“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a week attempt at distraction,” read the statement attributed to Patrick Rodenbush, a spokesperson for Obama. “Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes. These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chairman Marco Rubio.”
Please tell me he actually said “weak” and didn’t typo that on an actual press release.
Isn’t starting a sentence with “But…” also bad grammar?
Nah, not really. They teach that in high school because IN GENERAL that’s true, but there are a lot of situations that it’s actually gramatically correct, often in scientific papers. Even in high school English they simply say to supplant the word ‘but’ for ‘however’ and act like that is a grammatical difference, even though it’s obviously no different.
Funny, in high school I was taught that “however” should only follow a semicolon.