Posted on 12/19/2016 6:07:15 PM PST by SMGFan
Donald Trump's upset win in the US presidential election astonished people so much that they rushed to the dictionary to look up the word everyone was using to describe the event: surreal. Indeed, Merriam-Webster's dictionary on Monday named surreal its Word of the Year 2016, the honor given to the word or term with the sharpest spike in look-ups over the previous year. Surreal, definition: "marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream." It actually triggered not one but a series of sudden jumps in people looking it up.
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That and, shock of all shocks, the Daily Mail, is about all that's left. What is portrayed in the Slimes, compost, PMSCNNCBSNBC is what is surreal.
opportunity knocks but once.
The words of the year are hack/leak....
And whomever came up with them, should be hacked until they leak.
And actually now that I am thinking of it, that year there was a very loud and obnoxious british chick toothless methhead that was calling herself “Sue-Real”
I guess the snowflakes didn’t realize it was high time to insult women(some), minorities(some), and muslims(nearly 70% of them). Compassion and a willingness to play fair does not mean that we are consigned to national suicide. Peak-leftism has begun to ebb and we can all tell the sick “victim” pleaders to grow up or STFU.
“opportunity knocks but once.”
Unfortunately, I had left my hockey mask at home
How strange; my reaction was yep... expected it. ‘Bout time. Then a quiet feeling of contentment like a cat or dog having its belly rubbed. :D
I used the word, ‘surreal’ here on FR on election day. It was, indeed, a surreal day!
That's exactly what I was thinking. Trump's got this unless the shady corrupt left does something illegal. It was probably because so many eyes were on this election and the process that they didn't do a lot of the voter fraud they normally do.
It’s a shame. You had them all in one place.
I agree. Remember when the Trump campaign put out the call for election observers? Tens of thousands answered the call, and as a result, we had eyeballs on everything that moved, in every precinct in America.
Even the infamous Broward Country, Florida couldn't eke out a win for the Democrat this time around. Just too many people watching and reporting everything they saw.
Ha ha. “Fascist” and “islamophobic” and “racist” didn’t win.
The liberal Enemedia lose again!
Please add the overused and oftentimes misused “literally”?
Welcome to the early 20th century.
Well, the word is definitely past its peak as a fad. I suppose you’d have to do some kind of monster canvas of the internet to prove it, but that’s my feeling.
I think you mean, "... oftentimes literally misused ..."
Liberal word of the year. Suicide.
Yep - the only surreal episodes have been on the Left - they make Alice's world look sane compared to them.
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