The ‘coconut tree’ metaphor has been referenced in her public remarks far before the GOP failed to make it a meme. Considering the GOP House now wants to assess how old POTUS is and not in reference to the batshit stupidity of his opponent, the settler colonialist significance of the term needs mentioning. Last week’s predicted renaming of Pennsylvania and the expectation of the Trump hush-money trial being his first criminal conviction is only the beginning of the demand curve for ‘context’.
Kamala Harris said: "Part of the extension of the work you will do is, yes, focused on our young leaders and our young people, but understanding we also then have to be clear about the needs of their parents and their grandparents and their teachers and their communities because none of us just live in a silo. Everything is in context.
Continuing she added: "My mother used to — she would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us, 'I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?' You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you."
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Chiefly used in the simple past tense or in the perfect tense and preceded by just, the U.S. phrase to fall off the turnip truck means to be naive, ignorant or gullible. The image is of a country person who has just arrived in town on a turnip truck. wordhistories.net/...
