Nothing really new here, just calling attention to how President Trump uses parentheses to demonstrate that by “fake news,” he means “news that is critical of me.”
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Shocking that 41% say yes or have no opinion.
It’s not shocking. We live in a nation of morons.
I just took this poll on WPXI’s website. Here are the results. :-
For whatever reason, out-of-place parentheses are often used around a word in more disreputable sites as an indicator that the word between them is a euphemism for “Jewish” or “the Jews.” When I see out of place parentheses, I ask myself “erratic punctuation, or coded message?”