Maybe in some conversations you’ve had, but it’s not what people are getting at when they say it here.
It was actually a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Leo Ryan (D-CA), not a senator.
…What?
I know it’s a lot of posts later, but I just had to give you props for this. 
I did not know this. I had to google Flavor-Aid since I didn’t know what it was. Well, not that I cared much. But could we allow it a few more times so I can at least see it once.
Or maybe the OP could link to an example.
I think I may have to link to this comic everytime we get into a discussion like this.
Oh yes it is. They are pointing out that you’re mindlessly parroting a phrase which (as your OP circuitously reveals) is not supported by fact.
Really? So the expression is accurate because these people drank Kool-Aid on a previous occasion?
When the cultists actually killed themselves, they were drinking grape Flavor-Aid. They were not drinking Kool-Aid. Your blatant attempt at historical revisionism might work on other message boards, but not here at the SDMB. Here, people will always step up to defend the truth. Take your grotesque distortion of the facts and peddle it elsewhere, Kool-Aid Man. Your tongue is purple with the flavor of mendacity.
Here’s a suggestion: why not try making a plea for people to stop using the phrase “drink the Kool-Aid?” Why are you attacking history, instead of those who perpetuate myths and falsehoods? If you’re going to go that route, why then you’d better get busy on your plea for people to stop using the phrases “man walked on the Moon” and “Iraq had no WMDs.”
I should probably add a caveat that the above is intended to be over-the-top and not at all serious… just in case Cisco really is whooped up on the Kool-Aid.
← orange citrus Flavor-Aid smiley
I totally “heard” that in a Stephen Colbert voice.
Oh yeah!
A publication I used to work for was going to use “We’re Drinking the Kool-Aid!” or some variation in promotional material (which was to be mailed out with Kool-Aid packets). It was all designed and in proofs ready to be printed when it came across my desk to be checked. I did feel a responsibility to point out to the promo department that it might be copyright infringement, that drinking the Kool-Aid refers not to enthusiasm but to blind obedience to an authority, and that they were kind of making a joke about a mass suicide. I gave them a pass on the whole Flavor-Aid thing.
Wait, how do you do multiple quotes non manually? 
In the lower right corner of every post between the Quote button and the Quick Reply buttom is the Mulit-Quote button. It has a "+ on a notepad symbol.
Click this for every post you want in the multi-quote, in can even be from more than one thread. Then when you click Reply you get all the posts you selected.
See that button with the quote marks between the button labelled “Quote” and the one with the quill pen? Click that, and it’ll turn red, then go and click that button in another post, it will also turn red. Then, when you click submit “Post Reply” you’ll find both of them in the post window.
But then what would we Mac users drink?!
Not sure, but I’m sure it would start with “i”.
Awesome! You’ve saved me much effort!
So was there some kind of endorsement deal since Flavor- Aid was a competitor of Kool Aid?