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" The phrase originated during  World War II .  Lexicographer   Eric Partridge  attributes it to British army intelligence very early in the war (using the dative plural  illegitimis ). If  carborere  had been an actual Latin word meaning "to grind down", that version of the phrase would actually be correct Latin for "It must not be ground down by the bastards" (with  carborundum  as a  gerundive ).  " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum
google says it uses cookies to collect metric data like page views and national origin proceed if that's okay with you A few months after 2015 Walter Scott shooting  and   A.M.E.  Church shooting  I was sitting at a bus stop on Orleans road in West Ashley, South Carolina just across the Ashley River from North Charleston with a charming lady whose phone battery had died after mentioning she had gone to high school with Darius Rucker . Told her about Bernie after sharing one of my phone chargers but she said she didn't vote anymore because the system was rigged. All I could say was the best way to beat the rigging is for a lot of people to vote so the discrepancy between the exit polling and the recorded results is apparent. Pew research says  the U.S. has one of the lowest voter turnouts of any industrialized nation with 55.70% of the voting aged population showing up in 2016 to vote while Australia, by comparison has 79.86% of it's voting age populat