“Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun...No Collusion.” @FoxNews That’s because there was NO COLLUSION. So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2018
It's not a typo if you do it twice. The question is whether it's a deliberate misspelling to infuse the message with virality. "Smocking" is what makes this special.
By the way, the Urban Dictionary definition for "smock" is "small cock."
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My boss ordered the group to stop gripping, in a memorable memo.
It's not a typo if you do it twice.
It means you consistently make the same error.
"schmock, schmock, schmock."
We could use a man like Steve Allen in these times.
Mueller needs to get his Clinton gold parachute and jump.
He can't explain the crime, much less provide evidence.
Smocking rhymes with focking.
I have some typing tics that create consistent typos. I imagine a lot of people do.
As for this jail worthy offense (in Adam Schiff's wet dreams), it's not illegal to pay someone to stay quiet unless the thing you're paying them to stay quiet about is illegal. NDA's are completely common. Most people have signed one at some point in their life.
So Russia! is now sexxx!!!
These people have no shame.
Reminds me of when he said Marco Rubio was a chocker instead of choker.
There is a theory that he does these things on purpose, either spelling mistakes, or needless exaggerations of fact. The theory goes, the press won't cover his tweets - thus spreading his word - unless they can poke fun at his tweets.
So while the press will have a field day pointing out his misspellings, the rest of us will inadvertently be notified by that same press that we STILL HAVE NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION.
This is a call back to a misspelled tweet in August.
Would we be talking an this if he had written "smoking"?
I say he does this on purpose. It happens too often.
And the press always falls for it.
Mezzrow, I thought I was the only one who remembered the Tonight Show with Steve Allen and the "smock, smock"
John Henry
I'm going way back now, but Steve Allen used to say "smock smock smock". I have not idea what it meant, but I doubt it was small cock talk.
John Henry beat me to it.
Maybe he misspelled schmuck.
A smock is a light coat you don to protect your clothing from dust or whatever; like a doctor's white coat, etc.
Or a rubber finger protector, depending on context.
I remember “smok smok” from the National Lampoon yearbook. Didn’t get the reference back then either.
Smocking is also pleating of fabric that is then sewn over. Kind of an embroidery. You see it a lot on the tops of little girl's dresses.
Smock 'em if you've got 'em!
"Smocking" is a secret code. Republicans will read the tweet and know exactly what it means. Democrats will be distracted and miss the message.
It was old gun, with its smock and rocking chair.
As it rocked back and forth, it said "No Collusion"
the media and the corruptocrats are giddy they have Trump - not on Russian collusion - but some payments to women.
Meanwhile, Hillary set up a private Server while head of the State DE pt and never paid for that crime.
Is anyone 'fact checking' the urban dictionary?
For all we know, they're just making shit up.
Trump never smoked.
For all we know, they're just making shit up.
It's made up by users. Anyone can contribute a definition. People use it as humor and performance art.
You’re right Althouse that it is not a typo. It is a repetitive fundamental spelling error by a man who reads very little, who writes almost nothing of serious consequence, whose Twitter account is often unedited (notwithstanding an entire Communications Office at his disposal), and thereby naturally and immediately reflective of his personal ignorance.
Trump may just be preeting in code about Bharara's shortcomings. I think this one is inside baseball.
A PURPLE ELEPHANT rears it's mighty head.
Do not imagine the tusks.
When was the last time Chuck contributed any comment on this blog which wasn't anti-Trump inventive? I challenge you.
It's old and stale, Chuck. Get over yourself. You're not contributing "balance" to the blog -- you're a preeting scold.
Cringeworthy indeed, but not w/o precedent.
"The book title was supposed to have read “The Medium is the Message” but the typesetter made an error and spelled Massage. When McLuhan saw the typo he exclaimed, “Leave it alone! It’s great, and right on target!”
You'd never make a typo with a vapping pen.
"It's old and stale, Chuck. Get over yourself. You're not contributing "balance" to the blog -- you're a preeting scold."
LLR Chuck is simply doing what every single lefty is doing, in the exact same way, with the exact same talking points, and doing it as if on command every single day in perfect lefty harmony.
Thats how you can tell LLR Chuck is a "True Conservative": his eternal operational alignment with the far left.
Unexpectedly.
It could be a recurring typing issue. I think most of us have those to lesser or greater extents. I have a problem typing "ei" consistently, and it often ends up as "ie". The main reason is that I have used, for decades now, a password form that has "ie"- my muscle memory just puts in "ie" automatically more often than not unless I consciously am aware that I need "ei" instead at that moment.
However, in this case, I think Trump really is doing it intentionally- it is effective in getting the media to repeat his tweets ad nauseum. He realizes that that focusing on the "error" isn't particularly effective mokery any longer, and that getting the tweet repeated is more valuable than being seen to be a good speller. Indeed, what is usually the normal reaction to any spelling pedant you come across? Usually irritation, right?
"it is effective in getting the media to repeat his tweets ad nauseum"
ICWYDT.
LOL! That won was unintentional!
Watkins, however, traces it to a possible Germanic base *(s)muk- "wetness," figuratively "slipperiness," from PIE root*meug- "slimy, slippery" (see mucus). Either way, the original notion, then, seems generally to have been "garment one creeps or slips into," by the same pattern that produced sleeve and slip (n.2).
- etymonline.com
It's a nuanced reference to the warlock hunters, with an anti-gun inducement to drive a journolistic hysteria. So, the question is not to muck or not to muck, but what the muck is going on below the noise floor in the public swamp.
The legal theory under which Trump could be indicted for campaign finance law violations is ridiculous. This has all been made possible because nobody – not Cohen and not the prosecutirs is arguing the contrary.
By this standard, Linda McMahon was guilty of a felony in her second run for the United States Senate in 2012 when she paid debts that had been discharged in bankruptcy to her creditors.
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2012-09-20-hc-mcmahon-loan-repay-0923-20120920-story.html
More than 35 years after walking away from nearly $1 million in debts, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon Thursday night abruptly decided to repay her creditors — and defuse a growing campaign controversy.
McMahon, who is now a multimillionaire, has been under pressure from her Democratic opponent, Chris Murphy, to pay back the people and businesses she and her husband, Vince McMahon, owed money to when they filed for bankruptcy in 1976 and walked away from nearly $1 million in outstanding bills.
Clearly the Senate election was a motive – in fact probably the only motive.
She undoubtedly used personal funds.
By the standard of the prosecutors in the SDNY this was illegal.
Not only would she have been allowed to use campaign funds for thsi purpose, she would have been obligated to do so. (although she would have had the option of reimbursiing her campaign)
Mocking the so-called smoking gun.
Smocking.
Chuck, how many times did Obama say "corpse man"?
What continues to surprise me is Trump mocking and name calling people who have the power to annoy, harass and investigate him and his family.
Throwing gas on the fires.
Some of his tweet errors are unplanned.
Exaggerating numbers is always planned in order to get avg people informed.
I have said that a million times here.
Blogger chickenlittle said...
When was the last time Chuck contributed any comment on this blog which wasn't anti-Trump inventive? I challenge you.
“Invective” is what you meant.
And “Kavanaugh” is the correct answer to your question.
And, it is true for a great many of us; including George Conway III and too many others to list I am sure. While Trump is personally idiotic close to 100% of the time, his actions are not 100% idiotic. Kavanaugh was one of the exceptions. Thanks to Trump’s having actually followed good advice.
Blogger tim in vermont said...
Chuck, how many times did Obama say "corpse man"?
I don’t know; was it more than once? We know it was at least once. Beyond that, I don’t know. But why would I care? I’m no fan of Obama. I never voted for him. You should ask Althouse. She says she voted for him.
Smocking guns, hot to the touch
Would cool down if we didn't use 'em so much, yeah...
When you pull the trigger of a smocking gun, it goes "SMOK! SMOK!"
(WK writes: "I remember 'smok smok' from the National Lampoon yearbook. Didn’t get the reference back then either." It referred to Steve Allen, who was popular with a certain type of teen-age wisenheimer--like me--in the period that the NatLamp yearbook was spoofing. One of Steverino's shtik was the "Smocking Bird" who used to make a wild-bird call such as one might hear in the background of jungle movies. It was usually pronounced with an "sh" sound so it came out "SHMOK! SHMOK!"
This blog is perhaps the biggest excuse making machine out there for the worst politician ever.
HT writes:
"This blog is perhaps the biggest excuse making machine out there for the worst politician ever."
I think you might have this blog confused with some pro-Hillary blog.
This blog is perhaps the biggest excuse making machine out there for the worst politician ever.
Who still managed to beat the vicious bitch you voted for.
Yes, it was more than once that he did it.
BTW, I am not a spelling Nazi. Liberals hate non conformists, not me. Trump is a free spirit.
"smock
verb - to smile with one's penis.
That guy had such an erection he was rock hard and smocking.
#smiling#pose#erection#cock#dick#hard-on.
by Bill.i.am September 23, 2009"
Smocking is a type of needlework or sewing that creates pleats in a fabric along with decorative embroidery stitches. Like Like this
It was a popular technique in Medieval times when there were no such things as sewing machines or printed types of patterns. A good way to take a square of material and give it some form and shape as well as a nice look.
Perhaps, Trump's auto correct on his phone just inserted the word smocking. It IS a legitimate word. If he misspelled it once, the phone/computer will just insert it from now on when he enters the first 3 letters.
I doubt that he has smocking as a hobby though :-D It is rather soothing. Maybe he should take it up. Knitting is soothing too. I think that Trump could use some down time once in a while.
There ARE Smocking machines.
Pretty sure there is no such thing as a "smocking gun"
“This blog is perhaps the biggest excuse making machine out there for the worst politician ever.”
It’s what cultists do.
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Perhaps, Trump's auto correct on his phone just inserted the word smocking. It IS a legitimate word. If he misspelled it once, the phone/computer will just insert it from now on when he enters the first 3 letters.
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No; I think the true explanation is different. I think that auto-correct, which would ordinarily correct “smocking” to “smoking” didn’t work because of Trump’s weird idiosyncratic capitalization of some words for his own emphasis. Auto-correct often lets those typos go, thinking that they are proper names and that the writer knows what he is doing. And any presumption, by algorithm or otherwise, that Donald Trump knows what he us doing, is likely to lead to problems.
Chuck@8:13... Now he's claiming to know what autocorrect is thinking. You're a jagoff, dude. Total insufferable a-hole. Absolutely a democrat party member, by temperament.
"It’s what cultists do."
Wrote the Uber Cultist.
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