*sigh*
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went off on DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and it went as well as you can imagine:
She should have never been confirmed. Shame on every Republican in the Senate who put this wildly unqualified person into a position of significance, the Department of Homeland Security, so she could unleash brutalization on everyday Americans, American citizens, and law abiding immigrant families. It’s disgraceful.She’s got to go. We are dead serious.She needs to be put on ice permanently.
I want to believe that Jeffries used “ice” as a play on words since the hoopla nowadays centers around Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aka ICE.
A perfect case for an English major!
Do you remember idioms? People use them every day! It’s an expression that has a different meaning from its literal meaning.
Bark up the wrong tree. No pain, no gain. Hit the road.
Those are idioms.
“Put on ice” is also an idiom, which means to delay, stop, or postpone something or an activity.
Or, I guess, to stop someone from a certain action or job, even though I’ve never heard anyone using the person as a subject for the idiom “to put on ice.”
But man…Jeffries fell flat because ice is also a symbol of death.
There’s the slang “to ice someone” or “icing” someone, which means to murder someone.
Language matters more today because we live in a hot political atmosphere.
I know these politicians want sound bites to get on TV or even to sound cool and hip.
But, um, let’s think before we speak…or share photos. Right, Dick Durbin?
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