I tell ya, if all further references to that blonde shithead as Batty the Poop Clown doesn’t catch on as part of the Wonkette Style Guide lexicon, I shall be disappoint.
So if Trump wins in 2024 and institutes internment camps for Muslims, I assume MTG and Boebert would be camp directors, while Mace would timorously raise teensy objections to the idea.
Policing the grammar and spelling of individuals is not okay, because it's classist and ableist. Those mistakes are probably caused by limited education, limited English, any of the myriad disabilities which cause literacy problems, or use of assistance technology like voice-to-text. Those are not things anyone should be mocked for or expected to be ashamed of. So snootily correcting someone's grammar or spelling as an argument point, is the act of an asshole waving their privilege about. Don't do it.
There are, however, two exceptions. One, your opponent has been skiting their OWN superiority in spelling and grammar.
The second is when IT'S SOMEONE'S JOB. Reading mangled English is DIFFICULT, even for a native speaker. If you're getting paid to produce a written statement, it's part of the deal to make that work as easy to read as possible. You're professionally obliged to consider people who can't work out what you mean from the context, or don't want to have to puzzle over whether you meant "your" or "you're".
If a personal letter is riddled with typos and spelling mistakes, I assume the person's doing their best. I apply the extra effort to read it without any worries, because that's what decent people do.
But a published book with the same errors is COMPLETELY different. That's an expression of contempt for me, the reader. The author and publisher haven't bothered to polish their product and offer me their best work. They've decided I'm not worth that little bit of professional effort, and I'll just have to take whatever lazy crap they feel like giving me and like it. In THAT context, errors are downright insulting.
Appalling as it is, MTG and Bobblehead et.al. are elected representatives of the people of the USA. Their tweets, as public announcements and communications, are part of their job. Ensuring those tweets are error-free, is part of the professional courtesy they owe their readers. Having one of the issues that cause spelling and grammar mistakes shouldn't exclude someone from public office, but they SHOULD have someone edit their written work before it's presented to the public. They've got the resources.
TL,DR: Policing the spelling and grammar of PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS is classist and ableist. But elected Members owe us proof-reading of their bloody tweets, goddamnit.
It's like Heathers. But with infinite dumb
it's clear Greene is painfully mentally outmatched here.
An evergreen statement, universally applicable to any situation
I tell ya, if all further references to that blonde shithead as Batty the Poop Clown doesn’t catch on as part of the Wonkette Style Guide lexicon, I shall be disappoint.
I can't wait until MTG comes up with a Bible quote for all this. Maybe something from 2 Corinthian's...
Batty the Poop Clown. That works. Would look great on letterhead 😚
That’s an ouroboros of mental outmatching.
So if Trump wins in 2024 and institutes internment camps for Muslims, I assume MTG and Boebert would be camp directors, while Mace would timorously raise teensy objections to the idea.
There, you see? Mace is totally a "moderate"!
They have to pull Boebert in out of the rain; otherwise, she’ll keep looking up with her mouth open and drown herself.
Rep. Gosar's publicist called. He's truly offended to be left off this list.
Policing the grammar and spelling of individuals is not okay, because it's classist and ableist. Those mistakes are probably caused by limited education, limited English, any of the myriad disabilities which cause literacy problems, or use of assistance technology like voice-to-text. Those are not things anyone should be mocked for or expected to be ashamed of. So snootily correcting someone's grammar or spelling as an argument point, is the act of an asshole waving their privilege about. Don't do it.
There are, however, two exceptions. One, your opponent has been skiting their OWN superiority in spelling and grammar.
The second is when IT'S SOMEONE'S JOB. Reading mangled English is DIFFICULT, even for a native speaker. If you're getting paid to produce a written statement, it's part of the deal to make that work as easy to read as possible. You're professionally obliged to consider people who can't work out what you mean from the context, or don't want to have to puzzle over whether you meant "your" or "you're".
If a personal letter is riddled with typos and spelling mistakes, I assume the person's doing their best. I apply the extra effort to read it without any worries, because that's what decent people do.
But a published book with the same errors is COMPLETELY different. That's an expression of contempt for me, the reader. The author and publisher haven't bothered to polish their product and offer me their best work. They've decided I'm not worth that little bit of professional effort, and I'll just have to take whatever lazy crap they feel like giving me and like it. In THAT context, errors are downright insulting.
Appalling as it is, MTG and Bobblehead et.al. are elected representatives of the people of the USA. Their tweets, as public announcements and communications, are part of their job. Ensuring those tweets are error-free, is part of the professional courtesy they owe their readers. Having one of the issues that cause spelling and grammar mistakes shouldn't exclude someone from public office, but they SHOULD have someone edit their written work before it's presented to the public. They've got the resources.
TL,DR: Policing the spelling and grammar of PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS is classist and ableist. But elected Members owe us proof-reading of their bloody tweets, goddamnit.