“If.”
That would imply there’s a chance the thing will actually clear.
Heck, that would imply the check’s ever even written.
Same.
I remember the Bicentennial as much more joyful with legitimate reasons to be proud even if, of course, the nation was facing challenges. Because, let’s face it, there are always challenges.
This is not how I imagined the 250th.
Here’s an example of how it feels different:
For the 200th we all learned the word “bicentennial”.
But no one seems to be learning the term for a 250th, which is “semiquincentennial” Which I will now be using to befuddle people.
Why not call it quartermillennium? I guess more people know what a millennium is than what a quincentennial is. Of course the math is double as complicated, which is a problem with certain people, but you also get two double consonants instead of just one.
And a quarter of the way to a Thousand Year Reich is something this administration (and I use the term loosely) should cherish.
Regardless of what you call it, it could be a damn sight more proud than a bunch of thirty-year-old musical acts and an MMA fight on White House grounds. That’s just plain tacky.
Americans should be proud of 250 years of the United States. They should have parades, marching bands, fireworks, celebrations, things they can all be proud of. Instead, they get a circus of musical acts that haven’t been relevant in 35 years, and two guys wailing the crap out of each other on the White House lawn.
That’s not a celebration of a milestone. That’s just dumb.
Ask the Romans, it’s their usage, not ours. English is a dumping ground of words, phrases, and usages that fell off other languages.
But also, the nearest thing to what you mean that is not semiquincentennial would then be quadrantmillennial, and no MAGA loving American could ever approve of millennial anything!
On the Milli Vanilli thing, the actual story is pretty sad. They were singers, they had done backing vocals and even an album previously. They were pretty mediocre it seems, but they believed they would be recording their own vocals at some point. And lip-syncing wasn’t that uncommon anyway; their producer had done the same thing with Boney M. But they became the fall guys of the whole music industry.
Edit: Just checked the wiki and it’s worse than I thought. They were pressing their producer to let them sing and ultimately he fired them and did a press conference because of this repeated demand. And somehow they end up as the bad guys in this.
In the Season 5 finale of The West Wing (Episode 22: “Memorial Day”), Toby Ziegler and Charlie Young try to teach President Josiah Bartlet how to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game.
It’s entirely possible that they ran through a protracted practice session, trying to get Trump to say the word … even remotely correctly.
With the outcome being the only possible outcome with the current Commander In Chief.
And if he can’t say it, then you definitely can’t say it. Wouldn’t want DJT to look bad, now would we?
Another teachable moment lost to the overcrowded graveyard of terminally stupid Peter Principle poster children.
He posted this on FB about an hour ago
I HAVE INFORMED MY AGENTS THAT I WILL NOT BE PERFORMING AT THE FREEDOM 250 EVENT. The artists were never told about any political involvement with the event. And despite the claims by the organizers that the event is non-partisan, SPIN magazine describes it as Trump-backed". I hope to perform in D.C. in the near future at an event that is not so politically charged.
I remember a year of excitement as the Bicentennial approached. There were news segments (I think even on the kids’ new show, In The News) and articles on the upcoming celebrations. I remember a gathering of tall ships from around the world. The Freedom Train toured the United States, displaying American artefacts. (Somewhere, I have a penny that was run over by it.) People where I lived painted the barrels of fire hydrants in red and white stripes, and the tops blue with white stars. So soon after the Vietnam war, it was something that helped bring the country together.
Today, the Semiquincentennial seems like an afterthought. The Trump regime has been so corrupt, has, for a decade, been sowing discord and divisiveness, and has been committing so may crimes and committing more crimes to distract from the other crimes, and virtually shitting on the United States Constitution, that it seems there is as much excitement and preparedness as you would give to your wedding anniversary with an ex-wife.
Is Milli Vanilli still a thing? I thought they’d disapeared after the lip syncing controversey. Seems like a solid pick for drumf.
Well, you know, they did take the stage and pretend to sing.
As people have before and after. And they had been told they would be able to use their own voices eventually.
Oh thank Og; my first thought was, “Morris Day, NOOOO!!!”
Someone will have to tell him, that’s not how dictatorships work. Performing in the Capital City without explicitly kissing Trump’s ass is automatically politically charged, because that’s the environment in which we’re all now living.
Cite? Couldn’t find anywhere that that was the case.
She should file a claim against the $1.8 billion slush fund.
Apparently, yes.
Rob Pilatus – one of the two singers who were presented as Milli Vanilli – died in 1998, of a drug overdose, as the duo were attempting a comeback. Fab Morvan, the other one, now owns the rights to the band name (according to Wikipedia), and is doing live performances with a new band.
Oh, thank goodness! I can still groove to “Come on, fatso, just bust-a-move!”
It’s because of their hit song “Blame it on Biden.”
Blame it on Biden who was yawnin’, yawnin’
Blame it on the blokes with the Epstein hoax
Whatever you do, don’t put the blame on you
Blame it on Joe Biden, yeah, yeah
You can blame it on Biden