List all Republican code words and phrases--with English translations

[meow2u3]

States' rights = legalized racial discrimination

Family values = legalized gender discrimination

Junk lawsuits = any suit by an individual that demands a corporation be held accountable for their misdeeds

Faith-based initiatives = legally sanctioned child abuse in the name of religion

Tort reform = 1)taking away victims' right to sue criminal corporations. 2) putting rich people above the law.



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Add your own.

[Worst Username Ever]

1. Tax Break

= bribe

[RobertSeattle]

2. Small Business Owners = Multi Millionaires

"Rule of Law" - Only applies to Democrats who have violated the law.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. Judicial activism = I can't break the Constitution and get away with it

[ibegurpard]

4. liberal media

any media that doesn't kowtow 100% to the RNC propaganda line.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. Flip-flopper = thinks about decisions

[olddem43]

6. Clean skies - corporate pollution

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

7. Compassionate conservatism = compassionate genocide

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. No Child Left Behind = No Rich Child Left Behind

[ixion]

9. Terrorist

definition: anyone who doesn't get on their knees to praise chimpy.

[Cerridwen]

10. Homosexual = damn

he/she's cute...but, but, the bible says....evil, I'm damned, arghhhhhh!

[Worst Username Ever]

11. WMD

any excuse to start a war.

[msturgis524]

patriotism = censorship

[Mindful Monk]

12. "Make no mistake"

"If you believe anything that follows, it's a BIG mistake."

[HarveyBriggs]

13. "Liberal"

= "nigger lover"

Remember when that nasty little phrase fell out of favor and they needed a replacement? Go down south and hear the word "liberal" used, and if you were around 30-40 years ago then you know exactly what they mean when they use the word "liberal."

HB

[Mindful Monk]

14. "Tax and spend"

"Arrange to actually pay for what you buy."

[deadmessengers]

36. I prefer "pay as you go" n/t

[salinen]

15. Friendly forest =

clearcutting.

Nation Building = Colonial rule
IAEA = We can, you can't
Energy Policy = Wars for resource

[Postman]

16. Free Market = Corporate State

Democracy = Imperialist Capitalism

[ChrisK]

17. Poland = The greatest coalition partner ever !

:evilgrin:

[auburngrad82]

18. Hollywood Types = Jews

[baldguy]

66. I thought "New York Liberals" was a code-word for "Jews".

[LifeDuringWartime]

79. my guess is they both are

n/t

[AlienGirl]

99. "Hollywood-type" can also mean "gays"

[AlienGirl]

100. "Cultural elite"="Jews"

[ProfessorGAC]

119. Nah! Cultural Elite = People Who Think

The Professor

[Ganja Ninja]

19. Compassionate Conservative = Rich and Hateful Asshole ...

that lives to f**k over anyone thats less fortunate then them.

[DelawareValleyDem]

20. defecit spending

aka deferred taxation

[RockyO]

113. defecit spending = ghost tax

by the way, I've never seen a federal tax cut from BushCo that did not increase my State and local taxes!

[arcane1]

21. "move this country forward" = "move this country backward"

[gatlingforme]

22. Mixed messages = I should have thought of that.

[VOX]

23. "Ownership society" = The gov't controls what you own, and will own

This includes retirement funds, Social Security, and private property. Once again, this is something meaningful only to the super-rich and priviledged.

[DelawareValleyDem]

24. legacy admission

affirmative action for rich white guys

[SCDem]

25. compassionate conservative = srew 'em for all they got

[LisaM]

26. Reform = strip funding. n/t

[gospelized]

27. up = down

night = day

[BiggJawn]

28. "Activist Judge"

Any judge who doesn't take his/her/its orders from the AFA or James Dobson...

[BillZBubb]

29. Junk science, compassion, personal responsibility, judicial activism

Junk science: Any science that they don't agree with.

Compassion: Feigning sorrow over a problem or situation that they have no intention of doing anything about.

Personal Responsibility: No welfare. It does not mean admitting mistakes--for them.

Judicial activism: Any court decision that they don't agree with.

Conservative: No welfare, covert racism, religious fanaticism, corporatism, militarism, and never having to say you're sorry.

[Mad_Dem_X]

35. We should create a "Republican to English" dictionary

:D

[meow2u3]

63. That's exactly what I intend to do!

Now for another defintion of tort reform: corporate impunity

[meow2u3]

67. Judicial restraint - a decision fundies agree with

Strict constructionist - said of a judge who makes a decision right-wing extremists agree with, regardless of constitutionality.

[TheDebbieDee]

30. Sub-Saharan + Dark-skinned or Brown-skinned

[skippysmom]

31. No child left behind = no child left untested

preserving traditional marriage = gay bashing

[PROGRESSIVE1]

32. "Federalism":

"Federalism": "The right of ANY white, conservative, God fearin' folk to harrass and deny equal rights to anyone who's different from themselves without fear of punishment."

[EEgrad2003]

33. Free Iraq=Imperialization

War on Terror = Killing all Muslims, that don't make us any money
No Child Left Behind = Separation of the Classes; "Screw poor people"
Christian Fundamentalist = Racism and Discrimination LITE

[Out the Parasites]

34. It's Hard Work...so we should let other people do the work for us

[yellowcanine]

37. My Base - the " Haves and the Have Mores".

[JHB]

38. "Common Sense reform"

=radical change of something that either works just fine or only needs a little adjustment.

[Tuttle]

39. "big-time"="asshole"

Saw that in the Cal Thomas column today.

Tut-tut

[tom_paine]

40. "Privatization"

Privatization = Liscense to steal and defraud without danger of investigation/prosecution

[meow2u3]

64. "modernization"

modernation = socialize the costs, privatize the profits.

[Skittles]

41. "tax relief"

bankrupting the country

[coalition_unwilling]

42. "Turning the corner" == Losing the war

[Skittles]

43. "elite"

college-educated

[DURHAM D]

44. They changed "Inheritance Tax" to "Death Tax"

and anit-abortion to pro-life. They are very good at this game. The right wing has been controlling the word usage by the general public for about 20 years - glad everyone is having fun with it.

[info being]

45. "Create Jobs"

Give money to the rich.

[info being]

46. "Free Market"

Market tightly controlled by, and designed to protect, Fortune 100 corporations.

[info being]

47. "Freedom"

Corporate authoritarian control over everything.

[info being]

49. "Protect America"

Scare America

[patcox2]

48. "Property rights" = repeal environmental protection laws

nt

[catzies]

50. "Culture of life" = women are merely breeding vessels, nothing more

n/t

[w4rma]

51. Repugs aren't much into states' rights anymore. So, now that translation

doesn't mean the same thing it does to them.

[Bluebear]

52. "Bipartisan effort" = got Zell & Joementum to sign on with them

[Democracy Died 2004]

53. Gun Control=

Shooting Democrats with accuracy.

[meow2u3]

70. Bipartisan - when Democrats toe the Republican line

Partisan - when Democrats tell the truth about Republican corruption

Obstructionist - said of a Democrat or Democrats who won't toe the Republican line regarding extremist judges

Pro-life - anti-abortion yet callous and hostile to life already on this Earth--especially spewing hatred to mothers

[chookie]

54. "Creating a climate in which business can thrive in America"

Wage slavery

[July]

55. "one nation under God" = "Christian theocracy ahead"

[July]

56. "Pollwatching" = "intimidating minority voters"

[July]

57. "New York City" = Sodom-on-Hudson, whose dead we stand on.

[July]

58. "9/11" = "license to kill, steal, and lie"

[lpbk2713]

59. "I was given bad intel"

My handlers tell me to blame my fuggup on a low-level civil service employee or on someone appointed by a Democratic administration.

[Nobody]

60. Liberal Media = Any news source that doesn't whore for Bush

[ThoughtCriminal]

76. Always reduced to 2-syllables

as in "Lib"-"Rul" vs "Lib"-"Er"-"Al"

[Nobody]

61. Terrorist = anyone who disagrees with Bush Inc.

on edit: had to fix the typo

[jerryman814]

62. "Hard Work"

Death

[VOX]

65. "Sanctity of marriage" = pandering to anti-gay religious zealots...

Some of whom actually believe that "God put * in the White House for a reason."
:kick:

[Joanne98]

68. Freedom= corperate crime and capitalist pig greed.........

[noiretextatique]

102. freedom fighters = fighting against freedom wom

[donkeyotay]

69. playing politics - not agreeing. Parisan politics - two-party system

9-11 changed everything - don't look at my record

stay the course - we've already gone off the cliff

whatever it takes - Abu Ghraib

mission accomplished - the Iraqi people appointed me their leader and told them to surrender.

it's hard work - we f'ed up big time, but don't hold me accountable

We'er moving/looking forward - don't look at my record

I'm a uniter not a divider - I'm the most partisan bastard imaginable

I wanna practice my love - I'm a sociopath, but maybe you won't notice if I talk this psuedo-christian crap

And when asked at the first debate: Mr. President (sic), Does the Iraq experience make it more likely or less likely that you would take the United States into another preemptive military action?

BUSH: ...So to answer your question, I would hope we'd never have to. I think by acting firmly and decisively, it will mean it's less likely to -- less likely we have to use force.

That mean, "If you stupid shits let me stay in office, I'm going to invade Iran and North Korea and start a nukular war."

[freeplessinseattle]

71. "friendly fire"

=unfriendly murder

[Iris]

72. Pro-life = except for the death penalty.

[Karenina]

73. Tritt für Wahrheit

:kick:

[sr_pacifica]

93. Saddam Hussein=the boogie man

[justjones]

74. Quotas=Too many colored folk. (n/t)

[bo44]

75. determined and resolute=dead soldiers by the hundreds

[ThoughtCriminal]

77. Nuke-You-Lar

I think they mean Nuclear, but that's sometimes "UnClear"

[ThoughtCriminal]

78. Enemy Combatant=POW

or sometimes, "was on the street"

1st Amendment Zone = Hide protesters from His Highness (also see Potemkin Village)

[roguevalley]

80. democrat, not democratic: sign of the devil

lifestyle choice: God did so not make *THEM* in his own image

Librul: Satan

love the sinner, hate the sin: I could burn you at the stake, you bastard

vouchers: start your own nazi academy on the people's nickel

[jokerman93]

81. code words

America = people who believe they stand to gain by drinking from the punch bowl

Americans = white fundie franchise owners

...until we get the job done = Muslim genocide

new jobs = military and service sector wage slavery

freedom (as in "they hate our...")= dominion

[Booster]

82. Words out of their mouth="I'm telling a lie".

[KellyPaDem]

83. Campaign work = AWOL

[AspenRose]

84. "Limousine Liberal"/"Latte Liberal": Resentment of upper middle class

and educated Liberals for having the GALL to want to promote equality and justice for ALL people, not just their own kind (e.g. if they have money, they should be sticking it to the poor, not trying to help them!)

On edit:
'Fraternity Prank' = Prison torture

[ThoughtCriminal]

85. Liberate

= kill them all, let God sort 'em out.

[porkrind]

86. Cheney = "Go Fuck Yourself"

Insurgent = people trying to defend their home against foreign invaders

Freedom Fighter = US sponsored terrorist

Ally = Repressive strongman dictator propped up by the US and CIA

Dept of Homeland Security = KGB or "Ministry of Love"

Office of Special Plans = Overthrow of legitimate government

Bob Novak = Douchebag for Liberty

Health Care Reform = Population Control

Republican = fascist, greedy, selfish, petty, liar.

[cosmicvortex20]

87. code words -- trying to simplify the complex

I dont think its quite that easy to translate code terms into pre-concieved notions. People can honestly have different ideas of what terms mean.

[chookie]

89. ding ding ding ding ding ding!

YES! You are correct! The very reason that these phrases are repeated over and over and over and over and are so "popular" is because they are multivalent.

For example -- say "justice" to a liberal, and think "a fair shake for all." Say "justice" to one of them, and they're thinking of locking you up or frying your ass.

This is why they use code words to begin with, amigo! They sound "reasonable" to sane people, but are well known "wink wink nudge nudge" issues with his wacko base.

[T Bone]

98. what are you some kind of nuancer or something ??

or just French?

[slaveplanet]

88. Entitlements= welfare

Corporate welfare

[sr_pacifica]

90. Activist judge---any judge with a social conscience n/t

[JohnnyRingo]

91. Ownership = Second Mortage loan

[sr_pacifica]

92. gay rights=special privileges n/t

[sr_pacifica]

94. 9/11=the day we (Fundies) saved America n/t

[gavodotcom]

95. Heart = Stone

[gavodotcom]

96. Up = Down, Black = White, Etc, Etc.

[nickgutierrez]

97. "Terrorist"

A Muslim, primarily one of middle eastern descent, with little or no distinction towards political beliefs. Alternately, could be used to describe a Democrat that says something that is particularly opposed to the Republican ideology. (see: Kennedy, Ted)

"The enemy": Democrats

"campaign finance reform": Establishing corporate control over the elections process.

[noiretextatique]

101. vouchers = McSkols for the poor (Educational Management Organizations)

while the rest of us subsidize elite private school educations for the wealthy.

[noiretextatique]

103. affirmative access = neocon rainbow coalition eom

[noiretextatique]

104. "there ought to be limits to freedom" = there will be limits to freedom

bush, inc & friends: exempted.

[rman]

105. "it's good for the economy" = lining the pockets of the rich

aka confiscation of wealth.

(what's good for the economy isn't necesarily good for people)

[MsConduct]

106. There are WMD's=somewhere in the world. n/t

[wickerwoman]

107. Elitist = Anyone smarter than we are or winning an argument against us.

see also "ivory-tower" "academic" and "intellectual" as insults.

"Shock and Awe" = Spring cleaning for our arsenals.

"Leave no child behind" = in any brown parts of the world. See "Shock and Awe".

[GreenPoet64]

108. Precision Strike = 1 terrorist and an entire wedding party

[GreenPoet64]

109. The Enemy = Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden & all Liberals

[AntiFascist]

110. Homeland Security ==>

Raise the threat level whenever you need to shore up the political base.

[GreenPoet64]

111. Support the Troops = Never criticize the war

[GreenPoet64]

112. Defend Marriage = Discriminate against homosexuals

[WatchWhatISay]

114. Anybody notice their constant use of the word "clear"

They arent giving it any new meaning, but I'm sure its on "Newts 2004 List Of Positive Words To Be Used When Discussing the Bush Administation"

Sounds so rock solid. So decisive. You'd be an idiot not to see it.

During the Clinton Witch Hunts they always used the phrase "at the end of the day", for pretty much the same purpose.

[pelagius]

115. It's not about oil = It's about oil n/t

[secular_warrior]

116. "Regular People"= White straight Christians

"American"=White straight Christian

"War on Terror"=Kill all Muslims

"Tax cut"= the upstanding white man shouldn't have to support "niggers", "crackheads" and "welfare queens".

[tom_paine]

117. Real Americans = Straight, White, Christian Bush Supporters

Even straight white Christian non-supporters are in the same category the Nazis placed the Jews

"Not Real Germans"

[EV1Ltimm]

118. "Out Of The Mainstream" = Not Conservative

"Welfare Reform" = Welfare Destruction
"Privatize Social Security" = Future S&L Scandal
"Democrats" = Conceived of Satan's Seed, Sprung forth from a sin-cursed, sulphuric maw and suckled curdled milk from a demon's leathern teet. Eats babies and owns a puppy rotisserie.

[ProfessorGAC]

120. Actually It's "Not Fringe Right"

The people who say "out of the mainstream" are FAR, FAR, FAR from the mainstream themselves. It's actually a case of projection. They can't get americans to agree with their lunatic fringe agenda, so they accuse the other side of being out of the mainstream. Pot calling the kettle black!
The Professor

[flatbroker]

121. pension relief =

companies are relieved of pension payment obligations and employee is relieved of his or her pension.

[LibDemAlways]

122. "It's your money. You should be able to keep it."

= "Me and my friends are millionaires who don't want to share a goddamned dime with anyone. After we're finished taxing your middle-class ass to subsidize our affluent lifestyle, and you've struggled to pay your bills and fend off your creditors, if - big if - you have a few pennies left over - go ahead and keep em."