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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, March 24-28, 2016

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America First: America no longer “leading from behind,” and “losing internationally, but, instead, dictating the terms of trade deals, bullying foes into submission through overwhelming military force and torture, and blackmailing nations into submitting to US will. Another Superpower delusion.

Cheerleader-in-Chief: Trump’s version of Presidential leadership.

Cuban opening: Obama’s dorm-room enthusiasm for Che turned into American foreign policy. Coddling the tyrants.

faith-based justice: Ted Cruz’s legal framework. 

As this website points out,:

No one on the council represented any non-Christian religions nor any of the LGBT-inclusive or even more moderate Christian denominations. With Ted Cruz as president, it seems the only religion that will have any liberty is his particular conservative brand of evangelical Christianity.

It’s fascinating how a supposedly “objective” bedrock principle such as Constitutional Law can be based on faith, an unproven, wholly interpretive concept. (see also, “fear and loathing,” below).

fear and loathing: the core Trumpinista emotions. Explains their black and white dichotomies: winning/losing, us/them; telling it like it is/political correctness; making/taking, etc.

Herself: HRC.

“I don’t necessarily agree with his position on….”: How Trumpinistas frequently qualify their endorsement of Trump. This is usually followed by “but I know he won’t back down and he’ll fight for me.”

inner-city poverty: caused by the lack of “spirit” in “the Blacks,” according to the Donald.

Islamophobia: a junk term, akin to “climate change”, the female wage gap, or “evolution”. These are all Lib-Dem fairy tales.

life: a zero-sum game, with winners and losers (aka, “discards”) and no one in between. In The Donald’s  cruel black and white Darwinian world, success is defined in terms of money and power, and always comes at someone else’s expense. This is why he can’t just disagree with people but has to insult them. This is why he must smugly dominate every political issue. This is why he can lie and twist the facts. Life as total war, and Trump as the ultimate alpha male.

political correctness:  the Lib Dem’s free-floating world of ignorance and moral narcissism.

respect: respect the Trumpinistas’ anxiety; submit to their taxonomy of hatred, division, and animosity; cater to their fears and desperate need to feel protected from imaginary evils, enemies, and anarchic forces hellbent on defeating the US.

Glossary: Key memes, dog-whistles, canards, euphemisms, fake outrages and obsessions in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, Feb 28-March 4, 2016

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abortion exceptionalism: when women are denied access to abortion clinics because the clinics don’t meet health standards. Even if abortion clinics are far less likely to cause medical problems than, say, colonoscopy centers, they are being forced to meet higher health standards, thus placing an “undue burden” on women.

common American culture: Christian American culture.

freedom: to hate. As Chris Hedges, characterizing Trumpists, puts it:

These Americans want a kind of freedom—a freedom to hate. They want the freedom to use words like “nigger,” “kike,” “spic,” “chink,” “raghead” and “fag.” They want the freedom to idealize violence and the gun culture. They want the freedom to have enemies, to physically assault Muslims, undocumented workers, African-Americans, homosexuals and anyone who dares criticize their cryptofascism. They want the freedom to celebrate historical movements and figures that the college-educated elites condemn, including the Ku Klux Klan and the Confederacy. They want the freedom to ridicule and dismiss intellectuals, ideas, science and culture. They want the freedom to silence those who have been telling them how to behave. And they want the freedom to revel in hypermasculinity, racism, sexism and white patriarchy. These are the core sentiments of fascism. These sentiments are engendered by the collapse of the liberal state.

freedom of religion: letting Christians be Christians. “Freedom of religion” in this case clearly does not mean “freedom of religions, ” but freedom of only Christianity.

hate speech: criticism of Trump or the Tea Party. Libs’ self-righteousness makes them inherently and unfailingly intolerant.

immigrants: invaders.

individual responsibility: the cornerstone of the Social Darwinism that lies at the heart of Tea Party ideology. Dems tend to believe in social responsibility instead.

police abuse: abuse of the police, not by the police.

natural-born American citizens: the group of “legitimate” Americans most under threat from foreign “invaders”. Also chronically- unemployed or underemployed.

unelected judges: Tea Party criticism of any Supreme Court decision they don’t like: that it was the verdict of at least five unelected judges. When the decision goes their way, the judges are called “strict constructionists” instead.

Glossary: Key memes, dog-whistles, canards, euphemisms, fake outrages, and obsessions in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, January 29-Feb. 4, 2016

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accommodation: pandering to American Muslims, LGBT freaks from central casting, and the grievance industry, all the while practicing:

Christianphobia: the War on Christmas, making Christians bake cakes for gay couples and marry them, etc.

compromise: selling out. In a Manichean world, there is not one second’s truce between good and evil.

courageous conservatives: evangelicals.

the earned-success system: another name for the Koch Brothers’ “movement for human well-being.” (see below) Contrasted to the “something for nothing” system exploited by freeloaders, welfare cheats, grievance-mongerers, etc.

gender wage gap: a largely fictional reality, but when women do earn less than men it’s because women make other personal choices.

honest brokers: any media hostile to Hillary, as opposed to the lapdog MSM, who are, by definition, the opposite of “truth seekers.”

a movement for human well-being: the free market, unleashed by fewer regulations, lower taxes and a massive cut in entitlements.

overcriminalization: persecution and prosecution of white collar crimes. Immunity from prosecution for business executives is one of the firebreaks protecting the free market system.

socialism: stealing

the Theory of Exploitivity: used by the Grievance Industry to explain any unpleasant white-black conflict.

tying the military’s hands behind their back: overly-restrictive rules of engagement hamper our ability to defeat ISIS. Aka, “getting the lawyers off the back of our military.” This is all of course shorthand for torture, mass bombing of civilians, and other war crimes.  Similar to the argument that we “would have won” in Iraq, Vietnam, etc., if the military had been allowed to fight the wars their way.

Glossary: Key memes, dog-whistles, canards, euphemisms, fake outrages, and obsessions in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, January 20-27, 2016

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alarmists: the “climate change” crowd, Black Lives Matter, the “inequality”-mongering race hustlers, etc. The rhetorical tick here is to call anyone alarmed about something an “alarmist,” imply exaggerated and unwarranted “near- hysteria.”

facts: more significant and substantial than feelings: a man can’t become a woman just because he feels like one. In our neo-romantic, narcissistic age, feelings and subjectivity have been given unwarranted sway.

govern: keep on spending

hereditary Americans: no half-breeds or foreigners.

the new totalitarianism: liberalism, especially Lena Dunham-style feminism, which uses vulgar and obscene shock tactics to corrode and devalue human decency and break all connections with the home, natural families, God, and conscience.

opportunity inequality: the real problem with the American economy, rather than income inequality. This classic non-sequitur changes the subject from income–something measurable–to opportunity, an amorphous panacea. In between actual income and net worth numbers and the notion of an ever-our-of-reach equality of opportunity is the myth of upward mobility: there’s a quick trip up the ladder if you can get on the bottom rungs. In real life, though, if there is a ladder most of the rungs are missing, or reserved for those who already hold power, privilege, money, and social networks.

ordered liberty: preserved only by limiting government because liberty and government are antithetical to one another.

reforms: drastically cutting budgets for environmental protection, public safety, social welfare, women’s health care and reproductive rights, consumer protection, oversight of the finance industry, etc. “Reform” sounds positive, innovative, improving, whereas “budget cuts” sound heartless and draconian.

taxing: taking

unilateral disarmament:  any cuts to the rate of growth of the defense budget, not to the defense budget itself.

Glossary: Key memes, dog-whistles, canards, euphemisms, fake outrages, and obsessions in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, Dec. 24-28, 2015

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cheap allegations: any Dem claims, criticisms of the Tea Party or marshaling of “facts.” Cheap as in “cheap shots”: sneaky, easy  sucker punches, with no honor.

chess vs. checkers: Putin the strategist vs. Obama the tactician.

Christmas shaming: part of the Dem War on Christmas. It’s even un-pc now to say “Merry Christmas.”

doomsayers: anyone critical of Tea Party policies, especially when it comes to the “climate change” hoax. (aka, “alarmists”).  When the Tea Party  offers their version of a declining and doomed America, about how America is “losing”, its international reputation ruined, and the economy  in shambles, they call themselves realists, but when the Dems talk about climate change , police shootings of unarmed citizens or inequality, they are accused of spreading a sense of doom and negativity in a kind of Primal Scream.  It’s OK for the Tea Party to say the sky is falling, but not for the Dems to say the sea is rising.

the entitlement crisis: the fact that there are any federal safety net and social welfare programs

the Federal Office of Diversity and Inclusion: coming soon to the reign of Clinton II.

Hispandering: any Hillary overture to Hispanic voters.

honest conversations about race: racist.  Campus “safe spaces” are only “safe” if “conversation” is one-sided and politically correct.

litany of demands: any liberal policies or positions. Calling it a litany likens it to an orthodox chant.

Obama’s legacy: chiseled out at the expense of America’s security.

scientific consensus: a myth, part of the “climate change” hoax. The ultimate arrow in the Tea Party war on science.

supine: the Supreme Court whenever it sides with the Dems.

Glossary: Key memes, dog-whistles, canards, euphemisms, fake outrages, and obsessions in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, Dec. 20-23, 2015

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accomplices: Muslim families (thanks to Juan Cole)

criminal: Muslims or Hillary Clinton (thanks to Juan Cole)

crisis: what’s at stake in this election: the Dem’s master plan to fundamentally transform America into a socialist, politically correct, anti-capitalist, pacifist country.

draconian: any EPA regulation.

humanitarianism: carpet-bombing ISIS, even if it means massive civilian casualities. In total war, there is no such thing as “unacceptable” casualty numbers for the enemy, and everyone in Iraq or Syria is either actively fighting for ISIS or aiding and abetting them. This is classically perverse and counter-intuitive reverse GOP rhetoric: characterize something as its opposite. So, for example, the answer to any mass shooting is more guns and bullets, and the answer to ending the humanitarian crisis in Syria is to kill more civilians.

immigration: a very bad thing that happens at borders without walls)(thanks to Juan Cole)

Islamophobia: a grievance industry, con-job phobia of the Left, conceived by the Muslim Brotherhood.

journalist: a lying object of hatred, a Hillary pawn.

lavish: any subsidy or welfare program for the poor. Actually, the term “lavish government spending” is redundant.

lie: any criticism of Tea Party candidates.

Mexican: a person sent by his government to commit crimes in the US. (thanks to Juan Cole)

Muslim: a suspect, best if quarantined while under investigation. (thanks to Juan Cole)

Obama’s speeches: signals to the Muslim world to speed up the jihad against America.

politically correct crap: anything that comes out of Hillary’s mouth.

refugee: terrorist.

stupid: any criticism of Tea Party candidates.

Syrians: Mexicans (thanks to Juan Cole)

Trotskyize: the demonization process that pc college students use to curtail free expression.

unbelief and irreligion: the orthodoxy of the Left.

US sovereignty: what Obama wants to sacrifice to the worldwide enemies of American-style constitutional republicanism and individual liberty.

unfair: any critical questioning of Tea Party candidates or policies.

Glossary: Key memes, dog-whistles, canards, euphemisms, fake outrages, and obsessions in the Wall Street Journal and other GOP language factories, Dec 15-19, 2015.

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devastation: nuc em’ all!  As Trump put it, “the devastation is very important to me.“

diversity: in liberal-speak: absolute conformity, ruthlessly enforced.

fear: Americans are living in fear–of big government, not of terrorism.

Muslims: aka, Muzzies and Mo-Slimes.

our freedom is under attack:  Remember, they hate us for our freedom. It is the natural order that America belongs to the Tea Partiers. In this case, “our” only refers to Tea Partiers because they and only they value freedom, and the rest of us either don’t notice or don’t care when it’s missing. The Tea Party’s rhetorical shift toward fear, eternal vigilance, and feeling  forevermore “under attack” is rooted in the the demonization of all foreigners. Moreover, any divergent group challenging Tea Party dogma on racial, ethnic, religious, or sexual grounds is also characterized as attacking “our” freedom.

race realists: telling it like it is: White Power, baby! Reality has a racist and ethnoreligious bias.

Racial Spoils System: the way the grievance industry uses “diversity” as a code word to justify patronage, corruption, bullying and conformity.

running roughshod over the Constitution: any Obama executive action. Obama (and Clinton as well) don’t bother with constitutional niceties, such as separation of powers.

sowing manufactured confusion: criticizing the Tea Party. In this trope,  the Dems’ criticism is always wrong-headed, calculating and malicious, aiming to confuse, not clarify. Voters know the truth, but Dems try to “confuse” them.

stammer and sputter: what Obama, Clinton and their apologists are forced to do to justify Dem policy failures.

target the bad guys: Ted Cruz’s simple solution so that we win and they lose.

they want to kill us all: The ultimate aim of all Muslims. (see “our freedom is under attack”, above). This hyperbolic fear-mongering not only is laughingly overblown and unimaginable, but also accomplishes Issis’s aim of creating terror.

 

 

 

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. 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, October 27-30, 2015

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abortion: dehumanization, and thus a form of slavery. Abortionists are mass murderers.

advocacy: Demspeak for political coercion. The more toxic version is “social advocacy.”

anti-racist: anti-white

average Americans: the real Americans, the real voters, the ones with common sense.

Christian reconstructionism: returning America to its theocratic roots.

equality-of-result state: the Dems’ paradise, as opposed to an equality-of-opportunity state.

feminists: most commonly found cowering from dastardly rape culture and micro-aggressions in collegiate safe spaces.

getting government out of the lives of average Americans:  eliminating all the programs and benefits the Tea Party doesn’t like. A ridiculous master trope in Tea Party politiscripting because it so overstates the case. The Tea Party in fact does not want to get government “out of our lives” insofar as the police, the military, federal disaster relief, Homeland Security, regulation of food and drugs, the CDC, etc. are concerned. Or, then again, maybe they just would privatize everything. (See “Average American,” above).

inequality: the price paid for freedom. To Dems, liberty itself is considered selfish if it leads to inequality of outcomes. (see above).

increased scrutiny of police behavior: the Dems’ pro-crime agenda.

lamestream media bias: anytime they say anything positive about Hillary.

liberal templates: any criticism  or tough scrutiny of Tea Party/GOP  candidates. Every difficult question will now be called a “gotcha” question.

migrants: the greatest threat to European and American atheistic, humanist cultures. The beginning of a new era of world barbarism, and the new Fall of Western Civilization.

proclamations: Dem speeches, policy papers statements. Always a little too grand, condescending,  and pretentious.

RSPF: radical secular progressive fundamentalist.

simplifying the tax code: cutting taxes for the wealthy.

socialism: government programs like: student loans, green energy subsidies, minimum wage laws, etc. The really BIG government benefit programs–Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, corporate tax subsidies, write-offs and loopholes–are never called socialism. Instead, Tea Partiers attack any programs offering shelter, food, education or health.

violent crime: a Black thing, a nationwide epidemic encouraged by the Mainstream Media.