is doing badly under Biden ....
"Pottery Barn"?
The "war" in Afghanistan could have and should have been among the shortest in U.S. history:
- get UBL
- get OUT
Instead it was the longest in U.S. history, and the puppet government we propped up there collapsed before Afghanis had finished murdering Americans at the airport.
If Afghanis aren't willing to fight & die to secure their own Liberty, why should we?
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Indeed.
In generations past challengers to incumbent office-holders offered ostensibly persuasive reasons for voting the incumbent out. BUT !!
Simply outright lying about it is easier, doesn't require study or command of the facts. AND !
With the MAGA crowd, factual validity appears to be immaterial.
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I gather Abraham Lincoln is widely recognized as the most articulate U.S. president, before Coulter's time perhaps. IIRC more books have been written about Lincoln than any other American.
The vocabulary comment seems intended rather more as an insult than an enlightening observation. Trump's compulsive use of superlatives would seem a more distinctive obstacle in Trump's communication style than vocabulary.
And we should be careful about commenting on the vocabularies of presidents. U.S. President Bush (younger) had some vocabulary of his own origin, "misunderestimate" for example. In that context GWB might have seemed a shade brighter with a vocabulary that was slightly smaller.
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While the "50 word" comment is a bit of an exaggeration (and I'm sure it was intended as an insult) it's not as far off as one might think:
Trump Speaks At Fourth-Grade Level, Lowest Of Last 15 U.S. Presidents, New Analysis Finds
President Donald Trump—who boasted over the weekend that his success in life was a result of "being, like, really smart"—communicates at the lowest grade level of the last 15 presidents, according to a new analysis of the speech patterns of presidents going back to Herbert Hoover.
The analysis assessed the first 30,000 words each president spoke in office, and ranked them on the Flesch-Kincaid grade level scale and more than two dozen other common tests analyzing English-language difficulty levels. Trump clocked in around mid-fourth grade, the worst since Harry Truman, who spoke at nearly a sixth-grade level.
At the top of the list were Hoover and Jimmy Carter, who were basically at an 11th-grade level, and President Barack Obama, in third place with a high ninth-grade level of communicating with the American people.
The Flesch-Kincaid scale was developed in 1975 for the U.S. Navy to assess the relative difficulty of training manuals. A database of ....
Trump Genius? He Ranks Lowest Among Last 15 Presidents
President Trump says he's "like, really smart," but he communicates at the lowest grade level of the last 15 presidents.www.newsweek.com
And I've made the observation that Trump used to be more articulate. Not that he had much worth saying but only that he could at least put a coherent sentence together.
It was the kind of utterance that makes professional transcribers question their career choice:
“ … there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but I can always speak for myself — and the Russians, zero.”
When President Trump offered that response to a question at a press conference last week, it was the latest example of his tortured syntax, mid-thought changes of subject, and apparent trouble formulating complete sentences, let alone a coherent paragraph, in unscripted speech.
He was not always so linguistically challenged.
STAT reviewed decades of Trump’s on-air interviews and compared them to Q&A sessions since his inauguration. The differences are striking and unmistakable.
Research has shown that changes in speaking style can result from cognitive decline. STAT therefore asked experts in neurolinguistics and cognitive assessment, as well as psychologists and psychiatrists, to compare Trump’s speech from decades ago to that in 2017; they all agreed there had been a deterioration, and some said it could reflect changes in the health of Trump’s brain.
In interviews Trump gave in the 1980s and 1990s (with Tom Brokaw, David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey, Charlie Rose, and others), he spoke articulately, used sophisticated vocabulary, inserted dependent clauses into his sentences without losing his train of thought, and strung together sentences into a polished paragraph, which — and this is no mean feat — would have scanned just fine in print. This was so ...
Trump wasn’t always so linguistically challenged. What could explain the change?
STAT asked experts to compare Trump's speech from decades ago to that in 2017. All noticed deterioration, which may signal changes in Trump's brain health.www.statnews.com
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For the record, the damage is done - the scholarship deadline is passed and, even though the Principal resigned, the student is going to have to live with the consequences. Personally I'd suggest that the the lawsuit require the Principal and/or the schoolboard to fund her scholarship.
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I've heard of bombastic. Bomb-Baptist a new one on me.
Do you suppose I meet the membership requirements?
