Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Scott Walker engages in some good, old-fashioned jingoism




Scott Walker hates the media because they deal in facts, as does this video opinion piece, "Please Stop Telling Me America is Great".  (Odds are Scott hasn't watched it.  The narration is engagingly cheeky.)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) rankings of 36 countries.


Take poverty, for instance.

Performance level in high school academics:


And then there's life expectancy.
Infant mortality


Voting?  We're pathetic.


According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of "jingoism" occurred in 1878.

Other coinages from the same year include:
  1. backflow
  2. classless
  3. crime against humanity
  4. flapdoodle
  5. nonfunctional
  6. ring-around-the-rosy
  7. self-obsessed

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