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Glossary: Key memes, dog-whistles, canards, euphemisms, fake outrages, and obsessions in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, Dec. 10-15, 2015

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the Acela corridor: the heart of the East Coast political establishment. What Spiro Agnew called “the nattering nabobs of negativity.”

autocrats: anyone who supports laws and policies designed to counter a mythic “climate change”

Christianity: if Obama has his way, would become illegal in America. Definitely not pc.

Hollywood values: free sex, “women’s rights,”  adultery, homosexuality, drugs, atheism and no respect for American values. Basically, everything that’s undermined America since 1955.

human invention and entrepreneurial spirit:the only solution to many of our real and imagined problems: “climate change,” inequality, economic stagnation, confiscatory taxes, bloated government bureaucracies , and the stranglehold of government regulation. aka, the “animal spirits” of capitalism. On the other hand, the Paris climate accords will only make the poor poorer and impede technological advance.

immigrants: rapists, criminals, carriers of strange diseases, terrorist sleeper cells, illegal leeches.

Islamophobia phobia: the latest form of domestic terrorism as political correctness and fear of being accused  of racial profiling stops ordinary citizens from reporting suspicious Muslims.

legacy smoke: the rhetorical smog that follows from Obama’s grandiose savior complex (his policy dream) when it comes to “climate change”. As if he will be regarded as anything more than the worst President in US history.

the most magnificent industrial machine ever built: the US economy, which Obummer and company keep negotiating away in the name of “globalization.”

politically protected scoundrel: Hillary Clinton.

unchanging human nature: why Dem idealism, pacifism, equity-mongering, and anti-capitalism will never work. Reality has a Tea Party bias.

Glossary: Key memes, dog-whistles, canards, euphemisms, fake outrages, and obsessions in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, Nov. 28-Dec 8, 2015

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being political on the backs of the victims: knee-jerk Dem response to any shootings. It’s not about the guns, but about Islamic terrorists. It’s always either “too early” or “inappropriate” or “irrelevant” to talk about guns as being in any way connected to mass shootings. It’s also never about the guns.

bogus statistics: any “studies” or statistics used by the  hysterical cottage industry of compassion and victimhood as fabrications (or reality substitutes), such as “rape culture,” “police brutality”, “institutional racism”, “hunger” “women’s inequality”, etc.

carbon priesthood: the global mandarins perpetuating the “climate change” hoax to feather their own nests.

complicity: not pointing out Muslims to police and security officials.

grievance grifters: those who use the “bogus statistics” described above.

Judeo Christian values:  everything Obama and the Dems oppose as they try to destroy the American family. Part of the proof that America has fallen away from God.

prayer : a verb, not just a noun, in the sense of being an action that can make a difference. When the snide, snotty and arrogant Dems say that “God won’t fix this” when it comes to mass shootings, they insult (prayer- shame) all Christians and display their atheistic ignorance of the power of prayer.Prayer is a form of vigilance, courage and resolve.

Progressivism: a fundamentalist religion worshiping autonomy, self-expression, and self-fulfillment, responsible for the rise of Trump and ISIS.

responsible: any media analyst who sides with the Tea Party or doesn’t acknowledge or analyze Dem claims. For example, “responsible analysts” do not any in any way link the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shootings to Carly Fiorina or other GOP candidates’ characterizations of PP. Any such analysis is premature finger-pointing or self-satisfied preening.

spittle: any critical Dem response to Trump or the Tea Party.

sterile, scolding homily: any Obama speech.

these  people: African Americans or Muslims. Fundamentally, they lack human dignity.

trial lawyer: Dem lawyers who represent clients bringing suits that run counter to Tea Party ideology. When the Tea Party  sues, their attorneys are simply called “lawyers.”

Glossary: Key memes, dog-whistles, canards, euphemisms, fake outrages, and obsessions in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, Nov. 21-27, 2015

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campus Huns: leftist college students and faculty stifling free speech.

cheap shots: any uncomfortable or inconvenient questions that reporters ask Tea Partiers. (see “sneaky”,. below). These kinds of attacks are also always rooted in political correctness, an Orwellian adherence to the Dem party line.

college: where incompetents indoctrinate sheep-like students in radical nonsense.

counterfeit identities: any lib flavor-of-the-month (see “libsplaining’, below). The only true identities are nation, family, and God. Everything else is unmoored or faked.

fantasy strawman: any attack on GOP positions. (see “cheap shots,” above, and “invective and derision,” below). Obama oversimplifies or exaggerates GOP shortcomings in order to attack them. Any criticism of the GOP is thus a “fantasy,” something that is by definition false and concocted.

foundational values: decency, tolerance, supporters of full rights for women, free speech and practice of religion, etc. Aka, everything Islam opposes.

human rights: in a time of war (such as the one we are now in), a luxury, rich liberal’s play thing–along with freedom of speech and assembly, racial justice, bans against torture, etc.

invective and derision: Obama’s governing rhetorical style

libsplaining: the Orwellian sludge of sanctimonious liberal gibberish and euphemisms, e.g., “safe spaces,” “a legacy of slavery,” “white privilege,” “leading from behind,” “universal human rights,” “disparate impact,” “cisgender,” “workplace violence,” etc. Aka, left-wing trollery, tendentious, question-begging twaddle. Liberalism itself is a progressive propaganda machine whole sole aim is to silence its enemies.

Obama: the hapless and bumbling nutty professor.

sneaky: any reporter who asks Tea Partiers an uncomfortable or inconvenient  question (see “cheap shots”, above)

social justice warriors: grim, angry and arrogant.

 

Glossary: Key memes, dog-whistles, canards, euphemisms, fake outrages, and obsessions in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, Nov. 16-19, 2015

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assimilation: when Muslims stop practicing their faith and culture.

Christian genocide: not immediately letting all Christians fleeing the Middle East into the US. It’s not considered genocidal however when Muslims are denied asylum, even though they are the chief targets of ISIS.

civilian casualties: the price of a necessary total war against ISIS. Blowback be damned.

civilizational conflict: terrorism is not caused by videos, geography or climate change, but by Islamists who hate us for what we are and want to destroy “civilization.”. Note that “civilization” here refers only to non-Muslim countries. Also, in the “clash of civilizations” meme, in what conceivable way can ISIS be called a civilization?

contrived: any liberal college student demands. “Contrived” implies made-op, imaginary, fake, or manipulative, thus illegitimizing whatever content they may have. Their manifestos and demands are always called “screeds.”

decadence: when you no longer even know what marriage is or what boys and girls are.

fake racism: microaggressions and other perceived phantoms of alleged racism. Racism is now anything liberals and cop-haters say it is. Bring back that old time lynching

generosity of spirit: for losers, when it comes to admitting Syrian refugees into the US.

handwringing: what goodhearted liberals (aka, righteous tut-tutters and bleaters) and coddled, privileged college kids do whenever respond to economic or political issue. They hysterically overreact to any perceived slight or threat to their totalitarian control of language and discourse.

higher learning: higher moaning.

liberalism: a suicidal modern ideology.

petulant: Obama whenever he criticizes the Tea Party. Also may be described as petty, peevish, sanctimonius,  condescending, vindictive, embittered and sullen.

rabid dogs: refugees, according to Ben Carson.

religious distemper: Islam. Let the new Crusades begin: Islam also  likened to Nazism by Marco Rubio:

Rubio declared himself baffled by Clinton’s carefully parsed distinctions. “I don’t understand it,” said Rubio. “That would be like saying we weren’t at war with the Nazis, because we were afraid to offend some Germans who may have been members of the Nazi Party, but weren’t violent themselves.”

secular satanism: liberalism, aka:

A godless religion of self-worship and relativism, this culture of death, this ideology of falsehood and insanity

shakedown godfathers: Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

tolerance: Dem fetish leading to a coddling of terrorists. Calling tolerance a fetish itself fetishizes Tea Party intolerance , which this week became a totem object of tribal bonding, bloodlust, and vilification of “the other.”

understand: coddle, as with terrorists.

us-vs.-them: the kind of country and world we live in.

Glossary: Key memes, dog-whistles, canards, euphemisms, fake outrages, and obsessions in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, Nov. 13-14, 2015

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barbarians: foreigners and immigrants, now said to be “at the gates.”  Calling them barbarians is a necessary rhetorical step towards demonization and dehumanization, both necessary public sentiments if Donald Trump’s plan to deport 12 million immigrants comes to fruition.

contextualization: progressive utopianists’ prevarication and apologetics when it comes to fighting terrorism. (see also “”post-Christian therapeutic society”,  below)

demonization: any Dem characterization of the Tea Party, or any loaded-diaper attack (see below) on Ben Carson.

loaded diaper attacks: college student protests about racism, sexism, etc. on campuses in in American society.  College students, in their coddled privilege and  “maelstrom of insecurity, impecuniousness, immaturity, and the insatiable lust for sex, power, and diversion”, are free to shit all over college administrators and, of course , all normal Americans. All part of the grievance industry–now weaponized victimhood after the resignation of the Univ. of Missouri’s president and Provost.

Old Testament finger-pointing: any defense of Dem positions, such as on climate change, immigration, fighting Islamic terrorism, etc. (see “demonization,” above). Any Dem moral position or policy is thus demonized as intolerant, vengeful, and triumphant, a form of “political absolutism.”)

post-Christian therapeutic society: Obama’s nightmare secular world of leisure and affluence, at least for the Coastal elites. Whereas Obama is post-Christian, ISIS is “pre-modern.” Therapy thus becomes  a substitute for action, an ineffectual talking cure that only encourages disengagement and emboldens “the enemy.”

scapegoating: according to Dems, what Tea Partiers (aka, nativist bigots) do to immigrants whenever they question  US immigration policies.

surrendering: relying on diplomacy and apologetics to combat Islamic terrorism. According to Obama, surrendering is the truest way to “honor our values.” Surrender is his way of “ending” war. (also see “contextualization,” above)

Glossary: Key memes, dog-whistles, canards, euphemisms, fake outrages, and obsessions in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, Nov. 5-12, 2015

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Dems’ game: whenever the media criticizes Tea Party candidates, especially Ben Carson.  Any criticism is in reality vilification or “witch hunting.” (See below). It’s all game theory to the Tea Party: a zero-sum Darwinian struggle for rhetorical ascendancy.

destroy: what the Left-wing media is trying to do whenever they ask Ben Carson a question. This “out to destroy” meme is part of the larger Tea Party victimization narrative.

Hegelian-Marxist synthesis: Obama’s middle-of-the-roadism and moral relativism. The devil in disguise.

hysteria: any Dem race talk. It’s all “pathological narcissism and delusional victimology.”

the marketplace of free ideas: people’s right to free expression also give them a right to anonymity. Tea Partiers stand firmly behind the First Amendment except in the case of making campaign contributions. public. In other words, they lack the firmness of their convictions, and are don’t believe in “free markets” insofar as they are willing to disclose their investments in that market.

parental authority: what the Dems are trying to undermine and replace with government authority. The lack of parental authority is also creating the racial divide and a whole generation of “non-functional” Americans.

rap artist: an oxymoron, in the same way as “Great Society.”

small government: cutting all social spending. Does not apply to military spending.

special scrutiny: any mainstream media questioning of Tea Party candidates. Then they have the audacity to claim that Obama never received such scrutiny, forgetting about the endless firestorms over his birthplace, Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, etc.

Uncle Sam: Uncle Sugar, especially to the non-functional citizens who voted for Obama.

welfare state: worse for blacks than slavery or Jim Crow

Glossary: Key memes, dog-whistles, canards, euphemisms, fake outrages, and obsessions in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, October 20-26, 2015

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agenda: the Left’s political positions and ultimate aims. Note that having an “agenda” is stigmatized: the Tea Party instead has a principled platform or set of principles.

Christian dominionism: God’s laws supersede secular laws. Does Ben Carson’s Seventh Day Adventism fall into this category?

climate change research: “the heavy-handed use of taxpayer-funded leftist totalitarianism in the institutional bureaucracies of academia, whose sole purpose is to propagandize the gullible with specious reasoning, with the heavy stamp of “Official Science.” 

Common Core: Mass compulsory schooling is first and foremost a tool for promoting government-friendly attitudes of various sorts; increased nationalization of school curricula, goals, and methods makes the classroom an increasingly effective arena for the undermining of constitutionalist feelings in general, and the promotion of anti-gun sentiments in particular.

the Constitution: Leftists’ great pet peeve. They would rather fight for social justice than for the US Constitution.

contrary to the will of the American people: gun control, government health care, environmental and financial regulation, social safety net programs, etc. This is a master trope of Tea Party strategists: make the voters believe that these radical ideas came from them, and not from the NRA, Wall Street, The National Review, The Family Research Council, GOP think tanks, etc. They got this idea from Dale Carnegie. The Tea Party acts as if almost all Americans–certainly all real Americans–share these values, even if poll after poll shows the opposite.

coronation: Hillary’s so-far successful campaign. Trump, on the other hand, is just called the “front runner.”

glib hindsight: criticizing our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (aka, “MSNBC cliches.”) Failed Tea Party policies are inoculated against criticism, as if we can’t learn from the past.

gun confiscation: the greatest threat to modern civilization

Islamist empowerment: Obama’s foreign policy.

political lies: the Left’s moral imperative as a way to further their “agenda.”

punishing the military: any cuts in the Pentagon budget. Tea Party program cuts are seen as punitive, whereas Dem program cuts are characterized as national redemption.

rape culture: an urban legend, especially in regard to colleges. As mythic as racial profiling, climate change, or the gender pay gap.

very nice: any Dem idealism when it comes to human rights, tolerance, openness, peace, economic equality, etc. In other words, idealism=childish and naive utopianism.

Glossary: Key memes, dog-whistles, canards, euphemisms, fake outrages, and obsessions in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, October 8-19, 2015

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beating up: regulating (the drug companies, the banks, etc.)

big government: any government.

cost-benefit tradeoffs: any regulation that incurs any costs nullifies its supposed benefits. This analysis always overestimates the costs and understates or underestimates or ignores the benefits. For example, clean air is not a calculable benefit.

culture-war leftists: any Dem who wants to play the race card, the war-on-women card, the gun control etc. Any issue that threatens the Tea Party is called part of “the culture war,” and thus intended to be “taken off the table.”

economic know- nothings: anyone who wants to regulate the free market, the banks, the insurance companies, Big Pharm, etc. Also, anyone who wants to raise taxes on the rich.

House leader: a Speaker who takes directions from the Freedom Caucus. More of a follower than a leader.

inequality: solely caused by the successes of our millionaires and billionaires. A temporary condition caused by hard work and entrepreneurial guile. Anyone shouting “inequality” simply disrespects success.

Pander bears: Dems offering the poor “free stuff”.

personal responsibility: blaming the government. The more vociferously someone goes on about “personal responsibility,” the more that obsessively that person blames government for all the country’s woes.

Presidential veto: a frustration

the rich: the middle class–the ones Dems really want to tax.

utopianism:  any species of idealism. Since inequality, poverty, war, and guns will never go away, attempts to regulate them or ameliorate their impact are delusional and naive.

Glossary: Key memes, dog-whistles, canards, euphemisms and obsessions in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, October 2-6, 2015

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America the Horrible:  the way that Obama wants the rest of the world to view America; started with his “apology tour.”

containment: short of a magical thinking solution of annihilation, the default Tea Party strategy for dealing with the  Iranians, Russians, Chinese, ISIS, etc. As our disastrous wars in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria have proven, containment is exactly what you are guaranteed not to get with a strategy of belligerent intervention or occupation. Generally, it can be said that Republicans want to contain an increasingly complex, porous, globalized world, and so their foreign policy is stuck in a rigid Cold War mentality. Like a hammer, it thinks everything that it sees is a nail to be pounded back into its rightful place.

human tragedy: a magic incantation designed to ward off any government action proposed as a response to any horrific event or act. Evil exists in every human heart, and government only encourages more evil. The prime example of this is gun control legislation proposed in the face of school shootings. Any attempt to regulate gun sales is a fairy tale.

Iraqi stabilization: was “just around the corner” before Obama halted it. In actuality, this is every bit as much of a chimera as our ever-elusive victory in Vietnam, our defeating the Taliban, “Syrian moderates”, or the chances of Iran becoming a secular open society.

mental illness: another magic incantation used to ward off any gun control legislation. Never mentioned again after the latest gun control furor dies down.

national interest: national ego, as pointed out by Eugene Robinson.

radical turn: any Dem leftward policy proposal. Anything less than Tea Party doctrine.

the rest of us: Republican voters. Aka, “the silent majority,” “the real Americans,” “the average Joe,” etc. Anyone who doesn’t vote for the Tea Party is a member of the “elite,” despite the fact that the majority of voters in the past two presidential and congressional elections have voted Democratic. Apparently, by this Yogi Berra logic, an elite can paradoxically also be a majority. Also, presumably, this “rest of us” group would prefer as little government as possible.

social ills: the fictional bogeyman that causes all of America’s problems,  in the minds of all Dems.

stuff happens: The Jeb Bush approach to school shootings. Why not extend this callous and calculated blanket amnesty to epidemics, arson, or unsafe products?

taking personal rights away from the rest of us: the harm that government does because any government regulatory act  “violates our liberty.”  This is especially true with gun control.

Glossary: Key memes, dog-whistles, canards, euphemisms and obsessions in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, Sept 21-Oct 1, 2015

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conscience rights: any moral position a Tea Partier holds that gives them an exemption from following the law.

crackpot attitudes: Pope Francis’s positions that the Tea Party disagrees with. (See also “leave it to the scientists,” below).

free stuff: any form of government safety-net assistance. While both Romney and Bush have used this Gradgrindian dog-whistle term, neither specifies whether it refers to food, clothing, rent, heat or health care, making it sound less draconian, as if all they are denying the poor are free samples. The rhetorical effect is to imply that the poor are “unfit for democracy.” (see below)

hack ramble: any Hillary speech.

inefficient: Anyone getting government aid (aka,”free stuff). Efficiency is the cardinal operating principle of an unfettered free market.

infanticide: any abortion

leave it to the scientists: the Grand Old Tea Party’s refrain to any of Pope Francis’s homilies about climate change. Of course, as soon as the Pope left the US, they reverted to their habitual mode of constant attack of all and any climate change advocate who cites “the science.”

moralizing: whenever the Pope takes a moral position that the Grand Old Tea Party opposes.  When they support his position, as in the case of abortion and birth control, they call him a moral touchstone, not a “moralizer” issuing “broadsides.”. Aka, “politicizing”. (see “crackpot attitudes,” above)

nice talk: any Obama admin attempt at foreign policy accommodation, negotiation, or moderation. Aka, “singing Kumbaya”.

politicization: what the Pope does when he talks about climate change. (See “Leaving it up to the scientists,” above). Somehow, though, when Republicans talk about Planned Parenthood, Benghazi, or gun control, they do not see themselves as “politicizing” such issues.

small government: the end of the regulatory and welfare state.

social justice: the root of all corruption, inequality, and poverty. The less of an emphasis there is on social justice, redistributionism, and a “cooperative” rather than a competitive economy, the greater the prosperity. Government is, after all, the most impovershing force of all.

unfit for democracy: anyone who voted for Obama. More specifically, refers to anyone getting “free stuff”–see above.

voting: the ultimate consumer approach to governing, Note that this concept does not include any moral obligation whatsoever. In this sense it is the opposite of citizenship, which entails deciding on who gets what, how tax money gets spent, social and foreign policy, etc. To just be courted as a voter without any sense of civic responsibility is akin to having your religiosity reduced to how much you tithe.