I fell in love with a new word: Squink. It’s onomatopoeically delicious! I had expressed a desire to use this wonderful word, and PZ provided:
Here’s another good use that you’ll find opportunities for all the time: when someone throws out a cloud of incoherent obfuscations for something stupid they’ve just said, they’re squinking. Creationists, MRAs, and Republicans do it all the time — Just watch Jack Kingston or Jeffrey Lord or Kellyann Conway sometime. Nonstop squinking.
The conservative christians propping up the Tiny Tyrant are still busy squinking over the Charlottesville statement:
“I do not believe he was speaking of people giving a Nazi salute or giving racist chants,” Suarez, who is also an advocate for immigration reform, said. “I believe he was speaking of a few who sincerely would not like to see a monument removed, and were not participating in racist activities.”
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Robert Jeffress — who made waves last week by making the highly disputed claim that God has given Trump the authority to “take out” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un — told the Christian Broadcasting Network that Trump “doesn’t have a racist bone in his body,” and that the uproar over his press conference is “just more a style issue.”
Ah, a style issue. Right. It seems that the Tiny Tyrant’s style is to have a few Nazi uniforms hiding in his closet. You can read the full article at Think Progress.
Don Boys at Barbwire is squinking so hard you could hear him a mile away:
…I understand that sensitive Blacks might be offended at Confederate monuments; however, many of us are often offended by many things including their apparent desire to be offended, but we always get over it. They will too. However, they are being encouraged in their insanity by local and federal officials.
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And once again, I will remind everyone that Lincoln’s War of Northern Aggression against the genteel southland was not to free the slaves as Lincoln admitted, but he used it later as a “sales job” to prosecute the war. Taxes, tariffs, and states’ rights to nullification were the original reasons brother fought brother with over 600,000 dead. However, uninformed or dishonest people keep saying otherwise.
Hmmm, from where I sit, I see a white man with an acute sensitivity problem. No worries, Don, you’ll get over it. If you can stomach it, the full column is here.
Don Boys is “reminding” everyone of a complete and utter lie. You can find confederate leaders specifically saying that the civil war was about slavery. Most of these monuments were erected decades after the war to intimidate black people, and the plaques inscribed on them proudly proclaim as much. Boys is projecting so hard about “uninformed or dishonest people” that you could use him to run film reels. Also notice the sheer condescension he’s using against black people; he’s calling their entirely rational distaste for monuments that honor people who fought to keep them enslaved or disenfranchised temporary insanity that they’re just supposed to get over.
Yeah, just because slavery was the first and foremost reason provided for seceding from the Union (while those other items were barely, if ever, mentioned), that doesn’t mean the South was making a big ol’ fuss about it!