Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
This is an excellent list...
Give it a miss, Democrats are just Republicans pretending to be Woke (except for the Palestinians). You need a third party that isn't controlled by the Oligarchs and the Zionists!
*DO NOT CONGRATULATE
If I hear them say DECORUM one more goddamn time I'm giving up on the... Who am I kidding, I gave up hope of them putting the interests of the people first years ago. It's always corporatism. I feel change must come from outside the establishment in the form of direct action. A true general strike.
100% agree
Agreed. We need to stop apologizing for believing in the common dignity of people and their rights. I won’t sacrifice that to preserve white patriarchy. This is the core conflict right now
“we need a strong republican party”
One of my non-favorite favorites. And, “we must have utmost decorum”
First, show us the list for Republicans.
This is literally a response to a third way list put out telling democrats not to say things.
F that other list…
Covered
Ta-da!
Add "reach across the aisle", unless the reason they are reaching is to punch a Republican in the face
Where do you live? Are you busy for the next six years or so?
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Also: Do not use, collegiality “For the dignity of the House/ Senate” “Strongly worded memo”
“Bipartisan” just means “Nazis approved of my bill”
Thank you!
Now you're talking!
Please add the phrase "strongly worded letter" Jeffries just used it in an interview on the bulwark and it made me lose my mind.
Yes on bipartisan! Take that out of your vocabulary and replace it with phrases that clearly say what you’re saying. Both parties supported Supported by both parties Supported by republicans and democrats
"Republikkkans are my friends, I pee on trans people and homeless"
Also do not use Steve Bannon & Trump's words & phrases: * weaponization * deep state * the swamp * both sides * antifa * socialism
If you need to describe what TRUMP is doing, instead of using his word- "weaponization" - which validates idea that HIS crimes were "fake," say "TRUMP IS ABUSING HIS POWER."
this!
Says who?
Societies hardly ever make abrupt course changes except in times of great turmoil. Democrats need strategies that explode the platitudes the Republicans have used for 50 years to take over our democracy. The Democrats have led us here but refuse to accept that they must change to change the US
This post is fucking woke AF!!
I should add, keep it up 🙌
also moist
Ok, but moist is a great Wordle second guess word!
*Reaching across the aisle *My red-line is… *Blue no matter who (because it’s not true)
Or if you are Mark Warner "my good friend, Marco Rubio..."
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This. Thank you.
+ Jeffries’ incoherent, non-sensical, dishonest and demobilizing “people over politics” catchphrase
You make good posts.
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I'll add "my grassroots campaign" "Kitchen table issues" or any other decades old campaign cliche' s.
Really just focus grouping phrases and words at all is something they shouldn’t do and if they can’t win without that… they shouldn’t.
And "my friends across the the aisle"
Nothing good ever comes from any sentence with "aisle" in it
Having spent many stoned minutes thinking on this and I believe you are correct.
If I could repost this a million times I would.
How many times can I send this to @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @booker.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @cortezmasto.senate.gov without being a pest?!
"Israel has a right to defend itself" "Jews have a right to their own country" "human shields"
I do think there was a glimmer of a strategy in "just call things bipartisan because voters seemed to like that while not actually compromising with Republicans" but I'm not sure it's worth it at this point versus actively trying to make their brand toxic
Except for the part where no significant fraction of voters ever wanted that or ever did or said anything indicating they would. What voters want is for good things to get done.
I'd like to think that! And I do think voters want stuff to happen and don't really care if legislation is bipartisan. But polls and focus groups kept showing they like how "bipartisan" sounds in theory. Do they vote that way, not really?, and perhaps it's time to abandon it, but that's why.
As presented by polls and focusing groups, the question is always framed as "do you want X to work bipartisanly to do [good thing]?" People who want [good thing] say "Fine, whatever, if that's how we get [good thing]", and that's framed as "Polls show people want bipartisanship".
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That was a perfectly anodyne statement to make at the outset of Trump's second term. The insanity is that Chuck still believes this shit, 7 months later, in spite of everything that Trump and the GOP has done. He took a position and godddamnit, no circumstances will ever change his mind.
Ugh.
Just fundamentally incapable of meeting a moment. Shame.
gtfohwtbs
jfc these people
Yep. Worse is those publicly "hashtag Resisting" and quietly voting to personally enrich Trump via Crypto scams like the "Stablecoin" in the "Genius Act", and other bills.
time to move on. Dems need fighters. Dems need representation that has a clear understanding of the opposition we are facing today, not some romanticized version of the Reagan-tip oneill era.
These wait for the f*king afterlife jokers.
He should have just skipped to QAnon's "in the end, God wins" and then asked Marco Rubio for a shitty Bible verse that Marco won't live by.
Mike Johnson's son friend is useless
He's despicable
sometimes they don't go when they're supposed to
What does that even mean?
It sounds like he means he cares more about pandering to the Evangelicals for re-election than for doing his Secular job as the House Minority Leader. To me, it signaled his plan to just wait-out Trump until 2029, or "until the Democrats regain both Houses", while Trump continues this Self-Coup.
It's a hymn, and is found in Psalms. hymnary.org/text/have_yo... It's basically meant to tell you that "your life sucks right now, but this earthly life is temporary, but your life in Heaven is Eternal." and the like. Hollow "comfort" words of surrender to hardship out of your control.
Thank you. Not familiar with the New Testament….
Not a problem. I wish I weren't.😅
I have my own wish-it-were-otherwise issues, if you get my drift.
This antiquated asshat must go!
Well, if it’s what the fictional Baileys want… (Edited 11:43 AM via @skeetsapp.com)
JFC
If you look at ratio hall of fame, Chuck here occupies the most spots. bsky.app/profile/numb...
Lmao I forgot about this one. It's a good thing those tariffs went away and never came back??? Right?? Chuck clearly won and "TACO" (god I hate that stupid nickname) backed down!!! It's not like Americans now have to deal with an $80+ charge on anything imported now bsky.app/profile/schu...
That man is as useful as doors that open inwards during a fire.
A giant among offenders
Is the Ratio feed still running?
Yes, currently Mark Cuban is the only weekly contender.
That's a yellow bellied bingo
I look to a future (sooner, rather than later) where he's NOT part of the "leadership" (he's not leading).
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"We need a strong (or whatever dumb adjective they choose to use) Republican party."
But Schumer's exercise bike time might get uncomfortable. Can't have that.
yea (when confirming the nomination of Marco Rubio)
Also: * fiscal responsibility (when preceded by "Republicans are the party of") * tough on crime (any reference by Republicans to Jan. 6, 2021 and its aftermath) * NATO allies (references to Donald Trump's commitments, vis-a-vis Ukraine)
I’m actually also tired of “kitchen table”
Who even has an actual eat-in kitchen with a table in this great country of ours? What's that term supposed to mean?
They're issues that common people are concerned about, like prices, rent, feeling safe, etc. However, for Republicans the "kitchen table issues" are "brown illegals" (white ones are okay) "drag queens", pride flags, low flow shower heads, gas tank vents,the evil homeless people, and anything woke.
Common sense/ground Kitchen table issues
I swear I had the same idea, just took longer to come up with my list bsky.app/profile/napo...
Also be sure never to take meaningful action. The cornerstone of Democratic politics.
yes, the actual communication problem democrats have is that they are afraid of conflict and voters, correctly, think they are weenies because of it
“Actually, Hitler’s paintings were kind of adorable”
Not being afraid is not enough. Take pleasure in cruelty, in the suffering of your enemy.
They seem paralyzed by the big tent.
The particularly jarring part is when Democrats do actually go on the offensive and use plain language, it's always against members of their own party for being too far to the left.
Just standing there taking it is not winning. Gavin Newsom for all his many faults is at least willing to counter-punch.
You're literally declaring that you're on the same side as Trump Chief of Staff Steve Bannon here, and claimjn that makes you more opposed to fascism than people who've been fighting it all our lives for the sake of bare survival.
Posting AI slop on Twitter isn't a counter punch.
Pritzker is right there and isn't throwing trans people under the bus or leading the charge on making poor people into criminals.
let’s be honest, all he’s doing is posting
Let's be honest, posting is more than strongly worded letters
I'm not a big fan of the guy in general, but he shepherded the bill to put redistricting on the ballot in CA
Why is it so hard for them? The greatest democratic president ever said “they hate me, and I welcome their hatred”!
They are too fucking comfortable with the status quo. It keeps them in power and the money flowing. The corporatist dems are no better than Republicans. We need younger, more progressive leaders! Vote the old guard out!!!
"Trump is an unprecedented threat to our democracy! Now let me talk about how much common ground I can find with him" uhhh, uhhhhhhh, okay??
You talk like that, people are gonna assume you're insincere and have no actual principles (Again, correctly)
And, like, to what end? Who would be interested in someone claiming to have common ground with trump when they can just cut out the middle man and vote for the actual trump?
“my Republican colleagues, who I love and respect, have done a terrible thing which I wish they would stop so we can go back to working together as friends”
These are terrible deeds, and I plan to show my republican fellow members, in somber discussion, the error of their ways so they can understand how some of these things they have said and done might harm people. In order to do that, I need a donation from...
"John Thune gave me a friendly pat on the back while passing in the hall one time, so I know they're actually very reasonable people, actually."
In the last day, my senator used the literal words, “…call upon the better angels of my colleagues in Washington”
I just saw a video talking about how Gen z is afraid to answer their phones (true?🤷♀️) & I can’t think of a better comparison for Dems. The only difference is this guy was talking about classes he offers to train Gen z on phone etiquette & I don’t see Dems doing much to correct their problem
I mean, answering their phone has a 65% chance of spam, 30% chance of a scam attempt, and 5% chance of being one of those fancy scams where they grab your voice from answering to convince your family to send them money, so why _wouldn't_ they be afraid to answer their phone?
I have my phone set to only ring if it’s someone in my contacts (it sends the rest straight to voicemail) & it is a game changer. If it’s important they can leave a message but it is 99% voicemails from some type of bullshit
THEY ARE WEENIES!!
they are weenies
"Liberal pundits should at least acknowledge the theoretical possibility that some dumb thing the right is doing is *not the left's fault* not some mechanical response to something the left did, but a choice, made by adults who bear the responsibility for that choice."
Cut out the middleman - the problem is we elected weenies
Weenies, and worse yet, INSINCERE ones. people can smell a fake, and the third way corporate-speak peddled by 'consultants' friggin reeks of fakery.
They don’t give a fuck about voters. They serve their donors, who, like the GOP donors, are billionaire oligarchs. They are the controlled opposition. It’s a rigged game. Theater.
Of being taken for fools and being talked down to at the same time?
This, times two-hundred million. Democrats project "weakness" to potential voters. Constantly.
Your absolutely correct 👍, How will this go on though ? Thy either have to do it or risk losing next election seasons
I disagree with the statement that democratic representatives are "afraid of conflict". They are morally inclined to using soft-power strategies first.
The Grand Unified Weenie Theory
and you can’t fix demolished credibility with communications tweaks! they are in total denial over that. (it requires new leadership)
I was thinking of this yesterday when listening to a Senator Cortez-Masto interview with @thebulwark.com She was asked directly how she’s opposing Trump and she had NOTHING bc she’s clearly too scared to tell voters the truth bc it would mean maybe telling them the person they voted for sucks.
Yes, we have to give up the idea that validating ignorant racists' beliefs with having some legitimacy will convince them to change. They respond to beligerant mockery of the opposition
Me to Democrats:
"My friends across the aisle."
*Means testing
Further, they should not depend on the alleged "experts" on this site either Blowhards like Jamelle Bouie and Elie Mystal and Kevin Kruse and Will Bunch never move the conversation forward. They give you a lot of words but its all salad. They are the Kings of the ClickBait
I wont completely shift on Mystals salad. Sadly, his access is perhaps purchased with the blunting of statement that a Sarah Kenzidor doesnt practice.
This is very silly. Stop talking about how to communicate well and just communicate well.
Yes!
Tell Schumer, Jeffries, Ken Martin and the rest of the neoliberal controlled opposition
I would add "I agree on BUT" No stop agreeing with them
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Distractions is all they do, its just their distractions ate also atrocities
"gullible" "winning elections"
It's over. trmp derangement syndrome - thinking trmp is something to worship - is a disease that is voluntarily contracted. If you have it, I don't feel sorry for you and will no longer try to be sympathetic or cooperative.
Best post of the year!🥇
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"How will you pay for it?"
you do not, under any circumstances, 'gotta hand it' to the enemies of democracy and the republic.
unity
note: the term "unity" was used 8 times in Joe Biden's inaugural address, and represented the plan to deal with Republicans' having just attempted a violent coup (be friends) www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
Dude, he TRIED to bring the country together, like most people wanted. Republicans gave him the middle finger and screwed him over every chance they could get. So we're done with them now.
Imagine being Obama's VP and still thinking you could work with Republicans. Absolute soup for brains.
IMO he thought that the Republicans who would not work with Obama would work with him.
The point being made here is that trying to be nice to fascists was a terrible idea to begin with. Something that never had any possible upside. Something that he knew damn well would never work.
i feel like we could have figured that out long ago and started the biden term "done with them"
But listen, I’m just glad we’re all getting there!
i really do hope so
How could you or any Dems and especially Biden and his people believe that Republicans would ever be willing to bring the country together; they all tried to Coup him
Trump was impeached for Jan 6th and 8 GOP Senators voted to convict. It seemed like he was done and Biden tried to bring the GOP away from MAGA. But the MAGA virus was far stronger than most people expected.
8 GOP Senators; and 10 Rs in Congress; what is the ratio compared to the Rs who voted to overthrow the election; and who voted to acquit trump 2X in a 12 month period of time
I hear ya, man. All I can figure is Dems in Congress got too friendly with the enemy and live in too high of a plane to understand the bigger picture of the GOP. They were taught for decades that bipartisanship was great and still believed it long after the GOP was clearly radicalized.
I mean, who exactly taught them that Bipartisanship is so great?
the old beltway pundits... David Broder was the dean of this school
Gingrich had been spewing since the 1970s and 1980s - and then became Party Leader in the early 90s, of course - about how Bipartisanship w/ Democrats is so stupid and how every Republican should spit in the face of Dems who propose such things
Joe Biden just had to look at liberal twitter accounts like mine on Jan 7th 2021; it was quite obvious that trump would easily win the nomination for 2024
half the republican caucus in congress voted against certifying biden's victory in '21 - i always understood (for decades) that regular-ass liberals don't hate republicans as much as i do - but for how can they still buy that "unity" shit since 2016? what is wrong w/these fucking morons?
they are so cowardly that they want to tell themselves it will by OK; which leads them to imagine some version of Republicans who don't exist
The way for Democrats bring the country together is to represent the 70% of Americans who are not Republicans rather than trying to work together with Republicans which nobody wants.
I agree
Then you do the opposite of what you said. You prosecute those who harm your nation the nation. Thats what that really means.
The thing is people don't want the country brought together, they want the opposition brought to heel.
Well, now. Yes.
And it's what people actually mean when they say they want the country brought together
No. Then. We spoke up.
Dude, if they try to give you the finger, you return the gesture with your whole hand.
Utterly naive and irresponsible approach to the problem that led us directly to where we are now
He was giving the Republicans a chance to reject Trump. They chose the opposite path. Despite his conservative leanings, Biden was far more partisan (=good) than his two predecessors. His big failing was not appreciating how much he was in a war with the media establishments.
Republicans were unsalvageable long before Trump. Ever since Nixon welcomed the racist Dixiecrats into the GOP and sabotaged Vietnam peace talks to win his election, Democrats should have realized that bipartisanship was dead.
No. Thats simply stupid. You dont give the Manson family the chance to reject Charlie.
Why not? Do you think every person who came to the ranch went out on killing sprees? Seriously, this kind of Manichean thinking doesn't really work in politics. The reality is that some Republicans were willing to oppose Trump. They just lost the struggle for power of the party.
Who thr fuck in Manihoo?
Are you really goofy enough to defend the Manson family?
I take it you've never heard of Linda Kasabian. That's OK, every single person who had any contact with Charles Manson immediately got sucked into his circle and all of them are equally evil. There were several dozen people in that circle, but the murders will committed by half a dozen.
God forbid we actually judge each individual by what he or she did. What we really should do, by your thinking, is glom people together in large groups, and judge each person according the behavior of the worst person in said group. Rather ethically advanced of you. Bye.
You are defending the Manson Family. Hysterical. You realize thats like nadir of reply guy/bot bullshit.
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some of them didn't like him because they thought he was too much of a boorish idiot to stick to the plan, but they all fundamentally want the same things and it's what they're getting now, which is why it's a complete waste of time to sift through the party for imaginary Good Ones
Democrats did the equivalent of walking in on the Tate murders in progress and saying "we could stop this but we don't want to be divisive"
"I strongly oppose the motion to go after the LaBiancas." "We must partner with our Family across the freeway." "We must stop Helter Skelter 25."
"He was giving the gang the chance to reject their gang leaders"
giving republicans a chance to do anything but answer the question "how do you plead" in his position is such monstrous malpractice that he should go down in history among history's worst presidents right next to Trump
Sorry but it’s a lot more complicated than that
It's a little more complicated than that, but not much. Joe Biden failed to meet the moment he was in. He wasn't the only one, but the responsibility was *his* -- Democrats need to learn from that, and a bunch of them don't want to.
I honestly think Biden did as much as he could do, within our laws and norms. In retrospect that wasn't enough but he tried to give our system one more chance. But it had been too corrupted. I don't think there's anything he could've done to fix the GOP with half the country brainwashed by FoxNews.
I think he could have done more within our laws and historic norms. He could have added justices to the Supreme Court, for example. I can sympathize with his desire to play it safe, but it was clearly the wrong choice in retrospect.
this is, again, and inexcusably naive way to behave after experiencing 4 years of trumpism, much less the 8 years of total obstructionism during the Obama era. anyone with eyes could see where things were going and what had to be done to stop it.
It isn't. No one put a gun to Biden's head and made him appoint Merrick Garland as AG.
This is all just so mindless blame-throwing. Gonna be leaving the thread because this nonsense is getting to be too much. Blaming the AG for the corruption of the judiciary is just too much for me.
We are here because he didnt do there. Neglect/effect. It couldnt be simplier.
in what way is it more complicated than that Republicans did their level best to overturn the 2024 election and Democrats all decided to sit back and let them take another swing at it, which they did and now here we are
1) not all Republicans were clearly fascist in 2020 (IMO) 2) Biden did get Republicans to vote for some important legislation 3) Dems were determined to follow the law and try to restore norms in 2021 otherwise it was political chaos 4) the 2024 election finally showed the GOP to be unsalvageable
"clearly fascist" they never went on trial for starting a war with Iraq that killed a million people for nothing, and also they quite visibly had been doing a multi-decade project to rig the supreme court in exactly the way that they did
Get over your presumption of perfect knowledge.
We all watched this shit for four fucking years before Biden was elected and 8 years of Obama before that, were you born yesterday?
You really are sure of yourself, aren't you? Well, I gave you a chance. I guess, in your mind, either I agree with you completely, or I was "born yesterday". Yours is not a serious mind. Perhaps you are just here to stir up trouble? In any case, I'm done with you.
you mean you could have spared us this bloviating horseshit the whole time?
No. In 2021, most people wanted to end Trumpism. Biden and @democrats.org instead decided they wanted to make friends with right wing racists instead of crushing fascism before it took hold.
I don’t think that is accurate
You are believing.
Number one issues in 2021 were prosecuting the person responsible for Jan 6th and a stronger voting rights act, so Republicans couldn’t use voter suppression as much… Dems had a trifecta and didn’t do either of those things.
Didn’t they do that while he was Vice President too? How many chances do they get?
IMO the GOP has fully used up every chance we’ve given them to be decent and now we’re fully in a life or death struggle for our democracy.
he is just an op
I thought if anything would get Democrats to start playing serious it would have been their attempted mass murder but apparently not! oh well!
no big deal!
Joe Biden was not the answer to the threat we and our republic faced from MAGA, and we’re now much worse off for people’s decisions to elect him president
Marco Rubio is qualified thats why we all voted to confirm him and we know our Republican colleagues would return the courtesy some day. Oh except wouldn’t even confirm a right winger like Merrick Garland. Shucks never mind
Can I add “compromise” to this list
*extreme MAGA - two words regularly used by Hakeem Jeffries. It gets old. We get it. MAGA is the extreme republicans.
Extreme MAGA is redundant. By nature maga is extreme.
Correct. But Hakeem Jeffries doesn’t get it!
Holy shit
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ON GOD is this the opposition party or the fucking blue republifuck party
Nazi bar problems...
I’m so over hearing the phrase: ‘what we’re seeing from this administration is unprecedented.’
kitchen table issues… Who the fuck sits around the kitchen table and figures out issues???? What fucking decade did this come from??
Well its old like me and predated personal computers and phones. Yes we did sit at the kitchen table with pencil and paper, checkbook ledgers and simple calculators to manage family finances.
I’m old and I get the term but it’s super outdated and another bullshit term dems use that makes most of us gag.
I don't have any Republican friends. I used to have a couple of them, but no more, and never again.
PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP THE RIGGING IN TEXAS HAS IGNITED PEOPLES DOUBT TRUMP RIGGED THE 2024 ELECTION HE IS NOT THE US PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS IS PRESIDENT WE DEMAND TOTAL INVESTIGATION AND REMOVAL OF THE ILLEGALY ELECTED ADMINISTRATION POUR SOME EPSTEIN ON THIS FIRE AND WATCH IT SPREAD
Words Dems SHOULD use: Lies Bullshit Cheater Senile Dementia The Opposition or Rethuglicans Idiotic fake complaints Fascists
COUCH FUCKERS PEDOPHILE PROTECTION RACKET OLIGARCH ELITES SNAKE OIL MEN DEMONIC INCELS WHITE NATIONALIST FASCIST FRAUDSTERS MOBSTERS THUGS GOONS
I would also include “unwell.”
Enablers Boot-Lickers Spineless Hypocrites
And Bigots
Redistribution
Add to that: “untruth”. “Lie” is a much better word.
"the most ethical army in the world"
I would add *tax credits* to that list.
Or preface any rebuttal with, "I agree that.."
Please!
don't forget "chaos" or "chaotic" as if it is the worst thing they can say about trump. or "reckless", "careless"
Any descriptor. I dont care. His actions I care about. His acquity is meaningless.
right, and it implies that it's bad when most voters would love if democrats, when they take power, would pursue their agenda "chaotically", "irresponsibly", "recklessly", "carelessly"
I’m okay with reckless and careless, but saying chaos needs to end actually feeds into the common instinct during fascism to seek order, and people do that by throwing the initial victims into the path of fascists hoping to save themselves. Fighting back will be called chaos by fascists.
exactly
I'm torn about "distraction" being a problem. I don't think it should be the sole descriptor of bad actions by the administration. But the admin often purposefully times bad actions to distract. (Raiding JB's house right before Epstein files are due at the HoR.) Maybe only use as a verb in passing?
I think very little powerful people do is distraction. There’s a purpose to all of it. If you’re distracting by trying to jail your political opponents, or sending troops into cities, that is not “look over there.” It’s part of the fascist goals.
Yeah, I agree. I think the unending torrent of unlawful, fascist moves/power grabs is designed to keep his enemies off balance. That's overwhelming, not distraction
Sometimes “distraction” means “projection with misdirection.” Sometimes it means “unimportant diversion.” This distinction is critical. Manufactured trans moral panic only ends when we jail those coercing medical interventions upon and raping children because they’re the ones manufacturing it.
For Democrats the Constitution, the rules and fair application of them to everyone are the goal. For present day Republicans they are a tool, to be adhered to when useful and dropped when not. Their goal is (absolute) power. Difficult to be "friends" with people who do not respect their oath.
When I hear "our candidates need to be authentic but they shouldn't use certain words", I hear "our candidates should talk to their audience as if they are a bunch of idiots"... but then "don't talk down to the voters".
“Democrat” Senator/Rep/Party. I notice that grammatical error occurring more and more amongst Dems. It’s a Repub SLUR. Do not parrot the Repub SLUR.
* but
Just add Hakeem jefferies to this entire list
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Can I add “fringe issue”? Because human rights aren’t fucking fringe, Gavin.
This communication problem will not stop until the Democrats STOP getting money from corporations. Clinton started that trend and things have not gone well since. It MUST be about people and NOT funding. If you lead, people will follow.
The Dem establishment needs to stop listening to out of touch dinosaurs like Carville (who were right about tactics *once*, 33 years ago), who would rather chase “moderate Republican” unicorns than change the strategy that worked *once*, 33 years ago and failed in every election since once.
I don't even think Carville was right then. Ross Perot was a spoiler candidate who pretty much exclusively hit the Republicans, any dumbass could've won at that point.
Fair point.
What Dems should be doing: instead of spending time focusing on words, trying to figure out how to bring back the blue collar union worker who voted republican.
…and maybe the two are related.
Dems absolutely should NOT be focused on an imaginary issue.
It should be however legit to use “woke right” jus to own the cons
Trump ally Steve Bannon said on his webcast War Room: “They're petrified over at MSNBC and CNN that, hey, since we’re taking control of the cities, there's going to be ICE officers near polling places. You damn right.”
Agreed. A few years ago, I had correspondence with a high school acquaintance. The phrase "my friend" is very telling and icky in the extreme. Very libertarian if not republican adjacent.
concerned, disturbed, troubled
*common ground (with fascist)
I would rather be woke than a pedo lover.
Amen
Need young people to organize mass protests using all their social media together.The people have the power to run them all out of their country on a rail with tar and feathers but the people have not the Pride in America to take a stand. You're running out of time America. Better get it together!
This is perfect. Did anyone send this to Tom Nichols.
* “we must move forward not look backward.” * “strongly worded letter” * “distraction from” * “kitchen table issues” * using imaginary friends as real life examples * triangulation * using Right Wing framing for anything (and earning your goddamn keep).
UPWARD, not forward! And always twirling, twirling towards freedom
Add "the Left" to that list. Seems like 95% of you all have no freaking clue what it means.
Seems such easy guidelines yet so many overly comfortable establishment democrats fail
Not passive
Words/phrases Democrats SHOULD use on a regular basis: *Epstein *These thieving bastards (and also Epstein) *These fuckers are stealing your health care (and Epstein) *Everything's more expensive (and Epstein) *Spineless cowards (and Epstein) *The President is a little whiny bitch (and Epstein)
YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
I'll add "falsehood"
Distraction has been replaced by squirrel.
Can we please add “The Baileys” even if it is just for Chuck Schumer?
* I am calling for * (bad actor) must (refrain/resign/denounce) * today is a good to
Sorry, a good day to
I like your list better
Colleagues across the aisle
THIS is a list I can approve!
Maybe add "The Baileys" too?
lol
* colleague
"As commander-in-chief, I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world."
abundance
*never say any R has a point.
Thank you for addressing the maddening misuse of words that pull our democracy down even as we try to preserve it.
Use/misuse, I should say.
“Access”
Never ever!
MAGA Republican
Damn straight.
Words depend entirely for their effect on the knowledge and mind of the reader so Democrats should do, not talk. Democrats should do things that create equal opportunity in America. Democrats should do things that attract socially well adjusted people with fully developed identities.
The Democratic Party should be singularly focused on taking demand from the private sector by creating universal public options for housing, healthcare, childcare, eldercare, education, transportation and justice. Be relentless and consistent, and do not engage with Republicans or Conservative ideas
By so doing, the Democratic Party will build a functional progressive movement that supports the shrinking productive technological frontier. This will increase productivity, reduce costs, long term deficits, and socioeconomic volatility qnd inequality.
They lost me when they all (Senate Democrats) decided to vote yea for Rubio. You want to lick this administration’s ass, you don’t get my vote. I hope my senators have the decency to step down rather than run again but I’ve got the delusional Schumer and Gillibrand as my reps. AOC needs to run.
"as ronald reagan once said..."
And, please, don't listen to Tom Nichols.
Or any “centrist” FFS their nonstop capitulation is the reason we are here
As guilty as the media. What a tragic failure.
You forgot "We need a strong Republican party"
A friend of mine last Thursday said See You Next Tuesday and I had to tell her what it meant.
Exception: my republican (French variety) friends
Words matter. So do actions.
lol, yeah
Thank you 💙
Perfect. Cheers.
This THIS!
The moderate centrist establishment Top 6 Slide to Fascism. Might I add “Chip In” because that ship has sailed, Nancy
Please add * strongly worded letter
* kitchen table issues
This very clever and so true!
Yes, pls.
"MAGA Republicans" - just label them all as Republicans! Trump has like 80%+ of their support, there is NO meaningful distinction.
Okay but use only MAGA, not republicans. MAGA should be made to be as toxic as Nazi
Republican would be as toxic as Nazi this isn't the 1990s
What a dumb gotcha. I actually think all ‘conservatism’ leads inevitably to fascism, so why not that if we’re going for it?Because in political language the 4 letter shorthand is what has already stuck, they are the vanguard of fascism in America. Doing this extends to ‘Republican’, no Ds are MAGA.
we've seen too many libs befriending the "good" non-MAGA republicans. The stigma should outlive Donald Trump's political career, and I suspect MAGA as a term won't, the way Hope and Change didnt outlive Obama
The Nazi party didn’t survive past Hitler but it’s still shorthand for fascist thugs. Republicans will never lose the stain of MAGA, if we get through this and there’s actual accountability
terrible analogy; Nazis were prosecuted, whereas I want to see literally every German in the Hague this time
lol or maybe its a perfect analogy considering how many of them got paperclipped
I didn't mean this as a gotcha, open your eyes, the Republican party is beyond unhinged now and should be treated as such. They are completely unacceptable as a political party in a democratic state.
I’m well aware. I’ve studied fascism for 30 years and started warning people they were deploying a dedicated well-funded bonafide fascist project in 2008.
* concerning (to describe bats**t insane stuff Trump & the GOP are doing)
* we're different
Republican ideas have always been simple, catchy and wrong, which makes them very easy for people who were half-listening to parrot it all back. Nothing makes you look like an idiot faster than trying to explain progressive policy positions without sufficient background.
Republicans don't vote against Democratic politicians, they vote against their liberal neighbors as they are described derisively by Republican media.
“We need a strong Republican Party” No the fuck we don’t. We need to smash the Republican Party and grind it into dust.
Could she just STFU already????
She got her wish. Maybe she should worry about having a strong Democratic Party instead of getting run over like an octogenarian in heels
Yes. Dems need Gen Z and Millennial voters, and these phrases are a huge turn off if you're not old enough to personally remember Reagan's presidency. There are already more Millennials than Boomers. Millennials are the largest living generation in the U.S. today.
I remember and still agree. Times change.
