Bringing up Duty Free strikes me as an interesting meme. Why do most duty free shops seem to mostly sell stuff that Donald and Melania would think "classy"? What is that all about? Trump is like the ultimate Hammacher Schlemmer customer.

Oh thank you! I am in love again, they are the best, just the best, the wry humor included, old and crochetedy but still the best evah!

I remember Lennon sneering about them holding on touring as "The Rolling Bones" some 4 decades ago, but oddly there's probably no old band that thrills me to keep going except the Rolling Stones - and probably it's just Mick - the rest would have snuffed themselves to death long ago. He still carries that grade school enthusiasm.

In Trump reality, you can ram ramparts now that Trump said it as if it is a thing. I just read this piece on topic by Phillip Bump @ WaPo, interestingly points out how Trump screwed up a lot of the speech, how this is common for him, how he confuses things and then often adds the correct version as an add-on to his mistake. And in the process making it seem like it wasn't a mistake. And then the staff will also come out and support that it wasn't a mistake, rather, it's the new Trump version, better. End message: this is God speaking, he doesn't make mistakes.

[....] This is Trump’s approach. In speeches in particular, he will often misspeak and, instead of retracting what he said, will just say the proper thing afterward. He’ll generally include the word “and” as though both the incorrect and correct words were supposed to be in his remarks. Like, “it’s raining cats and frogs . . . and dogs.”

We are not the first to notice this.

mistake + AND + correction = President Trump's "signature move"

Watch @chrislhayes break it down on @allinwithchris pic.twitter.com/co6ueGAPus

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 3, 2018

This inability to admit misstatements has no more extreme example than his infamous “covfefe” tweet from 2017. Late one night that May, Trump tweeted, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.” He’d obviously meant to write “coverage” and, instead of deleting the mistake, accidentally hit send.

But his administration swung into action defending the word as intentional [....]

You can ram a rampart and butt a buttress, neither being sound military approaches to breaching a breachhold, but if you have a gamechanger, like the Turks' Orban Cannon, you just might try something new.

The subtle issue here was the ramparts were *ours* - we were the defending power on home turf, ramming our own ramparts illuminated under whatever rockets red glare would indeed seem peculiar - maybe just caught up in the Technoparty atmosphere and excitement? the Brits were in boats coming up the Potomac trying to get through defenses (and by burning the White House you might say they did in fact partly succeed, though it's not noted whether they gave a useless speech on the Mall in the rain with the Union Jack and British tanks afterwards - why they didn't take Reagan International is still unknown, but for sure the flight delays at Dulles and extra airport charges would have made it a poor choice, and I'm pretty sure BWI hadn't been built then).