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If Joe It owns a Corvette I’d say “That’s It’s Corvette.”
[/quote]You might even have the occasion, during a minor bulb replacement, to say: "That’s It’s Corvette’s headlight’s bulb’s last glimmer.
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While I do think this all has a cumulative effect that is slowly chipping away at his approval rating, I’m more concerned that stuff like this energizes Democratic voters. We don’t need a single PP voter to change their mind. We do, however, need Democrats to go vote.
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Heh—I got that too in third grade. Too many summer vacations that were nice and we had a nice time and went to a museum and it was nice. Like Trump with “very.”
I have a pet peeve of my own to share with other usage fiends (Hi, @thunderclapnewman), kind of serious, in that we call a thing a tragedy when really it’s an atrocity. If people did it I think it should be called an atrocity. Pet peeve.
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Poetry would be Irma and Jose taking out Mar a Lago while sparing the rest of FL. Good chance that Mar a Lago takes a hit.
Tsar-a-Lago is the hot-seat of power.
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But you’re making It a proper noun, and not a pronoun—so your example fails.
It doesn’t look like Jose will be coming close to FL. Its current track is bouncing off the already beatened up Caribbean islands and then heading north off into the Atlantic.
Hopefully.
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You are of course right but it’s hard not to want to have a bit of fun, and we’re not talking about the House at Bear Run here. Mar A Lago was and remains a grotesque testament to American wealth run amok, much like Hearst Castle. They’re freakish buildings that memorialize freakish fantasies.
All the same, I am glad they’re around for us to see and marvel at. Say, WTF??? Hearst Castle especially.
But while I do think you’re right and many of us are not being adult (I raise my hand), in truth, I wouldn’t cry a river to see Merriweather’s phony Florida castillo take a hit. It’s not like it will take masters in Florentine Renaissance detail to restore it.
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nice- vaguely good.
Nowadays I use it as an insult.
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I hate that one too even though I probably do it from time to time. A guy running down a group of peaceful protesters, maiming several people and killing a woman, that’s not a tragedy. That’s an atrocity. What happened to TX with Harvey was a tragedy.
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Adjust your snark meter. I was joking.
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I hope you’re somewhere safe. Despite my pleading and yelling, my best friend is hunkering down in Tampa. He won’t budge.
Ties right in with calling victims heroes. Which is not to say there aren’t victims who are heroes at the same time, but I hope you get my drift.
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He’s had an approval bounce over the last few days. Natural disasters and wars usually do that–even for Trump.
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NOW this is serious!
President Trump’s and Richard Branson’s Caribbean homes destroyed by Hurricane Irma
But there is always hope… for Republicans.
So there is only one thing for the President to do… Attack North Korea!
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How about calling all cops or military personnel “heroes” when they have not done something heroic? Does one’s choice of occupation automatically make him/her a hero?
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Not to me. That’s the kind of thing I mean.
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It will vanish into the void with all his tax returns (unless we get really lucky).
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Same with relatives in Miami east of I-95. Nothing I say seems to matter.
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I looooved Hearst Castle when my parents took me as a kid, but, yeah, I feel much the same as you do about Mar-A-Lago. Am I being petty, mean, and vindictive for feeling that way? Sure, definitely. Still, I’d like to see all of his properties so damaged that he has to keep his fat ass in DC all winter long. It would save the taxpayers a ton of money, hasten his crazy cycles, and it would also mean disaster relief would come much quicker to those effected.
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