quicklime

joined 2 years ago
[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

All this talk of coronation recently is making me dizzy.

[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean this all friendly and not as a 'gotcha': the singular form of minutiae is minutia.

[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been hearing it everywhere, for years even.

[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They think her odds against Trump are possibly even worse than Biden's were. But they're mistaken

[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

To drop out is a whole different verb phrase than to drop.

[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Exactly. He and others in his party have been telling journalists for quite a while that they preferred a matchup against Biden. Naturally he flip-flops on that the moment the situation changes.

[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm so sick of the new meaning of "drop" being nearly the opposite of the old meaning. Ugh

[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

In a sense, he was reading a covfefe machine description.

[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm betting most of y'all don't know that she was Gavin Newsom's gal back when he was the mayor of San Francisco. What a strange, strange world.

[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Likely DNC response: "ha, right... well look, we eased up on the Biden or Bust thing, you can't ask us to also not pair her with a fully corporate and fully neoliberal running mate. You must understand that we just lost hundreds of millions of dollars of donations in only a few weeks of determinedly thumbing our noses at our constituents, and we're not going to make up that kind of shortfall in five dollar donations, we're still courting big tech and big oil, thank you very much and get lost."

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