A new memo of 45 words and phrases for Democrats to avoid, alleging the terms turn voters off. They span six categories — from “therapy speak” to “explaining away crime.”
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Fuck MAGA Hitler Very Much! Fuck MAGA Fascism Very Much! Make America Democratic Again!
aug 23, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Price of goddamned eggs turned voters the fuck off- so NOTHING will increase in price when Trump is the fucking President....RIGHT?!?!!?
aug 27, 2025, 12:59 am • 0 0 • view
I'm guessing without reading that "genocide" is on the list.
aug 22, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Nah, they're all in AIPAC's pockets and never use that word anyway.
aug 22, 2025, 4:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Full list here www.thirdway.org/memo/was-it-... I agree that most of these are things that candidates probably shouldn't say, but there are some things that I really don't know why the are on the list
aug 22, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't know why "Overton Window", "Heuristic", "Existential threat", "Barriers to participation", "Food insecurity", "Housing insecurity", or "Incarcerated people" are bad phrases
aug 22, 2025, 2:55 pm • 1 0 • view
It's because stupid people don't understand them. So basically, Politico is saying that we talk like f*gs and our shit's all regarded. Idiocracy, people, it's here.
aug 23, 2025, 1:41 am • 0 0 • view
Can I get paid to tell the Dem politicians to speak honestly in clear language using facts about how trump and the repubs are destroying our health, education, environment, economy, and every branch of our govt that is supposed to follow the constitution?
aug 22, 2025, 2:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Seriously? This is basically saying; Hide your education so people don't feel inferior? Total BS. The dumbing down of America continues.
aug 22, 2025, 2:36 pm • 0 0 • view
As an alleged news organization, you could look into if these words are actually used by Democrats. But that would have taken a little effort 🙄
aug 27, 2025, 12:25 am • 11 0 • view
Fuck them and fuck you for this fake ass objective framing.
aug 27, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
this dumb shit right here is why nominal democrats like me hate the Democratic party. this is why Mamdani is crushing all comers here in NYC. its the wishy washy cowardice.
aug 27, 2025, 12:43 am • 0 0 • view
a list of words, but for morons
aug 27, 2025, 1:14 am • 0 0 • view
Of course it’s from super genius ADAM WREN LOLLOLOL
aug 27, 2025, 12:38 am • 0 0 • view
A memo is not a scoop. Dems who follow this weak language cop bs deserve the reckoning that is coming for them.
aug 22, 2025, 2:33 pm • 16 0 • view
"Be authentic" but "don't use any of these words or phrases." If you're being authentic you don't give a shit about memos by political consulting organizations with no values.
aug 22, 2025, 2:37 pm • 14 0 • view
It sure seems like donors are paying Democratic consultants under the table to tell the Democrats to move further right.
aug 22, 2025, 5:32 pm • 5 0 • view
Democrats have spent the last four decades, goose stepping to the right. They have become irredeemable. They’re a party of war criminals just like the Republicans. And their moderation and domestic policy does nothing to mitigate their crimes.
aug 22, 2025, 5:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Is the word "Liar" on that list? I'd like to see that one used more often.
aug 27, 2025, 1:29 am • 0 0 • view
Who gives a shit
aug 27, 2025, 1:55 am • 1 0 • view
And the award for stupidest thing on the internet today goes to...
aug 22, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Consultants to the rescue once again… if this is where the dems are we are truly fucked
aug 22, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 2:02 am • 0 0 • view
I think the solution is for democrats to just STFU entirely.
aug 22, 2025, 3:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Good lord, we’ve got Orwellian lists of banned words from both sides now. The difference being that republicans are backing up their lists by state law, possible criminal liability, and funding denials. Democrats need to back up the first amendment and ironically shut the fuck up about banned words.
aug 22, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Democratic pols should talk to their constituents at some point instead of "centrist" focus groups and think tanks.
aug 27, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
There's a fascist take over of our government and you're lecturing us about words? shut up
aug 27, 2025, 1:09 am • 3 0 • view
Reverse info speak. #Babylon5 was way too right on this shit.
aug 27, 2025, 2:42 am • 0 0 • view
Is this part of the memo from the Trump team to ensure Democrats pay attention to super important nifty ways to win?
aug 22, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
They should learn it by getting out around your constituents, it does require some work
aug 22, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Got to the part of the piece in which it told me this was from third way. Immediately clicked away
aug 22, 2025, 2:29 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh for fuck sakes. The GOP will be in power forever. What a feckless bunch of weak losers. Avoiding words will have Trump terrified.
aug 23, 2025, 2:21 am • 0 0 • view
Third Way is untrustworthy. This is part of why.
aug 22, 2025, 2:27 pm • 8 0 • view
Why are you putting a photo of Bashear here. He has nothing to do with this. Scared much?
aug 27, 2025, 12:32 am • 0 0 • view
"We are doing our best to get Democrats to talk like normal people and stop talking like they’re leading a seminar at Antioch" Finally! It took them what, 25 years to figure this out? People like people who talk like them but they also like people who listen!
aug 22, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Have you heard a Democratic political campaign in the past 25 years or are you just incapable of holding a memory for longer than a dead?
aug 27, 2025, 12:48 am • 0 0 • view
It's not a PR problem, folks. It's not words. It's actions.
aug 23, 2025, 11:49 am • 0 0 • view
Who gives a shit
aug 27, 2025, 12:35 am • 0 0 • view
They should include "bipartisan." That is double speak for we support the status quo.
aug 22, 2025, 2:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans are openly cheating to retain indefinite power so the problem is obviously *checks notes* how Democrats talk
aug 22, 2025, 2:25 pm • 45 1 • view
🙄 Any thoughts about the lawless regime in power or just tone policing Dems?
aug 27, 2025, 12:31 am • 0 0 • view
The marginalized populations these words describe need real actions to support them and how they talked about us hasn't made us feel any more supported. That said if the words are scary to the right, then by all means, keep using them.
aug 22, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
“Kitchen table issues” had better be very very high on the list!!!🙃
aug 22, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not their diction which makes them unpalatable. It's their willingness to enable dictatorship. The Democratic Party has had a decade to deal with the specter of open fascism,and insurgency, and over and over again, they enabled the fascist to take over. They are the controlled opposition.
aug 22, 2025, 2:26 pm • 22 1 • view
Absolutely 100%
aug 23, 2025, 4:43 am • 4 0 • view
Oh this gives me so much confidence in the Democratic Party. This is exactly what is missing from our political landscape.
aug 27, 2025, 12:37 am • 1 0 • view
Trump MAGA Republican Party is a dictatorial regime by their actions. Trump is a narcissistic pathological lying pedophile sexual assaulter who should be in federal prison. There is no denying the fact; America is in a civil war. America's Supreme Law vs the Trump MAGA Republican dictatorship.
aug 22, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Are the words “fight” or “resist” on that list? 🙄
aug 22, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
I didn't see "fuck" or "you" so I'm good.
aug 23, 2025, 1:42 am • 1 0 • view
I feel ya.
aug 23, 2025, 1:43 am • 1 0 • view
Third Way can floss their teeth with my pubes
aug 27, 2025, 12:43 am • 6 0 • view
Fuck off Politico Nobody takes your pro -regime commentary seriously
aug 22, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Let's start by blacklisting Third Way
aug 22, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Uh huh, and we should take this seriously, because? Seems like y'all are openly trying to manufacture consent for abandoning the party base. prepping for a one party system or something?
aug 27, 2025, 12:46 am • 5 0 • view
They are changing words without figuring out that they LOST from ideology & candidates. Center right, pro surveillance state, pro militarized cops, pro parasitic eternal warfare, pro Wall Street, pro authoritarianism, propaganda embracing, oligarchy orbiting, neoliberalism without real primaries.
aug 23, 2025, 5:02 am • 0 0 • view
can you do me a huge favor and tell whoever wrote this that they should go suck a dirty toilet in a truck stop bathroom. thanks xo
aug 27, 2025, 2:54 am • 10 0 • view
What about “go fuck yourself”? Can I still say that?
aug 27, 2025, 1:17 am • 0 0 • view
Please by all means listen to the consultants getting rich off of you whose advice has lead you to constantly lose for 10 years.
aug 27, 2025, 3:08 am • 2 0 • view
What a stupid list and a waste of time.
aug 27, 2025, 1:01 am • 2 0 • view
What's the point of the Democrats? bsky.app/profile/roll...
aug 27, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Nice Orwellian move. "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world". - Ludwig Wittgenstein
aug 22, 2025, 8:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh fuck off.
aug 27, 2025, 12:35 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah. Words are the problem🌬️lets just all watch our words right now🌬️this is an article for idiots🌬️
aug 22, 2025, 3:37 pm • 2 0 • view
They very reason Democrats started using language like "unhoused" instead of homeless is because these same focus groups told them to in 2016 to be more sensitive and if there is any moral from all of this is STOP CRAFTING YOUR POLITICS AROUND FOCUS GROUPS.
aug 27, 2025, 12:53 am • 2 0 • view
Dude- we have to stop canceling words that accurately describe someone else’s bad behavior in place of them cancelling their bad behavior. It’s “shoot the messenger” rather than stop the crime.
aug 22, 2025, 2:33 pm • 6 0 • view
Im gonna kick you in the dick
aug 27, 2025, 12:47 am • 0 0 • view
Would rather hear words of great use rather than this but okay lol
aug 23, 2025, 5:30 am • 0 0 • view
Here’s one for your list, @thirdway.bsky.social: “FU” for thinking you have any right to tell liberal dems and progressives, whose polices poll from 60%-80%, that we need to choose language that suits the extreme Right. And “FU” @politico.com for lazy reporting/stenography.
aug 27, 2025, 1:20 am • 0 0 • view
I have two words for you
aug 22, 2025, 2:27 pm • 5 0 • view
The memo writer should contact Newsom and Crockett and AOC and other actually effective Democrats instead of wasting everyone's time.
aug 22, 2025, 9:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh, for fuck sake.
aug 22, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
how about figuring out what turns voters on? Not this nonsense.
aug 22, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Like the song "If loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right"-- I don't want to be PC. THIS is insane. Words are why we won't attract voters? Talk about idiocracy.
aug 23, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Third way is a conservative consulting outfit that makes justifications for hate and ignorance. Forever and always fuck third way.
aug 22, 2025, 2:36 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't dumb down my vocabulary that badly even when I'm talking to literal children. If people are that stupid they maybe shouldn't be voting or going out in public.
aug 23, 2025, 1:44 am • 0 0 • view
But they do both.
aug 26, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view