"The Mark Robinson scandal is shocking, but it gives incredible insight into who and what the GOP is and what it has always been. ...
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cowboyminer :coolified:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Washington Week said it will, GOP has no checks on who gets to be Republican, courting weird extremes
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to cowboyminer :coolified: last edited by
@cowboyminer I'm not sure what you mean when you said Washington Week says it will. Not sure what "it" is and what "will" means.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Kimota94 last edited by
@Kimota94 Yes, this has long been how I've seen these matters, too. I suspect Jared Yates Sexton would concur.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to MyView last edited by
@MyView "Those who go along just to hear him speak his vile words are worse": I agree that the many who endorse, vote for, collude with Trump and what he and his allies are doing are very much a major part of the problem.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to SoGeneris for Harris/Walz last edited by
@SoGeneris You're right. Pull one thread in this congeries of knaves and thieves, and more and more knaves and thieves will emerge.
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SoGeneris for Harris/Walzreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy “Congeries” … great word!
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cowboyminer :coolified:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
So sorry "Washington Week" had a nice discussion on Robinson and who is in the GOP now, where people like Robinson are no longer the outlier. MTG, Gaetz, Boebert, Johnson. The Obnoxious, Liars, those who just rile up that weird base, "It will get worse".
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cowboyminer :coolified:replied to cowboyminer :coolified: last edited by
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cowboyminer :coolified:replied to cowboyminer :coolified: last edited by
I think this makes for a wonderful listen as well.
"The Future of American Conservatism With the Hosts of The Bulwark"
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to cowboyminer :coolified: last edited by
@cowboyminer Thank you. I appreciate the link and will listen with interest.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to cowboyminer :coolified: last edited by
@cowboyminer Thanks for helping me understand better and for the very good links you posted below. I agree with your reading of the situation, for sure.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to SoGeneris for Harris/Walz last edited by
@SoGeneris I find it really evocative. It makes me think of a bit of word play, since it sounds much like the word "conjure." And its Latin root means mixing things up together. Lots of etymological resonance to make this a rich word.
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Exiled New Yorker - Conniereplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Now I have to look up the root word of congress because that was what I thought when I saw it in context. Small c, obviously.
Conjure, I don't associate with it, oddly enough.
Edit to add:
Com, con, of course.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Exiled New Yorker - Connie last edited by
@Pagan_Animist I like how your mind works! Mine works similarly. At first glance, I'd have said "congeries" has the same "greg" root found in "congress." The Latin word for gathering together, as in "egregious" to men standing out from the flock.
But then I remembered that there actually is a Latin word "congerere" that means to pile things up in a heap. There's really no connection to conjure except in my quirky head!
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Exiled New Yorker - Conniereplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
I actually love the English language with all of it’s convolutions of word roots in so many other languages.
I don’t put as much time in studying it as it deserves but then ADHD pulls me in many different directions. ️
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Exiled New Yorker - Connie last edited by
@Pagan_Animist I do, too. It's a rich language in that so many streams have gone together to shape it — Germanic, French, Scandinavian, with some Celtic terms still remaining in the language after all those streams inundated the original Celtic base.