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Dear KMAG: 20240805 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic

Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.

This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!

We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.

Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

oculiform

adjective

  • shaped like an eye
  • in the form of an eye
  • resembling an eye

Shown in a picture

Used in a sentence

Her oculiform necklace was beautiful, but it gave me bad vibes.

MUSIC!

The weirdness of this old anime theme music goes with the word of the week!

Not feeling like I missed much here!

THE STUFF

Here’s something cool and basic.

Why does the periodic table work?

Why is it a thing at all – no matter what the shape?

Every proton counts. Especially when they get the band together!

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W

A Plea: Get The Lead Out!

A grammatical plea to think “Led Zeppelin” and not “Leadville” when using the past tense of the verb “to lead”

Please don’t think of me as a grammar Nazi. Think of me as a friend of the Periodic Table, who is tired of seeing an intermittently innocent heavy metal being thoughtlessly ABUSED by my fellow members of the Truth Community.

Surely, the element LEAD is bad, just like arsenic and fluorine. But Lead is a cultured killer. Please give him some credit, for being civilized since the earliest days of civilization. Lead may be a predator on women and children, but he’s a very civilized butler who probably did it.

Lead, however, is not a HOOLIGAN who uses incorrect English.

In contrast to the element, I call your attention to the past tense of “to lead”, where “leading” means a variety of things with which you are familiar.

LINK: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lead

Unlike the verb “to read”, where “read” (pronounced like “reed”) is the present tense, and “read” (pronounced like “red”) is the past tense, the verb “to lead” gives rise to “lead” which is pronounced like “leed”) in the present tense, and “led” (pronounced like the element lead, Pb) in the past tense.

THERE IS NO VERB “LEAD” IN THE PAST TENSE.

Don’t believe me? Look here:

LINK: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/2281

LINK: https://grammarist.com/spelling/led-lead/

LINK: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/led-lead/

Thankfully, this mistake is rarely made by the posters on our site. It is, however, quite common in blog posts, comments, and articles which are brought in from the internet.

I hope to keep things that way. My purpose is to warn you away from such foolishness. Even the deadly “should of” (it’s “should’ve”, a contraction of “should have”) is quaintly excusable as emergent new English, in my horribly radical linguistic opinion.

But the element LEAD as a past tense? HORRIFYING.

Please don’t equate the mere historical mass murderer LEAD with genocidal maniacs like FAUCI, TEDROS, and WALENSKY, who surely misconjugate the verb “to lead”, among their various other crimes.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. Your efforts to avoid Fauci-level linguistic crimes will be rewarded by not seeing the above picture, which I intend to post whenever I see “lead” used in a past tense where “led” is appropriate. Even if merely being quoted from the internet.

Your humble grammar Nazi defender of a fellow heavy metal,

W