There is nothing intrinsically wrong with the President of the United States choosing to be a visible host of a special national celebration; other Presidents just didn’t do it, that’s all. Todd hates Trump: he’s made that clear for over a decade. If Ronald Reagan had been President in 1976 instead of Jimmy Carter (who, foolishly and ignorantly deliberately diminished the prestige of the Presidency) he may well have decided to be the Master of Ceremonies for the Centennial (and he would have been better at it than Trump). Funny: Todd never seemed to be particularly fond of the Fourth or American traditions when he had a national platform.
The Clintons (it was officially from Bill, but the bitterness is pure Hillary) released their own counter-250th diatribe featuring this absurd section:
There isn’t a honest, fair or true statement in that entire paragraph.
The posture of the Axis has been expressly anti-American all year. Sen. Mark Kelly, one of the Democrats who cleverly implied that the military was receiving illegal orders and urged them to defy superiors, wore a shirt cheering on the Mexican soccer team to a World Cup match. The Axis is openly rooting for Iran, a card-carrying member of President Bush’s “Axis of Evil.” to defeat its own country. Here is “The View’s” Sunny Hostin told the assembled simpletons that watch that “news show” that the American flag makes her feel “unsafe”:
“I said this on this show many, many years ago, because this is my tenth year on the show. I said there are times when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe because there’s a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag, and they equate being an American or an American flag with White supremacy and that should never be the symbol of White supremacy, but they have weaponized [it].”
Over on Facebook and elsewhere, the Trump Deranged were thrilled that the weather was bad, thrilled that crowds were kept down at the “Great American State Fair” by the heat, just thrilled in general with everything that went wrong. Of course, it didn’t matter: for these sad, obsessed, bitter people, whatever happened would be offensive because the President was connected to it. Heat or not, though, I was driving around D.C. yesterday and the center of town was packed with tourists, kids and teens, all seeming happy, lots licking ice cream cones, and proud to be American.
I kept reading how Trump’s face was on banners everywhere, but I didn’t see them. I saw a lot of Lincoln and George Washington banners though. I wanted to check out what the reflecting pool looked like, but couldn’t manage it. President Trump wanted to make a decades-long eyesore look the way it was supposed to for the 250th, and received nothing but criticism for setting out to fix a problem, which is what he does and what Presidents should do.
Yes he boasts a lot and pats himself on the back. He’s a true narcissist, but I also believe that if Trump had ever been given credit for doing some things right, he wouldn’t feel as if he had to blow his own metaphorical horn so much. Now, I think he does it as much to annoy his haters as for his own satisfaction.
What stands out most to me about the 250th is that we now have an entire half of the population that has been raised and conditioned to think negatively about their own nation. That’s neither healthy, intelligent, responsible or fair. Despite their best efforts, however, they didn’t ruin this Independence Day weekend. I guess that gives them one more thing to be angry about.
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Yet another humdinger. This blog has a very high batting average.
To what do you object, specifically?
Dictionary. A reference book of words that can be found online. 2. Baseball statistic. A measure of a batter’s success rate — the higher the better. 3. Asinine. Take a guess.
No need for the sarcasm. You said the post was ‘another humdinger’ I asked why you thought so.
I think he was puzzled, as was I, by your question. “Humdinger” means something spectacular or remarkable. Saying a post is a humdinger does not suggest an objection.
I’m sorry! I have more experience with ‘humdinger’ as a negative. I misread the post, I humbly apologize!
Good man. You’re a humdinger now! And now you have a response if anyone uses humdinger as an invective.
I’m fascinated! I have never heard “Humdinger” used as anything but a superlative. It used to be used as in baseball broadcasts, but it’s a colorful archaic term. When have you encountered it as a negative?
This may double post, but, a sarcastic mother and grandmother, used for bad test scores, when you broke china.
I also have almost exclusively heard humdinger used negatively, usually in terms of an action taken by someone that was negative.
As before, fascinating. Every definition I have seen, including in a book of English idioms and sayings, is positive as in…
“a person, thing, action, or statement of remarkable excellence or effect.”
For example: “I’m not much into sports but the half-time show was a humdinger!”
Humdinger first appeared in a North American publication in 1883 in the Daily Enterprise of Livingston, Montana. The newspaper article referred to Livingston’s forthcoming “Golden Jubilee” celebration as a humdinger. Humdinger is a portmanteau–one word created by mashing two words together. At the turn of the century, “hum” or “hummer” referred to something that moved fast, like a passenger train. A “dinger” was something that carried force — literally, the force that would make a ding. Together, they became a humdinger.”
My local news had an article about the people overcome by heat who hsd to be hospitalized while attending the Great American State Fair. There were actually laughing emoji reactions to the article! These are horrible, horrible people.
We were on a cruise ship on the 4th. Holland America did a great job of decorating, acknowledging and celebrating. So many passengers decorated their cabin doors, so many were wearing red white and blue, so many were proudly patriotic. Lots of flags flying in Alaska, too. It was encouraging.
Have any of these Trump critics explained exactly how he spoiled everything? I haven’t read a single specific, other than that he injected politics into his speech by lamenting the danger the radical left communists pose. The coverage I saw was pretty spectacular, and all the events seemed to be well attended, despite the weather.
Well, did you see – and could you believe – that gauche display of Trumpian Narcissism on the National Mall?
I mean, who plans and effectuates a salute to soldiers from past wars, dragging them ouot of their homes for a shameless display of idolizing that man? And who plans and effectuates musical salute to plenty of current hits sung by those clueless losers in the US military prancing and preening about on stage singing such awful, pedestrian songs as “YMCA”.
Oh, and those horrid fireworks! The gall of that man to sit there with his illegal alien wife and watch that despicable display! It was straight out of Mosco . . . wait, that’s not it. Beijing, maybe? Hmmm, probably not. Oh, you get the point: Who could possibly celebrate more than 45 minutes of ear-shattering and eye-damaging rockets destroying our environment, showering the place with a wife variety of colors and explosions? It serves those people who suffered – I mean, it was so hot because that Orange Man Evil Bad refuses to address climate change and global warming! IMPEACH HIM NOW!!!
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I forgot about all of those warmongering military plane flyovers. They terrified our little Mitsy who simply can’t abide loud noises. We had to put an extra stress blanket and give a bit more camomile tea to help calm her poor, shattered nerves. Roscoe, our domestically challenged son’s six-fingered cat couldn’t have been less bothered by the whole unfortunate affair. He would vote for Trump anyway, stupid Republicat that he is.
jvb
The left is definitely the No Fun Club. It’s guilt, guilt, guilt all the time. Whatever happened to “If it feels good, do it?” And “Express yourself?” Or even, “Have a nice day?”
Rudely questioning someone else’s words when you don’t actually know them, didn’t bother to look them up, and don’t care that you didn’t—even when challenged—is an unfortunate example of evolutionary reversal. To take some advantage of the evolutionary progression going on around you, buy a dictionary, think before you speak, and try to forgive people for being sarcastic when you don’t.
I read ‘Yet another humdinger’ as negative. I apologize. I next asked, ‘To what do you object?’ meaning, what about the post did you not like (operating on my mistaken interpretation). I was hoping for a discussion of the post, I was not attacking your words. In your reply, ‘asinine’ was one of your choices. From my point of view, I was asking what you disliked about the post. That was my only intent. I wasn’t even talking about the batting average phrase.
PS: that was for mamingazetto in hopes that he will at least find his way to dictionary.com if he can’t afford a hard copy
I’m sorry!
You’re alright pal. No need to worry. You were admirably protecting a very good post and blogger from what you thought was an unwarranted attack (albeit an attack of praise). I appreciate your protective instincts in this instance. Not sarcastic — your instincts were correct.