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(38,958 posts)I can think of a few other descriptive terms for the year as Im sure others can as well.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)I suppose "karen's" have always been around, but I think a lot more have felt emboldened by the fact that we had a so-called leader throwing daily hissy fits because life is so unfair.
BComplex
(8,029 posts)Because they represent small people lashing out inappropriately in a big way over small things. (Tantrumps.)
Plus, it leaves the good Karens and Mary Trump in the clear, and completely distinguishable from the lesser karens and trumps....the ones that throw the tantrumps.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)BComplex
(8,029 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)(cross-dressed)
Celerity
(43,261 posts)Yorba Linda, California, October 26, 2020
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)In my seventy-mumble years, I've never seen anything like this... nor could I have ever imagined it. It is the stuff of dystopian movies.
Celerity
(43,261 posts)moreland01
(736 posts)But then again that's been my word of the year since late 2016. Looking forward to not having to use it near as much in 2021.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)Rice4VP
(1,235 posts)Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)it deserves to be in the running for word of the year.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14543650
I may have heard it before that but I don't know. Undoubtedly in any case I'm sure I wasn't the first ever to conceive it.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)ananda
(28,856 posts)PatSeg
(47,361 posts)Trump is so obsessed with his name being everywhere, now it will truly become part of the American lexicon for years to come. His mother should have taught him "Be careful what you wish for".
FakeNoose
(32,617 posts)... starting TODAY!
VA_Jill
(9,962 posts)I also saw "trumpertantrum" in a post elsewhere, as in, "When will this trumpertantrum end?"
Generic Brad
(14,274 posts)It's everywhere.