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Tapestrygarden's avatar

Not to be trite but go out and touch some grass. Play with Poppy. We don’t know what will happen but what’s the alternative? What brilliant strategies have the Democrats offered?

Much as I love Ben Shapiro I am getting weary of his yap yap yap about what is going to happen. We don’t know. Worrying doesn’t make things better. Ever.

I’m not a Trump sycophant. But I focus on controlling what I can control or influence. Trump is not one of those things 🤣😂😅

Carl Nelson's avatar

My goodness. His tariff policy is moving along just fine - and what is the option to reciprocal tariffs - the past state? The judicial hornet's nest has been poked, as has needed doing for some years. Trump is our best candidate for seeing this thing to its head.

ThurmanLady's avatar

I can only hope you're right. I don't like tariffs, and tend to agree with Milton Freidman that none are the best, even if others have them on us. Maybe part of the frustration is that we have no real clue what his desired outcome is.

Eric Ivers's avatar

That's a pretty poor amount of being frustrated and uncomfortable. Sounds like you still have your head on straight. :)

Dave Ceely's avatar

I don't think you know the definition of "fulsome."

Eric Ivers's avatar

You have been "hypercorrected". (At risk of seeming didactic, someone has corrected you incorrectly.)

Dave Ceely's avatar

fulsome /foo͝l′səm/

adjective

Excessively flattering or insincerely earnest. synonym: unctuous.

Similar: unctuous

Disgusting or offensive.

Copious or abundant

Michael Smith's avatar

"Two of the traditional senses of fulsome are (1) offensively, excessively flattering, and (2) excessive in a distasteful way. In both these senses, the adjective is usually negative. A fulsome piece of music, for instance, might be one that is overloud and too busy-sounding. In modern usage, however, the word often means copious or abundant without negative connotations. In this use, the word is often embedded in the phrase fulsome praise. This historically has referred to flattery and excessiveness of praise, but today it usually just refers to hearty, welcome praise.

This positive use of the word is widely believed to be a latter-day development, but it is in fact just as old as, if not older than, the senses considered to be more correct. The Oxford English Dictionary lists “characterized by abundance” as the first definition of the word, with examples going back to the early 14th century. The more negative senses arise a little later. Still, the negative senses have predominated through much of the word’s history."

Dave Ceely's avatar

1 and 2 are primary. My thought is that it ought to be used in that way. Comprehensive or fully do the job in a better way.

Michael Smith's avatar

Good enough. I've always use it the way I used it. Not going to argue about it. If you don't understand it in the context I used, nothing I can do about it. That word has little impact to the entire essay, so not important enough to debate.