Let’s Retire the Word “Woke” (Over target & barf alert)

Washington Monthly ^ | March 15, 2023 | Matthew Cooper

[DoodleBob]

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[rfp1234]

Woko Whacko: the new Wango Tango.

[wildcard_redneck]

I am fond of the word “woketard.”

[NWFree]

Replace it with broke

[Ge0ffrey]

A skunk by any other name would smell as bad.

[Fungi]

"The Washington Monthly was founded in 1969 on the notion that a handful of plucky young writers and editors, armed with an honest desire to make government work and a willingness to ask uncomfortable questions, could tell the story of what really matters in Washington better than a roomful of Beltway insiders at a Georgetown dinner party." Really? Hogwash.

[Billthedrill]

Seems to be quite a number of things the author doesn’t know but is more than willing to imply. Exonerating Wokeness and blaming Trump for the SVB failure were only the first of many. I don’t know for sure if Cooper is a drug-addicted child-molesting axe murderer with halitosis, but that’s just the sort of thing a drug-addicted child-molesting axe murderer with halitosis would say, isn’t it?

[OpusatFR]

I prefer wokeshevik.

[fidelis]

I remember similar whiny appeals about the terms "snowflake" and "pajama boy." You know you've hit a sore spot when your opponent loses his cool when you poke it.

I remember a reporter once asked Joe Frazier why he insisted on calling Muhammed Ali "Cassius Clay". He just smiled and said, "Because it makes him mad!"

[Paladin2]

OH NO!

leftists p0wn “woke”.

May they gag on a spoonful of it.

[Husker24]

I agree, it should be called radical leftism.

[whitney69]

“We don’t know precisely what caused this financial institution to go from being the hot bank for the tech set to a puddle of assets...”

This is talk around for we won’t admit to all the different things that caused it and are still trying to hide it.

The bank held a high percentage of government failing bonds that plunged in value as the Federal Reserve increased interest rates. Customers of SVB were withdrawing their deposits beyond what it could pay using its cash reserves, and so to help meet its obligations the bank decided to sell $21 billion of its securities portfolio at a loss of $1.8 billion.

The Federal Reserve has changed its policy stance considerably in the last few months in reaction to elevated inflation and a strong lack of recovery in the labor market. Financial markets now point to about five 25 basis point interest rate hikes in 2022, in contrast with less than one predicted as recently as September 2021. And that inflation was the product of the Biden administration’s failure at foreign and domestic policy control. High inflation can be attributed in part to supply chain issues, steady demand, and energy uncertainty. The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates to combat inflation.

Tack that on to the Biden support of the unions which caused the supply line shortages concerning receipt of overseas products, and you have created a literal financial bomb in your lap.

wy69

[Robert DeLong]

That word woke, was the word they chose to define themselves, we will honor the definition they provided of themselves, but not their pronouns. 🙂

[joshua c]

they tried to retire fake news too

just made it more popular

[Celerity]

“The Wall Street Journal has no idea what it is talking about in finance. “

- Washington Monthly.

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

Replace it with joke.

Where joke is understood to be synonymous with Communist malpractice.

[Steely Tom]

When they start complaining about people using a term they invented, it’s a good sign.

[HollyB]

Nah… we’re just getting started

[seowulf]

Yeah, when the garbage starts to stink you call it compost.

[Secret Agent Man]

Woketard it is, then..