At its worst, it was far far less chaotic, threatening, and violent than the BS surrounding the Kavanaugh nomination, and, of course, the magical double-standard strikes again.

I discovered that my congressman was up to his eyeballs in the impeachment and 25th Amendment garbage, so sent him a nasty email.
Good complement to preaching to the choir.

Also emailed Pence urging him to stay true to Trump. (Had to use the same whitehouse.gov web form as POTUS, no separate one for the VP.)

None – the market will take care of it!

Or, unexpectedly – the Spanish Inquisition.

By the time the effing useless Libertarians begin to figure out that things are trending deadly serious, Great Birnham Wood will have long schlepped over to, lived a long life, and died of old age on High Dunsinane Hill.

“Ron Paul has been kicked out of his own Facebook page.”

Well now, it looks like it might get serious at some point.

I would distinguish here between ‘ideological adjustment’ and ‘leveling’ straight-up. What I had in mind was not so much the ‘wokification’ or ideological ‘rectification’ of language a la in the vein of Newspeak or something like that, however one wishes to label it – although I don’t discount that as an element, potentially, on a somewhat case-by-case basis – but rather the mere dumbing-down of the intricate parts of a language, that is, the “high” tongue being slowly over many generations ground down to meet the lowest common denominator. It happened to Latin and … Greek … “

Yes that is what I assumed you had meant to imply: a rough parallel with vulgar Latin, or more to your point, Demotic Greek, which is what I supposed you specifically had in mind with your use of ‘demotification” … and as you reiterate and establish.

Although, given the experience we all have had with the implicit politicization of all language, including for example the eruption of Ebonics, yada yada yada, I would see more of it as driven by at least a whiff of what might be called inclusion ideology. Though of course, in a world where everything is political and politics is ideological … that might not be saying too much.

This might be worth a review, I have not yet finished it
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324055408_English_verb_regularization_in_books_and_tweets

“(‘Philip,’ please. ? )”

You have been using a real, not screen, name? Geez LOL

Another link which even more completely disagrees with me. And specifically mentions thrive, throve, thriven, as an innovation … https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=leE5AAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA13&dq=related:khAuwRzBtFUVRM:scholar.google.com/&ots=xWLd2m7EPQ&sig=cGrkWF3lzMrLaHLvaQHMq3lofkM#v=onepage&q&f=false

Anyway, I’ll leave off here, as one day Neo and her own curiosity will probably probably address the issue; if she has not already

Ever work around folks with Q clearances? Ever work in a DOE facility (concertina wire topped double fences, armed guards with fully automatic weapons, helicopters, armored cars) and had a DOE clearance or gone through the clearance interview? No? Call back when you know something besides the intertubes.

“Well, prior to that he had never shotten a gun”

I suspect that’s a class/rural thing. I subscribe to a Youtube channel about some off grid homesteaders in Alaska, and the husband several times has said “[X] wasn’t in the stuff we broughten up from Oregon so we got a new one,” and he has that sort of modern American deregionalized “country” accent that you hear these days.

In other news, gun enthusiast site ar15.com has had its DNS blocked by either GoDaddy or by AWS (you get redirected to the backup domain if you go there right now), and Ron Paul has been kicked out of his own Facebook page.

For further intel briefs, people will have to go there.

I would advise people of a certain negative state of mind not to visit, as the effect may be very uncomfortable for them.

Om, woohoo, this time I was able to skip your comments. Clap on back for me.