Needless to say, under such leadership, the US energy policy can only be one of disaster, or “a roadmap to climate calamity”.
All right?
All right, here are media examples of “dumpster fire” in the media:
1. At its annual meeting, held this year in Austin, the American Dialect Society selected a two-word lexical item as its word of the year for 2016: dumpster fire. And it set a precedent by including an emoji representation of the term in its announcement of the vote.
Dumpster fire won in a runoff vote with woke, a slang term meaning “socially aware or enlightened.” Also-rans included normalize, post-truth, and #NoDAPL, the hashtag protesting the construction of the North Dakota Pipeline.
Why dumpster fire? “As 2016 unfolded, many people latched on to dumpster fire as a colorful, evocative expression to verbalize their feelings that the year was shaping up to be a catastrophic one,” Ben Zimmer, chairman of the society’s new words committee (and former Visual Thesaurus executive producer), said in the press release. “In pessimistic times, dumpster fire served as a darkly humorous summation of how many viewed the year’s events.”
Fire was a popular theme in this year’s vote. The word was nominated in the Slang Word of the Year category – it’s an adjective meaning cool, fun, stylish, and is also used as a general superlative – and the “fire” emoji by itself won in the Emoji of the Year category.
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