Discussion: Clinton Brushes Off Trump's Insults: I 'Really Could Care Less'

And that is how she should handle him because he is an insult machine. If he excels at anything, it is insulting people.

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Worse comes from within her own party.

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Why does almost no one use that expression correctly?

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Its refreshing to hear that The Dumpster takes up zero space in her head, just as it should be. Besides, the Insult Comic routine wore thin a long time ago.

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That’ll piss him off.

He wants everyone to fear/respect his awesomeness.

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Beats me. As a former journalism student who also worked in news radio for a short stint, that always sticks out like a sore thumb to me. LOL. Seriously, I have not a clue. Oh, and I could care less.

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I can’t wait until she faces him in a debate and when he starts in on ‘crooked Hillary’, she turns and says: “What, are you a two-year old?”

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Is there any confusion who is more presidential in the manner that we’ve become accustomed to over these past seven years?

I mean, we had an incompetent fool for eight years why would we now want a buffoon?

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It’s bizarre to me. When I was a kid we used it correctly. Now I never hear it correctly. People nowadays say it’s and idiom but it’s not; it a wrong usage that caught on.

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Why do people use that phrase “incorrectly”? I could care less.

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Doonesbury has kept track of drumpf’s petty insults and there are too many to count but they’re all familiar.

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Seriously, Donald? Negative nicknames for opposition candidates is a focal point for you?

Petty objectives for petty politicians.

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It’s an ironic variation that intensifies the original “I couldn’t care less.” It’s a marker of New York speech also, and probably a Yiddishism. Usually said with a shrug! Here’s another one to drive you crazy, popular with New England Italians: “She really thinks who she is.” Not grammatical, but very expressive!

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Whether or not he ultimately wins the Republican nomination, he’s lost his mojo.

His insult routine was novel and exciting - in a can’t look away from that car crash kind of way - initially.

But now, it’s just boring, boorish, and stultifying. He’s going to be laughed at…and, to be sure, he’s not going to like that.

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LOL Absolutely. I love what she said, I just wish I could change “could” to “couldn’t”. Drives me nuts.

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Perfect answer. That’s how it’s done: “What I’m concerned about is how he goes after everybody else.”

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Because progress is our most important product.

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I think it works better in the “incorrect” form. It heightens the disdain: she can’t be bothered to even give him the “correct” version. He’s not worth the trouble to speak about carefully.

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I was going to vote for her until she said this. It’s couldn’t care less, and if she doesn’t retract her statement, I’m staying home in November.

So there.

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