Donald also has a track record of maintaining a positive relationship with our Latin American neighbors.
Seriously, let’s do this. We can even draft Goofy as his VP.
Ideal world? I was responding to the question of “What kind of word is “lodestar”?” by referencing the ancient world where these both of terms came from. I mean, sure. You can invent a time machine, go back a few thousand years and explain to the ancient people that their lodestones don’t actually point to to the lodestar and tell them about true magnetic north and all of that. Until then… I wont concern myself any further with pedantry
Well, El Presidenté, if this person exists then they are already in the government. So…
Just to be safe, you should start rounding everyone up in the halls and have them sent to the dungeon for questioning.
Or just start that shooting that you talked about.
You goof.
1. A star that shows the way; esp. the pole star.
▸ a 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John’s Cambr.) (1865) I. 199 Þe sterre þat ladde þe Grees whan þey seilled þider [ sc. to Hesperia] and was her loode sterre, Hespera, þat is Venus.
1393 Langland Piers Plowman C. xviii. 95 Wederwise sheepmen now…Han no by-leyue to þe lyft ne to þe lood-sterre.
? a 1400 Morte Arth. 751 Schipe-mene…Lukkes to þe lade-sterne whene þe lyghte faillez.
c 1400 Mandeville’s Trav. (1839) xvii. 180 The Sterre of the See, that is unmevable and that is toward the Northe, that we clepen the Lode Sterre.
c 1405 (▸ c 1385) Chaucer Knight’s Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1201 Calistopee…Was turned fro a womman til a Bere And after was she maad the lode sterre.
c 1511 Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale in E. Arber 1st Three Eng. Bks. on Amer. (1885) Introd. 28/1 Yat sowth layd sterre sawe we fourth with.
a 1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. D.vi Tyll the cost be clere That the lode starre appere.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 16 Tha had fund rycht far Furth in the north, law vnder the laid star Ane plesand yle.
a 1571 J. Jewel Expos. 2 Thess. (1611) 150 The Master of the ship seemeth to be idle…Hee…looketh vpon the load star, and in appearance doth nothing.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xx. f. 154 The loade starre or North starre.
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Lodestar , a Starre that guideth one.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 142 The Load-stone and the Load-star depend both upon this [ viz . the steadiness of the earth’s axis].
1. Magnetic oxide of iron; also, a piece of this used as a magnet.
?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. C.j One kepte ye compas and watched ye our glasse Some ye lodysshestone dyd seke.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark 38 b Like as the lode~stone draweth vnto it yron, so [etc.].
1579 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 156 One rynge of gold havinge in it a stone called a lode stone.
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. 297 The Loadstone, is coloured like iron, but blewer, and tending to a skie colour.
1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Oct. (1965) I. 279 A small piece of Loadstone that held up an Anchor of Steel too heavy for me to lift.
1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) 292 The smallest loadstones have generally a greater attractive power, in proportion to their size, than larger ones.
1877 W. Jones Finger-ring Lore 304 A loadstone sometimes was set instead of a jewel, indicative of love’s attractions.
1891 Nature 3 Sept. The property of the magnet or ‘loadstone’ to point to the north first became known in the eleventh century.
You can use a lodestar to find north. Polaris is fairly close to North There are other lodestars-- Alpha Crucis, and the belt of Orion,
You can use a compass (a lode stone) to find north-- but this will point to magnetic north.
Imagine yourself at sea, without a table of magnetic declination, and only a compass, sextant, watch, and map (no GPS).
If the magnetic declination is zero, or close to zero-- the ideal situation-- you can navigate during the day. If it’s way off, your lodestone is not going to point to the lodestar.
Yeah, man those ancestors of ours where so imprecise.
For what it’s worth:
On the one hand, she said she gave hints to who (pl.) is doing it. On the other hand, she might not want to give them up. Or she might.
Agreed with all of that. But given that all we have are the institutions, corrupt though they may be, I don’t believe that you improve democracy by abrogating them in anything less than a “life or death” situation.
And Trump, awful though he is, is not that. The US and Americans will survive him, and, if given a chance to go out with the whimper of electoral defeat rather than the bang of a highly disputed removal, will banish him to being an embarrassing memory of an unsettled time.
Unless he starts a nuclear war, but even there, he’s more likely to nuke Canada than someone who can fight back.
It’s scary to think anybody in Trump’s cabinet considers themselves to be the “adult in the room”. Just look at how corrupt and awful they all are. Every single one of them.
ehhm…
not exactly sure what he mean by “get it done together”…
That was the reason the National Teenage Party (later the Official Monster Raving Loony Party) came into existence in the UK.
Starting in 1963, David Sutch, head of Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages, stood in British parliamentary elections under a range of party names, mainly as the National Teenage Party candidate. At that time the minimum voting age was 21. The party’s name was intended to highlight what Sutch and others viewed as hypocrisy, since teenagers were unable to vote because of their supposed immaturity while the adults running the country were involved in scandals such as the Profumo Affair.
Canada can fight back a lot more (against us directly at least) than North Korea.
i don’t know. 45 is terrible. a person who becomes president because their predecessor was terrible isnt going to rock the boat if they value their position.
set the pins up, knock them down, one after the other if necessary.
it doesn’t undermine the people’s power to use that power.
If Pence ends up taking over and the Republicans are still in control, he’d be far more adept at working with the establishment to advance the Republican agenda without fucking things up the way Trump does by alienating his allies. Being unpopular won’t make Republicans refuse to work with him, and he surely knows he wouldn’t get elected himself, so there aren’t really any bridges to burn (because, for him, they don’t exist in the first place). At this point Republicans are setting the house on fire and don’t care so long as they get to advance their agenda before it all burns down - they aren’t thinking much about the future. If Pence is in a position to give them what they want, they’ll take it. Hell, if the Republicans aren’t in control, Pence would still be more likely to advance the conservative agenda, if for no other reason than because he’s not Trump. Everyone would be so relieved Trump is out, he’d look better in comparison and get away with more (even if the policies were just as awful).
The only reason I can see the GOP working to keep Trump both in check and in office is if they think he can win another term and they need the extra time to totally destroy democracy (so they can stay in power with a minority vote).
