There are people in the Portland suburbs who swear it’s true, that Portland is a burned-up shell with homeless people living everywhere and roving gangs of antifa. Nevermind that they can travel a few miles from home and see for themselves - Portland is a thriving, vibrant city - much less listen to people who actually go there from their own neighborhood.
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I don’t know what reaction emoji I should use: 
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(they’re nuts vs they have the right to believe in Trump, I guess?)
Sigh. I wish we had a sigh emoji, something more than 
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I was hearing the same thing about Los Angeles, & then we traveled there three weeks ago. And it’s true, the crime was out of control, & I was killed! Now I’m dead. I’m dead!!
(One of those sentences is the truth. Also true: we dug it.)
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In Minnesota, that’s pronounced “oof da”.
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Yet the description of Trump as dour is as incomplete
You have to use the Scots pronunciation of dour, where the u only hints of the deep gelatinous manky depths
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I’d be happy if he populated Mars by just 1.
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Trump’s mother was Scottish, and perhaps very dour.
As a parent, MacLeod was more reserved than her husband.
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She wasn’t a citizen until 1942? How many anchor babies did she have before that?
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Anyone married into that nest of vipers and ticks would be pretty damned dour. Melania pretty much defines the term, and her ethical status is pretty iffy as well.
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So - is Trump German or Scottish? And when did he choose that?
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I had to look that up! I don’t think that uff da ever made it over to my area of the upper west side. It wasn’t part of my vocab growing up, anyway. What I just read suggested it’s sort of a “oh for Pete’s sake” expression rather than “whoops, sorry”, though. Do you use them interchangeably?
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I demand to see his long-form birth certificate!
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Sorta? Is ope only used in place d’oh? Ope wasn’t a thing in MN when I was growing up, I don’t quite grok every situation in which it can be used. [I don’t think it’s a thing in SE MI, either, I never heard of the term before a few years ago from the interwebz.]
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Hm. I tend to say ope in place of whoops and it usually precedes sorry. Or in place of ah well, preceding whatcha gonna do? So there’s some flexibility with it. It could definitely replace d’oh, too.
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AIPAC can’t Citizens United everyone…
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(Free link; not sure why it doesn’t onebox)
This oil tycoon brings in millions for Trump, and may set his agenda
Harold Hamm has become Trump’s point person in raising funds from oil industry donors and relaying to the ex-president what the industry wants.
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