Maybe the “great” America that Donald wants to take us back to is the 1860s?

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    The one a little bit further down - “Trumpery” meaning “Deceit; fraud” - needs to make a comeback.

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      Or even better “Worthless or deceptive in character”. (Which, basically, has already made a comeback.)

      It’s pretty interesting how Trump (“an excellent person”) and Trumpery (“Worthless or deceptive in character”) could both be in use at the same time, unless it was some kind of opposite-slang.

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    Nimrod used to mean a might hunter.

    Awful was a good thing, and awesome would make you shit your paints in fear.

    Words don’t just change slowly, sometimes the do a 180 overnight

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      Words don’t just change slowly, sometimes the do a 180 overnight

      Like when gate turn into a suffix meaning scandal due to the Watergategate

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        We live in the dumbest timeline because I could absolutely see this on the news:

        Bill Gates crashes his car into someone’s gate but doesn’t leave a note. The chyron at the bottom of the screen reads “Gates’s Gate-gate”. We hear about it 24/7 for weeks.