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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe loud, empty word that defines President-elect Trump.
Snip< As a speaker and Tweeter of the English language, Donald Trump makes George W. Bush, our last least literate president, seem like William Jennings Bryan.
Snip< The tide so low it is inevitable the shoals would show. And from the toxic, batshit-racist, bullshit pool of his, there is one that keeps bobbing to the surface: the word very.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/01/very-the-loud-empty-word-that-defines-president-elect-trump.html
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The loud, empty word that defines President-elect Trump. (Original Post)
sarcasmo
Dec 2016
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Rollo
(2,559 posts)1. Very much...
Very much the #1 asshole.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)2. Bigly
flvegan
(64,407 posts)3. From the title, my money was on "asshat"
But after reading, I get it.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)4. Are you a man or are you an amoeba???
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)5. Very soulless
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)6. Reminds me of that scene from Dead Poets Society where Robin Williams
tells the students that the word, Very, is just sheer laziness. It fits.
Just hoping for early impeachment.
tblue37
(65,334 posts)8. Also "sad," and "loser." The articvle is about words he uses, not words we could czsll him. But
those two words serve both functions.