• spooky2092
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    67
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    Without action, any republicans ‘tut tut’-ing trump is just blowing smoke. I care as much about this as Collins or Murkowski aggressively furrowing their brows at trump for 4 straight years.

    • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      2 days ago

      Fun, lighthearted, fact: the term blowing smoke originates from an old drowning resuscitation practice, in which blowing smoke up the butt of a drowning person was supposed to bring them around.

      Obviously it didn’t work, but people still did it for a long time in spite of that, and thus “blowing smoke up my ass” as a phrase to mean being intentionally dishonest.

      • syreus@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        2 days ago

        A little context; This began as American First Nations medical tech. Tobacco smoke enemas were used to treat a variety of conditions, including constipation, bowel obstruction, and colic. They eventually abandoned this because of the toxicity of nicotine. The drowning bit was a last resort treatment. We don’t have any info on it ever working. As far as old medicine goes this isn’t the biggest offender.