All joking aside...we laugh at gaffes and arcane colloquialisms, but they're actually dangerous when they dominate public perception of politicians and overshadow their history of harmful policies.
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I'm a Delawarean, and even I can't parse this quote from the Biden NYT interview.pic.twitter.com/ymzWbPpwrX
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I’m not a Delawarean yet, soon though. But I can at least tell what he means in this. I think.
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seriously though, what the hell is he talking about?
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He's referring to a "shell game" the one where you guess which of three things is covering a ball or as he's explained here, a pea.
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What about this one?pic.twitter.com/yrJ5Nu7UtP
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Carny is a carnival or circus. Pea and shells refers to the slight of hand game such as one ball underneath one of three cups rotated quickly.
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yes but what is this metaphor actually about
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