Posted on 07/07/2016 10:32:35 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
Obummer”, “Shrillery”, “Hitlery” and “Commie” instead of “Comey” are not intelligent descriptives, they are childish name calling and do not further our cause. They make us seem immature and unintelligent.
May be but it beats shooting them.
And then liberals and the media sneer “Look how childish the right-wingers are” and those who aren’t politically aware look at the name calling and decide we aren’t serious.
Not the way to win over people.
And, just how and who do you think you are going to win over???????
Intelligent discourse, a presentation of facts, and a consistent message. I’ve had three people this year turn from #NeverTrump to grudgingly supporting him. I’ve had a Sanders supporter decide that he can’t support Hillary and is exploring Johnson at the moment. Hoping to win him over to Trump.
A 23 year old girl is rethinking her entire life’s belief in abortion on demand because I engaged her in genuine conversation about when life begins from a scientific point of view. She had just stopped believing in assisted suicide.
How and who are you winning over?
James Homey. That works.
“Comey” should at least replace the older pejorative “Quisling.”
WOW that’s four, what a great start.
You are talking about people that do not make their decisions logically. They are all emotion logic is totally foreign to them.
I say “Crony”.
I answered your question. Answer mine.
How and who are you winning over?
OK nag. Go away I guess I am not the intellectual equal so go play among the types you need.
This is a public forum and non-participants can see the way we behave. Therefore, it is important that we comport ourselves as adults and make sure that our interactions draw and sway people to our views.
The country needs to be saved, no only for us, but for future generations. If we, who claim to have the answers to the problems, will not take the leadership role in changing our culture, if we do not wear the mantle of responsibility to behave and speak as adults, then what chance do we have?
People are dying in the streets because there is no leadership today. Freerepublic can be a place that leaders develop and grow. Or it can be an echo chamber of self-congratulating adolescents who just stroke each other’s egos and complain about problems we have no intention of trying to fix.
“Trojan Horse” and “Manchurian Candidate” aren’t name calling, they are descriptives of a person’s character.
“Obummer”, “Shrillery”, “Hitlery” and “Commie” instead of “Comey” are not intelligent descriptives, they are childish name calling and do not further our cause. They make us seem immature and unintelligent.”
Yes, the situation is horrendous. The U.S. (and the rest of the free world) has been infiltrated by an alliance of enemies, foreign and domestic. As much as you might find offensive the casual and not profound and not clever suggestion that “Comey” could not be called “Commie,” one has to be aware that not infrequently humor and epithets go a long way in getting people’s attention and in creating an
Imprint on the memory, when the terms actually do ring true. Politicians and commentators and, yes, comedians, do it all the time.
Comey has with a single decision and a single statement accomplished the breakdown of the rule of law in the U.S., a gargantuan act This is what communism does and wants to do again. Therefore the suggestion of the name “Commie,” since they sound similar. The offhand thought was not posted just to be cute.
Regarding your opinion that the terms “Trojan Horse” and “Manchurian
Candidate” are “descriptive of a person’s character,” I disagree. I meant them not metaphorically, but quite literally.
These people’s character is beside the point. It’s what they actually do that’s dangerous. Why they do it or who hired them is not the thrust of these epithets. “Trojan Horse” refers to the legend told by universally known literary figure, the epic poet Homer, who described how city of Troy was able to be invaded through the subterfuge of the gift to a populace of a giant wooden horse, all decked out to look pretty (like Obama) and brought willingly and welcomingly into the city by the city’s leaders and people. Only when the horse was firmly in place and the gates of the city closed behind it did the army of deadly soldiers emerge. Again an analogy to the current administration and its soldiers. The second epithet, “Manchurian Candidate” (from Wikipedia): The Manchurian Candidate (1959), by Richard Condon, is a political thriller novel about the son of a prominent U.S. political family who is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for a Communist conspiracy.
Here’s a link to an article that reminds us that Communism sees to it that the rule of law be destroyed. Comey moved us in this direction last week. http://www.worldacademy.org/forum/rule-law-%E2%80%93-fundamental-choice-world-today-and-tomorrow
Yeah, you kind of spell out my point. Trojan Horse and Manchurian candidate are used when you wish to use shorthand to describe the character of the person involved (and yes, their behavior is indeed part of their character, and the use of the terms has evolved to reflect such.) Another example would be using the name “Quisling”.
You aren’t replacing the person’s name with a sound-alike name, you are using a well-known descriptive shorthand to attach to the person. That is what an adult person who wishes to express an opinion on the person in question would do.
While the word “Commie” is shorthand for “Communist”, and therefore has a level of complexity, using it for a epithet is banal and useless beyond the sing-song sound-alike reference. Childish.
James Quisling Comey, James Comey the Commie, Comey the Comminist, et al would be preferable than a simple grade school switch-out of his name.
When I hear “James Commie” instead of “James Comey” it sounds like Garth from Wayne’s World saying it. A sophomoric stretching of the actually name to make an insult fit.
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