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Author: Lambo 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: It's a pity
Date: 02/05/2025 11:02 PM
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Sad they did it that way. She didn't have time to get all her possessions out of the house.

Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice

Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.

Fagan, a four-star admiral and the first woman to lead a branch of the military, was removed from her post as the Coast Guard’s top officer on Trump’s second day in office. Officials at the Homeland Security Department — which oversees the Coast Guard — cited border security issues and an “excessive focus” on diversity, equity and inclusion among the reasons for her dismissal.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trum...
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Author: ges 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: It's a pity
Date: 02/06/2025 9:21 AM
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Not just clowns, this is an administration of assholes.

Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
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Author: PucksFool 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: It's a pity
Date: 02/06/2025 11:54 AM
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In a display of trumpy* behavior, the administration evicted the former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice.

* see the post on Words have power.
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: It's a pity
Date: 02/06/2025 11:59 AM
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In a display of trumpy* behavior, the administration evicted the former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice.

She was relieved of her post on January 21st. With the post comes the house, and all senior officers know that.

So...fake news.
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Author: g0177325   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: It's a pity
Date: 02/06/2025 12:34 PM
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Not just clowns, this is an administration of assholes.

Yup. The correct term for this government is Proctocracy - rule by allholes.
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Author: g0177325   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: It's a pity
Date: 02/06/2025 12:43 PM
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In a display of trumpy* behavior,...

More succinct: trumpery - trumpy behavior
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Author: g0177325   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: It's a pity
Date: 02/06/2025 12:46 PM
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Yup. The correct term for this government is Proctocracy - rule by allholes.

Sigh. Of course I meant "rule by assholes", put perhaps "allholes" is even better!
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Author: ges 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: It's a pity
Date: 02/06/2025 2:52 PM
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Proctocracy - rule by assholes.

LOL. Perfect.

Did you coin that word?
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Author: g0177325   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: It's a pity
Date: 02/06/2025 3:03 PM
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Did you coin that word?

Well, I thought I did. As far as I know I've never seen it before. ...googling... But it does actually exist!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proctocracy

Etymology
First attested in March 2002; formed as procto- (“anus”) +‎ -cracy (“rule”); equivalent to a hypothetical Ancient Greek etymon of the form *πρωκτοκρατία (prōktokratía), from πρωκτός (prōktós, “anus”) + κράτος (krátos, “dominion”, “power”).

Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation) enPR: prŏktŏʹkrəsĭ, IPA(key): /pɹɒkˈtɒkɹəsɪ/
(UK) enPR: prŏktŏʹkrəsi, IPA(key): /pɹɒkˈtɒkɹəsi/
Noun
proctocracy (plural not attested)

(humorous neologism, rare) Government or management by “arseholes” (i.e., inconsiderate, obnoxious, or otherwise highly objectionable people).

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Author: PucksFool 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: It's a pity
Date: 02/06/2025 4:37 PM
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The problem with trumpery in that usage is that it already has meanings that do not have anything to do with the vindictive cruelty of Trump's actions. Trumpery descries something with little use or value, which is a good word for something like his sneakers, Bible, or meme coin.
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Author: g0177325   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: It's a pity
Date: 02/06/2025 5:13 PM
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Well, word usage changes to suit the times. All these now mean something related to Trump. I can't help it!

trumpy, trumpish, trumpery, trumped, trumpishly, trumpesque, trumpescent, trumpify, to trump (verb), trumpocracy.
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Author: PucksFool 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: It's a pity
Date: 02/06/2025 8:14 PM
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Protocracy may be a recent neologism but let's make it the Merriam-Webster word of the year.
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