Rhetorical devices, Catchphrases and Possible Slogans that Democrats Don't Use

[TomC]

Back when a married couple and I were spearheading a Stop the War effort, in the lead up to the Iraq Invasion, she explained this. She had low level friends in the government, like intern level. They'd explained the priorities of contacting your representative.
E-mails mostly get ignored and deleted en masse. Form letters weren't treated very differently.
What got attention was a hand written, addressed, and stamped missive. That meant the constituent really cared about the issue.

They bought a big roll of stamps, I bought a batch of nice stationary with envelopes. We photocopied a list of points and addresses, and gave them to anyone who would agree to hand write, in their own words, and mail a letter to their congressman or whatever.

So, you suceeeded in stopping the invasion of Iraq, then?

Or is this a detailed, step-by-step, set of instructions on how to be ignored while feeling as though you were less ignored than the other people they ignored?

Perhaps you didn't notice the part of the post I quoted and responded to?
Tomorrow

What you were responding to is completely irrelevant to the fact that your claim "What got attention was..." is, in fact, untrue.

You contrasted your approach with other approaches, such as "E-mails", which "mostly get ignored and deleted en masse", and "Form letters", which you say "weren't treated very differently".

And yet, your alternative approach had exactly the same outcome that you deride for these other approaches.

You are promoting a mythical tale in which the moral you derive is not in any way consequent from the story you told.

No, we didn't stop The Invasion.

But whatever brilliant tactics you employed didn't stop Australia from joining Bush II's "coalition".
They were right in there pitching.
Tom

 

[bilby]

No, we didn't stop The Invasion.

But whatever brilliant tactics you employed didn't stop Australia from joining Bush II's "coalition".

That's true.

I'm glad I didn't waste any effort and expense on hand writing my objections and sending them by snail mail to be ignored.

 

[TomC]

No, we didn't stop The Invasion.

But whatever brilliant tactics you employed didn't stop Australia from joining Bush II's "coalition".

That's true.

I'm glad I didn't waste any effort and expense on hand writing my objections and sending them by snail mail to be ignored.

I did the best I knew how.
Tom

 

[TomC]

No, we didn't stop The Invasion.

But whatever brilliant tactics you employed didn't stop Australia from joining Bush II's "coalition".

That's true.

I'm glad I didn't waste any effort and expense on hand writing my objections and sending them by snail mail to be ignored.

Did you do anything that didn't start with a swig and a swear?
Tom

 

[SLD]

Putin’s bitch.

Biden should ask him in the debate whether Putin has the pee tape or whether he’s just a plain old Russian agent? Watch the repubs go apoplectic.

Dems definitely need to go deeply negative on him.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

You're actually looking for thought-terminating cliches?

Okay, here's a few:
You're racist
You're sexist
You're classist
You're fascist
You're a homophobe
You're a transphobe

 

[ZiprHead]

Biden should ask Trump to join him in a bicycle race.

 

[Patooka]

Biden should ask Trump to join him in a bicycle race.

Fuck that. Just have a "use an umbrella properly" contest.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Putin’s bitch.

Biden should ask him in the debate whether Putin has the pee tape or whether he’s just a plain old Russian agent? Watch the repubs go apoplectic.

Dems definitely need to go deeply negative on him.

Since Trump & Trump Inc. are already guilty of tax evasion, bank fraud, sexual abuse, and defamation, with more goodies on the way, I can't see that the pee tape would cost him any votes. Suppose we did have video of Svetlana and Marina giving Trump a golden shower right on his face and combover. You'd have Lindsey Graham on Fox and Friends the next morning describing it as a chemical peel that all successful entrepeneurs indulge in.

 

[Politesse]

You're actually looking for thought-terminating cliches?

Okay, here's a few:
You're racist
You're sexist
You're classist
You're fascist
You're a homophobe
You're a transphobe

So if you say something racist, and I point it out, that terminates all thought for you?

Wait, that kind of checks out with my experiences...

 

[ideologyhunter]

You're actually looking for thought-terminating cliches?

Okay, here's a few:
You're racist
You're sexist
You're classist
You're fascist
You're a homophobe
You're a transphobe

Okay, that's just the refrain from 'You're the Top' by Cole Porter.

 

[Elixir]

Biden should ask Trump to join him in a bicycle race.

Fuck that. Just have a "use an umbrella properly" contest.

Ramp walking, 7.5° challenge.
Speed golf (on foot).

 

[ideologyhunter]

Which one can pull down a window pane without having his man boobs crushed?

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

You're actually looking for thought-terminating cliches?

Okay, here's a few:
You're racist
You're sexist
You're classist
You're fascist
You're a homophobe
You're a transphobe

So if you say something racist, and I point it out, that terminates all thought for you?

Wait, that kind of checks out with my experiences...

Please provide evidence of me posting something racist.

Wait, you can't.



You're not the first person to try that. You won't be the last. The honest ones check my history and fail to find anything and admit it. The dishonest ones just repeat the claim. I am interested in finding out which you are.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

I think Republicans catchphrasing ability is legend, and has cost the opposition many an election and justify many a terrible decision.
So I thought I'd start a thread here to see what catch phrases infidels believe to be under or unused.

For instance, a little while ago, for some reason I recalled an episode from more than 50 years ago, when my little brother brought home a skanky little thing, and my mother later excoriated him, calling her "jailbait". Well, my little brother thought that was hilarious. So much so that he nicknamed her "jailbait", her friends started calling her that... it's just a damn catchy, lyrical and resonant word. And in this context, that's why I think Joe Biden should be referring to Trump as jailbait.
I can hear Joe...
"I don't pretend to be quite the picture of of youth that some voters would require, but hey, really? Do you really want to send that piece of jailbait back to the Whitehouse after what he's done? Remember last time, he had to pardon most of the criminals he appointed, so they wouldn't rat him out - his words."

Also:

"Trump Crime Family" - should have been in wide use since 2019, (1989 actually) but dems are SOOOOoooo polite that they still haven't figured it out, even though Sleepy Joe has been successfully appointed to the head of The Biden Crime Family by the Trump Campaign.

Ok Y'all let's hear some other/better ones.
Actually, there's never too many. Catchy is good.

Google for Punk Rock Jailbait by the female band Frightwig.

 

[Tigers!]

Which one can pull down a window pane without having his man boobs crushed?

(Certainly not in Putin's Russia.)

I would not have either of them pull down a window pane as it might be too much for either.