Hint: Obama’s economic recovery. Everything they said basically boiled down to that.
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They didn’t mention her emails, but used the same rhetorical devices; “the US meddles in elections, too!” The emails binary was always just a stand-in for excusing oneself from critical thinking. Now that vast swathes of evidence of Russian meddling and likely trump collusion have surfaced, a whole new raft of nonsensical deflection has been employed.
Also: Of all the stupid things that iOS capitalizes without my consent, it still doesn’t even try with trump. Love that!
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Huh. I edited copy for a newspaper in the 70’s and we always spelled it “lead.”
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Oh give the woman a break, she already has a nasty philandering husband who harasses women. She’s taken one too many for the team at this point.
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holy cow. and those movies do well, if i remember, right? i hate this planet sometimes.
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Trump accomplished two things that these shitbags want to canonize him for: preventing that woman from becoming president and starting to undo everything that black guy did.
I love Sinclair Lewis.
Merriam-Webster likes lead and lede.
That about covers it.
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To be fair they were the heads state of the rich and famous who were there to survive the rest of humanity destroying itself becuse they sold out to the supervillian. They are modern comic book superspy action fun.
Did… did you think I was serious
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I didn’t think either of us were 
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And saluting North Korea generals would be … ?
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“I’m supposed to change my opinion about a President that’s doing all kinds of amazingly positive things because of a one-hour session of murder, rape and torture in my own home?”
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OED has cites for lead as the spelling of that Journalistic sense back to the 1920s, but only cites lede going back to the early 1950s.
Makes sense, since the Etymology notes that it’s an…
Altered spelling of lead n.2 (see lead n.2 1f), originally in order to distinguish the word’s use in instructions to printers from printable text.
So it started out as lead but, in some places ("chiefly U.S", it says), morphed into lede to avoid confusion in communicating with printers.
Either one is a perfectly correct, current English word.
“Lead” may set off some pedants, though, so mind the splash zone. (-;
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Is the sky blue? Do ducks quack?
Just Roleplaying while cosplaying.
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Nah, they would just chant “Trump that bitch”.
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I was speculating this as well–that a lot of people don’t even really know why they love him. That the rationalizations are just trying to justify their gut feelings.
I only think that’s part of it. I know a right leaning centrist, and we have some good talks about politics without ripping each other’s throats out. His take is the “Businessman” angle–that he says he’s going to do something, and he executes it with a singular focus. Because that’s how business works, right?
Bless his heart, but he’s never held a white collar job. Business people sometimes do that. But just as often, they form a committee which includes like way too many people, and try to come to a consensus with a bunch of disparate and dissenting voices, manage to finally accomplish that after a good long time, and then at the drop of a hat do something completely different because the winds have shifted.
And anyways, what’s this business with my equating “Business” with white collar jobs? The meaning of the word is as diverse as the people who you are likely to meet “doing business”.
I actually had a highly compensated colleague during the election cycle try to tell me that, “I’m sure we all just really would LOVE a businessman as a president”. Ah, well. No. Not necessarily. It’s a meaningless sentiment, given the scope of what it encompasses. I’d sure take Romney over Trump any day, though.
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Like byte, perhaps
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