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It's a bit sad that the democrats are so milk toast and ineffective in their messaging that even the slightest pushback against republicans is referred to as Dark Brandon.
milk toast
Is this sarcasm or do you not know the proper term?
Don't put yourself on a pedal stool like you know all the words in the world
Thanks for saying that. People like you are a blessing in the skies.
Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive porpoises I think you are wrong.
In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. If you don't tow the line you'll never hone in on the truth. Gorilla warfare will be used against you if you don't agree!
You had me at "zero taller ants".
This is just art, plain and simple.
Your my hero
It's a decades-old copypasta AFAIK. I do sometimes add new malapropisms as I come across them.
I hate you all. LOL. I thought I was having a stroke.
that's a bit of a damp squid
All just to spider face…
It's milquetoast for anyone curious.
Which, for whatever it's worth, was deliberately coined as 'milk + toast'.
To be fair, there was a time recently when Trump used the term "milk toast" to describe Kayleigh McEnaney, so using the term "milk toast" isn't entirely unreasonable here if it's meant to be a dig at Trump.
Language is fluid. The character named Milquetoast the expression comes from was based on the idea that milk and toast are a bland and uninteresting meal anyway. The idea is communicated either way.
Did not know. English is my second language and I have only heard it spoken. The weird part is that I have written it in comments before (on reddit) and nobody corrected me.
Also, it should be milk toast. Milquetoast is a reference to a comic character that is referencing the dish.
Al Gore was the canary in the coal mine for that party and generation. Milquetoast is being very polite.
Are we just going to ignore 8 years of Obama? You can have your differences with him but he was far from ineloquent.
Agreed.
They should have never backed down on the Clinton comment calling them deplorable. They are.
What should we do with that half of the country then? I mean I agree, they are deplorable. But then what? They're not going anywhere. We're all in the same boat like it or not. Imo we HAVE to find a way to work together.
It's not half the country, It's like 30%. Trump did not win the popular vote and that was people who voted.
What is the measure of effective messaging? By my estimation, it would be winning elections, which progressives have a pretty poor record of.
By my estimation it would be getting more votes, which democrats actually have a pretty good record of.
I love that the 'Right Side Broadcasting Network' that is hosting the video of MTG has fully a quarter of its screen devoted to hawking gold.
When you're referring to selling something it's spelled hocking.
Edit: Turns out I was mistaken, Hawking is indeed the correct term for this.
I looked it up before posting, there's a bit of disagreement on that.
Oh damn I had never heard of the other term before, my bad.
Hawking Gold. It's made when neutron stars collide. It's in the same family as Hawking radiation.
https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/19/hock-hawk/
Think context matters here. In the context of the top comment, I think hawking is the proper term over hocking.
"Know your audience."
Biden was trying to “finish what FDR started” in addressing rural poverty, education and medical care, Greene said. She also accused Biden of trying to turn America socialist.
"Socialist" is a good term to scare folks. (At least, folks over 50.) FDR...not so much.
This should fall below the threshold of "things worth posting or writing an article about" tbh.
Are you new to politics? This is the meat and potatoes of how politics is played.
Did MTG always have such a pronounced lisp? What's up with her voice... she sounds different to usual. New veneers maybe.