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Trump comments about Sean Connery's death - are really about Trump. SURPRISE!! (Original Post) Demovictory9 Nov 2020 OP
'past' on? CurtEastPoint Nov 2020 #1
and unnecessary comma Demovictory9 Nov 2020 #2
Unnecessary comma after "quite a guy" and needs a period after quote before quotation mark. marie999 Nov 2020 #17
Trump's a tool MustLoveBeagles Nov 2020 #32
You beat me to it! True Blue American Nov 2020 #3
and he just called himself our "favorite president" again. UGH Demovictory9 Nov 2020 #4
Gag me! True Blue American Nov 2020 #7
Originally? Did he somehow become President again? underpants Nov 2020 #8
He's going to be very befuddled later in the week Rorey Nov 2020 #10
his red ties and hair styling equipment too Demovictory9 Nov 2020 #15
"Favorite"? MurrayDelph Nov 2020 #20
trump is Not Even a "president".. he's Cha Nov 2020 #31
Obvious he actually wrote that tweet wishstar Nov 2020 #5
yep Demovictory9 Nov 2020 #9
JFC PCIntern Nov 2020 #6
And That was on His Best Day The Roux Comes First Nov 2020 #13
Republicanese for "passed on" DFW Nov 2020 #18
Only Tump could make Connery's death about Donald Trump Botany Nov 2020 #11
trump is referring to the hissy fit he threw when the Scottish government mnmoderatedem Nov 2020 #12
Trump lost that case in 2015 irisblue Nov 2020 #14
Sean Connery story is probably a lie Demovictory9 Nov 2020 #16
Scottish officials said it never happened at all SoonerPride Nov 2020 #30
THAT! Boogiemack Nov 2020 #28
And what does Trump say about the approx 1000 a day who are dying of Covid in America? Doodley Nov 2020 #19
Trump comments about __________ are really about Trump. jcgoldie Nov 2020 #21
Yep Demovictory9 Nov 2020 #23
passed on demtenjeep Nov 2020 #22
It's not English, it's Republicanese DFW Nov 2020 #24
+1 treestar Nov 2020 #26
There you go DFW Nov 2020 #27
Pathetic, little boy spanone Nov 2020 #25
It never happened. Sean Connery didn't do anything for him SoonerPride Nov 2020 #29
 

marie999

(3,334 posts)
17. Unnecessary comma after "quite a guy" and needs a period after quote before quotation mark.
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:54 AM
Nov 2020

Also never use the & sign if you are writing out "and" every other place. I never do this when someone posts, only when trump tweets.

MustLoveBeagles

(11,592 posts)
32. Trump's a tool
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 05:29 PM
Nov 2020

Who the hell does he think he is putting word in a dead guy's mouth? The grammar and punctuation errors were the least offensive thing about that tweet.

underpants

(182,778 posts)
8. Originally? Did he somehow become President again?
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:09 AM
Nov 2020

Like in the first term?

Maybe it was the magic of dancing.

Rorey

(8,445 posts)
10. He's going to be very befuddled later in the week
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:13 AM
Nov 2020

"favorite President" is going to be packing up his Big Macs, KFC and makeup kit.

PCIntern

(25,539 posts)
6. JFC
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:05 AM
Nov 2020

I guarantee you that Connery, an avid golfer from his Goldfinger prep days, thought the idiot was a creep.

Botany

(70,499 posts)
11. Only Tump could make Connery's death about Donald Trump
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:15 AM
Nov 2020

past on

And his first sentence?

The legendary actor Sean Connery, who played the role of secret agent 007 has passed on.




mnmoderatedem

(3,726 posts)
12. trump is referring to the hissy fit he threw when the Scottish government
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:16 AM
Nov 2020

would not allow him to build a golf course where he wanted to, in favor of wind turbine farms.

As if they should not have a right to make decisions on what to do in their own country.

So trumpy.

irisblue

(32,969 posts)
14. Trump lost that case in 2015
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:27 AM
Nov 2020

Source-https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/12/trump-firm-settles-legal-bill-over-scottish-windfarm-dispute


snip-"The Trump Organization has settled a £225,000 legal bill with the Scottish government after it lost a long court battle against a windfarm near its Aberdeenshire golf course.

The Scottish government said Donald Trump’s family firm had agreed to pay its legal fees before a dispute over those costs went to adjudication by a court-appointed auditor."

snip"Trump sued ministers in Edinburgh in 2012 over the decision to authorise and support the construction of an 11-turbine experimental windfarm about two miles from the southern boundary of his coastal golf course north of Aberdeen."

snip-"The Guardian revealed last month that the government had accused the Trump Organization of refusing to pay its legal costs despite a court order earlier this year after Trump lost a UK supreme court case in 2015"


bolding is mine.



DFW

(54,358 posts)
24. It's not English, it's Republicanese
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 03:03 PM
Nov 2020

A separate dialect that split off from English around half a century ago.

Notice the very first rule in the example given:
EXCERPTS FROM THE OFFICIAL DICTIONARY OF REPUBLICANESE

In Republicanese, many words that sound alike may be spelled differently at random. A few prominent examples:

In Republicanese, the following words may be spelled at random using any of the three ways given:

A.) Two, Too, To
B.) Their, They're, There
c.) Your, Yore, You're

The Republicanese version of Robin Hood therefore starts with "In days of you're...."

The only rule is that the correct use of them as in English is never permitted twice in a row.

Words with single letters that change meaning when that letter is doubled must never be used in correct English context. The classic example is “lose” vs. “loose.” In Republicanese, if you do not win an election, then you “loose” that election. Conversely, if your (Republicanese: you’re) belt is too tight, you need it more “lose” in order to be comfortable. Another example would be the Republicanese, “I met Donald Trump, and he was rudder than I imagined,” vs. “I grabbed the ruder and was able to steer the boat to shore.”

In Republicanese, as opposed to English, an apostrophe is used to form a plural. But it must be done at random, never systematically. For example, Bill and Hillary are "the Clinton's," but Bill, Chelsea and Hillary are "the Clintons." The other way around is also correct. In Republicanese, either form is correct as long as it is not spelled the same way twice in a row.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
26. +1
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 03:09 PM
Nov 2020


Republicanese allows for use of any homonym or spelled word that sounds like what you mean in any sentence:

It is taken for granite that Trump is a business success.

You may higher two more servers.

This is a bonfied transaction.

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