“You have said the actual truth.”
(Musk)
(Michelle Goldberg, “Why on Earth Are Jewish Leaders Praising Elon Musk?” New York Times, 11-20-23)
UNSTABLE GENIUSES, THEY GO AND COME
The dude bogarts a joint and jinxes X,
hocks the truth with loogies of spit juice.
There’s not a problem Elon can’t unfix.
Boca Chica Tex is on the loose!
It’s a rhetoric thing. My doggerel fustigates the fouling of standalone nouns (truth, fact, gift, love) with dishonest adjectives (“actual,” “alternative,” “free, “true”). Essential words watered by a pissed well wither. C’mon, everybody, this tongue is your tongue. Keep it sharp.
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Love the portrait Jim… and the rich allusionally verbal accompaniment … don’t bogart that joint my friend – ha! – pass it over to me… by god you even manage to get Eddie Cochran in there as a wake up call, C’mon Everybody! Stirring stuff!
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You have eagle eye and ear, Peter! What about Woody Guthrie — “This land is your land…”? I appreciate your kind words about the picture, too.
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Yes, Jim, the term “actual truth” is a difficult one, something of an oxymoron… ? (There is another more precise word but I can’t think of it offhand!)
And, yes, you have captured one of those curious “looks” Musk makes.
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Tautology?
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