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Rename Trump's country club cheering section (Original Post) underpants Aug 2020 OP
People who meet in glass houses shouldn't throw golf balls. KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2020 #1
Contagious sheep The Wizard Aug 2020 #2
The Covfefe-snorting Yo Semites of Thighland Laelth Aug 2020 #3
sand trap scumbags RoverSuswade Aug 2020 #4
one sorry lot of wealthy white folk. paying trump for this. bullimiami Aug 2020 #5
Kooky Khaki Kommandos chriscan64 Aug 2020 #6
"WE DEMAND FREE BIRTH CONTROL FOR AU PAIRS" - so many layers of perfection in that chia Aug 2020 #7
Look, just look at that... N_E_1 for Tennis Aug 2020 #8
Those kids are going to grow up and ask their parents why they yellowcanine Aug 2020 #9
The rownesheck Aug 2020 #10
"we aren't onethatcares Aug 2020 #11
Toads' Hole Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #12
Great post! n/t Laelth Aug 2020 #13
You nailed it MLAA Aug 2020 #15
The gang who couldn't putt straight MLAA Aug 2020 #14
50 Shades Of Beige lindysalsagal Aug 2020 #16
Uptighty Whities hatrack Aug 2020 #17

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,488 posts)
1. People who meet in glass houses shouldn't throw golf balls.
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 09:39 AM
Aug 2020

............


This really should be a prayer meeting. They're going to need it......

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
3. The Covfefe-snorting Yo Semites of Thighland
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 09:40 AM
Aug 2020

Why not? Mainly, they just look bored. Time for another line of covfefe.



-Laelth

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,651 posts)
8. Look, just look at that...
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 09:51 AM
Aug 2020

“History’s lardest ever, record settleing, beautiful, bigger than Obama’s ignaugeration crowed” ...



Tweeted out this morning by your favorite presi....no I really can’t finish that

onethatcares

(16,160 posts)
11. "we aren't
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 10:55 AM
Aug 2020

getting paid overtime for standing around crew"


If those are wealthy donors, I'm a f ing bazillionaire.

Kid Berwyn

(14,752 posts)
12. Toads' Hole
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 10:58 AM
Aug 2020

As in a bucket o’ toadies.

toad·y
/ˈtōdē/

noun: toady; plural noun: toadies

a person who behaves obsequiously to someone important.

Similar:
sycophant
obsequious person
creep
crawler
fawner
flatterer
flunkey
lackey
truckler
groveller
doormat
lickspittle
kowtower
minion
hanger-on
leech
puppet
stooge
spaniel
Uriah Heep
bootlicker
yes-man
vulgar slangarse-licker
arse-kisser
bum-sucker
brown-nose
suckhole
Opposite:
independent
one's own master

verb
verb: toady; 3rd person present: toadies; past tense: toadied; past participle: toadied; gerund or present participle: toadying

act in an obsequious way.

"she imagined him toadying to his rich clients"

Similar:
be obsequious toward
be servile toward
be sycophantic toward
grovel to
kowtow to
abase oneself to
demean oneself to
bow and scrape to
prostrate oneself to
truckle to
make up to
play up to
dance attendance on
fawn on
ingratiate oneself with
rub up the right way
curry favor with
flatter
court
suck up to
crawl to
creep to
be all over
lick someone's boots
fall all over
butter up
brown-nose
keep someone sweet
vulgar slanglick/kiss someone's arse

Opposite: Me, you, DU

defy



Origin

early 19th century: said to be a contraction of toad-eater, a charlatan's assistant who ate toads; toads were regarded as poisonous, and the assistant's survival was thought to be due to the efficacy of the charlatan's remedy.

MLAA

(17,230 posts)
14. The gang who couldn't putt straight
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 11:42 AM
Aug 2020

AAA: Anti-diversity Assholes Anonymous
Big Asshole Little Brain Society


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