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I learned about it from Alex DelVecchio.

Which words/idioms? I watched your clip and honestly, none of them leaped out at me. I am always keenly interested in this kind of thing. There was an example of what you mean in Killers of the Flower Moon, which had a pow-wow scene from the time (1920s) during which a tribal elder used the word "genocide", which itself was not coined until the Nuremberg Trials. Another example from 25-ish years ago was from the TV show "Freaks and Geeks", which takes place at a Mount Clemens-adjacent high school in 1980 The Neil character was talking to the Sam character about Sam's crush, Cindy Sanders, and was trying to talk him out of pursuing her, something along the lines of, "she's a hot cheerleader, you're a nerd ... do the math". I promise you, no one in 1980 said "do the math" in a way that meant what it had come to mean by 2000.

Even sillier to portray a portray a Russian by speaking English in an English accent.

The bolder, aka the less careful, he gets with his rhetoric, the closer he believes he is to not needing voter or citizen approval anymore. EDIT: This meme and its quote may or may not have been fabricated, but my comment is intended as an overarching point, not a tailored response to a specific incident.

This, but also, more. There are the rest of us to deal with, too.

This is the only thing Trump promised that he ever even cared about. That whole affordability nonsense was to get votes from rubes who live in deep rural areas away from demographic groups they're are scared of, but who ultimately just live their lives out accepting whatever happens happens. He doesn't care about rubes like that. He cares about people who will take action and smash and grab things on his behalf. He's going to need those people back to help him later.

It's simply mind-bloggling that a public official, placed in office by voters, is allowed to elude access by the public for so long and without reasonable explanation or discovery.

We are less than a year out from “Chris Fetter is a genius”.

Only one of this top crop of prospects has graduated, and on that measure, it’s looking pretty good so far.

Brew-SKET-ta?

Best posts of May 2026, Back-to-Back Division.

Hard to gel with eleven of the 17 guys on your injured list would be on the active roster right now.

If you would choose to stop playing Tork, what would you do with him? Bench him and use him as a pinch-hitter like Jahmai? Exile him to the minors indefinitely? Trade him for whatever you could get? Release him outright?

I don’t think people give enough thought to the idea that the environment of a particular area might be a big contributing factor to the wide spread of certain diseases there. Seems like for a decade or more now, my wife would tell me about yet another person she grew up with who stayed in the area and who died of cancer in their 40s or 50s. She grew up in rural-ish Wisconsin half an hour east of Green Bay, where there has been a lot of industrial farming ever since she was a kid. I suspect the soil and ground water there have been polluted beyond belief. I think a lot of it has to do with the folks there being conditioned to be prejudiced against environmental action, which, I will just leave it there. But I suspect they don’t believe that’s a real factor.

I once read a critique of a critic (oooh, meta) who complained that Marlon Brando, playing Napoleon Bonaparte, had desecrated his performance by using his natural American accent instead of putting on the standard British accent. The critique did not miss the opportunity to point out that a British accent would not have been any more appropriate than an American accent, since Napoleon spoke French.

What, Walmart’s all out of solid major league starters? Bummer.

I totally remember that, and I still replay it in my head every once in a while!

Taking French in high school is certain to lead you to mispronounce “Gratiot”.

Are you done with Tork, then? I mean, don’t get me wrong, I could be talked into that, but then what do we do with him while his value is at low ebb?

Not here

Sadly, none of it is helping anyone except themselves, in any way.

It’s even worse than that: they hated the prevailing norms because it did not explicitly privilege white Christians above all others. They wanted the norms destroyed so they could be seen and honored, even as they themselves don’t recognize it’s all just empty lip service. Who cares if the economy gets tanked, we become impoverished, and America gets stripped for parts? Jesus is coming any day now, anyway.

By the way, I think we can just go ahead and knock the S off the TDS. It’s just Trump Derangement at this point, because his behavior is completely out of range for normal presidents.

The question is right in the post.

Now you’re getting the picture! 😉😝