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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCould we maybe come up with a substitute for "(name's) turn in the barrel"?
Last edited Wed Dec 13, 2017, 11:08 PM - Edit history (1)
Here's the actual origin of that phrase(trigger warning for anyone who's been sexually assaulted).
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=in%20the%20barrel
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Could we maybe come up with a substitute for "(name's) turn in the barrel"? (Original Post)
Ken Burch
Dec 2017
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guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)1. Franken was really pushing the investigation into the Trump/Russia
connection.
Mueller is also being harassed by various House lunatics. The pattern is clear.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)2. I get that and am aware of the payback aspect of what was done to him.
I just wish we weren't using the punchline from a rape joke to describe it.
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)6. Agreed. eom
leftstreet
(40,962 posts)3. Good Godz
I didn't know that
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)4. Sorry. Your response caused me to add a trigger warning in the OP, though.
n/t.
irisblue
(37,597 posts)5. I honestly thought it meant shooting fish in a barrel
i.e. an easy target.