And of course this is the sort of nit-picking bullshit that is corrupting public discourse. He was speaking extemporaneously, and his meaning was clear. I realize that part of the SD mission is to provide a home to nit-picking pedants, but in most cases it serves no purpose.
I object to this characterization. Very few of our pedants have nits, and if they did, they wouldn’t pick them - they’d use an antiparasitic shampoo.
Besides, nits need love, too. And nit-pickers.
My premise was that the RW wolves can be expected to pounce on any little misstep that they can get their teeth into. Look: he said the opposite of that! We have seen it happen to RWers (who are largely clumsy with word things to begin with) as well as by them. We understood what he meant, but words get corkscrewed out of their context all the time.
As somebody who is, actually and legitimately*, a professional nit-picker, I’m feeling a bit attacked now!
*Seriously, it’s part of my job. “Is there any way anyone could possibly misinterpret this?” is one of the major questions I have to ask when writing one of my reports on applications. It’s a legal requirement!
And an important job. If Fauci had been reading a prepared statement, fire away for it not parsing correctly. But when speaking with an idiot, a certain lack of elegance in the reponse (as long as the meaning it clear) is acceptable.
You are absolutely singing my song. I will quote myself from another thread:
Nit-picking is my middle name. My parents had a weird sense of humor. And might have been drinking when they named me.
In these cases, I encourage the use of phrases like, “You incredible fucking imbecile.” Far less likely to be misinterpreted, and somebody needs to start saying this out loud where these imbeciles have to hear it.
I hardly heartily support this idea!
Prefaced, perhaps, by “With all due respect,” (i.e., none).
Disclaimer: I’ve been known to use “I’d like to say it was a pleasure working with you” and suchlike. I once said that to an absolute bitch of a leading lady, and one of my colleagues who happened to be passing at the time nearly blew an artery trying to keep from laughing.
One of my favorite movie lines is in Ocean’s Thirteen, when a rival casino owner “congratulates” Willy Bank on “the enormity of your success.” Heh, heh.
I always thought Bank was modeled on Donald Trump.
Caitlin Jenner was asked in an interview if she voted for Individual 1, and she said no, that she didn’t vote, because there’s no point for a Republican to vote in California. But voter rolls say that she did vote.
House Republicans are such cowards, they didn’t have a roll call vote on Cheney, they did it by voice vote so there could be no record of how many voted for her, or the names of those who voted against her.
Interesting. You’d think they’d want to be on the record purging the she-traitor from the ranks to show Orange Julius Caesar that they are with him, body and soul.
Hedging their bets?
If a person yells out “no”, then everyone nearby will hear it, and crawl over each other to be the first to report the traitorous response.
MTG says that the “Jihad Squad” shouldn’t be allowed in Congress. Twitter was quick to point out her support for the Capitol linsurrection.
Summon the Elector Counts!
For the right party, I always start with, “Jane (or whoever), you ignorant slut.”
