"How did Trump handle it?" Expert: "Goat rodeo". "Can you expand?" "Total goat rodeo"

[muriel_volestrangler]

Tweet from Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale:

Link to tweet

Dale asked Jeffrey Lewis from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies for his reaction to Trump's summit cancellation.

Lewis: Goat rodeo

Dale: Any chance you could expand this into even one sentence?

Lewis: This is a total goat rodeo.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. I had to consult Urban Dictionary on this one.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Goat%20Rodeo

Goat Rodeo

A situation that is hopelessly fucked up. The worst of three stages of goat-ness. First is the Goat Rope, defined else where.

Then there is the utilitraian Goat Fuck. This normally requires a serious amount of work to unfuck.

Lastly, there is the Goat Rodeo. The worst of the three, it is beyond even profanity. It describes a situation that involves many individuals screw ups, and implies that the fuck up is already well underway, meaning that there is no hope in stopping the mess. Usually said with a defeated tone:

Ready to go to this Goat Rodeo? Its gonna be terrible.

On the positive side, I have a new favorite phrase.

[Cha]

17. Thanks Tommy.. I had a pretty good

idea but..

[green917]

24. Military terminology

See also:

A Goat Rope, A Goat Fuck, or FUBAR

[EarnestPutz]

35. Laughed out loud. Wife asked (as she does) "What's so funny?"

Read the three part analysis of "goatness" to her
and she laughed out loud - which hardly ever happens.
Funny stuff.

[MyOwnPeace]

36. Bless her heart.............

you have a keeper!

[longship]

37. Now that is laughing out loud funny!!!

It's gonna be terrible!

Indeed!

[MissB]

2. Omg that reporter was probably howling with laughter.

Lol doesn’t cover it

[FirstLight]

3. hahahaahhaaaa!

I have to laugh to keep from screaming!!!!!
This whole Administration and Congress is a fucking Goat Rodeo...definitely beyond clusterfuck.

[sarge43]

32. Carpet bombing clusterfuck. n/t

[oswaldactedalone]

4. FUBAR is what we called it back in the day

and, no, you can't find FUBAR in a German, French, or English dictionary. (Know which movie that comes from?)

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Well, you say that, but ...

From the Oxford English Dictionary:

fubar, adj.

Origin: Formed within English, as an acronym. Etymon: English fouled (or fucked) up beyond all recognition.
Etymology: Acronym < the initial letters of fouled (or fucked) up beyond all recognition. Compare snafu phr., adj., and n.
U.S. (orig. Mil. slang).
Categories »

Bungled, ruined, messed up. Also: extremely intoxicated.
Often used as a euphemism for fucked up (see fucked-up adj.).
1944 Yank 7 Jan. 8/1 The FUBAR Squadron... FUBAR? It means ‘Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition’.

fubar, v.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: fubar adj.
Etymology: < fubar adj.
U.S. (orig. Mil. slang).
Categories »

trans. To ruin, bungle, mess up. Also occasionally intr.

1946 ‘J. MacDougal’ in Astounding Sci.-Fiction Oct. 55/1 Well, there are a lot of minor ones, which must have fubared things in all directions once Co-ordination accepted them.

[robbob]

23. I always thought it was

“Beyond all repair”. As in, unfixable.

[Wounded Bear]

26. Either way works...

[oswaldactedalone]

25. Actually I was referencing

Saving Private Ryan when the reporter soldier was volunteered to join the squad to find Private Ryan and he didn't know what fubar meant. He kept trying to look in his translation dictionaries to find it but couldn't, much to the amusement of the other squad members. And I did learn it as Fucked Up Beyond All Repair.

[Wounded Bear]

27. It pre-dates that movie by at least several decades...

I know we used to say it back in the 70's.

The whole idea of using these kinds of acronyms probably dates from at least WWI, when the practice was picked up from the British.

[sarge43]

33. We used it all the time in the 60's

FUBAR

SNAFU

FIGMO (Fuck it, got my orders)

[Wounded Bear]

34. Have to admit...

FIGMO is new to me.

[oswaldactedalone]

41. Think about it, Saving Private Ryan

was set in 1944. The naive reporter/soldier was using dictionaries to look up a word in multiple languages that didn't exist in the dictionaries... in 1944. That was the joke of the scene.

[Wounded Bear]

43. I got the joke...

[Freethinker65]

5. Love it. I learned a new term today

[Duppers]

28. Me too.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Goat%20Rodeo

Hopelessly fucked up.

[janx]

7. Love Middlebury.

It's famous for its language programs, by the way, which makes this especially appropriate.

[dembotoz]

8. goat rodeo

https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/76422037/Goat-Rodeo

[Kali]

9. that's a sheep

[dembotoz]

42. shit i am a city kid....seems the guy a google is a city kid too when i googled goat rodeo

your sheep and goats are safe with me....

[Kali]

45. I was just helping this sheep over the wall...

[fierywoman]

10. Is there a photoshop person in the house?

Sub cheeto face and actual goat ...

[musette_sf]

14. that there's mutton-bustin'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutton_busting

[Kirk Lover]

11. This must be the same guy that said this on Katy Tur. He also said this is a FARCE

which I've been borrowing all day.

[mgardener]

12. Learn something new

Every single day.
I think FUBAR also describes it.
What a total, total jerk Trump is.
History is watching you , republicans.

[Honeycombe8]

15. I can't wait to see the movie. Hope they see themselves in it, and wince....

with having to look at a replay of their nonaction during a crisis.

[Honeycombe8]

13. Hahahaha! Sometimes fewer words are better. LOL. nt

[JDC]

16. A weird format for an "exclusive interview"

I think its funny...but he is joking by calling it that right?

[unblock]

22. "exclusive" just means it's not a group text lol

[JDC]

31. I think you are right...

[Tiger58]

18. tigerram

In the Military it would be called FUBAR.{ fucked up beyond all recognition]

[Javaman]

19. Lol love their podcast! Nt

[yonder]

20. Another military slang beside FUBAR is SNAFU

Situration Normal, All Fucked Up

[Wounded Bear]

29. Yeah, that too...

[NickB79]

39. Don't forget BOHICA

Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!

[yonder]

40. yep! that's it

I was doing my best to remember a third one with no luck. tanks

[calimary]

21. I'm howling!!!!

Goat rodeo!!! OMG!!!!!

[Wounded Bear]

30. Clusterfuck works too...

or if you want to be PC you can say FusterCluck.

[ThoughtCriminal]

38. Even Goat Rodeo Clowns are Saying

that this is really F-d up.

Can they make the situation any worse?

Don't ask, they will take that as a suggestion.

[PufPuf23]

44. Trump needs a real pet goat for the WH.

A goat would be a nice hobby so he would spend less time tweeting and presidenting.