Back in the 80s, at the height of the anti-apartheid movement, there was a South African stand up comedian. A big part of his act was just dead-pan reading out a list of how many people that year had been officially re-classified from one race to another. It was legit hilarious.
This next part is Ellen DeGeneres quoting Rosie O’Donnell and it’s wonderful. I might even use it for my language techniques class next semester.
For the record: I firmly believe that any sitting president who touts the idea of revoking citizenship à la 1930s Germany because he doesn’t like what someonne says should be immediately impeached and removed from office. These two American women hit the nail on the head.
I guess living in China does protect me from some nonsense. I hadn’t heard about the Second Felonial Era making social media posts showing the felon as–hold on a second; my keyboard refused to process it–we’re back)–Superman. Check out the response to that.
Superman, huh? Scroll up a bit to see what I think the felon stands for instead of Superman’s Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
I’m still trying to process a 34-count felon’s saying he supports law and order. Also, that “by any means necessary” was only a plot device in the reboot Hawaii Five-0, not actually something that’s permissible.
No, you criminal.This is a de facto outsourcing of federal prisoners. And whatever another administration did or did not do is 100% irrelevant to your current crimes.
Good God I hope he’s never seen that show. I thought it was mindless fun but at the same time, it occurred to me in every single episode that if these were real police officers, they’d make the Rampart scandal look like children playing in a sandbox. The interrogation room at 5-0 HQ had a drain in it, under the chair suspects sat in while the 5-0 officers creatively violated their rights on a weekly basis.
For a similar reason of not wanting to give Trump any ideas, I pray to all gods great and small that he has never seen season 2 of Andor, episode 8 in particular.
I’ve been wondering that myself. It just kind of started showing up a month or two ago.
It sounds like of pseudo-legalish to me, like a lawyer ending a cease and desist letter with “conduct yourself accordingly.” Kind of a polite implied threat.
I kind of suspect that it’s a phrase that he ran across somewhere, and he has now adopted it as his own. If you asked him about it, he would probably claim that no one had ever heard of it before him.
I’m half expecting something that I saw frequently when the company I worked for started “co-sourcing” its IT operations with an Indian contractor: “Kindly do the needful.” It’s probably a more-or-less literal translation from the original, and it’s a perfectly legitimate request, but it did (and does) fall strangely on my Western ears.
Long ago I had a job that involved a lot of correspondence from India and yes, “Kindly do the needful” was a standard phrase in any letter involving a request.
But that’s just it. “Kindly do the needful” and “Thank you for your attention to this matter” both suggest that there’s something the recipient is expected to do about something. If I’m writing to complain about a billing error, or something, I might thank the person for their attention to this matter, because I actually expect them to sort it out.
But on random tweets? Am I supposed to read his latest rant on immigrants, and then immediately leap up and start deporting my neighbors, or something?
