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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWould someone tell Fuckabee-Sanders that it's the DEMOCRATIC Party
and not the Fucking Democrat Party.
I detest that slimeball.
PJMcK
(22,060 posts)But she says Democrat on purpose to bait us.
Don't take the bait.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... she knows better and she's doing it to annoy.
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)God I hate that woman. I don't hate many people, but the ones I do seem to be in this administration
malaise
(269,237 posts)Aristus
(66,487 posts)'Democrat' as an adjective rather than a noun.
malaise
(269,237 posts)so fuck them all - Dems should not tolerate this crap from ReTHUGs.
dalton99a
(81,656 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,375 posts)It was probably audience-tested by Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica for how it pisses off Dems and makes Reps chuckle.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)We should do the same, it has a jarring effect and also smacks of imperial overreach.
A member of the 5th Republic!
dogknob
(2,431 posts)fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)My 77 year old Dad, who has voted solid Dem all his life uses the same term. Drive me nuts.
I'm sure that Sarah does this intentionally though to annoy us. And it works.
Hekate
(90,927 posts)The usage was invented (by Gingrich?) to irk Dems and for no other reason. It gets under our skin, like fingernails on a grammatical chalkboard. Ignore it.
It does serve one useful purpose: to identify newbies posting here who may have taken a wrong turn somewhere on their way to a RW discussion board.
malaise
(269,237 posts)as Dems.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)The thing is, they know it drives us insane and they do it on PURPOSE!
Hi malaise! Happy Friday!
33taw
(2,448 posts)Zorro
(15,751 posts)silverweb
(16,402 posts)Especially when pronounced so that the "con" part is emphasized.
Better yet, we can use both and really confuse them. They've only got their one little trick specifically designed to annoy us. Now we have two to annoy them with.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)silverweb
(16,402 posts)Good improvement!
Vinca
(50,322 posts)And I'm driving my husband nuts with my Sarah Huckleberry impression. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Nitram
(22,932 posts)malaise
(269,237 posts)either
Paladin
(28,280 posts)Ignore her.
vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)malaise
(269,237 posts)She's a vile pathological LIAR and she does it with religious fervor.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)I was thinking Stepford...
misanthrope
(7,433 posts)The right-wing has been using it for at least 20 years at this point. It's just another juvenile attempt to needle people for no reason.
unblock
(52,416 posts)why democrats can't figure out how to fight back in kind i'll never know.
taking the high road only works after you've given then tit-for-tat.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)but it just makes them sound as dumb as the kind of person who pronounces our nation's capital as "Warshington."
dchill
(38,578 posts)BigMin28
(1,186 posts)Has some nerve calling anyone a hack.