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People's Blog • Next Tuesday's victory requires we abandon the language of Last Tuesday

Excerpt from a very helpful memo from the Third Way: 'Was it something I said?'

"For a party that spends billions of dollars trying to find the perfect language to connect to voters, Democrats and their allies use an awful lot of words and phrases no ordinary person would ever dream of saying. The intent of this language is to include, broaden, empathize, accept, and embrace. The effect of this language is to sound like the extreme, divisive, elitist, and obfuscatory, enforcers of wokeness. To please the few, we have alienated the many—especially on culture issues, where our language sounds superior, haughty and arrogant.

In reality, most Democrats do not run or govern on wildly out-of-touch social positions. But voters would be excused to believe we do because of the words that come out of our mouths—words which sound like we are hiding behind unfamiliar phrases to mask extreme intent.

Why the tortured language? After all, many Democrats are aware that the words and phrases we use can be profoundly alienating. But they use it because plain, authentic language that voters understand often rebounds badly among many activists and advocacy organizations. These activists and advocates may take on noble causes, but in doing so they often demand compliance with their preferred messages; that is how “birthing person” became a stand-in for mother or mom. And if we don’t think more carefully about our language, many in America will be banking on help from Donald Trump and Republicans, because Democratic levers of power will be few and far between.

In this memo, we are putting a spotlight on the language we use that puts a wall between us and everyday people of all races, religions, and ethnicities. These are words that people simply do not say, yet they hear them from Democrats. Over the years we’ve conducted, read, and analyzed hours upon hours of focus groups, and we’ve yet to hear a voter volunteer any of the phrases below except as a form of derision or parody of Democrats. We’re not talking about techno-speak, like net-zero and climate resiliency. Those words put up their own Ivy League walls between policymakers and voters. Here we are focusing on the eggshell dance of political correctness which leaves the people we aim to reach cold or fearful of admonishment."

For more insights on how to stop using the losing language of Last Tuesday in our glorious struggle for Next Tuesday read more:

https://www.thirdway.org/memo/was-it-something-i-said

Statistics: Posted by Margaret — 8/22/2025, 5:02 pm

People's Blog • Random Posters

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Statistics: Posted by Colonel Obyezyana — 8/22/2025, 1:31 pm

People's Blog • Re: Re:

It might work in the 9th Circuit and other liberal courts.



 

Statistics: Posted by Colonel Obyezyana — 8/22/2025, 1:28 pm

People's Tools •

The People's Cube introduces new AI assistant: Zohran the Magnificent. Unsure about which of the myriad A.I. assistants out there is right for you? Try Zohran the Magnificent, the only current-truth assistant that uses every logical fallacy known to back up your arguments with the most brazen appeal to AI authority.

Try Zohran the Magnificent today.

Statistics: Posted by Margaret — 8/22/2025, 12:58 pm

People's Blog • Re:

Most Equally Esteemed Comrade Jackalopelipsky,

Your latest rantings eloquent agitation seem to encourage Comrades to stockpile pickled munitions to use against the Commissars appointed by The Party™.  Commissar Krycki (sounds like something Steve Irwin might say...) is only looking out for The People™ by discouraging that KKKapitalist and Counter Revolutionary trait of self reliance.  No one should be able to provide for their own needs!  That is what The Party™ is for!  To tell us what our needs are and then provide to us accordingly.  Individuals (spit spit) growing their own food is not acceptable.  Where is The Collective™ in that?  Encouraging the production and stockpiling (hoarding) of garden food stuffs is agitating for the Counter Revolution™.

I'm certain that this was just a momentary slip and that you had no Counter Revolutionary intentions.  I would hate to have to point the fin of denunciation your way.  Perhaps a quick stop by the Jiffy Lobo™?  We will tell no one.  

All manifestations of self reliance and entrepreneurship must be eliminated!  There are no individuals, just The Collective™!  (and The Current Truth™)

Red Salmon

 

What's the purpose in sending the jackalope to the beet fields if not for production for The Collective™? Has the USSA gone Aboriginal in thinking about time?



Has Global Warming ended the snow and ice of winter in New Hampshire??? Sure, if beet or cucumber season never ends, then no reason to resort to self preservation. But, seasons happen...for a reason, we are told.

An early look at the Winter 2025/2026 shows the influence of a weak La Niña phase. The latest forecasts also indicate a weaker Polar Vortex, which means more dynamic pressure patterns, enabling colder winter days over the United States, Canada, and Europe. Aug 13, 2025

Do you really think feel a Jiffy Lobo® is enough to prevent these facts from dot connecting in this hare brain beet shoveler's mind? If the taxidermist couldn't do the job right the first time, how's a Jiffy Lobo going to Nanny State Skirt, the pickle conundrum we have before us?

Declare yourself The Revolution™ and pickle on!

Statistics: Posted by jackalopelipsky — 8/22/2025, 12:23 pm

People's Blog • Re: NH Pickle Kulak Busted

Greetings Komrades from the glorious Peoples Republic of Down Under, under the Grand Imam Albonizza, hero to the oppressed masses in the ancient and revered cultural oasis of Palestine.

(/OFF) How I have missed the Cube. I learn through satire... (/ON)

Manchester's glorious bureaucrats have sure got the people out of a pickle pickle. 

Australians are seasoned veterans in compliance through food regulation. We used our brines, knowing that unapproved food is deadly. Now we relish our peace and safety, knowing that private food production has been sufficiently destroyed  regulated, for everyone's health and betterment. Soon, we will not need hospitals, because no-one will be sick, apart from those mentally ill neocons and liberatarians. But we must pickle our battles very carefully.

In fact, before he was our Grand Imam, Albonizza and his komrade Daniel Andrews dill-icately fermented a system of government food regulation like no other. 

They saved an entire community from this kapitalist thought criminal and his empire of private food production,  before moving to bigger and better things. Daniel Andrews, of course, was the hero who singlehandedly saved the state of Victoria from Covid, and from the scourge of independence and personal responsibility, so now they own nothing and are happyTM.

Statistics: Posted by Beelzebob Brown — 8/21/2025, 11:30 pm

People's Blog • Red Salute (1935)

For any comrade who has the patience to watch a 1935 black and white comedy that still has relevance today, here's a suggestion: "Red Salute," a screwball comedy similar in delivery to "His Gal Friday."

Barbara Stanwyck plays the smartass daughter of a U.S. Army general. She falls for a communist organizer on the local college campus, thus causing a scandal for the general.  Robert Young plays the quick-thinking Fort Bliss soldier who sees right through the communist claptrap.

Although a fictional comedy, it shows that the same sort of leftists found on campuses today were very much part of American life in 1935. 

You can watch it on YouTube (although it's bound to be playable here when I post this link):
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Most of the film is an extended chase. Enjoy if you have the time.

Statistics: Posted by Colonel Obyezyana — 8/21/2025, 3:59 pm

People's Tools •

From the news pages: Filmmakers claim late ‘Superman’ actor Christopher Reeve would have opposed Donald Trump

Statistics: Posted by Margaret — 8/21/2025, 1:51 pm

People's Blog •

Hides my gulag jar of kimchee

Statistics: Posted by Groucho Marxist — 8/20/2025, 10:53 pm

People's Karaoke •

Ooh-wah, ooh-wah, do wah ditty
Tell us about the boy Zohran Mamdani

Statistics: Posted by Groucho Marxist — 8/20/2025, 10:42 pm