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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is your least favorite conservative buzzword?
Mine is labeling every social program "entitlements" My husband hates statist he says for one thing they don't know what it means and another is they all use it constantly
MADem
(135,425 posts)But I agree that "entitlements" is a stinker, too! They say it in a way to insinuate that people are not, in fact, 'entitled' to that which is part and parcel of our social contract. It's like they're trying to say that some of us are less worthy to draw from the community well, which slakes the thirst of all, than others.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)This and "Patriotism." These morons wouldn't know real patriotism if it kicked them in the face.
eridani
(51,907 posts)And do anything they want to people they don't like.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)As in white privilege, male privilege, heteronormative privilege, class privilege, Christian privilege, Republican privilege...
They want the "right" to treat people who aren't like them like shit, and throw a hissy fit when we tell them we won't put up with that.
JHB
(37,161 posts)Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)When did it become plural? Was that a bushism?
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)they make it sound sooo pious, like they are the authorities on family values.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)but, not only the hypocrisy with family values, but the suggestion that left does not have 'family values" or that they are "anti life"
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Last edited Sat Sep 8, 2012, 10:41 AM - Edit history (1)
are real Americans but them, and none are patriotic but them. Damn that gripes me.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,209 posts)I hate both, especially since some religious right-winger described Britain as 'the epicentre of the culture of death'.
Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)Apologies to Golda Meir
eridani
(51,907 posts)Other peoples' families don't.
DrewFlorida
(1,096 posts)The republican party is anything except for conservative, they are the party of spend spend spend.
I think the phrase "Republican Conservative", should be labeled as the oxymoron that it is.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)contribute anything to America. The GOP should be renamed "The Freeloader Party."
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)some is a couple of guys at the copy desk..you can bet it is a "pants on fire" lie... some say implies there is a source outside Fokkks news.
Teamster Jeff
(1,598 posts)Pisses me off
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)They have NO RESPECT for our party in any way or form. Infact, I saw a video where someone stood up an said "Keep using Democrat party, that really pisses them off."
He's right but than again, hes a baka tare.
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)is that damn if some Democrats aint using it.....
BTW... what the hell is a baka tare? (sorry old white guy)
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)In Japanese means, complete idiot.
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)KathieG
(2,049 posts)DrewFlorida
(1,096 posts)mick063
(2,424 posts)Of all the lies, this is the biggest.
Stocks and profits are up and big money is in hedge funds or hidden abroad. These are convenient methods to effectively wage a capital strike. The ultimate union busters. The 1% will create jobs only if enough corporate welfare is directed their way.
The premise of "Trickle down" was championed by the GOP deity named Reagan and because of that, and even in the face of clear contradictory evidence, the ill affected lower class lemmings cannot, and will not, ever let it go.
Initech
(100,099 posts)TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)... and the meaning of "we"...
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)they conserve only wealth for the very rich and not lives or resources or this planet.
patrice
(47,992 posts)Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)Racist and condescending.
The fact that it is song about about a white guy going to jail for gambling is lost on them. (Jerry Reed)
It's sort of a nebulous tentacle-cloud monster. You can never really pin it down, but it's bad, really bad.
Something like this:
begin_within
(21,551 posts)You see them labeling Obama as a socialist... hundreds, even thousands of times per day on message boards and news comment sections. Even when I bother to take the time to explain briefly what socialism means, and point out that Obama is very much a capitalist, not a socialist... they still don't get it. They just go right on saying "socialist Obozo" or whatever they can remember from Fox/Limbaugh.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)always used to try to deflect criticism of actual racism.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)XemaSab
(60,212 posts)Whenever anyone uses any of these words, it tells me that he needs a punch in the nuts.
And it's always a he.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)It also tells me they're not ready to converse like adults. That's 1980s-speak, and they still haven't grown out of it.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)They like to invoke "Founding Fathers" as if it were delivered from behind a burning bush.
Truth is, the F/F's would gag being in the presence of any modern day rethuglicans.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)former-republican
(2,163 posts)former-republican
(2,163 posts)The right has tried to paint them as some type radical organization.
boggles my mind.
Yea................ civil liberties are radical
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Limbaugh used them during his drug troubles and North used them to get out of Iran-Contra.
former-republican
(2,163 posts)They know they are bashed by these talking heads o ver and over again but put it all side for defense of civil liberties.
I have great respect for the attorneys and staff that work there.
Webster Green
(13,905 posts)As it applies to rich fucks that are outsourcing jobs.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,191 posts)Whenever there is a regulation they don't like, they love to throw that one out there. Even if said regulation is actually in their best interests....
phasma ex machina
(2,328 posts)"I want you to squeeze, and squeeze, and squeeze!"
On the Road
(20,783 posts)when "fiscal conservative" is applied to people with absolutely no concern for the deficit, and who have defended fiscal irresponsibility for the last thirty years.
whathehell
(29,082 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Iris
(15,665 posts)rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Talk about projection! Reminds me of the smartass younger brother that irritates the older sibling and starts a spat and then is the first to go crying to the parents when he gets his just desserts, figuring the first one to complain will get the sympathy and argumental high ground.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)i especially hate the post-reagan tv talk that insists every economic development must be examined for how 'investors' will react to it.
it wasn't the case pre-reagan & when i started noticing it i was scratching my head.
who cares about the fucking 'investors'!!!!!
Zambero
(8,965 posts)Denoting a self-righteous "I have a lock on morality" attitude, based on a perceived need to restrict others' basic rights and personal freedom, while conveniently overlooking everything else that really matters.
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)After all, we are all living in the real America. Stupidest phrase EVER. Sarah Palin loved it as do other Repubs.
So sorry I live in the northeast part of the United States. And horror of horrors I happen to live in a state that is part of New England. Oh no! That is the most non real part of America! A state that was once part of the 13 colonies. Oh dear. Makes me want to tear my hair out and also go visit Mark Twain's house. In my non real American state of Connecticut.
RichardRay
(2,611 posts)'Job Creators' because they AREN'T.
'Marxist/Socialist' because he ISN'T.
And it would be great if they really were, and he really was.
Initech
(100,099 posts)From who?
slampoet
(5,032 posts)Freddie
(9,273 posts)Is code for "freedom to force everyone to play by my religion's rules"
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)xxxhelal
(12 posts)Freddie
(9,273 posts)"saddling our grandchildren with debt" etc
Hey who got us there with wars and tax cuts?? History has proven that austerity during a recession only makes things worse. Pay off the debt in good times and prime the pump in bad times. Sigh.
LittlestStar
(224 posts)There is no such thing and we all know it.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)I fucking pay for them, assholes.
tnvoter
(257 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Their word = What they really mean by it.
"Entitlements" = "Why should I have to pay for Sheniqua and her nine crack babies???/?"
"Values" = "What We Learnt Bein' White n Heterosexual . . . you know, NORMAL!"
"Freedom" = "I can be as big of an uncaring asshole as I want cuz I'm a WHITE MURKIN!"
"Conservative" = "The Way Things OUGHTA Be, Commie."
"Some Say . . . " = "Normal America thinks . . . "
"Democrat Party" = "Buncha pansy, sissy Ni**er-lovin COMMIES!"
"Austerity" = "Whatever it means, I won't be hurt by it. The Welfare recipients will!"
"Job Creators" = "True Hard Working Americans who I hope to BE PART OF someday!"
"We Built It" = "We Built It"
"Welfare Queen" = " Insert racial, ethnic or gender slur here)s"
"Statist/Marxist/Socialist/Socialism" = "All Democrats"
"Playing the Race Card" = "Why don't we have a WHIIIIIITE ENTERTAINMENT CHANNEL???"
"Right To Work" = "Whatever it means, I won't be hurt by it!"
"Liberty" = "FREEDOM!! Well, except for the gays, women and (insert racial slur here)"
"Founding Fathers" = "Founding Christians"
"ACLU" = "FUCKING CORNHOLING DEMUCRAPS!!!!1!!!"
"Nanny State" = "Murka should just be a free for all!! Hey Shitter, watch me jump this fence with my jet ski . . ."
"Fiscal Conservative" = "More War, Less welfare!"
"Class Warfare" = "LEAVE THE RICH ALOOOOOOOOOONE!!"
"Real America" = "Not the (Insert racial, ethnic or gender slur here)s"
"We're going to take this country back" = "I'm going to take me a gun and kill all the (Insert racial, ethnic or gender slur here)s I seeeeee . . . "
"Feminazi" = "Git in the kitchen whur you belong, stupid!"
"Religious Freedom" = "Why CAN'T that Chick Filet guy tell it like it is about the homos without all these libs runnin' their yaps?"
"Small Government" = "Reagan, the Greatest Preznit Next to Bush!"
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)QC
(26,371 posts)on the homos, generally uttered by men who have enough mistresses and ex-wives to field a football team.
ananda
(28,874 posts)Mainly MY freedom, which I deserve, and many others don't.
LeftishBrit
(41,209 posts)And on a cruder level, throwing about the words 'workshy' and 'scroungers' for anyone who is unemployed.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)... all that come after my post, I strongly suspect.
tosh
(4,424 posts)I've heard it so many times it makes me <<barf>>
PCIntern
(25,576 posts)Catherine Vincent
(34,491 posts)But the main one that comes to my mind is their "pro-abortion" crap.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)intaglio
(8,170 posts)Meaning forced birth and after the birth both mother and child can go to hell as far as "prolifers" care
demosincebirth
(12,542 posts)Smickey
(3,335 posts)Which means you are on your own and don't ask us for anything. And by the way those bootstraps are now made in China and most likely going to snap off in your hands.
ZX86
(1,428 posts)I am so sick of people using "government" as a perjorative. If you live in 1939 Germany government is probably a bad thing. If you're Black and trying to go to school in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957 it's probably a good thing.
For this I mostly blame Reagan and his "government coming to help you" BS.
Blue Belle
(5,912 posts)They mispronounce our party's name in order to diminish us, and then turn around and imply that we are the ones who are smug.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)stuntcat
(12,022 posts)They make me sick how everything they want completely rapes the future of all the babies being squirted out. And our country is wasting so much time and talk on things that just do not make a difference considering how bad the rest of this century's gonna suck.
Maybe in 2050 someone being born today will look back to now at all the ridiculous things our species thinks are so important. And they'll just wish we'd worked together to make the world a little more livable.
"Family" my ass.