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An easy task going publically wrong. Especially when a public figure (politician, news reporter, celebrity, athlete etc.) messes up a seemingly easy task which results in a negative outcome. Usually something that should be celebratory, positive, or is intended to make them look good or gather support to their cause and they wind up looking foolish or careless and their intention backfires. Origins: from Mayor De Blasio dropping the groundhog "Charlotte" in Staten Island event February 2, 2014 and causing the animal to die a week later due to internal injuries.
"When he touched all the microphones, Rudy Gobert was sure dropping the groundhog." (March 2020 Gobert indended to make a point about the overreaction to coronavirus and wound up infecting himself and getting the NBA season cancelled).
by WheekWheekPig April 23, 2020
May 14 Word of the Day
Intelligence agency term for "psychological operation". A government or corporate-sponsored operation, usually taking the form of a "terrorist attack" or "crazed gunman on a spree", with the intent of panicking the public into demanding more police and laws inhibiting freedom. Psyops are usually carried out by drugging a civilian or group of civilians with aggression-promoting drugs, psyching them up, arming them, and sending them out to commit mayhem. Government-sponsored terrorism. See also blackshirts, conspiracy
Person A: Man, that nutcase Martin Bryant guy shot 35 people in Tasmania!
Person B: No, he wasn't a nutcase, that was just a psyop so the government could have an excuse to ban guns.
Person B: No, he wasn't a nutcase, that was just a psyop so the government could have an excuse to ban guns.
by Mystikan April 11, 2006