I didn’t watch House; but I am aware of the trope.
‘Never’ is an absolute which is best avoided when speaking.
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But in the meantime, I wake up every morning and scan the headlines, only to find that he has not yet had a stroke, heart attack, or some other life-ending medical issue. I remain disappointed. I sure hope he doesn’t outlive me.
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Ken did open his 2016 “It’s not RICO” rant thusly:
It’s never RICO!
I mean, not literally never. But I can say with a very high level of confidence that if you’re asking me, it’s not RICO.
So readers may make of that what they will. He seems to be taking current developments (and public ribbings) in good humor anyway.
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“Have you ever seen Velveeta go bad? No, because it’s not real food. The same is true of Donald Trump and being a human” -Slate
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This. It was clearly rhetorical hyperbole. And Hyperbole is the best thing ever.
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It seems to be highly favored tactic by Willis…
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If he does, in your last moments you will have the thought of TFG rotting in his cell to cherish.
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Maybe he should have used a different and more accurate adjective, then?
Anyhoos… whether Popehat is “right or wrong” is sooo not my focal point right now.
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I’d be willing to bet that they already have.
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Hey look, I hate Trump with the searing heat of a thousand suns, but can we just not attack him for his physical appearance? That’s of absolutely no consequence. There are so many actual problems with this guy, how about using any one of the hundreds of those and not using ‘fat’ as a pejorative?
You’re far from the only one doing it, but it comes up often enough to be irritating.
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He’s the only person(?) I use that term on and always in caps. I’m certain the term would make him apoplectic if he ever sees it applied to him. I can’t stand typing his surname and am so glad it was taken off a building where I live.
We have lots of friends and family battling with body weight issues and never shame them or other folks; it’s a tough problem for many of us, especially with all the Cortisol-inducing things happening in today’s world.
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All may be true, but still . . . can we avoid that one?
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If Trump tried to flee the country how would the logistics work? Not counting the secret service, where could he fly to with his jets limited range? He can’t get directly to Russia, China, or the middle east without refueling somewhere. Heading to South America might work if he can find a friendly country but he couldn’t get far after that.
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Maybe he’s Velveeta? They are roughly the same color, after all…
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This is so much fun to read:
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His Russian friends could arrange stopovers in Cuba and various African countries (Mali or the Central African Republic, for example).
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He flies in a Boeing 757-200, which has a range over 4000 miles. Yes, he can fly from many places in the US to Russia and/or China, if anyplace will take him. He doesn’t have to fly from Florida all the way to Moscow, if he decides to have a rally in Alaska, it’s less than a thousand miles from Anchorage to Lavrentiya Airport, and by the time anyone realized he’s gone he could be in International or even Russian airspace.
If he decides to run, one scenario is he doesn’t tell the bodyguards his plan: he ‘goes to bed’ one night when he’s in range of whatever diplomatic spider-hole he decides to run to, makes sure the pilots have the plane fueled, and tries to sneak out and get on board. They file flight plans on the runway to some innocuous destination, “We’re doing a test flight after maintenance.” Then they just keep going, changing their flight plan as they go to keep looking legit, and then off to wherever.
Mind you, I find the idea of him pulling this off unlikely, but I thought the same of his being elected President, or him being able to avoid any meaningful punishment for his crimes for so long, or going back in history him being allowed to build a building much taller than the permits allowed. If he does try to run (assuming he hasn’t already and the Secret Service covered it up) I hope to not be as disappointed in reality as I have been for so many things involving him.
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Please don’t use that abbreviation.
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