This week I had the great misfortune to watch some of Secretary Bessent hanging out with his, not exactly superiors in Congress, and my god, the state of American political squabbles were worse than I thought… I still love the interchange last year (I think?) over the eyelashes and the butch-bleach-blond representative from Georgia.
This interchange wasn't that bad but there was plenty of sarcasm, foul-mouthing, and pretty "indecent" behavior all around. It's like, are you here for an actual hearing or are you just out for a viral media clip? I guess the question answers itself
Flunky, rhyming with “donkey”
1a : a liveried servant
1b : one performing menial or miscellaneous duties
2: Yes-Man
I’m putting this in ~podcasts, because honestly, what else is the shitshow, clownshow, or sandbox they call Congress supposed to be? Had I not known it was, you know, the body that directly controls a third of America’s economy and impacts the other two-thirds, I’d chalk this up to some new, funky Netflix reality show.
Bessent, when Mr. Lucas was elevating his voice and almost screaming, the Treasury Secretary snarkily asked,
“Can you speak a little louder, please? I can’t hear you.”“Can you speak a little louder, please? I can’t hear you.”
A lot of this is performative, with Representatives looking for a media clip or an enraged quote out of whoever sits before them. Looking around the room, almost none of the sources of inflammatory interchanges remain in the room. What is the point of all of this? is the correct query. The Secretary correctly observed that:
Facts can be annoying for people who just want to make talking points.
Maxine Waters from California had the most outrageous hizzifit. YES OR NO, YES OR NO "Can you shut up?!"
Can you maintain some level of dignity?
You and the Biden Administration should be ashamed”
... Mr. Bessent retorted when he got the chance.
As for Flunky:
Mr. Gregory Meeks fr New York was upset... talked reasonable about Trump's crypto shenanigans and foreign influence peddling via token purchases... "a national security concern"... before quickly evaporating any semblance of respect he might have acquired by raising such issues.
I'm asking you to do your responsibility as SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
... he's the one... he did not answer my question!
"Stop covering for the president; stop being his flunky""Stop covering for the president; stop being his flunky"
I don't know much about early American history and the Founding Fathers, but this isn't exactly how I picture them debating and considering how to break free and form a new country.
If flunky and donkey are rhyming, then you’re pronouncing one of them weirdly.
In NY donkey and flunky rhyme perfectly. Here we go again.
Which one do you say weird?
Flunky should rhyme with clunky
Donkey should rhyme with honky
My experience of the people from New York makes me think that both get pronounced with a kind of nasal o, almost like aw?
That's more Pittsburgh to me. In NY, it's more like uh or duh.
Got it. You guys say donkey weird, which also means Den must say donkey like a New Yorker.
Shame. I'm deeeeply ashamed of my faulty English
ah, thank you. that makes more sense. I don't get up to New York very often.
Whaddaya mean, should? In the center of the world, donkey rhymes with flunky. So it's correct. Remember The New Yorker map:
that looks roughly accurate and is mostly my understanding of the U.S. mentality too. (Missing, perhaps, is DC?)
It is squeezed in to the lower left of the map. It is as prominently displayed as it should be.
I never noticed it before
For some reason my favorite part is Utah being in the wrong place
World has changed a lot more than I thought since 1976
Do monkey and flunky rhyme in your part of the hinterland?
Nice try, fed!
Touche
They do rhyme most places, though
I have the sum total of one example of how to say "flunky" so perhaps I'm a little off
See Siggy’s comment
SEEE, SEEEEEE!
I don't know! I'm just going off the single mention by Mr. Meeks (which honestly just sounds like a caricature name to me...)
I always liked the word flunky. I think you need to be pretty damn old to use it any more
It’s a great old guy word