Trump Presidency Tweets 3 - The Old Man and the Seethe

No way Mike is VP by Sept. Nikki Haley, come on down! You are the next Republican to have your political career ruined by Donald Trump

 

Kamala Harris's selection means that the Democratic ticket will not have someone with an Ivy League degree for the first time since 1984

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) August 11, 2020

Kamala Harris is the first graduate from an HBCU to be on a major party ticket.

 

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I honestly don't understand this. Why is social distancing a crucial component of fighting coronavirus, except when it isn't?

 

indoors vs. outdoors

 

I’m stil not a Harris fan, but it looks like they practically had to shoot Trump with a tranquilizer rifle for him to be able to talk right now, so maybe it wasn’t such a bad idea.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 11, 2020

 

I continue to hear this narrative that we should not support Senator Harris because she was a prosecutor and she was tough on crime. As someone who was raped at the age of 5 and whose sister was murdered at the age of 19; I tend to support prosecutors who put monsters away. 1/20

— Maria Mandolesi ☦️ (@theMMlalaland) August 9, 2020

Unrolled:

 

Sad to see the damage from the derecho in Midwest. 112 mile per hour winds in Midway, Iowa! The Federal government is in close coordination with State officials. We are with you all the way - Stay safe and strong!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 11, 2020

There is exactly zero chance that Uncle Sundown wrote "derecho."

 

Even better, she went to high school in Canada.

 

So it begins

Since @TuckerCarlson wants to mispronounce @KamalaHarris name and laugh about it on his show, I suggest from now on we call him FUCKER Carlson.

— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) August 12, 2020

 

Guiliani's daughter knows Trump is poison. Look what he did to her Dad. #PhonyTrump https://t.co/MY0fA9SGkm

— LockHimUp! (@1nfiniteeBeyond) August 12, 2020

Even Guiliani's kid knows Trump took away her Dad's last bit of dignity.

 

He'd need Opra not Niki, Although Haley is well versed in his lies and easily matches him with them
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haven't heard from him lately

 

Can Texas be worse than Florida or Georgia?

https://t.co/AhX4nBJnuv models that TX actually has 10X more cases than identified: 70K cases a day.

Another words -- they are missing 90% of the cases

Yet, talk now is restarting schools, sports (especially football)

Can't really do these w/out new control measures

3/4

— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) August 12, 2020

 

Yea buddy!

 

I might risk the 'Rona to see that live.

 

In fact, I live outside USA and I never heard the term: what "Latinx" would be supposed to convey, compared to the other terms? Who did create it, how and why?

Sorry to ask what's maybe obvious to most of the people posting here, but I know nothing about this subject

 

Men OR women who are Latino. Latina is women, Latino is men; the convention here for years has been Latino.

As someone from Italy, you probably associate Latinx with the Roman Empire. Here, it is a general term for all Americans with heritage from Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia, etc. I.e., the Spanish speaking countries in the Western Hemisphere. (Not sure if Brazilians are considered Latinx, but there are very few Brazilian-Americans outside of SoFla.)

 

I thought it was Latin X gen people. And I'm Latinx...

I think that most Latinx people would prefer to be referred as Latina or Latino, based in our language's ability to differentiate gender.

And also, most Brazilians do not think of themselves as Latinos as they associate the term with the part of America colonized by the Spaniards.

 

GOP is navigating heavily into Qnon waters..

WATCH: Inside the rise of Qanon-affiliated candidates for Congress - @NBCNewsNOW https://t.co/8dQsQ3kniw

— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 11, 2020

But Tik Tok!!

The Republican Hype House, one of the biggest conservative accounts on TikTok, has now uploaded a video with the QAnon slogan. pic.twitter.com/m1rUcx0QFy

— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) August 10, 2020

Or FB fact checking!!

QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show. https://t.co/1SsFL5ZL3R

— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) August 10, 2020

 

I was aware that the term "Latino" in USA is used to refer to people from Central or South America of "Latin language" descent (I was only unaware of the meaning of the "x": I now see that it's intended as a way to refer to all different genders with a same term, but, since I am Italian and I speak a neo-latin language, I can agree with @dapip that this sounds very unnatural to people like us, whose language have the gender distinction ingrained in it since centuries: I can agree that it of course reflects centuries of sexist patriarchal predominance, but changing that "from outside" can't really work, because this final "x" sounds so unnatural to neo-latin languages, that thrive on words ending with vowels).

Here in Italy (and in most of Europe, I guess) we use to refer to those populations with the word "Latino-Americani/e": now, I am of course unsure about how they perceive themselves, but we sure use to include Brazilians in Latin-American populations, since we're well aware that the Portuguese that's spoken in Brazil is as much neo-latin as the Spanish (or Castillano) that's spoken in most of the rest of South and Central America. Here in Italy, a Brazilian would be surely considered a "Latino-Americano".

 

In an anecdote that I can't completely translate, my country of origin has been going through the sexist language thing for the last decade or so, and the Language Academy (yeah, they have an official thing for that in Spain and other countries) in Colombia has been adopting several female specific terms and gender neutral terms for words like Juez/a (judge), Fiscal/a, etc. Long story short, it has become an ongoing joke among the population, because now you have to do the equivalent of "ladies and gentlemen" for every word in official communications.

While the inclusiveness they are trying to implement is laudable, it shows you how difficult (and even idiotic) it can be to try to regulate a language from your high perch.