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First Speaker

(4,858 posts) Sun Mar 8, 2020, 11:53 AM Mar 2020

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My new favorite Trump nickname: "The Shakespeare of Shit"...

...I saw this somewhere, I forget exactly where. But the perfection of it, the perfect marriage of sound and sense, the alliteration...it just sings, doesn't it?

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My new favorite Trump nickname: "The Shakespeare of Shit"... (Original Post) First Speaker Mar 2020 OP

Calling Trump "The Shakespeare of Shit" is an insult Quemado Mar 2020 #1

Maybe...but it implies that Trump is off the scale of shittiness... First Speaker Mar 2020 #2

Quemado

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1. Calling Trump "The Shakespeare of Shit" is an insult

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Sun Mar 8, 2020, 11:54 AM

Mar 2020

to both Shakespeare and shit.

First Speaker

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2. Maybe...but it implies that Trump is off the scale of shittiness...

Reply to Quemado (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 8, 2020, 11:56 AM

Mar 2020

...rather like Shakespeare is off the scale of genius, or Hitler off the scale of evil. And I think we could all agree that such is the case...

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