[Ads-l] QOTY

[Jonathan Lighter]

In official Congressional GOPspeak:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-congressman-floor-speech-lets-go-brandon

JL

On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 12:17 AM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Whoops, that's what I get for catching up on email late at night.
> Sor-ree!!!
>
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2021, 12:13 AM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm surprised nobody has commented on the reversed sense of the verb
> > "mistake", similar to what's happening to "substitute".
> >
> > MAM
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 5, 2021, 2:39 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmmgail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> But the hits keep coming:
> >>
> >> "Conspiracy theory-endorsing Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) wore a dress
> >> emblazoned with the anti-President Joe Biden phrase “Let’s Go Brandon”
> and
> >> posed for a photo with ex-President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago
> >> resort on Wednesday.
> >>
> >> " 'It’s not a phrase, it’s a movement,' Boebert wrote on
> >> Twitter, referencing the phrase that’s gone viral among conservatives
> since
> >> *a NASCAR sportscaster mistook it for a 'Fuck Joe Biden'* chant at a
> >> race last month."
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lauren-boebert-donald-trump-dress_n_6184d7cfe4b06de3eb734174
> >>
> >> JL
> >>
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> --
> >> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> >> truth."
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