JUST SAY THE WORD
Humbug: a willfully false, deceptive, or insincere person. –Miriam-Webster dictionary
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As my faithful followers know, from time to time I’ve posted a post (or commented a comment) critical of our Charlatan-in-Chief, Donaldo el Trumpo, aka The Grinch who stole Truth (if not the 2016Β election). In the spirit ofΒ Christmas season, Dec. 21Β seems an appropriate day to atoneΒ for the profusion ofΒ impertinence heaped upon Individual-1*, a dayΒ when everything I’ve saidΒ about himΒ can be reducedΒ toΒ oneΒ essence-capturing word:
ButΒ why,Β Individual-1* mayΒ wonder, is DecemberΒ 21 “an appropriate day” toΒ sum upΒ the grosslyΒ inappropriateΒ in one word?Β Because,Β Your Lordship/t,Β it’s HUMBUG DAY….your own veryΒ specialΒ (be)littleΒ day. And so, for every heartless, “false, deceptive, or insincere” thingΒ you’veΒ ever said or done,Β I wish you aΒ Hearty Humbug, for verily thou art a HUMBUG.
calmkate 2:21 am on December 21, 2018 Permalink |
you know he’s brought your country down quicker and more effectively than any war, invasion or even nuclear bomb … he’s roasted you all live from the inside … how can any person let alone nation have any respect for such a moron yet still he’s allowed ultimate power?!? π
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mistermuse 9:48 am on December 21, 2018 Permalink |
Among other reasons, Kate: he panders to and continuously stirs up his base of rabid supporters, bullies anyone who dares have even the slightest issue with anything he says or does, and surrounds himself with enablers who shamelessly defend him and excuse every twisted tweet and malicious move he makes. I’m afraid the moral backbone of this country is showing signs of shriveling to meaninglessness.
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calmkate 5:00 pm on December 21, 2018 Permalink
and all done by one psychopath … so tragic!
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Carmen 7:08 am on December 21, 2018 Permalink |
I suspect youβre getting tired of saying, βWhat next?β π¦
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mistermuse 9:55 am on December 21, 2018 Permalink |
Carmen, the only “What next” I want to see is Trump impeached and/or indicted….and that can’t happen soon enough. If we have to wait two more years for him to be voted out of office, I shudder to think what this country (and the world) are going to look like.
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Carmen 10:00 am on December 21, 2018 Permalink
I think his orange hair will match his jumpsuit . . . is that too much to hope for? The million dollar question, however, is this: “What have the Russians got on him?”
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mistermuse 10:18 am on December 21, 2018 Permalink |
No doubt Mueller has the answer to your “Russians” question, Carmen….and unless Trump’s ‘acting’ Attorney General (& Mueller overseer) succeeds in squelching Mueller’s report, we should have the answer to that question within a matter of (several) months.
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GP Cox 9:02 am on December 21, 2018 Permalink |
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mistermuse 10:07 am on December 21, 2018 Permalink |
Santa looks a bit wary as he looks out from where he landed. If he’s delivering a sack of coal for The Donald, I don’t blame him! π¦
On a happier note, I ‘m sure Santa has nothing but good things for you for Christmas, GP, so have a merry one! π
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Ricardo 2:44 pm on December 21, 2018 Permalink |
“This last week was the worst week of Trump’s Presidency yet.” Am I just imagining that I read this every week?
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mistermuse 3:26 pm on December 21, 2018 Permalink |
Now it’s not just getting worse by the week, but by the day. But give The Donald his due — he’s making the sacrifice of postponing his Mar-a-Lago vacation because of the pending government shutdown, which he said yesterday he’d be “proud” to own (of course, today he changed his tune and blames it on the Democrats). What a guy!
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Catherine Haustein 1:09 pm on December 27, 2018 Permalink
I forgot all about that he said he’d own it.
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Silver Screenings 4:41 pm on December 21, 2018 Permalink |
This has nothing to do with your post, but I’m currently reading “A Christmas Carol” for the first time, and am enjoying Dickens’s use of language very much β especially the word Humbug.
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Elizabeth 6:29 pm on December 21, 2018 Permalink |
Glad to find a kindred spirit in this very difficult time.
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mistermuse 7:35 pm on December 21, 2018 Permalink |
Thanks, Elizabeth. One of the most difficult things to stomach is that hardly a day goes by that Trump doesn’t disparage Mueller with impunity, and Mueller can’t defend himself because, as an honorable man, he’s bound by professional ethics. Hopefully the day is soon coming when Individual-1 will have to defend himself from Mueller’s findings, and then we’ll see how honorable TRUMP is.
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Elizabeth 9:16 pm on December 24, 2018 Permalink
I am so grateful that Mueller acts with the dignity we used to expect from leaders.
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masercot 8:00 am on December 22, 2018 Permalink |
A sheep would say, “Baa humbug”. A Spanish speaker? “Los insecto engaΓ±oso” Take THAT, Bob Crachit…
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mistermuse 9:58 am on December 22, 2018 Permalink |
And I thought my puns were baad! π
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Catherine Haustein 1:08 pm on December 27, 2018 Permalink |
I recently met someone who works in Las Vegas who says he’s even meaner and more stingy in person than the media makes him out to be.
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mistermuse 1:43 pm on December 27, 2018 Permalink |
That doesn’t surprise me — he is what he is, IN SPADES (that’s an old expression which seems appropriate, given the Las Vegas context) π
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RMW 2:47 pm on December 30, 2018 Permalink |
Of course, like everybody else, I am aware of the phrase “Bah Humbug” but really had never given much thought to the actual definition. Growing up I was more in tune with the British word meaning a hard striped candy! So from now on when I utter “Bah Humbug,” which I do every Christmas, it will have a whole new connotation!
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mistermuse 4:16 pm on December 30, 2018 Permalink |
“Humbug” is such an interesting word that I tried to research its origin, but its origin is unclear. Dickens is of course most famously associated with it (in the person of Ebenezer Scrooge), but apparently it pre-dates him. Of course, I pre-date Dickens as well, but at my age, who can remember such things? π¦
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