I dislike the name-calling of Rethuglicans, or Dimocrats; Drumpf or Obummer, or other accidents of sound that can be used as insults. They just seem middle-school to me. Yet I confess it did amuse me when my voice-to-text out on my walk rendered "wokeness" as "wackness."
I'm right there with you on this kind of name calling. I almost completely stopped visiting Ace of Spades about a year ago as I found the whatever the opposite of Trump Derangement Syndrome that seems to hold over there to be pretty off-putting. I started popping in again a few months ago, and I noticed the childish name calling has really taken hold on the site. I'll admit I smirked a little the first time I saw Malig-Nancy, but that's a joke that has a single use lifetime.
ReplyDeleteDrumpf confuses me, though. I'm not sure why that's supposed to be derogatory. Because it sounds foreign? That'd be pretty xenophobic, wouldn't it?
Like Deevs I'm perplexed by 'Drumpf', and for the same reason.
ReplyDeleteThere have been many times when I thought I might bookmark an article to reference in hopes of persuasion of others, and then I got to the next paragraph with the derangement and thought "nope!"
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It might be because it sounds German and thus Nazi, but that's only a guess on my part.
ReplyDeleteIt’s apparently the original family name before it was anglicized. It’s one of those things that people think “Boy, this will really stick it to ol’ Donny Trump!” But other course it’s silly.
ReplyDeleteI pretty much vote rethuglican and have for about 40 years. I use it liberally because I can. We have the nevertrump scum to keep us focused and ensure that we never ever describe ourselves as Republican. Well, at least since the death of Ronald Reagan. There was a Republican we could be proud of. The rest? Not so much.
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