That kind of thing certainly deserves YouTube immortality.
“Four legs good, two legs better!”
Just a wild guess, carpetbagger is someone who moves to a place to gain a political seat. GOP clamed this for Hillary Clinton when she ran in NY. This guy has never lived, and still doesn’t live, in the place he’s running for office. Like a guy that lives in Texas running for governor of Oklahoma. Hence, a newly formed word.
What’s wrong with “Asshole”? A perfectly good descriptor.
I’m fine with asshole. Where do we vote for the change?
The Perfect Master, commenting on the myriad spellings of the former Libyan leader’s name:
I say we just call him Duckbreath. It’s short, it’s easy to spell, and Lord knows it satisfies the soul.
I’m a little confused. Carpetbagger isn’t a new word.
The question is about ‘carpet dredger’.
It was just the way @mordecaiB phrased it it sounded to me as if they hadn’t heard the term before. But upon rereading I understand what they were saying.
This Dope column has been cleaned up for the kiddies! Originally, Cecil wrote: “I say we just call him Asshole…”
That makes a lot of sense, as Duckbreath is not short, has a diphthonge and does not remotely rhyme with soul. Asshole is much better.
As for cleaning up for kiddies, I think many people underestimate what kiddies know, read and say. They have forgotten, I guess.
Now, back to the Schadenfreude:
I’m all in with carpet dredger. A perfectly cromulent term. Bagger is too nice, like the high school kid at the supermarket. It also works in Pennsylvania with Oz and Georgia with Walker.
But, but, it makes no sense. The carpet bagger is briefly visiting a district with their luggage, a bag made of carpet. They’re not swooping in to bag all the carpet to win votes.
True, but I think it works well. Metaphorical language (which is almost the same as just saying “language”) often shifts in this way.
This is very interesting and is probably going to be hard for them to reverse.
It seems that the well has finally just about run dry. Even die hard MAGAs at this point have got to be feeling the donation fatigue afgter being inundated with requests for 6 years straight without any off year lull. A lot of them are probably feeling that they have already done their part, and need to start saving their cash in preperatoin for $7 gas prices and $12 milk that they hear about on Fox News. Usually the solution would be to ramp up the rhetoric, but its already been turned to 11 for years.
I also don’t know that relying on big donors is going to bail them out. The frat cats like tax cuts and all, but I don’t think they are quite so keen on a culture war, that targets their consumers and dictatorships are generally not good for business.
Who knows, maybe now that the Republicans are on the losing side of the money game, now would be a good time to revisit campaign finance reform.
They might not be keen on a culture war, but they’re more than willing to ignore the culture war if it gets them the tax cuts and all. Trump didn’t care one whit about overturning Roe v. Wade; he just wanted to make sure that the court was packed with people that would stamp out “overreach” on regulations.
100%
Roe v Wade is not going to affect them. They have ‘wink, wink’ ways around them. Any multi-millionaire does.
Or any Republican Federal or statewide officeholder. But I repeat myself.
Trump didn’t care one whit about anything the supreme court might do, except that it got him cheers at his rallies. He just picked from the top of the list that McConnell gave him. The only other aspect he cared about was an misguided assumption that assumption that since they “owed” him they would look the other way in case he did something of questionable legality.
But to my larger point I was talking about
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