rolling “Trump is gonna win” containment thread

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"If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll do anything you say."

badpee pooper (Eric H.), Monday, 22 January 2024 15:09 (nine months ago) link

I wonder if Haley will be able to buffalo Trump into debating her, now that its down to the two of them.

o. nate, Monday, 22 January 2024 18:05 (nine months ago) link

I've never heard "buffalo" as a verb, but I like it.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 18:18 (nine months ago) link

Buffalo Trumper
he's the ass of America

Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 January 2024 18:19 (nine months ago) link

Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is a classic bit of language dorkery. (I confess I am okay with four but six is too many.)

I am more comfortable with the sequence "Chad, while Brad had had 'had,' had had 'had had.' 'Had had' had had a better effect on their grammar teacher."

Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 January 2024 18:26 (nine months ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/hBRnzWd.jpg

Boris Yitsbin (wins), Monday, 22 January 2024 18:32 (nine months ago) link

Canonical buffalo buffalo is x7

Boris Yitsbin (wins), Monday, 22 January 2024 18:33 (nine months ago) link

wins, yeah, I know! I have never been able to get there. And I have tried! I have a degree in English and significant coursework in linguistics and after four or five buffalos my brain just shuts down. I admire people who get to seven. Take the W.

Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:07 (nine months ago) link

Sorry to drone on but there is another bit of geekdom where you try to end a sentence with as many prepositions as possible. It involves a parent who wishes to read a book about Australia to a child.

The hypothetical child says something like "Why did you bring that book that I don't want to be read to about Down Under up for?"

After that it gets recursive and it's tedious to reenact, so I will spare you.

Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:15 (nine months ago) link

Y'all are just off the chain.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:16 (nine months ago) link

The form of the 7 buffalo version is "Adjective noun verb noun (adjective noun verb)" where the part in parentheses is a dependent clause with an implied "that". So it's like: "California children eat cookies California children eat" but just replace all the words with "Buffalo".

xxp

o. nate, Monday, 22 January 2024 19:18 (nine months ago) link

Apologies to ilxors who prefer thread topic discipline to thread topic anarchy. We can redirect these digressions to more appropriate places if needed.

Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:22 (nine months ago) link

I was just about to say how I parse it differently to o nate & realised the version I know is actually x8

Boris Yitsbin (wins), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:23 (nine months ago) link

xp I love digressions. I also love nerdiness. Carry on.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:24 (nine months ago) link

I figured since we've all now settled on Trump is gonna win, may as well start fiddling with rapid-fire topic changes

badpee pooper (Eric H.), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:27 (nine months ago) link

threads with 2900 posts are allowed to shape their own interior symmetries

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:27 (nine months ago) link

to be fair, I'd much rather spend my energy parsing that buffalo sentence than thinking about the titular dipshit any further.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:31 (nine months ago) link

If Trump wins, I am going to spend the following four years just saying "buffalo buffalo buffalo" to anyone who tries to talk to me

badpee pooper (Eric H.), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:34 (nine months ago) link

Titular dipshit's name is also a noun and verb, so we might be able to do something similar there. But I don't want to think about it.

Well, he'll be renaming the country Trump, so that may work well

badpee pooper (Eric H.), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:38 (nine months ago) link

Trumpopia

(And my prior post should have gone "Why did you bring that book that I don't want to be read to from out of about Down Under up for?")

Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:51 (nine months ago) link

Getting close to Smurf-talk, then. Trump trumped the trump trump by trumping the trump.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 19:52 (nine months ago) link

I'm trumped, Trump, I meant to trump the trump but trumped the trump trump before I could trump the trump. It won't trump again.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 19:53 (nine months ago) link

Trumps trump Trumps Trumps trump.

o. nate, Monday, 22 January 2024 20:02 (nine months ago) link

It's just Trumps all the way down.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:03 (nine months ago) link

You wanna Trump— What? Trump up and get Trumped
If you're feeling Trumpy Trump then press your Trump

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:13 (nine months ago) link

Trumpception, Trumpocalypse, Trumptopia, Trumpaloopa

Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:14 (nine months ago) link

for some reason I keep thinking of

snorgsnorgsnorgsnorgsnorgsnorgsnorg aaaargh my day is ruined

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, May 23, 2007

out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:16 (nine months ago) link

trump up volume

a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:23 (nine months ago) link

Shake ... your ... Trump ...

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 20:31 (nine months ago) link

Ain't nothing wrong
With a little Trump'n'Grind

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:33 (nine months ago) link

Pull up to the Trumper baby

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:33 (nine months ago) link

Apparently Trump's lawyer has covid, or at least people suspect she has covid. So there's at least one potential upside to covid sticking around.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 22:24 (nine months ago) link

and she was sitting right next to him

O Lord, please hear my prayers

Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 22 January 2024 22:44 (nine months ago) link

Guys guys, calm down. We all know how disappointingly his last bout of covid turned out.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 January 2024 22:45 (nine months ago) link

From what I remember he probably would have died without the presidential level care (and by now he's presumably replaced his medical team with 100% quacks).

Philip Nunez, Monday, 22 January 2024 22:56 (nine months ago) link

I heard it was a jury member with covid, but hopefully they were within infection distance

Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 22 January 2024 22:58 (nine months ago) link

This is the second time I'm rooting for the virus.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 January 2024 23:08 (nine months ago) link

xpost Habba apparently had dinner with her parents a couple of days ago, and now they have covid, and she herself, despite testing negative this morning, has a fever and isn't feeling well. So whether it's covid, RSV, flu, herpes, pneumonia, a cold, cooties, whatever, here's hoping she gives him whatever it is she has.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 23:27 (nine months ago) link

I was just about to say how I parse it differently to o nate & realised the version I know is actually x8
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Monday, January 22, 2024 1:23 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Same!

adj noun adj noun verb verb adj noun

London dogs ([that] Paris cats chase) eat Berlin rats.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 01:16 (nine months ago) link

🚨 New @SusquehannaPR poll is out!

*POTUS*

Biden: 46.8%
Trump: 39.3%

Biden+7.5

*PA SEN*

Casey (D-Inc): 45.9%
McCormick (R): 42.1%

Casey+3.8

Told you guys it’d be spicy. 👀🔥

— Joshua Smithley (@blockedfreq) January 23, 2024

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:15 (nine months ago) link

yea it's not really getting talked about but the last few weeks of Trump/Biden polling has looked better for Joe

I have noticed the media has started paying attention to the fact that Trump is even more incoherent than usual, it's not even the weird rambling he usually does

Trump: Which is incapable of solvin’ even the sollest problem. We are an institute in a powerful death penalty. We will put this on pic.twitter.com/eM7dTV8iHe

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) January 23, 2024

frogbs, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:35 (nine months ago) link

Part of the reason for Trump's low poll numbers is just Republicans supporting Haley or whoever who aren't ready to come around to Trump just yet. But they will.

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:37 (nine months ago) link

some of the polls only give Biden and Trump as options

never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:38 (nine months ago) link

In our new Pa poll, McCormick (in Senate race) is overperforming Trump (in POTUS race) w/ GOP voters because Trump is showing signs of GOP defections as a result of the divisive GOP nomination battle in Iowa/NH. Haley is the elephant in the room PUN INTENDED.

— SP&R (@SusquehannaPR) January 23, 2024

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:38 (nine months ago) link

well sure some of those folks will wind up backing Trump but idk I kinda feel like committing 100 felonies and quoting Hitler may actually be a dealbreaker for some people

frogbs, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:42 (nine months ago) link

"We are an institute in a powerful death penalty"--that's Norm-Crosby level.

clemenza, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:10 (nine months ago) link

We will put this on

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:12 (nine months ago) link

Trump Attempts to Describe Missile Defense: ‘Ding, Ding, Ding, Boom, Whoosh!’

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-attempts-describe-missile-defense-055659606.html

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:17 (nine months ago) link


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