When I was a kid, it was common to call someone a “retard.” Nowadays, it’s impolite and not politically correct, but it was just a part of life back then. It was never said maliciously toward someone who actually was mentally challenged, it was just the way kids talked then. It’s actually a shame that it isn’t in use today because for so many liberals, in government and the media, it is the perfect description for how they are.
When you watch this clip (or any clip, really) of CNN’s Abby Phillip, there is no better word to describe the argument she is trying to make – the Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Democrats did not weaponize government against Donald Trump or conservatives at all. “There is NO EVIDENCE that there was some top-down order of political retribution in either the Obama or the Biden administrations,” the vacant, lazy-eyed host said.
Of course, Obama isn’t dumb enough to write a note to the IRS of the CIA saying, “I order you to go after my enemies.” The hive mind doesn’t need to be ordered, it knows.
But how is Obama not responsible for what happened in his own administration? How is he absolved of any responsibility for the Justice Department and the “Fast and Furious” program, which we still have never seen a lot of evidence on its origin from the DoJ (anyone at the FBI interested in doing their jobs at all, or are they too busy plotting social media vagaries and career comebacks?). Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents, do those documents still exist? Can he still be prosecuted? Seems kind of important, doesn’t it?
But people life Phillip don’t give a damn. They will hurl allegation after allegation against the right and won’t even bother to ask basic questions of the left. Donald Trump is responsible for anything any Republican does or says, Obama and Biden are not responsible for anything their administration did or they inspired in the dead eyes of Democrats.
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And they wonder why it is the American people would rather catch penicillin-resistant syphilis than vote for or watch them.
Now, a progressive “think” tank has compiled a list of words and phrases they don’t want these people to use anymore, as it makes them seem “out of touch” with voters. Voters, in this case, is code for normal human beings.
First off, if you need to be told how to talk to real people like real people talk, get out of politics and get professional help. There’s something fundamentally broken in you that will likely never be fixed, but you should deal with it and stop using your position or political power as public your emotional tampon. Your parents didn’t raise you right or love you enough; you were raised so rich that reality was kept away from you; or you’re a sociopath for whom there is simply no redemption. Whatever the case, deal with it in private, not in legislation or the genital mutilation of children.
So, what are the words and phrases? Politico reports:
Among the blacklisted terms: privilege … violence (as in “environmental violence”) … dialoguing … triggering … othering … microaggression … holding space … body shaming … subverting norms … systems of oppression … cultural appropriation … Overton window … existential threat to [the climate, democracy, economy] … radical transparency … stakeholders … the unhoused … food insecurity … housing insecurity … person who immigrated … birthing person … cisgender … deadnaming … heteronormative … patriarchy … LGBTQIA+ … BIPOC … allyship … incarcerated people … involuntary confinement.
Aside from some leftist “journalist” or politician, or someone mocking them, have you ever heard anyone used those terms in the wild? How many people who proclaim their devotion to the “LGBTQIA+” or “BIPOC” “communities” could even tell you what the hell those letters stand for? Maybe 5 percent?
If you need coaching on how to talk to real people you have no business being in a position where you lead or have authority over others, even pets. You have life that is unnatural.
We do have a lot of problems in this country, but none bigger than the fact that one of the two major political parties and their fellow travelers in the media are disconnected from reality that they need coaching on how to communicate with normal human beings.
Note that the left refuses to entertain the idea that, like the dimwitted Abby Phillip, they’re simply wrong. That the American people know racism isn’t everywhere, that boys can’t declare themselves to be girls (or even have any idea what it is like to be one, no matter how many drugs they pump into their bodies), and we would rather pay ten cents more for an apple or head of lettuce than have one more American murdered by an illegal alien thanks to their open border policies.
No left-wing “think” tank or focus group is going to conclude that because it will never occur to them to even ask.
They can change the words they use, try to fool people even more about what they’re trying to do, but we see right through it all. Their denial of their unpopularity, their inability to accept reality and the refusal to change is going to end up with more of the same results for them. For us, that’s great. But watching how these people will not accept reality is, well…there used to be a word for that.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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