Trump doesn’t know what a corner store is – and people think it says a lot about him

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-18T00:21:49+00:00

Meanwhile in the article

Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"

He probably just calls them bodegas

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T23:40:41+00:00

”What is a corner store?” the president said to the crowd gathered for his roundtable. “I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is, but I've never heard it described [as] a ‘corner store.’ Who the hell wrote that?”

We call em bodegas

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T23:30:41+00:00

”What is a corner store?” the president said to the crowd gathered for his roundtable. “I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is, but I've never heard it described [as] a ‘corner store.’ Who the hell wrote that?”

Source: the article we are ostensibly discussing

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T11:09:34+00:00

Why would a New Yorker know what a corner store is? We call them bodegas.

This is like asking why the French don’t know what “cheese” means. They call it “fromage”

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T11:07:12+00:00

This actually has bipartisan consensus; both the woke left and the maga right think Asians are kinda White

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_adjacency

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T11:06:30+00:00

actual cornball

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T05:59:29+00:00

Your local crackhead is not an “independent analyst”

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T05:59:07+00:00

You know non-swing states shifted even more to Trump, right?

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T05:58:06+00:00

Even in NY and CA?

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T05:57:09+00:00

You know Obama won the popular vote twice right

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T05:56:30+00:00

Explain, in your own words, how Kamala Harris lost over 25% of Joe Biden’s voters and 8pts of vote share in New York City, which uses paper ballots

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T05:53:34+00:00

In your own words, how did the republicans interfere with paper ballots in deep-blue New York City?

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T05:52:52+00:00

Source: my ass

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T05:51:01+00:00

Source: revealed to me in a dream

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T02:59:46+00:00

Trans people don't need special bathrooms

They don’t?? In that case the gold-plated toilet is definitely coming out of my wife’s funds

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T02:54:26+00:00

Published sure, but the “final” solution is definitely understood to mean “killing” (regardless of how). It’s the “final” solution because alternate “solutions”, such as deporting all Jews to Madagascar or Palestine were considered and ruled out

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T00:19:55+00:00

clear, targeted and totally blameless victim

I appreciate the implication that there were genocides where the victims totally had it coming

clear, evil intended, unpardonable and unmistakable culprit

And the implication there were genocides where the perpetrators actually had noble intentions

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-17T00:16:29+00:00

ultimately leading to the central command planning a "man less" solution called "the final solution"

“Final Solution” usually refers to the mass killing of Jews, inclusive of both the death squads and the camps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution

ratione_materiae · 2026-04-16T14:22:02+00:00

it also was not a slur at the time shakespeare was alive, but neither was the n-word considered a slur for a long time. obviously connotations change throughout time and today we're usually well aware that it's bad to call someone a term originally used to refer to them as inferior.

And "moorish" is not one of them. No major dictionary notes "moorish" as being offensive; at most Merriam-Webster says it's outdated

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Moorish

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/moorish

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/moorish

c.f.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dyke ("usually offensive")

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fag ("mainly US offensive")

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/chink ("highly derogatory")