The goddamn Trump Administration

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Combine this with Trump’s posts about crypto…anyone wanna take odds on an attempt by Musk to pay out Social Security benefits in cryptocurrency sometime in the next couple of months? I don’t think they’ll let payments not go out at all, because they’ve got to be just barely smart enough to realize the shitshow pissing off all retirees would be, but I could see them trying to make payments in crypto, which would be worthless to most people, but which they could claim would be valuable.

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for what it’s worth (less than zilch) i really doubt that trump wrote those Xweets.

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That would be a fucking nightmare… WTF is my mother gonna do with god damn crypto!

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How will we determine what is and is not English?

Is “Milwaukee” English?
Is “Pasta Primavera” English?
What about “bicycle?”

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Well, as a Brit, if I were ever to come to the US (nope, never gonna happen, now) I’d have to mind my Ps and Qs, I suppose. Walking up to MTG and asking " Can I bum a fag off you?" might get me arrested.

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Yeah, I was just thinking about how Trump is not only creating the dynamics for countries in general to develop/keep their weapons, but with North Korea and Iran, in particular, he’s given them special attention that encouraged that. I mean, he claimed he was trying to stop them from having nukes, but everything he’s done has worked in the opposite direction - he gave in to all of North Korea’s demands, without getting anything in return, and he blew up the agreement with Iran, leaving them free to return to developing nuclear weapons. I do wonder how much is down to Trump’s stupidity and personality disorders, and how much is Russia whispering in his ear. (Which is something I increasingly wonder about everything Trump does.)

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Nope. I’m not going to make the joke. Not gonna do it. I’m gonna be good.

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Merde

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Well, obviously that’s dashed good news for those of us who respect proper Queen’s King’s English.
Now perhaps you lot will do away with all those silly sidewalks, trucks and elevators and install some proper English pavements, lorries and lifts.

:face_with_monocle:

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indeed! and shall we labour 'longside our neighbour to include the theatre of the written English, or shall we simply douse it all in petrol and set it alight?

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Noice!
I had to DDGo that quote.
Good little rabbithole, that one.

ETA, to save others the search.

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Or “Knock me up in the morning”.

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Simple, Milwaukee is now Freedom Town
Pasta Primavera becomes Pasta Freedom
Bi isn’t allowed so it is a Straightcycle or Freedomcycle.

We’ll start to sound like the Smurfs, saying Freedom in lieu of Smurfy.

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Are people still into freedom? I thought the big thing now was merit, it’s a better stand in for bigotry without making any promises.

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That sounds double plus good.

But I should warn you that “cycle” is a foreign word too. We’ll have to find the Brythonic equivalent.

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Are we talking “English” from the Germanic roots, or the Viking roots, or the Gaelic roots, or the Latinate roots?

Our dictionaries are going to slim down considerably, whichever source we limit ourselves to.

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That’s of course all too academic for Tramp, and thus of no interest. His main point is less to embrace English than to wink and nudge his white supremacist fanbase over how much better and more powerful they are than those dirty Spanish-speaking less-than-humans.

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The Anglic equivalent (there are subtleties) would be based on wiltan (or awiltan or gewiltan, or with variant core vowels including -æ-, -ie-, -y-), Twowilter, which would probably simplify to “twilter” in time.

Brythonic would involve the word treigl: maybe daudreigliad?

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