(August 26, 2020 at 7:29 am)Sal Wrote:(August 26, 2020 at 5:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Trump says the post office is going to get its ‘bailout’. Why does he keep calling it that? Government services don’t get bailouts, they get appropriations. Does the army get a bailout? Schools? Emergency services?Russell conjugation strikes again.
Boru
Not exactly. Russell's is intended to describe one's own behaviour in a favourable light compared to other people behaving the same way. What Trump is doing here is better defined as 'being pig-ignorant'.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson