Euphemism Nation

Language is wildly important. That words have meanings, and those meanings are understood by everyone, are the key to communication. That’s why it’s becoming increasingly difficult to communicate with progressive leftists – they will not be bound by those definitions, they change them whenever it suits their needs. It’s to the point that it’s not even worth trying.

On Wednesday, Nancy Pelosi announced her call for articles of impeachment against President Trump, and what the Speaker of the House wants, the Speaker of the House gets (in the House). The only thing missing from her announcement was any charge she believes the President is guilty of, aside from being Donald Trump.

Being Donald Trump is enough for Democrats, who read the Constitution and find an absolute right to an abortion in the subtext, but don’t see religious liberty and the right to bear arms in the plain text. That, and her party’s desire to ignore the obvious restraints on government power in deference to state power and individual liberty, made Pelosi’s proclamation of fidelity to the Founding Fathers in her pursuit of Trump’s scalp both hilarious and dangerous.

It’s hilarious for the obvious reasons, it’s dangerous because there is so little push-back from anyone on her redefining of everything they created, both in regards to impeachment and this country.

Simply declaring your fidelity to the Constitution does not wipe clean your bastardizing of it. Words have meanings, and you can’t change or ignore them when they’re inconvenient to what you want. If you could, no contract would be binding.

As Democrats insist impeachment has nothing to do with the 2020 election, but taring the President with a scarlet “I” is their strategy. And if they win next year they pledge to “undo the damage Trump has done to the country.”

What damage? The record low unemployment, or the lack of new wars? They never say because they’re never asked. Maybe they’ll pass a law requiring Trump to delete his Twitter account, since that seems to be the only thing they cite when it comes to the “norms” he’s upsetting.

The reality is you don’t seek to ban things you can defeat. If the temperance movement thought they could convince people to stop drinking, there would’ve been no need to fight for the 18th Amendment. And if Democrats thought they could beat Donald Trump in the election, they wouldn’t seek to invoke impeachment to damage his prospects.

This impeachment has everything to do with election politics, just like all the other things they do.

The left never says what they mean and create new ways to talk about reality that have nothing to do with reality. Violent anti-Semitic attacks in New York, when not ignored, ignore the anti-Semitic aspect and just become “attacks.” Groups of black kids flash-mob robbing stores become “teens” committing those crimes. And Donald Trump asking the Ukrainian President for help in investigating attempted interference in the 2016 election by powerful people in his country becomes a demand for “dirt” on Joe Biden. It’s like the worst magic trick in the world, where the only things that disappear are the contents of your wallet and the time you’ll never get back watching it.

Donald Trump is a “corrupt mob boss” because he has to be. Proof isn’t required; evidence is for suckers. Three Republican-hating law professors swear a phone call they weren’t on is a “threat to democracy” not because it aids their long-standing personal desires, but because they read Democrat-selected transcripts of testimony from people who also weren’t on the call.

If you submitted this to a publisher as a work of fiction it would be rejected for lack of believability, but that a major political party is attempting to remove a president over it is just another day in the Bizarro World the left inhabits. A world where violent protests are declared “mostly peaceful,” where Antifa goons assaulting innocent people in Portland (who likely vote the same way they do) is “exercising their First Amendment rights.” Maybe the people that inhabit this world saved the $2,500 per year we were promised Obamacare would save us on our health insurance premiums?

If a President whose administration forced the sale of guns to Mexican drug cartels without tracking them; used the IRS as a weapon against its political opponents, oversaw the Veterans Administration cook the books on wait times for care that cost countless heroes their lives; did nothing as Americans were under attack for half a day in a country whose government they toppled for no good reason while ignoring the opportunity to stand with citizens protesting in the streets of the world’s largest supporter of terrorism because he didn’t want to offend them as he was negotiating the denomination of the bills on the pallets of cash he would eventually send them was “scandal-free;” words have no meaning.

And if Donald Trump must be removed from office over a phone call that ultimately saw him get nothing Democrats insist he was demanding – without even asking for it, just tossing it into a word-salad of 540 words after his “favor” ask, the stream of consciousness way he speaks – then nothing has any meaning.

Unfortunately, the way the left is treating the very words we use to communicate is how they have always treated the Constitution they claim to be acting in the name of. Enough with the euphemisms already, let’s just be honest for once.

“...is just another day in the Bizarro World the left inhabits.”

Until they’re dealt with WE inhabit it too...

The globalist left has redefined marriage, male, and female away from the obvious, natural meanings of the past 5,000-plus years. There is no reason to trust their usage of more complex words like the poll-tested “bribery” and other much more nuanced words.

If you could, no contract would be binding.

Like marriage?

Which party supports making marriage as "binding" as an apartment lease?

How do you know if you’re the one who is right in an argument over the definition of reality? It is the one who routinely redefines the meaning of ‘is’ and promotes relativity who is the liar.

It’s like we’re living in a world conjured by up Lewis Carroll. To quote his character Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass: “When I use a word, it means what I choose it to mean, neither more or less.”

“Words have meanings, and you can’t change or ignore them when they’re inconvenient to what you want. If you could, no contract would be binding.”

I have preached this since I first learned to speak and I have really preached it since I first read Atlas Shrugged as a teenage sailor. My wife says I go overboard with it but lately she has begun to say the same things I say about words having real meanings. Tom Steyer makes me sick and he only gets worse, one of his latest campaign ads shows him promising to “ stop climate change” when he is elected. If the average voter had half a brain Steyer could not get away with such an absurd promise. Only idiots believe that any man can stop climate change and only a cynical SOB who is convinced of the stupidity of the average voter would make such a promise.

The destruction of television was not deliberate, it was inevitable. Cable companies would not allow people to subscribe to individual channels. It was like buying and paying for a stack of magazines but not getting to choose which magazines. For only 40 bucks you could get Time, Good Housekeeping and Field and Stream. Don’t like Field and Stream? Don’t read it. But keep paying for it or you can’t have Time or Good Housekeeping.
We would not tolerate it from magazines and surprise! We don’t tolerate it from television channels.

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