I listened to a Ted Talk the other day that was given by a linguist and university profess of English, whose point was that the language is always changing, and that we shouldn’t be so rigid in our interpretation of others’ speech and writing. As an example, she said that a few hundred years ago, the word “lollygag” meant to make out / kiss.
The problem I have with this is that window stickers like the one shown here simply make you look like an idiot. I heard a television commentator covering a golf tournament describe an errant shot like this: “That ball could have went anywhere.”
While it’s true that the language is always in flux, poor grammar makes it hard for other people to take you seriously.
If it’s true that David Valadao is moving back in line with Trump (which seems exceptionally unlikely in California), this jackass is in the slim minority. Most congressional Republicans are trying to pretend they’ve never heard of Trump.
The representative’s district is in the rural farming region in Central California, but still, aligning oneself with Trump makes no more sense than cozying up to skin cancer.
73%? Why not 95%? 125%?
You could live next door to this guy.
It’s good to see that overt stupidity like this is on the decline. Sure, 30% of American voters think this way, but very few are willing to display that ignorance in public.
In the semi-rural part of California that 2GreenEnergy “headquarters” makes it home, we’ve seen a huge reduction is Trump hats, banners, and so forth, especially since his second term began. Now, this could due to the natural beauty of the region that is pulling well-educated and affluent young people up from Los Angeles. It could also have something to do with COVID, where people working from home wanted to get of of the city and into a prettier and more relaxed setting.
But one has to think that MAGA means something more degraded with each passing day, as Trump commits a new atrocity or says something that betrays his lack of respect for the Constitution, his disgusting character, and his mental deterioration.
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