{"id":2690,"date":"2021-01-25T09:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T09:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crankyphilosopher.com\/wp\/?page_id=2690"},"modified":"2023-12-10T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T11:22:30","slug":"crikey-wild-wacky-words","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crankyphilosopher.com\/wp\/crikey-wild-wacky-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Crikey! Wild Wacky Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure id=\"crickey\" class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Words<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Wacky Definitions<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Wild Sources<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Crikey Example Uses<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>alternative fact\/s<\/strong><\/td><td>Umpteenth amendment of the US Declaration of Independence:<br>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><s>We<\/s> I <\/span>hold these <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><s>truths<\/s> facts <\/span>to be self-evident\u2026&#8221;<\/td><td>Kellyanne Conway, Counsellor to (former) President Donald Trump<\/td><td>Defending false statements about attendance numbers at the inauguration of Donald Trump as US President in January 2017.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>TE<\/strong><\/td><td>Trump Era<\/td><td>The Cranky Philosopher<\/td><td>Used to refer to a calendar year; e.g. the calendar year 2017 CE is the year 1 TE.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>BTE<\/strong><\/td><td>Before Trump Era<\/td><td>The Cranky Philosopher<\/td><td>Used to refer to a calendar year; e.g. the calendar year 2016 CE is the year 1 BTE.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Great America<\/strong><\/td><td>The country, which before the year 5 TE was known as the United States of America<\/td><td>The Cranky Philosopher<\/td><td>During the period of his reign from 1 to 4 TE, President Donald Trump &#8220;Made America Great Again&#8221;. As from the year 5 TE, America has no longer been &#8220;United&#8221;, but simply &#8220;Great&#8221;.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>right\/s<\/strong><\/td><td>The stuff that me makes me more equal than my peers.<\/td><td>UN Declaration of Human Rights \/<br> First Amendment, US Constitution<\/td><td>The &#8220;deplatforming&#8221; of President Donald Trump in January of the year 5 TE by social media enterprises, due to concerns about incitement to another &#8220;storming the Capitol&#8221; at the inauguration of Joe Biden as US President, was condemned as an infringement on Trump&#8217;s right to free speech.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>wrong\/s<\/strong><\/td><td>What only others, and never I \u2013 no, not me! \u2013 are or do.<\/td><td>South African ex-President Jacob Zuma, on trial for alleged state-capture (which he denies)<\/td><td>&#8220;I did nothing wrong!&#8221;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: small;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/crankyphilosopher.com\/wp\/\">\u00a9 The Cranky Philosopher 2025<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words Wacky Definitions Wild Sources Crikey Example Uses alternative fact\/s Umpteenth amendment of the US Declaration of Independence:&#8220;We I hold these truths facts to be self-evident\u2026&#8221; Kellyanne Conway, Counsellor to (former) President Donald Trump Defending false statements about attendance numbers at the inauguration of Donald Trump as US President in<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crankyphilosopher.com\/wp\/crikey-wild-wacky-words\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","author-aidmin","post-2690","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankyphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankyphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankyphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankyphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankyphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/crankyphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3452,"href":"https:\/\/crankyphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2690\/revisions\/3452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankyphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}