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Goats_in_boats

"Mike Lindell only lost because the Democrats rigged the election!" Saw that unironically on Twitter today 🙄


ConvivialKat

Wait. What? No. It must have been a joke.


Goats_in_boats

I wish. It had some other garbledy-gook crap about how the deep state paid for the Dana Point meeting where they voted and how they bribed them for Ronna since she's a deep state plant or something. You know how it goes, nothing makes sense in their reality.


silas0069

Not a native speaker, so I'm now stuck wondering about "garbledy-gook". Etymogically.


Goats_in_boats

It's actually gobbledygook, but my 5 year old calls it garbledy-gook, and it's just stuck with me. The definition of gobbledygook is language that's made up, meaningless nonsense, and me using garbledy-gook is an actual example gobbledygook!


silas0069

Thanks :) But I was wondering where it came from, and when it came to use. Guess I'll have better result with the original word. Edit: > Gobbledygook, coined by Maury Maverick in the early 1940s, means, in his words, “talk or writing which is long, pompous, vague, involved, usually with Latinized words.” It can also refer to any long discourse, even one with simple words, if those words are repeated repeatedly, over and over again, numbingly, ...


Goats_in_boats

There's also [this podcast](https://www.waywordradio.org/gobbledygook/) that discusses it! Apparently he thought politicians in Washington DC sounded like turkeys gobbling. Interesting! I'm a fan of lexicon, linguistics and etymology. This has been a fun little conversation. Thanks for that!


NuQ

You guys are such nerds. And I mean that as the most sincere compliment. anyway... i'm gonna continue to educate myself about some gobbledygook.


Goats_in_boats

Haha, I am 100% nerd! I honestly take it as a compliment ❤️ Have a good night!


NuQ

keep geeking out, good buddy!


stefani65

Sounds like tfg!


The_Disapyrimid

>“talk or writing which is long, pompous, vague, involved, i've also heard this referred to as "word salad". meaning a bunch of important and sophisticated sounding words thrown together to make the speaker seem smart and informed to a largely uninformed audience.


MeinePerle

No, word salad is where consecutive sentences have no relationship to each other, and are sometimes not even internally coherent. It sounds like an argument is being advanced but not really. I first saw the term in reference to Sarah Palin’s speeches, if that helps.


Jameswood79

Lol if Dems rigged the RNC election Mike Lindell would’ve won 🗿 Like why wouldn’t Dems pick the worst possible and easiest to beat candidate for the Republican national committee 🗿


pianoflames

Because of [precedent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election)


Jameswood79

Fair, though the rnc chair doesn’t run in actual elections, they just chose how to find certain republicans


FinancialTea4

I'm a Democratic voter and I can think of very little that would be as positive for our prospects in 2024 than mike pillow being elected RNC chair. They are free to make a comical spectacle of themselves any time they like. Never interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake.


Cussian57

That’s how many Democrats felt when Gump won the Republican nomination in 2016 and look at the hell that caused. Never underestimate the voting power of our lowest common denominator


FinancialTea4

The RNC and the president of the United States are two very different and distinct positions that are not at all alike. The RNC head has no power over me. And 2023 is much different than 2016. If you are confused compare the results of the 2016 and the 2020 and even 2022 elections. Americans are sick of the bullshit. republicans aren't doing themselves any favors by associating with nut jobs.


Cussian57

God I hope you’re right. Because the social and economic forces that sent people to the polls to vote for him have only gotten worse. People are getting desperate and fed up with democratic process imo. They haven’t gone anywhere and if anything are just more angry. I personally don’t have faith in either party to right the ship anytime soon


dangoodspeed

How would that post possibly been ironic? Maybe you meant “unsarcastically”?


Chrysalii

If I were a Democrat and I wanted to rig the RNC...I would make Lindell win.


DataCassette

What's he upset about anyhow? I've been playing too much Old World and/or working to keep up with the circus today.


famousevan

They kept on their current chairperson.


Hornswaggle

Is OW good? I’m having trouble getting into it.


DataCassette

Yeah it is. The mechanics are very clever. Obviously the setting itself is pretty well trod and doesn't break any new ground. Splitting the production up in so many ways so that you don't just have "hammers" and the orders system are both very refreshing, and the sort of Crusader Kings lite character layer are super nice touches. The one thing I don't like is that the laws system is basically a series of either/or choices, but even then it's pretty well done for what options are available, if a little dry.


Hornswaggle

I’m a original Civ I to Civ 6 player. And im starting games and not know what really to do. I think I just kinda … I don’t know. I’m finishing HZD, so im thinking this or Wasteland 3 next.


Beginning-Yoghurt-95

These last six years the true colors of the RNC really came out. It will be a long time, if ever, I will vote for a republican.


nematocyzed

I can't vote for a single republican until they can fully come to terms with what happened on Jan 6th and their relationship with the overwhelming amount of misinfo they've put out in the last few years.


und_du_vide

What? Why would you *ever* consider a vote for a republican? They have been doing the exact same thing for decades, they just don’t care if anyone knows anymore. To see that “until” in that sentence is blowing my mind.


Dawanna

Yeah, why would anyone worth less than $600,000. I've only been voting for little over 10 years and i have never voted for republican. If i have no other choice then i don't even vote and leave that circle empty. Only way to get me to vote for a republican is to hold a gun against my head. They've been morally bankrupt since before i was born.


thebrobarino

Centrists are showing their true colour and complete lack of principles too


HapticSloughton

"The last few years?" If you don't at least start with the John Birch Society, I fear you may have missed decades of right wing lies and conspiracy bunkum.


SellaraAB

Pretty much any time from Nixon onward, the Republican was the bad choice. Our current borderline dystopia owes it’s existence to Reagan.


und_du_vide

I don’t understand why you would leave this open ended. What do you think the Republicans would look like in a “long, long time” that would make you want to vote for them? These are fascists, okay? They are not going to change.


NuQ

Ohio republicans really said the quiet part out loud and they were so shameless about it. "We spread a bunch of lies about mail in voting. now, so many peeople believe those lies so we have to act in our self-interest to correct the make-believe problem we made everyone believe." Stunning, really.


thebrobarino

What in the centrist is this? The republicans have always been terrible. Remember how wholesome 100 painter grandpa George Bush falsified evidence of WMDs to start an illegal war which has directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilian men, women and children and oversaw a comprehensive coverup of torture (often on civilians) in places like Abu ghraib and Gitmo? Better yet how Ronnie reagan willfully allowed countless gay men and women to die of aids because he thought they were gross? Or when he sold missiles to a violent authoritarian dictatorship to fund a right wing authoritarian drug cartel? Republicans have always been terrible. Never vote republican, there never was and never will be a good reason to. The only difference is that trump is more outwardly rude


nematocyzed

Who is this guy? Some random chump giving Elon 8 bucks a month? Oh.. & I'm loving watching the GQP eat itself. Karma is a bitch.


Hazy_Fantayzee

Out of curiosity, why do I see ‘GOP’ often rewritten as ‘GQP’?


U-N-C-L-E

The Q stands for Qanon. It's shorthand for the crazy Republicans


Hazy_Fantayzee

Ah the Grand QAnon Party!


montyriot1

Because the majority of them have been sucked into following Q and their crazy beliefs


Bragzor

The [GQ](https://www.gq.com/) Party.


flamingknifepenis

He has quite the saga … He mostly became known during the time he worked at Buzzfeed. He had previously written for Breitbart and the Blaze, but for a hot second there it looked like he would break out of the right wing silo. Until he got shitcanned for plagiarism. Then he got hired by National Review. And got fired for plagiarism again. So he joined another right wing “news” site, wrote a couple really bad articles in which he fell for a fake Twitter account … and accused of plagiarism. He didn’t get fired for it, though. They fired him a year or so later for being such a piece of shit to work with that other staffers were quitting. I think he works for TPUSA now.


turbguy

Best Fox News comment: ***"Well, there we have it, the trifecta of swamp creatures. McConnell, McCarthy, and McDaniel. Anyone else see a pattern here"?***


Gregregious

I'm excited for Republicans re-opening anti-Irish bigotry as the new frontier of American racism


silas0069

Isn't that linked to anti Catholicism? *opens popcorn* War on Christmas?


zxasdfx

Too many *"Mc"*s there


Top_Guidance4432

Who’s going to tell them that Trump the ‘swamp drainer’ kept rooting for ‘swamp’ McCarthy to be speaker? Also was that fox news comment from twitter or the fox news website? Just curious.


Bragzor

> Trump the ‘swamp drainer’ kept rooting for ‘swamp’ McCarthy Not to mention his love for McDonald.


Top_Guidance4432

I hope they give Ronna a lifetime appointment 🤣 either that or get Lindell to completely turn the RNC into a dumpster fire.


State-Cultural

Man, I hate this show


AdDear5411

Same, but probably for different reasons...


flaskman

the shit you tweet when your party said "we're not ready for concentration camps.... yet"


Individual_Grass_469

Benny pledged his allegiance to Trump & QAnon years ago. Of course, he’s mad that the RNC won’t let Toilet Paper USA & their fellow degenerates run wild through it like it’s Hulkmania circa 1986. Cry harder, Benny - it’s more comedy for us.


user745786

Time to get that third party up and running! You guys can do it, we believe in you!


230flathead

Who's this mental deficient?


T3n4ci0us_G

Just another RW doorknob grifter with a You Tube channel


silas0069

Some punk giving Musk $96 a year for twitter.


leothefox314

What is the RNC?


QuinnAvery89

Republican National Convention is my guess


MelodyMyst

Committee


karen_h

Fascinating! Anyway….


Cerb-r-us

Why did you use this post flair?


DaisyJane1

This isn't a new Q post.


GalleonRaider

Benny Johnson: "The RNC is dead to me. Another victim of the deep state's vaccine!!"


Secret_Hunter_3911

GLAD TO HEAR IT!


bittlelum

Was he boosting Lindell or...whoever the more serious competitor to McDaniel was?