Posted on 08/22/2025 8:51:22 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Democrats seem to think they can talk their way out of the political wilderness.
Listen closely and you can hear it through the din of their all-caps Trumpian X feeds, their hourslong “manosphere” podcast interviews and their more frequent swearing.
Nearly 10 months after the 2024 elections, and the party is still embroiled in self-recriminations over where they’re talking, what they’re talking about and, now, the actual words they’re using. Or, more precisely: which words they shouldn’t utter.
In a new memo, shared exclusively with POLITICO, the center-left think tank Third Way is circulating a list of 45 words and phrases they want Democrats to avoid using, alleging the terms put “a wall between us and everyday people of all races, religions, and ethnicities.” It’s a set of words that Third Way suggests “people simply do not say, yet they hear them from Democrats.”
They span six categories — from “therapy speak” to “explaining away crime” — and put in sharp relief a party that authors say makes Democrats “sound like the extreme, divisive, elitist, and obfuscatory, enforcers of wokeness.” In the document, titled “Was It Something I Said?” Third Way argues that to “please the few, we have alienated the many — especially on culture issues, where our language sounds superior, haughty and arrogant,” according to the memo.
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Wow.
IOW, he's admitting that Democrats aren't 'normal' people...............
the center-left think tank Third Way is circulating a list of 45 words and phrases they want Democrats to avoid using,
Then MAGA pundits should make sure those words are in every interaction they have with their he dem scumbags
“Blacklist”! Racist!
“Gallego is doing a great job talking about economic success,” she says. “He goes into communities and he’s like, ‘I want you to have a big ass truck, if that’s what you want.’”
Blacklist of Words Democrats should avoid if they want to win:
Biden
Harris
Newsom
Buttigieg
Ocasio-Cortez
Pritzker
Freedom
The Constitution
Republic
Limited Constitutional Gov't
Life, Liberty, Free Pursuits
Stuff like that...
They are right, all those word are alienating common people.
But, I think, they are so deep in this do-do that they cannot get out of it too easy!
They just do cannot get out of it without alienating their base.
“It shows that people don’t think Democrats want to hold criminals accountable at all,” she said. “Like we don’t care about violent crime and we don’t care if someone hurts someone, that they should be held accountable. That’s not true. We’re afraid to say that because we’re afraid that someone is going to criticize us for being too ‘tough on crime.’”
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
How about they just shut their traps altogether and keep 'em shut? Much better option.
From my perspective, in general Dims are:
- elitist, smarmy, college “educated” tools
- media “elites” see above
- non-thinkers that hear and read headlines
- welfare recipients
That pretty much sums up all of them.
Keep the policies, but change the words.
Everything liberals do that looks “normal” is a lie.
In other words, Dems need to hide their woke extremism.
CSPAN rebroadcasts which eliminated those words would have nothing but beeps when the leftists were speaking.
Lol.
That's rich. A man pretending to be a woman - Tim McBride - begging people to be normal. You couldn't make this stuff up.
Lets add:
For just one person:
Orangeman bad...
Drumpf...
Epstein’s friend Don...
Nazi Fascist King...
TACO...
Rapist Don...
Convicted Criminal (34 Felonies!!!)...
Insurectionist-in-Chief...
For the rest of us:
Bitter clingers...
Tea baggers...
Deplorables...
Repugnicants...
Garbage...
Racists...
Sexists...
Homophobes...
Transphobes...
Nazis...
White Supremacists...
Chrisitan Nationalists...
Extreme and/or Far Right...
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