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Hugin

(37,256 posts)
1. +1
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 08:07 AM
Oct 2020

I'll add that along side Trumpanzees.

I've never really used deplorables. Way too kind.

Ferrets are Cool

(22,498 posts)
2. For those of you, like me, who don't know what it means or where it originated...
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 08:21 AM
Oct 2020

spreadneck
a person who consciously chooses to not wear a mask during covid-19. Not because of they medically cannot, rather because they generally do not care about other people's health. Usually citing inaccurate, disproven conspiracy theories that have been proven time and time again as factually inaccurate.

Urban dictionary

edited to fix a misspelled word in the description

oasis

(53,266 posts)
3. "Kinder, gentler nation"...."Thousand points of light" ...
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 08:27 AM
Oct 2020

"shining city on a hill". Did those kind of Republicans ever exist in any significant numbers?

lark

(25,823 posts)
4. They never existed or even pretended to exist outside of a GW campaign speech.
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 08:31 AM
Oct 2020

They hate us, the working class & poor because they think only the rich should have money and scheme how to get ours.

BKDem

(1,733 posts)
5. They're all Peggy Noonanisms -- speechwriter BS never believed or even understood by the candidates.
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 09:10 AM
Oct 2020

Shermann

(9,001 posts)
7. Now we have a "Thousand points of blight"
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 09:12 AM
Oct 2020

Oh I kind of like that.

EDIT: been used before. Oh well.

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