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[Laurence Horn]

Stupid that you can do we can do stupider/We can do anything stupider than you.
We now await, with bated laptop fingers, the arrival of the transitive verb “to outstupid”.

LH

> On Mar 5, 2018, at 8:43 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Already topped by Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission:
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> "So now we will also impose import tariffs.This is basically a stupid
> process.... But we have to do it. ... We can also do stupid. We also have
> to be this stupid."
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> Note idiom "do stupid."
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> JL
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> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:32 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
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>> “Trade wars are good, and easy to win.”
>> —Tweet by…do you have to ask?
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> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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