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I know I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but even I can see the lawfare they are using against Trump will be turned against all the Lefts enemies at some point. It’s already happening locally in all blue states\cities. The guiding principle of the Left is power, by any means necessary. Their god is Satan, the father of all lies. Go ahead and eat the apple. We’ve already taken a bite.

#1 B. Hammer on 2024-02-19 09:54 (Reply)

Our government is quietly embracing a classic Nazi and USSR strategy. The DHS is instructing teachers to coach students to squeal on anyone who speaks or dissimilates "disinformation". It is incredible how many of the well known communist control methodologies the Biden administration has implemented. What is the master plan that the left is pushing on us?

#2 OneGuy on 2024-02-19 10:32 (Reply)

I'm going to ignore Dirty Old Joe's soft-serve brain and all the woke stuff for today and just focus on this:

I'm so pleased that the old rule on preposition placement is going away. Observing it in speech always sounded pretentious to me. Language evolves, and ours is evolving more quickly than usual, I think.

#3 RebeccaH on 2024-02-19 10:43 (Reply)

I morn most of the changes in our language. English is one of the most irregular languages and most changes just serve to make it more irregular. Should this continue, and it almost certainly will, English will be described with the exceptions to the rules rather than the rules themselves. For example, how many supposedly educated people whose business it is to communicate, don't understand the proper case of pronouns (eg. "...with him and I..." or even, god forbid, "...with he and I..." - it should be, "...with him and me...")? I think those examples are still considered to be incorrect and if they are, how long will it be before they would acceptable?

I don't consider myself to be a grammarian, at least not a "real" one (and hopefully not a pedantic one) but maybe I'm a quixotic one. I try, at least in my writing, not to end sentences with a preposition but I acknowledge that there are times when it is just too clumsy. It's not as important as using the correct case of pronouns but it's one of the grammar rules I remember so I try to keep it. It's just part of my (insignificant) effort to keep English a little more regular and thus learnable.

#3.1 mudbug on 2024-02-19 12:43 (Reply)

"I think those examples are still considered to be incorrect and if they are, how long will it be before they would acceptable?"

Just as soon as they come into widespread everyday use with most English speakers.

#3.1.1 JJM on 2024-02-19 22:30 (Reply)

Black activist lawyer on changing the definition of crime in order to lower crime rate. Evidently the best and brightest of their race.

It is almost like changing the definition of vaccine to meet the needs of pharma and the authoritarian government ministers. Or the definition of 'safe and effective'.

#4 indyjonesouthere on 2024-02-19 11:10 (Reply)

re Obscene award against Trump

Get Out of New York, If You Can

QUOTE:

Rough politics has given way to the political weaponization of prosecutors’ offices. It’s dangerous and sets a tone for the entire state that political opponents of those in power are living – and operating their businesses – on borrowed time.

. . . This is not about Donald Trump. It’s about a state that is becoming unlivable in so many ways. On top of all that, the loss of prosecutorial norms is more than any business or individual in the state should have to risk. The price of living in and doing business in New York should not be that you have to be politically obedient.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/02/get-out-of-new-york-if-you-can/

#5 feeblemind on 2024-02-19 11:42 (Reply)

Gov. Hochul came announced to understandably worried business owners that they need not worry that as long as they didn't break the law, they wouldn't be prosecuted.

Well, the only law that Trump "broke" was the law that business owners are right to be worried about. There was no victim of Trump's "fraud." In fact, the bank that was supposed to be the victim would be happy to do business with him again.

Isn't there something about governments' duty to enforce legal contracts? If so, then wouldn't the government need to specify how that contract was illegal?

#5.1 mudbug on 2024-02-19 13:30 (Reply)

In pretend court nothing has to be specific. Lawfare at its best.

#5.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2024-02-19 15:35 (Reply)

Re: Prepositions
Latin scholars who translated Latin into English were the ones who insisted that no sentence could end with a preposition because that was the form in Latin. English language scholars never had a problem with prepositions at the end of a sentence, but those pesky Latinists kept butting in.

The magnificent H.W. Fowler devoted 1000 words (more or less) to "prepositions on end" in his book, "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage" (first published in 1926). He says using a preposition at the end of a sentence perfectly acceptable, and useful, and offers several examples.

P.S. The last edition of Modern English Usage drifted considerably from the original.

#6 HH on 2024-02-19 17:43 (Reply)

Just when you thought your government could not possibly become any stupider; Tennesse has decided to make it a felony for a prostitute to knowingly transmit HIV. The Biden administration is suing Tennesse to reverse this law claiming that it violates the Americans with disabilities act. Try and make that make any sense.

#7 OneGuy on 2024-02-19 17:55 (Reply)

"Major victory" as Ukraine flees eastern city? No. A tactical victory, because Russians did occupy the city. An operational loss because Russian's obvious plan and stated goal was to encircle the Ukrainians, which they failed to do. Additionally, Ukrainians did not flee but retreated in good order to prepared, consolidated defensive positions. A strategic loss to Russia because they lost nearly 50,000 men (about 5X Ukraine's loss) and thousands of pieces of equipment for a small territorial gain. In fact, Russia has not achieved a single strategic victory since the first week of the war and has suffered multiple strategic losses since then.

#8 James on 2024-02-19 18:59 (Reply)

Re: ...Then ‘ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE’

The interview with Roland Fryer with Bari Weiss at UATX (University of Austin) is WELL worth the hour that it lasts. I recommend it to everyone! Fryer is a fascinating person of authentic depth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHDhj7Bua1Q

#9 mudbug on 2024-02-19 20:16 (Reply)

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Monday, February 19. 2024

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