'Complicit' Is The Word Of The Year In 2017, Dictionary.com Says (npr.org)

Dictionary.com has selected "complicit" as its word of the year for 2017, citing the term's renewed relevance in U.S. culture and politics -- and noting that a refusal to be complicit has also been "a grounding force of 2017." From a report: The website defines "complicit" as "choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others; having complicity." Interest in the word spiked several times this year, Dictionary.com says -- most notably when Ivanka Trump said in April, "I don't know what it means to be complicit."

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It should have been dotard

[Anonymous Coward]

It should have been dotard

here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

impeachment

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

President Pence?! No thanks! Best thing to do is leave things as they are and just vote out all the incumbents from the house and as many as you can in the senate. Replace all democrats and republicans with independents. Then, if you get a good speaker, impeach both Trump AND Pence! And drag all their complicit supporters into criminal court!

And don't forget kids, with reelection rates as high as they are, the voters are complicit in everything the government does.

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

better than our snowflake in Chief. cries on twitter anytime someone doesn't like him..

boo hoo. fat president can't take the heat!

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

...says the idiots who spent eight years bitching about results they didn't like.

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[bobbied]

Oh please... Now I'm a Russian because I point out that impeaching Trump might not be a good idea? That's rich...

Could it be that because you cannot admit that your candidate lost a fair and square election to an absolute novice that you are grasping at straws? Seriously, Hillary was an awful candidate and ran a horrible campaign. This election was her's to lose, and she lost it to a candidate that had nearly a zero chance of winning.

In order to impeach trump, you guys need to take the house in 2018... I don't see that happening, but let's say it does for argument sake. In that case Impeachment of Trump may happen, but Conviction won't, there is zero chance you will get 2/3rds even if you won EVERY Senate seat in the midterms. You need to square with that reality and figure out how you are going to deal with it because the last party that impeached a sitting president and failed paid dearly for the attempt.

But... By all means, do try. It will be a bloodbath at the ballot box for your side...

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[WrongMonkey]

As a remote observer Trump has turned the US into Russia of the 90

Right. These breadlines and salary delays are getting to be a real pain.

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[bobbied]

Oh? Trump is "with him"? Not really. Trump won't be in Alabama campaigning for Moore or sending him money..

What Trump is saying is exactly what I'm saying. Moore is a better choice than the democrat. Obviously Moore isn't currently engaged in molesting children now, nor has he been accused of this in the last 37 years. I don't know if he did it or not but he's not doing this now and there ARE valid doubts that the stories being told are the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Given the obvious political motives behind these stories and the timing of their release there ARE doubts here.

I would strongly suggest you be careful here. Roy Moore's troubles are the kind that often backfire on the left. We've had decades of popular democrats which engaged in well documented and known egregious behavior of this sort and we've all looked the other way. Roy Moore's behavior 37 years ago, even if true, was pretty tame compared to some of the things we CAN prove happened on the left. Tread lightly sir.