INGERSOLL: Does Anyone Know What ‘Imminent’ Means?

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Let’s play words with friends!

WHAT DO THESE WORDS MEAN?

A lot has been said recently about the word “imminent.”

Webster’s (which was reliable in most cases until woke got to it) defines it as “ready to take place” or “happening soon.”

By the first definition, you’re in imminent danger every day on your commute. Things being simply ready to happen — having potential — doesn’t strike me as particularly “imminent.” The second definition seems much more accurate. Its immediacy is evident. “Happening soon” is already in motion. It’s coming, and the when is just an undefined blob, as irritating to the mind as the answer your mom gives you when you ask for the 97th time “WHEN DO WE GET THERE?”

At a private lunch recently with various right-wing communicators, one of them asked me bluntly, “What do you make of Joe Kent’s resignation letter?”

I started by saying it seemed like par for the course when it comes to high-profile firings and resignations in the Trump era. People, like Kent, have a sudden change of heart. They go from ruthless support to self-righteous rebellion. As a result, Trump Inc. goes full murder hornet on the rebel’s credibility.

We saw this exact scenario with John Bolton. 

Like Bolton, the Trump camp is now saying Kent had........

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