Let’s STOP referring to evil manipulative crap as ”Dirty Tricks”!

[Ferd Berfel]

Let’s STOP referring to evil manipulative crap as ”Dirty Tricks”!

The term “Dirty Tricks’ is a term for something cutesy and benign. What they have done, are doing, and will continue to do, is not cute, and it is not benign. What they are doing is a blatant, premeditated, dishonest, underhanded and direct attack on the foundations of Democracy. They are a calculated backdoor full assault, designed to subvert, undermine and manipulate the Nation, the Constitution, the Truth, Reality and the democratic process.

Switching the salt and sugar in their respective containers for April Fools day - is a Dirty Trick.

Filling a paper bag with dog shit, leaving it on someone’s door step, lighting it on fire, ringing their doorbell and running away – is a Dirty Trick. (I've done this myself - I was 12)

What Nixon did to Muskie, what Reagan did to Carter and what the Bushies did to Gore, McCain, and others was not cute, and it was not benign. What they did was nothing less than subvert the democratic process to hijack the Nation.

This is what cowards do when they cannot make an honest, factual, truthful and convincing argument. When they know that reality and facts are NOT on their side.

We have some heavy thinkers here. So do the Nation a service and find another term for this evil, corrupt, and dishonest practice. Start calling it what it is, and calling the people that do it, what they are.

[PoliticAverse]

1. I disagree. The term has a quite specific meaning to those of us that remember the Nixon years...

and pretty much is synonymous with "underhandedness".

Has its own Wikipedia page even:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_tricks

[Ferd Berfel]

5. I was there

I'm 65 and I thought the term was too cutesy for the reality of it back then

I was politically active because some asshole was trying to send my ass of to Vietnam (11 in the first Lotto)

[marions ghost]

2. Good points

--the problem is, in ethically challenged America everybody thinks that's just "business."

[FreakinDJ]

3. subvert the democratic process to hijack the Nation

nice

[pdsimdars]

4. I totally agree, it is disgusting

The fact that they might have been too PC on Nixon by calling it "dirty tricks" is no reason not to start calling it what it is.
This is the line that sticks in my craw..

This is what cowards do when they cannot make an honest, factual, truthful and convincing argument. When they know that reality and facts are NOT on their side.

It tells it just like it is. No factual honest argument -- that perfectly describes Hillary's campaign.

[Ferd Berfel]

6. I wrote this in '99

directed at Bush/Cheney and the neocons. I think I had to change 2 words in it to bring it up to date.