Posts Tagged: USpol

  • Text: The Tolerance Paradox—if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

    Tolerance—the paradox

    It has been a strange time the last week after the killing of Charlie Kirk (11 Sept 25) who was characterised as a major Trump supporter, killed by Tyler Robinson, characterised as a left wing domestic terrorist. Those from the centre are witnessing a complicated morality which exposes us to the Paradox of Tolerance. Charlie […]

  • Caption: KAKISTOCRACY "government by the least qualified or most unscrupulous citizens" AI generated image

    What is the word of the year 2024 — WOTY24?

    I love this time of the year for so many reasons but the most exciting is the release of the world’s major dictionaries’ words of the year (WOTY24). I keep my radar out all year for words that might be reflect the times and I look to the dictionary houses to do the deep research. […]

  • AI generated image of Donald Trump. He is being sanewashed by the US media.

    The sanewashing of Donald Trump

    We are less than a week out (1 Nov 2024) from the US election. Media outlets are saying that the polls are so close but many are calling Donald Trump as the winner. But how can a man who has spouted such nonsense as the following and been clearly identified as weird still be in […]

  • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Swift Boat on a quiet day-Photo Courtesy of Tom Lefavour

    The swiftboating of Tim Walz

    As the Trump presidential campaign team struggle to contain the groundswell of support for Kamala Harris (in August 2024) they are upping their smear campaign tactics. They are now using “swiftboating” a tactic of unfairly attacking or smearing a candidate with half-truths. They are going after the Democratic vice-presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz’s military record. […]

  • Kamala Harris speaking with attendees at the 2019 Iowa Democratic Wing Ding at Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. Creating her memes. Original photo by Gage Skidmore

    Kamala’s coconut tree and other memes

    Are you keeping up with Kamala Harris’s rise as the US Democratic Party’s candidate? Are you understanding some of the words around the campaign? I love politics and the US election has more drama than Netflix can ever provide—bigger heroes and villains. But what makes it so insanely addictive for me is watching the political […]

  • the second most important event of 2020 was the US election played out in against the back-drop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.

    WORD OF THE YEAR 2020—POLITICS AND THE US ELECTION

    Perhaps the second most important event of 2020 was the US election played out against the back-drop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. Here we look at words from politics and the US election for 2020  (I have borrowed a photo from the Trump Tie Meme). The OED reported that in the early […]

  • Acumen means sharpness of mind, the ability to make accurate and intelligent judgments

    Entrepreneurs with acumen

    Acumen is a word that should be familiar to you. It means sharpness of mind, the ability to make accurate and intelligent judgments. We hear acumen most often when describing entrepreneurs; in that they are said to have business acumen. Acumen is a word that has been around since the early sixteenth century when it was borrowed from […]