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malaise

(291,437 posts)
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 05:15 AM Friday

It starts with refusing to call the party by its name

Last edited Fri Nov 21, 2025, 05:55 AM - Edit history (1)

- Democratic Party. Now it has reached the point where he is calling for the death of elected Democrats who are merely advising military folks not to disobey the law or the Constitution on Donvict’s behalf.

Since Jan 6, 2021, the real seditionists are the MAGAt in chief and his goons.

Add link with his threats
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220820504

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It starts with refusing to call the party by its name (Original Post) malaise Friday OP
Yep, Newt Gingrich started it years ago and now even the so-called respectable people have taken it up Walleye Friday #1
Two thoughts: Irish_Dem Friday #2
I think it's up to every one of us to fight back whenever we can. Even correcting their insults. Walleye Friday #4
Yes, We The People can and should speak out as much as possible. Irish_Dem Friday #8
Well the good news is that Americans hate him more malaise Friday #5
Maybe this is part of the Dem leadership strategy. It is called gray rocking. Irish_Dem Friday #9
I have heard some of our Democratic congress members correct them. llmart Friday #6
It is typical of an abuser, to put down and embarrass other people all the time. Irish_Dem Friday #10
Oh, I know exactly what you mean. llmart Friday #12
Dems should respond way more to Donvict's malaise Friday #11
I think you meant "Democrat Party" but yes, I agree with the rest of your post. llmart Friday #22
Autocorrect did me in malaise Friday #31
I like the idea of red lettering corrections. slightlv Friday #29
+1,000 malaise Friday #30
Maybe we can say something like, "It is the democratic party, what you are saying is just bad grammer Maraya1969 Friday #24
They'd better respond to this JAGs clown malaise Friday #27
I know responses are alway mild and general. Irish_Dem Friday #32
OMG! llmart Friday #34
I will never understand it malaise Friday #3
Yes, our people need to bring this up on every talkshow.Not discussing policy like it's going to change anything. Walleye Friday #7
I see it even here on DU Wednesdays Friday #35
Maybe we should label them as well bucolic_frolic Friday #13
I started using ReTHUGs ages ago malaise Friday #14
Whatever term used needs to fly in polite society - on the news, in speeches. bucolic_frolic Friday #15
Bwaaah Joe Scum just said that Johnson lied through his drumroll...fuck... malaise Friday #16
+1,000 malaise Friday #17
I've been calling them. Cherrycheeks Friday #20
I call them Publicans. Old word for tax collectors. multigraincracker Friday #21
I did not know that. bucolic_frolic Friday #23
Trump wants blood PJMcK Friday #18
Sure does malaise Friday #25
"What is the Democrat party? I've never heard of it" AJH032 Friday #19
It started with us tolerating a jackass, believing the the people are too smart to hand the reins over to him. marble falls Friday #26
trump's Fascist Party needs to be called out for what it is. mwb970 Friday #28
Repugs Kid Berwyn Friday #33
Look at the girth on him. llmart Friday #36
Walmart wants you to hang Trump. usonian Friday #37
I call the opposition "regressive" or the regressive party Niagara Friday #38

Walleye

(43,321 posts)
1. Yep, Newt Gingrich started it years ago and now even the so-called respectable people have taken it up
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 05:32 AM
Friday

So we let them deliberately insult us every time they talk about us and don’t fight back for some reason. Because we think it’s beneath us or it’s too boring. I don’t understand.

Irish_Dem

(78,158 posts)
2. Two thoughts:
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 05:36 AM
Friday

1. Leadership does not understand we are in a fight for the survival of our country.

2. Perhaps they understand this, but have decided to give Trump and pals enough rope to hang themselves.
It is called the long game but it is very hard to watch.

Walleye

(43,321 posts)
4. I think it's up to every one of us to fight back whenever we can. Even correcting their insults.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 05:40 AM
Friday

We just let it go like it’s not important like he calls for murdering Democrats and it’s not important. We can’t just take it and laugh it off. It’s not funny.

Irish_Dem

(78,158 posts)
8. Yes, We The People can and should speak out as much as possible.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 05:43 AM
Friday

Yes none of what Trump is doing is funny.
It is deadly serious and despicable.

Irish_Dem

(78,158 posts)
9. Maybe this is part of the Dem leadership strategy. It is called gray rocking.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 05:46 AM
Friday

You totally disengage from the abuser.
Let everyone else see clearly who the abuser is.
And people grow to hate the abuser more each day.

llmart

(17,152 posts)
6. I have heard some of our Democratic congress members correct them.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 05:42 AM
Friday

But certainly not enough. I can't remember any specific time, but it always caught my ear when the correction would be pointed out. It would be something to the effect of, "that's Democratic party, not Democrat party". I'm a real stickler for knowing how powerful words can be. It may seem like a small issue but it does affect people's perceptions.

Irish_Dem

(78,158 posts)
10. It is typical of an abuser, to put down and embarrass other people all the time.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 05:47 AM
Friday

It is second nature to them.

llmart

(17,152 posts)
12. Oh, I know exactly what you mean.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 05:53 AM
Friday

They use derogatory "nicknames" for people. We all know that trump does it constantly. It's usually a sign that they feel inferior intellectually to the ones they are putting down. On some level they are self-loathing.

malaise

(291,437 posts)
11. Dems should respond way more to Donvict's
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 05:51 AM
Friday

Last edited Fri Nov 21, 2025, 08:24 AM - Edit history (1)

use of Democrat Party. Call him out every time - respond to his stupid posts with the correction in RED every time. Laugh at him publicly when he and the rest of them use it.

Corrected - thanks 😀

slightlv

(7,114 posts)
29. I like the idea of red lettering corrections.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 08:18 AM
Friday

After all, aren't they manipulated enough to equate red letters to the Bible's red letter text. That could work subconsciously on them changing their attitudes... just a separate level of reprogramming.

Maraya1969

(23,378 posts)
24. Maybe we can say something like, "It is the democratic party, what you are saying is just bad grammer
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 07:48 AM
Friday

And it makes you sound uneducated."

malaise

(291,437 posts)
27. They'd better respond to this JAGs clown
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 07:57 AM
Friday
https://www.facebook.com/LindseyGrahamSC?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZWOAHaJRgjWgKdDdSs3Rrg3OUqLGXL56ueSFUBAfJVkGf51Cy8Gy0l0o3XXjF3YaNRAkjz2VpiPciBtfsPbwS1c0xTRx6TzZB8KJ3JXUFHseZfdsMsc1A3goqssIO25snOdx8KOCBhFd-gYqYphzZz91sXVLLQhMx6SWZF5z6ONpQ&__tn__=-UC%2CP-R

Six Democrat Members of Congress -- all with military or intelligence backgrounds -- recently released a video urging members of the U.S. military and Intelligence Community to "refuse illegal orders."
To say that I am disturbed this video is an understatement. As a former Air Force JAG, I take the issue of unlawful orders very seriously, and I cannot find a single example of an illegal order during this administration.
To that end, I believe these Democrats owe it to the country to be specific about which orders they think are unlawful.

llmart

(17,152 posts)
34. OMG!
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 10:43 AM
Friday

I love the person who posted Miss Piggy saying to him, "Quiet Pedo." Trolling ole' Lindsay is fun.

malaise

(291,437 posts)
3. I will never understand it
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 05:40 AM
Friday

I’d call them and the hacks out every time they say it.
I’d remind them of low IQ Slobby’s inability to say Democratic.
Every time they attack a Hispanic with the ‘speak English’, I’d bring up the Democratic v Democrat as used by Donvict’s et al.
He wants to kill people.

Walleye

(43,321 posts)
7. Yes, our people need to bring this up on every talkshow.Not discussing policy like it's going to change anything.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 05:43 AM
Friday

Wednesdays

(21,423 posts)
35. I see it even here on DU
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 10:44 AM
Friday

Certain members have a knack of saying "Democrat" rather than "Democratic." It's infuriating.

Not saying DUers write it with bad intentions, but whenever I point it out I usually get a response something along the lines of "what's the big deal?"

bucolic_frolic

(53,400 posts)
13. Maybe we should label them as well
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 06:07 AM
Friday

RepubliCON Party.

With the emphasis on the final syllable.

bucolic_frolic

(53,400 posts)
15. Whatever term used needs to fly in polite society - on the news, in speeches.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 06:17 AM
Friday

ReTHUGs is fine for us, but the general populace would grimace and M$M won't use it. To state the obvious.

malaise

(291,437 posts)
16. Bwaaah Joe Scum just said that Johnson lied through his drumroll...fuck...
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 06:21 AM
Friday

paused to walk back the fucking teeth. Mika mouse grabbed his arm and said he didn’t quite say it 😂😂😂

Cherrycheeks

(288 posts)
20. I've been calling them.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 06:46 AM
Friday

CONS for years.Newt Gingrich started blaming Dems for decades and using Democrat instead of the Democratic party.

They all have been coming on the media repeating the same lines no matter the subject. Some people have just began to catch on. I have watch Thune and the rest of the gang stand behind Mitch McConnell for yrs going along with every criminal act there is. Especially, not letting Obama seat a supreme. 😡.

PJMcK

(24,485 posts)
18. Trump wants blood
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 06:42 AM
Friday

He wants violence to save himself.

God help us... if you know what I mean.

malaise

(291,437 posts)
25. Sure does
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 07:52 AM
Friday
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/20/democrats-condemn-trump-military-video-post

Outrage after Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behavior, punishable by death’
US president roundly decried for Truth Social post after lawmakers told military personnel to refuse illegal orders

AJH032

(1,128 posts)
19. "What is the Democrat party? I've never heard of it"
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 06:44 AM
Friday

This should be the response every time.

For example: “I’d love to respond, but you’re referring to something called the Democrat party, and I have absolutely no clue what that is.”

marble falls

(69,608 posts)
26. It started with us tolerating a jackass, believing the the people are too smart to hand the reins over to him.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 07:56 AM
Friday

llmart

(17,152 posts)
36. Look at the girth on him.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 10:45 AM
Friday

I'll bet Kimmie is thinking, 'Hey, I look svelte next to him."

Niagara

(11,179 posts)
38. I call the opposition "regressive" or the regressive party
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 03:43 PM
Friday

I'm not "name-calling" and I use this is everyday conversation.


I know by general conversation if someone is political and how they vote. For example if they use the terms "Obamacare" instead of the ACA I know that this person is a regressive and votes accordingly.



A few definitions of regressive:


1. becoming less advanced; returning to a former or less developed state


2. (of a tax) taking a proportionally greater amount from those on lower incomes


3. tending to regress or produce regression

A few listed synonyms:
backward, decline, worsen, deteriorating, outdated, primitive, fossilized, rightist, ultraconservative


As far as I'm concerned it's a two way street. It was a long time ago but I was asked if I'm a "demorat". So I asked if they were regressive and backwards.


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