To be fair, the guy is a black hole of charm. He’s casually off-putting.
When ordering donuts don’t dismissively just order “whatever makes sense”.
When ordering cheesesteak, don’t go to Pat’s or Geno’s. Both are shit, and never give the place guff for not having Swiss.
The guy just does casual interactions wrong. Like some kind of weirdo.
You’re thinking of Vance, not Walz.
Walz is everyone’s best friend’s dad who’s more fun to hang out with than your own dad.
Maybe that’s the new tactic. Vance does dumb shit, they blame it on Walz.
No tactic. I can’t read and am bad with names.
Maybe you’re just tired or distracted. Don’t be too hard on yourself.
I do that kind of “dumb 360° mistakes” all the time, especially when I’m underslept. (See? I just made another one! I should have said 180!)
I CANNOT READ.
Holy shit. Thanks.
Lying fake news media doesn’t want Americans to know about our big beautiful VP candidate!! The failing New York Times once again showing it’s tremendously unfair bias! Sad!
NYT will go further and count it as 2 separate lies and clearly demonstrate how both sides are basically the same
FUCK NYT
I don’t get it, is the joke that NYT is secretly pro trump or something?
Secretly? Ever read a Maggie Haberman column?
I read through a few of her articles just now. I’m not detecting any pro-Trump bias: she seems very skeptical of the Trump/Gabbard/RFK alliance and has been in the news for talking about how “shaken” Trump was after the DNC. Also, even if she was a secret conservative that is not indicative of NYT as a whole.
TRUMP: Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.
Fox News: cums
This was exactly the vibe I got reading their article about his military service.
OT, but as a non-native English speaker, what would you say in a greeting like that if it was, say, 1:00 AM?
What would you say, “Good _____”?
Doesn’t “Good night” come with a strong connotation of leaving and going to sleep? (Or expecting the other side to do so?)
(I’m from Czech Republic and we just don’t have such term.)
Evening or Morning would work there. Good Night is typically a parting idiom. Even if it’s technically correct.
No, you’d say “good evening” in the U.S.
“Halt! You are in violation of curfew!”
You are correct. Good night means that whatever you’ve been doing is over. The media is bending over backwards trying to appear “fair”, but it just results in moments like this.
It’s the tan suit scandal all over again.
In Australia, G’day works 24 hours.
Honestly I prefer saying “Good Day” in Czech as well (that’s the most abundant one used here).
At some point I realized that the whole thing has silent “I wish you”, which also means that if I say “Dobrý den” (==“Good day”) I’m actually being more generous. So correcting me to “Dobrý večer” (== “Good evening”) because it’s 7 PM or whatever is actually not just petty but also kind of a dick move.
(Edit: I also realize that my explanation is probably the pinnacle of pettiness, with just a little pinch of dickmoveines on top…)
“He came to me and said, ‘Good Morning!’”
“The nerve!”
“‘I hope you have a great day!’”
“The nerve!!”
“And I was like, ‘WHO ARE YOU TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO??’”
“Fuck Walz! He has eyeballs for testicles!”
For people asking what this is about, I didn’t look at the NYT because of the paywall, but here’s an article that’s very similar in tone from NPR.
Although they do state
The dozen Harris statements lacking in context are far less in comparison to 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies that NPR found from Trump’s hour-long news conference Aug. 8.
the following items are really nit-picky. It’s laid out as a list of misleading statements, but reading the details of each makes me think “ok, so basically true, then”.
Some of the “misleading” statements were Harris neglecting to enumerate the reasons why a stated policy goal might not succeed, which would be incredibly unusual to include in a speech of this nature.
I guess the point the author was trying to make was that saying you “will” do something in office is a promise, and if you don’t have the ability to guarantee that promise can be kept you shouldn’t say that thing at all? I love me some NPR but they’re really bending over backwards with some of these…
It’s hard for sociopaths to believe that there are people who aren’t sociopaths
