Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
And yes, it’s Monday…again.
But we WILL get through it!
We will always remember Wheatie,
Pray for Trump,
Yet have fun,
and HOLD ON when things get crazy!
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- No running with scissors.
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Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
ischiorrhogic
adjective
- of an iambic line, having spondees in the second, fourth or sixth place
- in ancient prosody, noting a variety of iambic trimeter which has not only a spondee or trochee for an iambus in the sixth or last place, as in the choliamb, but a spondee in the fifth place also
Wolf’s easy alternative explanation
A kind of irregularity in old Greek poetry, which jazzes things up, but too much so, in the opinions of some.
LINK: https://academic.oup.com/book/34816/chapter-abstract/297701155?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
Links to further explain the definition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iamb_(poetry)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochee
Used in a sentence
When the variation on the sixth foot of the trimeter coexists with a spondee in the fifth place, the verse becomes still more irregular, and can, in fact, hardly be considered an Iambic verse, but is rather a combination of an iambic diameter with a trochaic monometer. Such lines are called by the grammarians Ischiorrhogic (broken-backed) : they are very rarely used by Hipponax. LINK
It had something to do with Brokeback Mountain! I knew it!
MUSIC!
OK, we’re gonna fake it just a bit for the sake of continuity!
Orrible! Just orrible! But istoric, too! And istory is…..
THE STUFF
Shakespeare as a fan of then-modern science? Hmmmmm…….
“Double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble…..”
Sure sounds like chemistry lab!
Just sayin’!
And remember…….
Until victory, have faith!
And trust the big plan, too!
And as always….
ENJOY THE SHOW
W
New Schlichter —
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/10/28/the-glory-of-america-after-trump-wins-n2646818
“Double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble…..”
Sounds like something horrible that Big Pharma would cook up.
That Shakespeare performance! 🤣 I couldn’t stop watching it.
A Shakespeare-ism that I am particularly fond of is “hoist by his own petard”. If you get an explanation that doesn’t include the French performer Le Pétomane — and perhaps the Governor from Blazing Saddles — you’re only getting half the story.
Let’s start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard — a very small, portable bomb of about 5 pounds of gunpowder, popular in Shakespeare’s day (invented in France around 1579) for breaching doors. “Pétard comes from the Middle French péter, to fart, from the root pet, expulsion of intestinal gas, derived from the Latin peditus, past participle of pedere, to break wind.”
To reflect on the popularity of farting in France, I can direct you to Joseph Pujol, Le Pétomane — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane — who entertained kings with his farting prowess around 1895-1910.
This segues nicely into Governor Lepetomane from Blazing Saddles, portrayed by Mel Brooks himself.
While five pounds of gunpowder can certainly injure or kill, the expression in Shakespeare is more playful — he is “lifted by his own fart”. This was, of course, long before Mossad managed to “hoist with their own pagers” senior staffers of Hezbollah, putting most on the injured roster with far less explosive.
Well, believe it or not Next Saturday is largely written already.
Obviously it won’t have Friday’s closing prices yet.
I hope he politely tells them to shove it where the sun don’t shine.
Somehow, I don’t expect that. I think he knows how to work with people while being truthful and drawing boundaries. He could make deals with them and if they don’t hold up their end of the bargain, there could be major consequences…something like that.
Imagine how slimy they must sound, when DJT answers the phone. They must be repulsive even to themselves 😂
“We Have Microphones Listening to Everything!” Oh Sh*t!” – Kamala Harris Caught on Hot Mic Admitting She’s Struggling with Male Voters (VIDEO)
They can go to a bar if they want, but I question the wisdom. I never hear of prominent MAGA people sitting around and discussing things in bars, though I suppose it might happen. It seems as though Dem women like to drink a lot.
“Young men – especially black and Latino men – are rejecting Harris and voting for Trump.”
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She ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.
Wait until she sees the number of conservative white men who are rejecting her 😂
Joy.
LOL!
I wonder if she’s a robot.
A human, even the unhinged radical feminista kind, would have to be out of her mind to do another Scold the Black Man Struggle Session, after the backlash from last week’s get back on the plantation whippings.
Why would any black man with even half a testicle vote for that train wreck?
Scott Presler:
Scott’s on ’em like a rabid wolverine — he’s schlepped all over that area and knows where the bodies are buried.
Beth McBride, nominee for the Luzerne county hoosegow.
Thanks to Tweeter, the whole planet knows what you did.
Enjoy the limelight 👍
That jargon of the various ways of the syllables of poetry … it is all Greek. Di- Tri- Tetra- etc., yes. recognize the numbers.
All possible combinations of the heavy and light combinations have a name, which probably had some mnemonic connections back in the day. It is like Morse code with the long, or short elements. So Iambe maps to di-dah, A, trochee to dah-dit, N, spondee to dah-dah M, dactylos, dah-di-dit maps to D and so on, for a while at least.
But at first glance it looked rather opaque. Much like those heraldic descriptions of coats of arms and such. Or even semiconductor physics.
Could be worse, could be golf clubs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolete_golf_clubs
Would you be wanting your brassie, a mashie-niblick, or a cleek?
Heraldic descriptions are not too complex, and — despite being based on odd rules and arcane language — fundamentally are meant to enhance visual recognition at distance.
For instance, there are specific tinctures — metals (gold and silver, known as “or” and “argent”); colours (blue, red, purple, black, green — “azure”, “gules”, “purpure”, “sable”, and “vert”, respectively); and furs (ermine, ermines, erminoir, pean, vair, counter-vair, potent and counter-potent). Simplifying immensely, you can’t put a metal on a metal, a colour on a colour, or a fur on a fur.
There are specific names for the places one might put things, starting at “fess point” (right in the middle). The top edge is “chief”, the bottom edge is “base”, the left edge for someone holding the shield (and, thus, to the right of someone looking at it) is sinister, and the right edge is dexter. If something is dexter chief, it’s at the top left.
There are a great many widgets you can put in the various spots — pales (stripes), crosses, etc. I used to know more about this back some years.
On my first trip to Europe, when I was 15, over 40 years ago, I marked my luggage with a chevron argent and two pales vert so that I could find it in baggage claim.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraldry
Come to think of it, poetry rhythm patterns might be worse than archaic golf clubs or heraldry.
😂