A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 1)

Trump can spout about fake news and witch hunts all he wants, he can continue to do so from his prison cell also.

And if he spots his bullshit from a cell, and his MAGATs try to save him, just open the gates and close them after they get inside.

Just this afternoon I was talking to some governors, solicitors, postmasters, comptrollers, quartermasters, paymasters and surgeons general I know, and they all agreed with you.

Just checked with all of the mothers-in-law I know. They concur.

Thirty Helens agree…

I asked all the Daves I know.

Thanks, now that song is in my head.

May I say here, totally off-topic, how irritated I am by the practice of directly addressing a US Attorney General as “General”? It seems that most television interviewers do that–it’s part of the general (heh) “title excess” that accompanies the need to book guests. Flattering them by using the fanciest title you think you can get away with, is considered crucial in today’s cable/network news environment.

(Anyone remember when even Presidents were studiously referred to as “Mr. _____” in most self-respecting venues? That era ended when booking Important People became difficult—even people who had titles years ago and for even the shortest of times, get called “Secretary” or “Congresswoman” or “Ambassador” these days.)

I suppose it’s the case that most people legitimately addressed as General are actually “general officers,” and there is a rough analogy to be found there with the “Attorney General” usage. But only a rough one.

Thread-topic-wise: It will be very sad if I rip a vocal cord by screaming at the television, next time someone interviews “General Garland.”

“Biden 2020 – Trump 20-Life – One down, one to go…”

I asked my aides-de-camp and chargés d’affaires and they concur.

And just yesterday, in the nearby thread about Interstate highways, I mentioned the several Interstates I-380 and Interstates I-580 around the country.

I insist on calling them “general attorneys”. English is not a Romance language, dammit!

Correct, it’s not a Romance language. It’s English, which has its own unique rules. :grinning:

There are rules? :astonished:

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Of course there are rules.

Plus exceptions to the rules.

Plus one-off, unique variants.

But these are all rules.

But it’s sneaky, and steals from them willé nillé.

No, but English tended to sneak up behind other languages in dark alleys, bop them on the head, and rifle through their pockets for spare grammar.

Hey! don’t you dare besmirch The integrity of the English language :stuck_out_tongue:

Calvinball has rules too…

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.” — James Nicoll

The full quote is so much more delightful. :grin: