“out of touch with mainstream America”
Translation: Doesn’t fit our agenda.
You mean in sentences like, “He’s a government worker,” you’d prefer “He’s a the government worker.”?
any time they refer to what “the American People Want.” Like those douchehammers even know or care what the “american people” want.
Hell, for that matter, like the american people know what the “american people” want.
No, “government” is being used as an adjective in that case. Adjectives are not nouns and so do not require articles. Why would you even ask this question? Are you completely unaware of basic grammar? I thought you were a writer.
I’ve mentioned this in another thread: “Send a message to…”
It’s not like the recipients will actually “get the message”, be it ever so clear – and the purported recipients will most always have zero to gain from admitting that there was any such message to be gotten.
The expression is nearly meaningless, and those who use it are implying most pompously that They are the chosen ones who can marshall the Voice That Must Be Heard. Please make them stop.
“Adult conversation.”
Lame duck.
Anything about the “War on Christmas”
Any time someone blames games/TV/books/movie/porn/music/internet for “corrupting america’s youth”
Contradiction in terms:
Liberal-not liberal with anything except the spreading of alarmist bullshit. communist is a more accurate term.
Conservative- Conserves nothing but the wealth and power of the super wealthy and religious wackos. fascist is a more accurate term.
My brother said something like that the other day and I told him it was about the stupidest thing I’d heard in a long time.
How about “freezing pay” when it can still go up (step raises) … not because you can’t make it colder.
“war” on such and such… not that bad really, just being used figuratively, both sides do it
“death panels”… a little over the top but the reference is to panels that would ration healthcare and indirectly contribute to an earlier death in some cases
“I can see Russia” … whacky but the death penalty…really!!!
“working families” and “shipping jobs overseas” … not that bad
I was talking about the “political death penalty”… utter removal from future political discourse. There is nothing more fundamentally wrong and useful only for political class warfare than to say that allowing one person to keep something is actually giving it to them. Especially when it is suggested that some lesser group of people are the ones supposedly doing the giving.
I heard of this one liberal in New York who said this one thing, but then I heard of this other liberal in San Francisco who did the opposite, therefore all liberals are hypocrites. And of course we all know that by definition, hypocrites say only incorrect things, therefore we don’t have to listen to them.
Who’s talking about hypocrites? I’m talking about lieing motherfuckers who should know better like my brother.
I wasn’t referring to your post, it’s just a generic political meme that I would like to see dragged out and shot.
“Liberals say they hate wealth but this one liberal flies around in a gold-plated jet crewed by slaves.”
“Liberals hate security but they would sue if terrorists killed them”
“Liberals hate guns but they love gangster rappers”
etc, etc, etc. Battle of the imaginary strawmen.
Sorry… I was too anxious to insult my brother.
“Bipartisan” or “Reaching across the aisle.” Sure, there are issues that require compromise, but there are other issues that require a politician to stick to his principles. It’s ok to compromise in a quantitative disagreement, but usually not in a qualitative one.
“Nation of Immigrants”: colonists are not the same thing as immigrants.
“Single moms”: conflates victims who deserve our sympathy and support, namely widows and abandoned wives, with women who deliberately chose to have a child out of wedlock or had the lousy foresight and judgment to spread their legs for some bad boy who never had any intention of sticking around.
There are so many disingenuous pieces of political rhetoric that I don’t know how to choose which one should be banished but I’ll give it a shot.
“Politician X raised your taxes!” - the opposition says this even if X voted to close a ridiculous tax loophole, or if the tax was a tiny one tacked on in committee in the middle of the night to a bill that had unanimous support from both parties.
“Congressman X passed the Bill” - no he didn’t. If the bill passed, it took more than X’s vote to do it.
Nearly every day someone is on the radio talking about “growing the economy.” Now I’m hearing that phrase in reference to medical programs, social programs and all manner of other things.
You can’t “grow” the economy, dammit. An economy grows due to the solutions you apply to it.
All better now
Absolutely. Anyone claiming the existence of “death panels”, should be sentenced by one.
Nope… no way… there is at least a wisp of truth to the phrase. Both as spelled out in the plan (to the extent anything was clearly spelled out)… and as Obamacare could easily evolve.
There is no intellectual honesty whatsoever in equating not taking away someones very own property with giving it to them.