At a casino bingo hall in southwestern Colorado, Lauren Boebert, a Republican congresswoman, bounced her 6-month-old grandson on her knee.
“The election’s still a ways away,” she said as the guests arriving for the Montezuma County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day dinner trickled into the room. “And in talking with people at events like this, you know, it seems like there’s a lot of mercy and a lot of grace.”
The month before, Boebert, then in the midst of finalizing a divorce, was caught on a security camera vaping and groping her date shortly before being ejected from a performance of the musical “Beetlejuice” at the Buell Theater in Denver for causing a disturbance. The footage contradicted her own initial claims about the incident, and the venue’s statement that Boebert had demanded preferential treatment added to the outrage.
How am I to interpret this sound bite that includes bouncing a six month old baby on your knee offered in a… checks notes… casino bingo hall?
Let’s stop with the overused “checks notes” redditism.
I like it. It adds character when appropriate. It’s fine if you don’t, you’re entitled to your opinion. Just don’t ruin it for everyone else.
You just said it. When appropriate. It’s kind of annoying when people use it in an * checks notes * unimaginative way.
^ See, now that’s the spirit! 😘
lol!
That’s what you took from that. Neat.
Incidentally, it’s the first time I’ve ever used it. See my username, put it into present tense, and carry on with your miserable day.
I’m having a grand day. Lemmy, like Reddit is just a toy, so if you want to take things so seriously, welp… good for you. Bye.
This coming from someone who took the time to complain about a… checks notes… phrase used on every social media and even in news articles, not just on reddit.
No, that’s not a thing in hard news. Maybe in opinion pieces or columns, but it’s definitely not in the AP Style Guide, which in the US is still the industry standard.
Perhaps outside the AP or whatever, but I have seen it used recently as such in sources that could be considered mainstream news by today’s audiences.
edit: not that the absence of such would make this guy’s complaint any less ridiculous
In news articles? What * checks notes * news sources are you using?!
Ok, first of all, for someone who complains that the phrase should be used appropriately, you don’t use it appropriately at all, in either this case or in that other “unimaginative” reply under this post, while the person you’re trying to call out about it actually did use it appropriately.
Meanwhile, don’t act stupid and pretend that articles from major news sources haven’t started using that phrase as a narrative device in regards to Republican nonsense in general. I don’t have to point you to it, it’s out there.
Beo give me an example of these * * checks notes* * news articles using “checks notes,” and a blog post won’t cut it.
Well oh well, look who’s walking in my shoes!
No.
Can we not dunk on people having fun?
Sure.
What’s a redditism? Is that like some sort of augmented reality porn bot?
Yes.
LOL
You: this is a different thing and you can’t reference anything that was done in other places.
I’m okay with previous references. Not just the * checks notes * overused, misused ones.