# Political slogans for the New America

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 22, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799 "2017-01-22T02:40:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/21 "2017-01-22T06:15:45Z")

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How about “War is Peace, Slavery is Freedom, Ignorance is Strength”?

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**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/22 "2017-01-22T06:44:32Z")

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It’s Mourning in America Again.

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**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/23 "2017-01-22T06:46:47Z")

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A pot to piss in and garage sale out front.

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**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/24 "2017-01-22T06:51:32Z")

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> [@Ravenman](#):
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> It’s mourning in America.

Well, hell. Missed this.

Well then…

Leave No Childish Retort Behind.

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/25 "2017-01-22T07:41:41Z")

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Don’t Be Scared!

_BEND OVER!_

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**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/26 "2017-01-22T08:47:08Z")

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> [@Ravenman](#):
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> It’s mourning in America.

> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#):
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> Orange you can believe in

> [@panache45](#):
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> Orange is the new Barack.

Okay, these are works of genius. Short, pithy works of genius.

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**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/27 "2017-01-22T08:49:08Z")

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“My God, What have We Done?”

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**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/28 "2017-01-22T08:56:05Z")

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“I got mine, fuck y’all!”

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**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/29 "2017-01-22T08:56:33Z")

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“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to an old deal for the American people.”

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/30 "2017-01-22T15:11:50Z")

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“He won. Get the fuck over yourself.”

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/31 "2017-01-22T15:44:09Z")

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Lincoln got shot. I like people who don’t get shot. LOSER!

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**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/32 "2017-01-22T16:07:27Z")

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“My father in law fucked my wife and all I got was to be a Senior White House advisor, and this hat.”

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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/33 "2017-01-22T16:09:59Z")

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First of all, let me assert that the only thing we have to fear is crumbling infrastructure, and unemployment, and the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs, and the Muslims, and Mexicans…

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**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/34 "2017-01-22T16:20:35Z")

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“Alternative Facts”

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**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/35 "2017-01-22T19:02:11Z")

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The workers shall rise up and seize the means of reproduction.

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/36 "2017-01-22T21:22:41Z")

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When they go low, we go _huh, that seemed to work out pretty well for them_.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/37 "2017-01-22T23:05:36Z")

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“What’re YOU lookin’ at?”

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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/38 "2017-01-23T00:11:57Z")

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> [@marshmallow](#):
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> The workers shall rise up and seize the means of reproduction.

Okay, that one’s well worth the keyboard.

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**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/39 "2017-01-23T01:20:23Z")

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> [@Shodan](#):
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> “He won. Get the fuck over yourself.”
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> Regards,  
> Shodan

Actually quite fitting, I’d say.  
Nevertheless, I humbly submit the following.

Tweet oftly and carry a big prick.  
Read my lips: No news facts!  
I cannot tell a lie (from the truth).  
(Gold) ingot we trust  
But I think the most appropriate might be this :

Four legs good, two legs better!

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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-slogans-for-the-new-america/777799/40 "2017-01-23T01:30:44Z")

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In the councils of government, we must guard [del]against[/del] the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the military-industrial complex; the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.

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