The importance of Code.... and why we have to decipher it

[nadinbrzezinski]

make no mistake about it, republicans use code. Why? The agenda is not what most of us would agree with. In fact, most americans don't even if they vote against their self interest. So the GOP has developed code that the insiders know to define us.

It is time to once again deconstruct the code.

We all have the code words by the way... so join in with a marvelous thread to decode.

Free Markets= Laizze Faire Economics, and no regulation

States Rights= keep things the way they are and keep the feds away from here (whatever that is) to be ignored in cases such as the 2000 election.

Activist Judges= They are actually interpreting the Constitution in ways that do not help us or we don't agree with.

Liberal Judges+ an open attack on the judiciary.

Presidential Powers+ Imperial Presidency

Latte Drinking Liberal mostly East Coast big city Liberal... might or might not be expanding to any big city liberal....

Fell free to add

[Mike03]

1. Let me please be the first to respond to and rec this thread.

As usual, your mind is fantastically active and admirable.

I wish I were more like you.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. I have my problems as well

just that we need to do this decoding from time to time.

care to add any code? I'm sure you know some of it

(Oh and me and my conure are latte drinking libs, she begged for it)

[seemslikeadream]

2. Upper Westside liberals?

"The only people who think this wasn't a victory are Upper Westside
liberals, and a few people here in Washington." (Charles Krauthammer,
Inside Washington, WUSA-TV, 4/19/03)

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. That must be a new one, but taking a stab perhaps some of the

college profs in the university, or NYC liberals... aka Randhi Rhodes and her type...

:-)

I think one of the burroughs is known as the upper west side.

[Karenina]

34. The boroughs are

Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island.

You're on track with university thought; Columbia, Barnard, Manhattan School of Music, Jewish and Union Theological Seminaries are ALL located in the quarter. A veritable HOTBED of academic types!!!

[SpiralHawk]

42. "Pointy head lib-ruls"

Translation: democrats think they know better than YOU -- and of course, YOU are just as good as they are, darn it all; so vote republicon (smirk) and prove that liberals really do know a hell of a lot more than you because they have not Assumed the Position and are not slogging down the corporate media propaganda.

[Cronus Protagonist]

10. Does that include Harlem?

Just wondering...

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Don't live in NYC so I am taking a stab

read the name in a novel or two

[Cronus Protagonist]

17. I was just there, and I could swear that Harlem is in the upper west side

I stayed there for ten days, a few blocks from the Apollo Theatre. I'm not a New Yorker either, which is why I was wondering why Harlem isn't the Upper West Side... looking to know more myself, if any NYC denizens can help.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Would be of interest

indeed, since this is a new one to be added to the code

[Karenina]

32. The Upper West Side and Harlem

are separated by Morningside Park.

[Wiley50]

5. I've got a code in my nose

and I just want to get rid of it.

I blow and blow and blow and blow

It's so red and swollen and my head hurts

God, I don't wanna take any of that decongestant crap from the drugstore
It just makes me feel worse.

[seemslikeadream]

7. Wiley~~~~

:hi: Are ya listening to Malloy?

[Wiley50]

22. Yeah! Hi! SLAD! (Nadin, I'm sorry I'm disruptive. just crazy tonight)

Hey SLaD, thought you didn't love me anymore.

Figured you'd remember me someday

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. No problem, we'll just use you as code

:-)

[seemslikeadream]

26. I think smilies would be a great code

[seemslikeadream]

25. YOU STOP THAT!

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Here is another one

US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Tuesday that America's Social Security program for the retired is "financially unsustainable" and needs an urgent overhaul.

Translation, we want to privatize the SS system as we managed to force both Chile and Argentina to do... this is Chicago School Economics

[lonestarnot]

8. Keith Olbermann watchin' freak!

Only that would be plain text wouldn't it? heh.

[Mike03]

9. Maybe I would add, the attacks against the so called Hollywood Elite.

The people who make films no doubt are targets of code. EDIT: Cut some paragraphs here.

And I can't speak for anyone other than the few people in the film industry have been fortunate enough to know, but it is just plain wrong to suggest that the makers of entertainment such as TV or cinema have more power than they do. It is absurd. All artists have are opinions and hopes and ideals.

And, ON EDIT, I fear my response was way off topic. And if so, I'm sorry.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. No it wasn't

the hollywood elite is indeed code, as well as the liberal media.

:-)

[lonestarnot]

13. Oh oh oh I have another. Vote fraud.

Snort! Fucking double talking out of their ass bastards!

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Good one... I usually forget that one

translation vote suppression

[lonestarnot]

16. Well I wouldn't forget that one if I were you! LOL

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. True, given I have to take passport wtih me to prove I can vote

this primary was the first time nobody challenged me, once they heard me open my flap

:-)

[walldude]

14. Someone wrote a whole book on this.. I'll see if I can find it..

[walldude]

20. No luck.. but I did find this:

Deciphering Karl Rove's playbook:

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:HBVNzaxeIukJ:www.webster.edu/medialiteracy/journal/2006/FINALKARLROVE.doc+Deciphering+Republican+language&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us


Great guide on how to respond to Rovian tactics...

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Great find, just added to my

web links for future reference, and he is a master of code

[lonestarnot]

23. I must force myself to read this when I'm not so tired! Thanks walldude!

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. Ok here is another one... tax and spend liberal

which we all have heard many a times... so this one I think I have narrowed it to SOCIALIST, the horror.

After all them socialists will stop this concentration of wealth....

And when they go for broke bring out the dreaded C word (Commie) which has been an old stand bye to mean workers and working class and enemy since the oh Red Scare

[margotb822]

28. On those "strict contructionalists"

Would they be for or against torture and warrantless wiretapping? IMO, against because that's what the constitution says. They would also be against federal funding of faith-based initiatives. I think we should stop calling them strict constructionalists and call them what they really are: reactionary republicans.

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. But if you are a republican this code means the constitution does not change

it is written in stone and anything after the bill of rights is not valid, so we can still own slaves, put it side by side with states rights... gets ugly, doesn't it?

[margotb822]

30. republicans are ugly n/t

[Echo In Light]

36. Is the U.S. Constitution Terrorist? According to the FBI it is...

"What the FBI agents and police officers are to look for include "Someone who makes numerous references to the U.S. Constitution." So if a highway patrol officer flashes his lights and orders you to pull over to the side and stop, and he says he will arrest you because the bumper sticker on your car says "Preserve the Bill of Rights," and you say you have a Constitutional right to free speech, he could brand you a terrorist suspect."

http://www.progress.org/fold223.htm

[margotb822]

38. That is truly bizarre

but completely in line with the rest of BushCo thinking. They're not out to catch terrorists (because they are the terrorists). They're out to silence dissidents.

[Karenina]

31. Universal health care = SOCIALISM!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3066374

[sendero]

33. National Security = endless but profitable war on terror

Bureaucracy = regulators that keep business from ripping you off

Socialism = helping the poor and middle class, unnacceptable, bailing out rich speculators, cool

[Echo In Light]

37. Yes! The ongoing National $ecurity $tate ruse is thee biggie

[Echo In Light]

35. Insistent accusations of a "liberal" media that is only as 'liberal' as its repub corporate owners

[murielm99]

39. Ownership society =

We own your ass!

All your ass are belong to us.

OK, I'm tired. I need to go to bed.

[Orsino]

40. These phrases are all code for feudalism.

After all these centuries, that's still all they're selling. For some reason, we keep buying.

[Echo In Light]

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