let's go, Brandon

From a 2021 interview with racing driver Brandon Brown when a reporter incorrectly described NASCAR fans chanting "fuck Joe Biden" as chanting "let's go, Brandon".

When Republican Rep. Bill Posey of Florida ended an Oct. 21 House floor speech with a fist pump and the phrase “Let’s go, Brandon!” it may have seemed cryptic and weird to many who were listening.

[2021 October 31, Colleen Long, “How ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ became code for insulting Joe Biden”, in AP News, Associated Press:

“A sieve of a southern border, the supply chain massacred, food prices rising by the day, crime rampant in big cities and being browbeaten continuously by Beijing. Yes, he is a real success.” Flanagan then adds sarcastically, “One more thing, ‘Let's Go Brandon.’”

2021 November 11, Mark Bonokoski, quoting Steve Flanagan, “BONOKOSKI: ‘Let's go Brandon! Let's go Brandon!’”, in Toronto Sun:

State Rep. Dave Williams, who is challenging eight-term GOP congressman Doug Lamborn in an intraparty contest, sued Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold last week after her office rejected allowing his name to appear on the ballot as Dave “Let's Go Brandon” Williams.

2022 April 30, John Dorman, “Colorado Supreme Court says GOP lawmaker can't use ‘Let's Go Brandon’ nickname on congressional ballot”, in Business Insider:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene visited a D.C. jail to check on conditions for the Jan. 6 defendants, with Republican lawmakers handshaking and high-fiving the prisoners, who chanted “Let's Go Brandon!” – a coded vulgarity against President Joe Biden – as the group left.

2023 March 27, “X, y, z: News from around our 50 states”, in USA Today, page B3:

(US, slang, US politics) A euphemism for “fuck Joe Biden”.

Bill Posey
Brandon Brown (racing driver)
United States House of Representatives


Derg

Borrowed from Amharic ደርግ (därg, “committee; council”).

bor+

(historical) The Provisional Military Administrative Council, the communist military junta that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987.


GQP

Blend of GOP + QAnon.
The GOP stands for "Grand Old Party", the Republican Party of the United States of America, a conservative political party. The usage of "Q" refers to Republican politicians either supporting the QAnon conspiracy theories, or becoming closer to extremism and fascism, represented by the more militant members of the QAnon groups.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) The Republican Party, especially politicians and members who align themselves with militant extremism.


Qaren

Blend of QAnon + Karen. It was first used in a viral video on Twitter posted on 2020, mocking a woman who got angry at a doctor for not administering hydroxychloroquine to treat a COVID-19 infection.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A supporter of QAnon, especially female, who has a hostile and irrational attitude.


Wishverse

Even though the later episode 'Doppelgangland' (Buffy 3.16) suggests that the 'Wishverse' exists parallel to the Buffyverse and that characters can move from one parallel universe to another by magic, none of the characters except vengeance demon Anyaka can remember anything about the other world.

2005, Gaby Allrath, “Life in Doppelgangland: Innovative Character Conception and Alternate Worlds in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel”, in Gaby Allrath, Marion Gymnich, editors, Narrative Strategies in Television Series, pages 144–145:

In the Wishverse, many of the good characters have been turned bad or are dead.

2015, Pamela Achenbach, “A Tempting Narrative or a Temporal Gimmick: A Look at the Use of Time Travel in Unconventional Series”, in Gillian I. Leitch, Sherry Ginn, editors, Time-Travel Television: The Past from the Present, the Future from the Past, page 64:

Whedon couldn't resist the pull of the Wishverse either.

2015, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 132:

(fandom slang) The dark alternate universe featured in the episode "The Wish" of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Mirrorverse

I love the subtle beginning to the fic, so that you don't realize it's Mirrorverse until the start of the third paragraph, where everything goes a bit askew.

2004 March 18, ASC Awards - Stephen, “ASC Awards Comment Digest #132: DS9 Bashir Pairing”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

Does the alternate Star Trek timeline created by Nero have a Mirrorverse 2 in which a Mirror Nero went back in time after the destruction of Mirror Romulus to destroy Mirror Vulcan as Mirror Spock watched?

2009 May 18, Tim Bruening, “Re: Star Trek 11 Movie Spoilers”, in alt.tv.star-trek (Usenet):

Besides the Klingon desire for cultural purity, humanity in the Mirrorverse is also shown as a fascistic tyranny (the Terran Empire) centered on racial purity.

2020, Ina Batzke, “From Series to Seriality: Star Trek's Mirror Universe in the Post-Network Era”, in Mareike Spychala, Sabrina Mittermeier, editors, Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery, page 170:

(fandom slang) The Mirror Universe of Star Trek, a dark parallel universe to the main setting of the franchise, in which humans are brutal, despotic conquerors.


Kataang

Are you a supporter of Katara and Aang’s relationship? Then you’re a member of the Kataang club.

2006, "United Nations: The Fans of Avatar", Nick Mag Presents, Winter 2006, page 40

I still prefer Kataang, because I can't imagine Aang and Katara ever drifting apart when Katara is the one person he could not let go and Katara's life truly began because she met him and he is basically the light and joy in her life.

2014, "paulina101", quoted in Rincke de Bont, "The Appreciation of Storybending: An Exploration of Reviewing Practices in Online Avatar Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to Tilburg University, pages 98-99

Konietzko, for his part, suggests a great awareness: “There were plenty of Makorra shippers out there, so if we had gone back on our decision and gotten those characters back together, would that have meant we caved in to those fans instead?....Trust me, I remember Kataang vs. Zutara.”

2017, Jake Pitre, "Rated Q for Queer: The Legend of Korra and the Evolution of Queer Reading", Reader Feather Journal, Volume 8, Number 2, Fall 2017, pages 29-30

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Katara and Aang from the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Aang
Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)


let's go Brandon

let's go, Brandon
let's go, Brandon#English


fantroll

HEY Also, send me scans of your fantroll and trollsona so I can draw them for you 8D

2011 January 22, 🦎 Tseren (6.2!) 💚💜 (@neogrotesque_), Twitter:

i can't believe three separate people linked me that post about how tieflings are just fantrolls for people who claim to be over homestuck

2017 September 11, @kismetnemesis, Twitter:

its 2021 and i will also keep drawing fantrolls based on homestuck

2021, "MIAC End of the Quarter Zine SP21", Multi-Identity Art Collective (University of California San Diego), page 20

(Homestuck fandom slang) A troll original character created by a fan.


en-noun

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism (uncountable)

From the term fully automated luxury communism, proposed by the British journalist Aaron Bastani in 2014, which suggests that automation will make work and scarcity obsolete. The Gay and Space parts were later added by activists to suggest that this utopia would also end all persecution of LGBTQ people and become more advanced than modern society.

Fully Automated Luxury Queer Space Communism

(politics, Internet slang, LGBT) A utopian society proposed by far-left activists where gender, wealth, and work become obsolete and everyone lives in luxury.


Мики Маус

mk:Мики Маус


Клапчо

mk-proper noun

Клапчо • (Klapčo) m


Пајо Паторот

Пајо Паторот

mk:Пајо Паторот


Qult

(derogatory) The cultlike following of the QAnon movement.


Qultist

Blend of Q (“QAnon”) + cultist, equivalent to Qult + -ist.

(derogatory) A cultlike follower of the QAnon movement.


dissident right

It is not known who has coined the term, but it refers to a collection of right wing groups that do not fit into mainstream right wing categories. This can include White nationalism, Nationalism, National Socialism, Fascism, Neo-Absolutism and other ideas.

It’s a battle that’s both personality-driven and ideological, between supporters of Spencer and the “alt-right” more generally and supporters of the “dissident right” or the so-called “America First” movement, led in part by 22-year-old Nick Fuentes, a former conservative radio host and Unite the Right attendee who is growing in popularity with the white nationalist movement.

Other groups identify as “mainstreamers” or the “dissident right” and attempt to move mainstream politics to accept white supremacist ideas.

(US politics) Far-right political groups who oppose mainstream conservatism, promoting more radical beliefs such as opposition to LGBT rights and non-White identity politics, anti-Semitism, white nationalism and white supremacy, and traditionalist nationalism.


God Emperor

God + Emperor. Its use in reference to the Emperor of Japan is from a calque of Japanese 天皇 (tennō), literally "heavenly sovereign/emperor", referring to the emperor's descent from the sun goddess Amaterasu.
For the second usage, from far-right Internet users depicting Donald Trump as the God-Emperor of Mankind, a character from the British science fiction tabletop game Warhammer 40,000. This tabletop game has become popular among far-right Internet groups for its satirical militarist themes.

The meme was from Trump's cameo at WrestleMania 23 a decade prior, and in it he tackled WWE owner Vince McMahon before pummeling him on ... Several of his fellow users were congratulating him for getting “the God Emperor's” attention.

2017, Jared Yates Sexton, The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage, Catapult, →ISBN:

Just days after his election, Trump reaffirmed his campaign commitments to shut down Muslim immigration by signing an ... and with the election over and the man the AltRight called “the god emperor” on his way to the White House, ...

2017, George Hawley, Making Sense of the Alt-Right, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:

To the 4chan boys Trump was a hero, the social failure in chief, a clown prince. They called him the God Emperor, a swaggering fat Daddy, who, as one commentator put it, would put a car in every white man's drive and an Aryan woman in ...

2018, Javaad Alipoor, The Believers are But Brothers, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

“Trump is willing to say what most Americans think: It's time to deport these people,” Anglin declared, ... and avid campaign volunteers, referring to Trump with extravagant nicknames such as “Our Great God Emperor,” “the Nimble ...

2018, Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, American Jewish Year Book 2017: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities, Springer, →ISBN, page 136:

Pepe had already been frequently portrayed as a Trump supporter on social media sites. ... a quick browse through the rabid Trump sub-Reddit the_donald will notice many of its members exalting the politician with the title “God Emperor."

2019, Grant Kien, Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 190:

... Donald J. Trump'.46 This 380,000-strong group refers to Donald Trump as 'daddy' and 'the God Emperor',and gains its identity by standing against liberalism, feminism, intellectualism, and much more besides ...

2019, Fay Bound Alberti, A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 130:

Trump won. They'd made these Photoshopped pictures of Trump flying around on his victory horse, through the gates of heaven, with a crown on his head and his golden sword. They call him the God Emperor.” “That sounds awful.” “I know.

2019, Blake Nelson, The Red Pill: A Novel, Bombardier Books, →ISBN:

Our Glorious Leader has ascended to God Emperor.”1 Ten days after Trump's election, the National Policy Institute, the generically named but emphatically white-nationalist think tank led by professional racist Richard Spencer, ...

2020, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, Legacy Lit, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, US politics, humorous) Donald Trump, American politician and 45th president of the United States.


Obamaitis

(politics, informal, derogatory) The state of supporting or being similar to Barack Obama (American politician), said as if it were due to a disease or affliction.


Trumpitis

From Trump + -itis, by affiliation with diseases formed with the suffix.

Evidently, even President Obama has become afflicted with Trumpitis. For only this explains the conceited and crass clarion call he issued to ...

2017, Anthony Livingston Hall, The Ipinions Journal: Commentaries on the Global Events of 2016—Volume Xii, iUniverse, →ISBN:

Slimicus Trumpitis June 30 If Pence and Trump knew or should have known of the bounties being placed by the Russian government on the heads of young American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan, I must make a wish, one that I never thought ...

2020, Richard Castellane, The I Hate Trump Book: Past, Present & Future*, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

So we all need to learn to disinfect ourselves daily, to clean our souls of 'Trumpitis', by not rushing to the media to see the latest insult or outrage, and by learning to look with quietness and discernment at what is transpiring in ...

2020, Chris Schaefer, Re-Imagining America, Hawthorn Press, →ISBN:

The nation also was in the midst of an outbreak of dreaded acute Trumpitis. After 690 days into the administration of the best president we have one third of the nation was recovering from a previous attack of the malady, one third was ...

2020, Marvin Kitman, Gullible's Travels: A Comical History of the Trump Era, Seven Stories Press, →ISBN:

(politics, informal, derogatory) The state of supporting or being similar to Donald Trump (American politician).


War on Christmas

(US, politics, US politics, derogatory) An alleged plot by atheists and liberals to remove Christianity from Christmas or ban the festival of Christmas itself.


Cartmanian

en-adj

Cartmanian (comparative more Cartmanian, superlative most Cartmanian)

more Cartmanian (comparative)
most Cartmanian (superlative)

(rare) Characteristic of or relating to Eric Cartman, a character in the adult animated sitcom South Park.


VBNMW

(US politics) Initialism of vote blue no matter who. (voting for any politician in the Democratic Party regardless of their record)

Trumpster diving

voting for conservative politicians regardless of their record


From a phrase read from a ship's bell by a character in the 1996 movie White Squall. The phrase itself means "Where one of us goes, we will go together," or "We will go together with any one of our members."

But this particular image, posted in March by the Utah-based fashion, beauty, and parenting influencer Jalynn Schroeder to more than 50,000 followers, is accompanied by a series of hashtags that includes the initialism WWG1WGA—“Where we go one, we go all”—a motto used by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

2020 August 18, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Women Making Conspiracy Theories Beautiful”, in The Atlantic:

Their rallying cry is "where we go one, we go all," a line from the 1996 Jeff Bridges sailing adventure "White Squall" that they misattribute to President Kennedy. The phrase is frequently abbreviated to "WWG1WGA," which Roseanne Barr — one of several celebrity QAnon supporters — tweeted in June 2018.

“Where we go one, we go all,” erupted the crowd in a QAnon chant that’s frequently abbreviated to WWG1WGA in online messaging boards like 4chan, where the cult began.

2024 January 23, Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, “A Creepy QAnon Chant Rises at Trump’s Rally—and He Nods and Smiles”, in The New Republic:

(US politics) Initialism of where we go one, we go all: a popular slogan of QAnon believers.


Homocrat

All across the world, families came together and most people agreed, Retardican and Homocrat alike, it was a beautiful time to be alive on the planet Earth, wars or no wars, end or no end.

2006, Michael Soltys, The Grass is Green, page 244:

Ah yes, the way of the liberal. Never allow the 1st amendment rights of
others conflict with the distasteful agenda of the liberal homocrats.

2009 May 3, Jam Rock, “A liberal HOMOCRAT whines: "Miss California USA Should Quit or Be Fired"”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):

2010 March 16, Democrat Gay Deadbeats, “Homocrat / democrat (Disney) scumbags who REFUSE to pay taxes”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

LOL... you Homocrats and Demofags have been hornswoggled into thinking
they actually give a shit about YOU, when the opposite is true... they
don't... they just wanted your vote and the sympathy of the stupid guilt-
stricken white idiots.

2016 August 13, AlleyCat, “LOL... Stupid Homocrats Think Hillary Clinton Is On Their Side”, in alt.society.liberalism (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory, offensive) A member or supporter of the Democratic Party, implying that they are homosexual.


Statele Confederate ale Americii

Confederate States of America
Confederate States of America


New Right

Nevertheless, advocates of individual freedom not only continue to exist, but are increasing in number. Refugees from the Old Right, the Old Left and the New Left, they are organizing independently under the New Right banner of libertarianism. The birth of the New Right occurred when libertarians finally accepted the fact that they had been abandoned by the liberals, used and misled by other radicals and sold out by the conservatives.

1971 January 10, Stan Lehr, Louis Rossetto, “The New Right Credo–Libertarianism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Various right-wing political groups or policies in different countries:

(US politics) A conservative political movement formed during the 1960s and 1970s in response to the liberalism of the New Left.


rugged individualism

(politics, US politics) The ideal in which an individual is more successful by their own work without any outside assistance, especially from the government.

(politics, US politics) The ideal in which social and economic interactions are more focused on the individual self, personal liberty, and independence.


gold certificate

en-noun

gold certificate (plural gold certificates)

A certificate of ownership of gold metal stored by another entity, used historically as a paper currency of the United States (1863–1933) and in modern times as a form of investment.


Gippermania

After eight years of Ronald Reagan and Gippermania, Bush and Dukakis both have their work cut out for them.

1988, The Illustrated London News, volume 276, page 102:

I saw him as a Reagan hangover, and unlike my fellow citizens, I had never cared much for Ronnie. Maybe I was just in a bad mood from being in prison, or maybe, by dint of being inside, I was immune to the raging Gippermania that hit the country.

2000, Lydia Millet, George Bush, Dark Prince of Love: A Presidential Romance, page 17:

There was only a one-week frenzy window between Gippermania and the pending Clinton memoir, and Weinstein flew right through it.

2004 June 17, Tina Brown, “Democrats Warm To 'Fahrenheit 9/11'”, in The Washington Post:

(informal, rare) Enthusiasm for actor and American president Ronald Reagan.


Gipper

From Reagan's role as George "The Gipper" Gipp (1895-1920) in the 1940 film Knute Rockne, All American, which lead to him acquiring the nickname "the Gipper," later popularized by the media during his presidency.

It took no more than a jaunty one-liner in the second presidential debate—"I refuse to hold my opponent's youth against him"—for large numbers of people to be reassured that if the Gipper had ever been out of it, he was now back.

1992, Michael Weiler, W. Barnett Pearce, Reagan and Public Discourse in America, page 137:

Over the eight years of the Reagan presidency, the Gipper asked Congress for $16.1 billion more in spending than it passed into law.

1999, Al Franken, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations, page 126:

[…] most of the Ford vote from 1976, which Bush had hoped to claim, went heavily for the Gipper.

2014, Craig Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America, unnumbered page:

A nickname for American actor and politician Ronald Reagan.


Gipperite

When Kevin Phillips's The Politics of Rich and Poor hit the bestseller list last summer, the Gipperites began to squeal like a worn-out fan belt in a used Toyota.

1994, Samuel T. Francis, Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism, page 199:

Even the most antigovernment of Gipperites weren't ready to turn their back on the war on drugs, as Cato urged, but program cutting, bashing, these sorts of things were right in the main.

2007, Brian Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, pages 452–453:

[Elephant reading a bedtime story titled Prez Race '08 to its child]: Then the Gipperites discovered there was no such thing as a Bushie. It had all been just a bad dream.

2007, Etta Hulme, political cartoon published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 May 2007

(rare) A supporter of Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), 40th president of the United States (1981–1989), and/or policies that he endorsed.


Gipperism

Here is a dose of pure Gipperism from 1981, amid the budget wars: “Long before there was a government welfare program, th[e] spirit of voluntary giving was ingrained in the American character.”

1992, Jay Nordlinger, “Giving Thanks”, in The Weekly Standard, published 1995 November 27, page 4:

Most liberals haven't figured it out yet, but the fraud of Gipperism is on the ash heap of history.

1997 February 25, BretCahill, “Ken Starr's Misjudgment...”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

The earlier Bush, the 41st president, campaigned for the White House in 1988 as the heir to Ronald Reagan but then broke faith with Gipperism, most notably when he repudiated his “read my lips, no new taxes” pledge

2001 July 12, James P. Pinkerton, “For the Nation, This Bush May Be Just Right”, in Los Angeles Times:

The political philosophy of U.S. president Ronald Reagan.


(fandom slang) Initialism of Generation Four (“the fourth generation of the My Little Pony toy franchise, sometimes known as Friendship is Magic”).


freedom is not free

(chiefly US politics) For freedom to exist as a legal right in a country, it has to actively be fought for and protected (e.g. by the military).


DeSatan

2021 September 11, “Killing Florida Schooĺ Kids -- DeSatan's Goal”, in political-euwetopia (Usenet):

Joseph Kleinplatz, a protester who referred to the Florida governor as "DeSatan," told the New York Jewish Week that it's "wrong" to have him in the city. "The Jewish religion is not about hate," he said.

2022 June 12, Jacob Henry, “Ron DeSantis calls out 'woke gender ideology' in speech to Jewish group in Manhattan”, in NY Jewish Week, Jewish Telegraphic Agency:


Treknological

en-adj

Treknological (comparative more Treknological, superlative most Treknological)

more Treknological (comparative)
most Treknological (superlative)

Blend of Trek (“Star Trek”) + technological.

blend

The accurate technological order parallels the corresponding virtual Treknological terrain.

2004, Karen Anijar, Teaching Toward the 24th Century: Star Trek as Social Curriculum, page 84:

While these Treknological wonders were introduced as story devices, they also serve as testaments to Roddenberry's faith in the potential of human intellect.

2012, Mark Clark, Star Trek FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the First Voyages of the Starship Enterprise, unnumbered page:

[…] and debating details of accuracy ranging from paint schemes and decal placement to the configuration of warp nacelles and colors of running lights. Indeed, the latter area directly inherits a tradition of "Treknological" argument in which fans' endless charting and policing of the franchise's timeline and established “facts” function not so much as a stabilizing force but an arena of contestation and negotiation between canonical and fanonical spheres of knowledge, enacted both in material and virtual forms.

2017, Bob Rehak, “From Model Building to 3D Printing: Star Trek and Build Code Across the Analog/Digital Divide”, in Melissa A. Click, Suzanne Scott, editors, The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) Of, related to, or characteristic of Treknology.


RepubliKlan

Alternative letter-case form of Republiklan


Republiklan

en-adj

Republiklan (comparative more Republiklan, superlative most Republiklan)

more Republiklan (comparative)
most Republiklan (superlative)

How many times has the members of the Republiklan party referred to our party as the Democrat party.
Now you can retort with a name that reflects their actions and priorities.
Call their party the Republiklan party, the Knight of the white right fright.

2008 October 1, www.democratz.org, “The Republiklan party.”, in alt.college.democrats (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

Wow... dead innocent Americans. Does it get any funnier for Republiklan *LAWMAKERS*?

2017 September 21, FPP, “Civility Project Ends - Republiklan Terrorist Edition”, in alt.college.democrats (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

(slang, derogatory) Republican; generally used in depicting Republicans as racist.


Republiklan

Billy could call a meeting with ranking RepubliKLANs and set the following terms to avoid impeachment:
"1. I'll switch parties.
2. I'll bomb the hell out of defenseless little countries just for kicks.
3. I'll slap at least one black woman every day.
4. I'll have my guards impale Hillary with a cigar at a Democratic fund-raising dinner and take photos of Democrats masturbating under the table with their left hands while eating their salads with their right."

1998 September 9, DSharp673, “Clinton should join the RepubliKLANs.”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

Sonofabitch must be a RepubliKlan . . . running off at the mouth, taking what doesn't belong to him, ignoring all other points of view.

2013 April 7, Kickin' Ass, Takin' Names, “Little mofo must be a RepubliKlan”, in alt.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-18:

(slang, derogatory) A Republican; generally used in depicting Republicans as racist.


Manchinema

The Manchinema caucus of two is still demanding a lower price tag for reconciliation, and Democrats do not want the government to shut down on Friday.

2021 September 28, Jacqueline Alemany, Theodoric Meyer, “Vulnerable House Democrats say it really better be infrastructure week”, in The Washington Post:

2022 January 18, Maxine Joselow, “Climate advocates argue against breaking up BBB, call it a 'mistake' for Democrats and the planet”, in The Washington Post:

(US politics) U.S. Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.


border state

In the American Civil War, one of the slave states that did not join the Confederacy.


Emancipation Proclamation

A proclamation, announced by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, and going into effect on January 1, 1863; that all slaves in areas in rebellion (i.e. under Confederate control) would be free.


Tsar Bomba

Borrowed from Russian Царь-бо́мба (Carʹ-bómba, “emperor of bombs”).

bor

A 50-megaton thermonuclear bomb, detonated by the Soviet Union in October 1961. It was the biggest nuke ever exploded.


Harpers Ferry

From Harper's ferry, after a ferry operated by Robert Harper.

Allamakee County
Allamakee County#English

A minor city in Taylor Township, Allamakee County, Iowa, United States.


Okolona

A number of places in the United States:

A neighbourhood of Louisville, Kentucky.

Chickasaw County
Chickasaw County#English

A city in and one of the two county seats of Chickasaw County, Mississippi. It was the site of the Battle of Okolona in the American Civil War, with Confederate forces being led by Nathan Bedford Forrest.

An unincorporated community in Napoleon Township, Henry County, Ohio.


RepubliKKKan

(US politics, derogatory) A Republican with ideological leanings similar to those of a Ku Klux Klan member.


DemoKKKrat

(US politics, derogatory) A Democrat with ideological leanings similar to those of a Ku Klux Klan member.


Repucrat

Correct. I believe I introduced the error. As SC wrote, though,
the Repucrat majority in the Senate was not a very large one, and
they did not have a majority in the House, whence spending bills
originate.

1996 August 14, Giovanni 8, “Voodoo versus Greenspan: wont work”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US politics) Republican while espousing typically Democratic positions.


Repucrat

But hearing Daniel "Mush Mouth" Schorr whine
about the awful terrible negative campaigning by the Repucrats after hearing
your darling radical leftist Lawton Chiles' slime campaign is enough to
make nearly any one sick.

1994 November 7, John G. Otto, “Clean Up Your Act”, in alt.radio.networks.npr (Usenet):

It's where I live, too. And yes, I am. And I did so when Clinton was
president, and I will continue to do so when whatever Demoblican or
Repucrat who is next succeeds Bush.

2002 September 1, Sean Carroll, “[OT] Attack Iraq? Yea or Nay?”, in alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise (Usenet):

Bloomberg is not a Republican; he is a repucrat. Recall that Bloomberg was
a demolican until they said they did not want him as the mayoral candidate
for New York city.

2003 August 5, redclay, “Radio Daze”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet):

Repucrat or Demoblican, there's not a whole lot of difference...

2004 September 4, wer...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu, “Arnie and the socialists”, in soc.culture.german (Usenet):

(US politics) A Republican person espousing typically Democratic positions.


clowncel

The thing about Joker that specifically appeals to clowncels is the heroic mirage imparted on the Joker.

2019, Caroline Cabe, "Inside Todd Phillips’ Joker and the Rise of the ‘Clowncel’, The Texas Orator, 22 October 2019

As for Joker, after the FBI warned of mass-shooting threats from so-called “Clowncels,” some theaters in the United States banned makeup and costumes during the screening of Phillips’s movie (Margolin and Katersky).

2021 March, Manuel Herrero-Puertas, “Super Whitman 1885”, in Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, volume 47, number 1, page 311:

There is a key difference here, however, in that clowncels seem to replace the self-pitying discourse common in incel forums with anger towards the rich and the powerful.

2021, Aylin Kuryel, “Looking at and with images: Crowds in Joker, Joker in the crowd”, in Sean Redmond, editor, Breaking Down Joker: Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy, unnumbered page:

(incel slang) An incel who identifies with the Joker from the Batman franchise.


FLQ

Front de libération du Québec
Front de libération du Québec#English

(historical) Initialism of Front de libération du Québec.


FLQ

Front de libération du Québec
Front de libération du Québec#French


Front de libération du Québec

(historical) A militant Quebec sovereigntist group active between 1963 and 1971.


Front de libération du Québec

(historical) the Front de libération du Québec


Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

en-proper noun

the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

democratic socialist
democratic socialist

New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party

(historical) A Canadian democratic socialist political party active between 1932 and 1961 which served as the predecessor of the New Democratic Party.


Democreep

Remember The Clarence Thomas hearings before the Senate? Democreeps could not STAND to have a Conservative African American on the Supreme Court.
Result: All out war on Judge Thomas. Anita Hill was resurrected and given the "victim" treatment by the Democreeps, the press and the NOW coven of witches.

1999 February 14, Linus F. Zimmerman, “"You stupid fuckers LOST!!! Bwahaahaahaahaahaa!!!!!!"”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

Senate democreep Torricelli, guilty of the same felony crimes that earned Traficant an 8 year jail term, has received an "admonishment" from his fellow democreep Senators and spineless Republicans.

2002 July 31, keith, “democreep Torricelli avoids jail, gets pathetic slap on wrist”, in alt.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

Gov. Jesse Ventura said it was sick. DemoCreeps were dancing on Wellstone's grave.

2002 October 31, Ray, “Wellstone Memorial Turns Into a Beautiful & Sickening DemoCreep Hate Fest!”, in alt.politics.democrats.d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

How do you think she's going to pay for her rehashed version of Nationalized Social Healthcare? Democreeps have never met a tax they didn't like.

2007 September 22, Broom Hilda, “05-07 Dakota 3.9 Fuel milage info”, in alt.autos.dodge.trucks (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

(US politics, Internet slang, derogatory) A Democrat.


Spenderfic

You can find it at (shameless plug) The Ferret Cage, along with Hal's other Spenderfic.

1999 October 10, drovar, “Re: Fave slash stories?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

A bit of everything this week - x-file, slash, MSR, humor, vignettes and Spenderfic!

2000 January 3, Kelly, “A Quiet Place to Read update”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Damn ... and here I thought this was going to be Spenderfic.

2003 June 26, SamPiper, “Re: I have a question”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang) Fan fiction about the character Jeffrey Spender from The X-Files.


Ratboy

From rat + boy. Coined by fans as a humorous reference to the character's amoral and duplicitous nature. Popularized on alt.tv.x-files, the main Usenet newsgroup for the show, where it is first attested in 1994.

Do you know who Ratboy is?

1996, Susan J. Clerc, “DDEB, GATB, MPPB, and Ratboy”, in David Lavery, Angela Hague, Marla Cartwright, editors, Deny All knowledge: Reading the X-files, page 37:

But this Krycek—self-consciously multivoiced, focalizing as a fan reader through his obsession with Mulder, Ratboy yet sympathetically damaged—is carefully constructed as a recognizable source character interpreted in a new light.

2014, Deborah Kaplan, “Construction of Fan Fiction Character Through Narrative”, in Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, editors, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, page 143:

Given his credentials, Ratboy seems like the perfect candidate for the job.

2016, Natalie Clubb, The X-Files: The Official Collection - The Agents, The Bureau, and The Syndicate, page 144:

(X-Files fandom slang) The fictional character Alex Krycek from The X-Files.


KSR

Since, I've written more, mostly MSR and KSR.

1998 July 13, Athena1600, “Re: ARCHIVISTS AND AUTHORS!”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

It's the identification thing... maybe some of the people writing KSR *do* hate Mulder.

1998 December 3, Daddy793, “Re: Question for SKipper fic authors”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

I'm a MSR and a KSR type myself, these are the stories I WANT to read.

1999 January 2, Char Priolo, “Re: "A KeyChain in the snow"”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang) Krycek/Scully romance; fan fiction involving a romantic relationship between the characters Alex Krycek and Dana Scully of the The X-Files.


Weasel Boy

From a humorous reference to a scene in which Dana Scully warns Spender not to "weasel" (i.e. trick) her in the 1998 episode "Triangle".

At least Weasel Boy makes no bones about his hatred for Mulder, though.

1998 November 12, StarGzrMC, “Re: *Getting rid DIANA FOWLEY - Survey*”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

Skinner berates her in front of Weasel Boy and CSM.

1998 November 24, rmun...@yahoo.com, “The chaser? ”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

I hardly think the solution is to pair Scully up with a dead Weasel Boy.

2000 July 16, Sandy Waddell, “Spender will be Scully's new partner,”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang) The fictional character Jeffrey Spender from The X-Files.


Trudope

Trudope spews all the right cliche progressy talking points, such as aboriginal consultation, then he flips the aboriginals the bird […]

2017 April 11, Chom Noamsky, “‘We are very disappointed’: Loss of Northern Gateway devastating for many First Nations, chiefs say”, in can.politics (Usenet):

We spend millions processing illegal immigrants each year after Trudope told them to come here […]

2019 February 4, Greg Carr, “Law Enforcement In Canada Overwhelmed By Online Child Porn.”, in can.politics (Usenet):

March against Trudope and his tyranny. This march is your march. Make your voice heard.

2019 October 15, Covfefe (quoting a Million Canadian March press release), “[Breitbart Sedition] City police call B.S. on Breitbart report of massive pro-Trump Ottawa Parliament Hill rally”, in can.politics (Usenet):

(Canada, derogatory) A nickname for Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.


Turdeau

This stupid experiment in social engineering began under Turdeau back in the late sixties with the francoization of both radio and TV English stations and channels.

1995 December 5, Cerise Lopez, “French TV in English Canada a Shocking Waste of Taxpayers' Money”, in ont.general (Usenet):

Chretien is yesterday's man. He failed Canada along with Turdeau back in the 1960s and '70s and he is failing us again.

1996 November 10, George Skorpios, “Re: Conrad Black supports Reform Party”, in ont.general (Usenet):

This does not mean, however, that the Liberals in Ottawa under Jean Chretien have reformed from the wasteful, irrational spending of the Turdeau era.

1997 October 8, Erik Trammel, “Auditor-General Assails Ottawa Grits' Crazy Spending”, in ont.general (Usenet):

(Canada, derogatory) A nickname for Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau.

Turdeau...not ready, not smart, likes carbon tax.

2015 August 23, Roy, “Re: Mulcair's NDP making inroads in Alberta . . . .”, in can.politics (Usenet):

Turdeau has already broken his promise to run a modest 10 billion dollar deficit it only remains to be seen how huge a hole he will dig.

2016 February 23, Greg Carr, “Re: Liberals Shuckin' & Jivin' Over Deficit.”, in can.politics (Usenet):

The tail doesn't wag the dog. The Americans allowed this. Turdeau has ZERO influence.

2019 May 17, Liberals are VERMIN!, “Re: Another major coup for our Trudeau government . . .”, in can.politics (Usenet):


Јода

Yoda (a wise old Jedi Master in the Star Wars films)


Војна на ѕвездите

mk-proper noun

Војна на ѕвездите

Војна на ѕвездите • (Vojna na dzvezdite) f


Quiet Revolution

Likely coined in The Globe and Mail or the Montreal Gazette.

A period of vast sociopolitical change in Quebec in the 1960s characterized by secularization, a rise of Quebec nationalism, and the development of a welfare state.

Montreal Gazette
Quiet Revolution
The Globe and Mail


Tŷ Gwyn

Er pan o'dd Bill Clinton miwn swydd yn ei Dŷ Gwyn,…

Ever since Bill Clinton was in the White House,…


大逃港

/tä⁵¹ tʰɑʊ̯³⁵ kɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tä⁵¹ tʰɑʊ̯³⁵ kɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

refugee wave from the People's Republic of China to British Hong Kong (that occurred between 1950s to the 70s)


Cuban Missile Crisis

A diplomatic crisis in 1962, between the United States and the Soviet Union, over Soviet nuclear missiles placed in Cuba. It almost led to nuclear war.


World Freedom Day

I made my first visit to Taiwan in 1974 in order to take part in a World Freedom Day rally in Taipei. The rally was sponsored by the World League for Freedom and Democracy, an organization with 120 national chapters worldwide.

2005, Jesse Helms, Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/hereswhereistand0000helm/page/n200/:

a memorial day celebrated on January 23 in Taiwan and South Korea


somepony

From some + pony, by analogy with somebody.

I messaged somepony over Tumblr last night / She said "RAWR X3" so it's true love at first sight

2021, Vylet Pony (lyrics and music), “ANTONYMPH”, in CUTIEMARKS (And The Things That Bind Us):


Jアノン

Jアノン (canonical)
Jei Anon (romanization)

[d͡ʑe̞ː a̠nõ̞ɴ]

Blend of English Japanese + Qアノン (Kyū Anon, “QAnon”)


Qアノン

Qアノン (canonical)
Kyū Anon (romanization)

[kʲɨː a̠nõ̞ɴ]


Trumpoid

Likewise, could the Washington Post and New York Times, which leaked various versions of the claim , have motives (both papers are Clintonist rather than Trumpoid, and the Post has for years been an especially keen supporter of the Syrian intervention that lies at the core of the current tension between Washington and Moscow)?

2016 December 17, J. Nielsen, “Artan`s klage”, in dk.politik (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-23:

(US politics, Internet slang) Pertaining to Donald Trump.


Trumpoid

However, the IP is currently in disarray, split between the Buchananites and the Trumpoids. Even though Trump is not in the presidential race, the Trumpoids would prefer to endorse no-one for president and concentrate on state politics. Trump has recently started working on behalf of Giuliani to sieze the IP nomination.

2000 May 12, Alex Elliott, “Putting the "head" back in "Campaign Headquarters"”, in alt.peeves (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-23:

One of our local guru type pigeon keepers is a Trumpoid no masker...the same guy who defied the governor's order and kept his barbershop open when everything was closed down...

2020 October 26, LaRocca (Tony), “Final Report 70th GSC”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-23:

The USA has far too many Trumpoid anti-vax idiots to make herd immunity a reality.

2021 May 8, Omni Vore, “Opinion | We'll Have Herd Immunity by April”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

(US politics, Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) A supporter of Donald Trump.


establishment Republican

en-noun

establishment Republican (plural establishment Republicans)

Some so-called establishment Republicans, alarmed by the rise of the ethnonationalist wing of the party, comfort themselves with the belief that this movement can be domesticated, absorbed into the traditional coalition with its sharp edges sanded off.

2017 October 21, Peter Wehner, “Going Against the Republican Herd”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US politics) A moderate or liberal member of the US Republican Party.


zimna wojna

zimna wojna (nominative singular)
zimnej wojny (genitive singular)
zimnej wojnie (dative singular)
zimną wojnę (accusative singular)
zimną wojną (instrumental singular)
zimnej wojnie (locative singular)
zimna wojno (singular vocative)

(historical) Cold War (period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, especially the United States, 1945–1991)


Obamaesque

en-adj

Obamaesque (comparative more Obamaesque, superlative most Obamaesque)

more Obamaesque (comparative)
most Obamaesque (superlative)

He’s [W. Lane Startin] a top Democratic candidate at U4prez.com, a Web site for those who dream of one day holding the nation’s premier political title. Since joining the site last month, Startin’s meteoric rise can be described only as Obamaesque.

2007 March 13, Matt Christensen, “Hail to the chief: Twin Falls man has (virtual) aspirations”, in Times-News, page D5:

[John C.] Turner, who lives in Cumberland on Vancouver Island, has joined his joke-party’s horny Rhinos Redux comeback. He’s trumpeting an Obamaesque campaign promise of “change you can’t believe in.”

2008 March 1, Doug Ward, “Rhino party wants to abolish the environment”, in The Vancouver Sun, page B8:

While campaigning in Pennsylvania last week, presidential hopeful Barack Obama bowled a 37 and the world has pretty much flipped on its head as a result.[…]I once contemplated ending my current relationship based on an Obamaesque performance by the GF at a bowling outing.

2008 April 9, Pete Cunningham, “Don’t let bowling ability skew opinions”, in The Homer Index, volume 136, number 15, page four:

“Critics say that my plan is too big, that it costs $1.9 trillion,” was [Joe] Biden’s Obamaesque reply to questions regarding his $2 trillion plan.

2021 March 2, David Harsanyi, “It’s Christmas for Democrats”, in The Star Democrat, volume 220, number 136, Easton, Md., page A4:


Obama-esque

Obama-esque (comparative more Obama-esque, superlative most Obama-esque)

more Obama-esque (comparative)
most Obama-esque (superlative)

‘24’ presidential story line has Obama-esque feel / A youngish, African-American politician becomes president. He’s relatively untested and rode to the highest office in the land on a wave of goodwill — but is he ready for the job? Does it sound like the hypothetical presidency of Sen. Barack Obama, Illinois’ own presidential hopeful?

2007 January 21, Chicago Tribune, 160th year, number 21, section 7, page 16:

John McCain’s Obama-esque remarks about our “wasted” resources in Iraq weren’t the only comments that landed him in hot water after a recent appearance on “Late Show With David Letterman.”

2007 March 7, radaronline.com, quotee, “E-Opinion: The best of the political blogs”, in Daily News, page 27:

[Mitt] Romney, the cautious consultant, is pivoting to stress his corporate competence, and is rebranding himself as an Obama-esque change agent, but he will never make the sort of daring break that independent voters will demand if they are going to give the GOP another look.

2008 January 2, David Brooks, “If Romney wins, so will Democrats”, in Intelligencer Journal, 214th year, number 168, Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster Newspapers Inc., page A10:

After beginning with some more high-minded, even Obama-esque comments about what our country is, [Joe] Biden turned to the coronavirus.

2020 August 22, Aaron Blake, “Democrats’ four big takeaways”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXIX, number 140, page A5:

Resembling or characteristic of Barack Obama (born 1961), American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.


Þrælastríðið

Þrælastríð (indefinite nominative singular)
Þrælastríðið (definite nominative singular)
Þrælastríð (accusative indefinite singular)
Þrælastríðið (accusative definite singular)
Þrælastríði (dative indefinite singular)
Þrælastríðinu (dative definite singular)
Þrælastríðs (genitive indefinite singular)
Þrælastríðsins (definite genitive singular)

From þræll (“slave”) + stríð (“war”). Attested since 1874.


Obiden

Obiden super fans, we've got amazing news for you. If, like us, you were a bit scared distance would put a damper on President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden's epic bromance, it's time to cast those fears aside. The iconic duo is still the best of friends, even if they aren't working together anymore.

2017 May 18, Andrea González-Ramírez, “Obama & Biden Are Still The Best Of Friends”, in Refinery29:

(US politics, informal, often derogatory) The political union of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

(US politics, informal, often derogatory) The continuation of the policies of Barack Obama under the administration of Joe Biden.


Rocketman

Coined by Donald Trump in September 19, 2017 for a United Nations speech, in reference to Kim's launch of military rockets.

coined

Rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime.

Little Rocketman has totally misrepresented denuke plan we offered. Deals can't get made when there is no trust! Fat kid blew it and will be sorry. Sad!
[…]
Rocketman's sister IS NOT North Korea's IVANKA. Ivanka is 6 feet tall. She's got the best body. Rocketman's sister is flat as a board!

2018 August 7, Dr Jeffrey Lewis, The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC:

It wouldn't surprise me. I thought Trump was using Bolton as the "bad cop" in
North Korea, and would use him to annoy Rocketman, then fire him and be the
"good cop".

2019 October 2, Rick Sabian, “THE WHISTLE BLOWER IS”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

Today in North Korea we see the lasting Karma of those events where the Japanese mutilated millions for the sheer lust of it. And North Korea's Rocketman wins the fearful adoration of his peoples in consequence.

2019 October 23, RANCE DEWITT, AMAZON COVENANT 2020 TRUMP and BOLSONARO, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →OCLC:

(slang, humorous, derogatory, neologism) North Korean politician Kim Jong-un.


cruyffismo

2019 November 12, Guillermo Jiménez, “Así nació el ‘cruyffismo’: viaje a las raíces de Johan Cruyff”, in Diario UF:

2019 August 27, Ramón Besa, “El ‘cruyffismo’ sin Cruyff”, in El País:

the football philosophy espoused by Johan Cruyff (1947-2016) used mainly by FC Barcelona


ジェダイ

Borrowed from English Jedi, said to be adapted from Japanese 時代劇 (jidaigeki, “period drama”).


Nazicrat

Blend of Nazi + Democrat. Equivalent to Nazi + -crat.

You mean like Clinton and his nazicrat goons?

2001 July 7, Mike Shepherd, “GREAT GUNS & DANCING MASTERS”, in alt.comedy.laurel-hardy (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

> What the hell is a nazicrat?
It is a pet term for a democrat. The Nazicrat. Just another hate group. Kill their own children to further their hate agenda.

2004 March 15, Darsh, “Crooked, Lying Republicans Have Apoplexy”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

Oh here we go again, a nazicrat bringing up there hero Bubba Clinton.

2005 April 30, Harry Hype, “Re: GW Bush. most beloved President ever”, in alt.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:


commiecrat

Blend of commie + Democrat. Equivalent to commie + -crat.

In any case, whenever I hear a Commiecrat whine about "facts", I just have to laugh.

2001 November 8, The Captain, “Mineta! What a joke! administration puppet!”, in alt.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

The Demunists are caught between having to appear sane and reasonable and having to appease their Commiecrat core elements, which have taken over the party since the 1970's. The Demunist Commiecrats are melting down, and the reasonable Democrats (Zell Miller of GA is the only one who comes to mind at the moment), are breaking ranks.

2002 September 28, Nicholas Byram, “Hugh Hewitt: Commiecrat Meltdown!”, in alt.politics.usa.republicans (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

LOL! Peer reviewed journal results, that explains global warming, and all this commiecrat asshole has is some really LAME propaganda about carbon dioxide that he is trying to use to shut down the American economy and ruin the greatest capitalist nation on earth!

2003 November 30, Stuart Grey, “SCIENTISTS WARN: "SUDDEN" CLIMATE CHANGE POSSIBLE”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

(US politics, Internet slang, derogatory) A Democrat, especially one perceived as being a communist.


lolbertarian

Yeah, I pegged you as that type years ago. Typical internet 'lolbertarian' clinging to a BOOTSTRAPS ideology that breaks down rather quickly...as your own business failure has indicated.

2010 March 15, The Exiled, V.2, “Satar is gonna get cut”, in alt.gothic (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

lol.. You're talking to a Lolbertarian.
They're the only people on planet Earth who make "liberals" look like they might be mature enough to have an age in two digits.

2019 August 26, fffurken, “Hell Takes Back One of its Own”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

Paul is a generic fair-weather lolbertarian which are a dime a dozen; prattling on about government overreach and "tyranny" when black man is prez, and then falls in line and is all achtung RAUS jawohl mien herr hup hup hup! when orange man is prez, like every other trumper out there

2020 April 8, bitrex, “Some Good News”, in sci.electronics.design (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:

(US politics, Internet slang, derogatory) A libertarian.


Elsanna

Ultimately, Elsanna femslash considers the repressive power of sexual taboo insofar as it can reject that power, electing instead, as Elsa's character sings in the film's coming-out scene par excellence, to "let it go."

2019, Sara K. Howe, Susan E. Cook, “Introduction: Entering the Fringe”, in Sara K. Howe, Susan E. Cook, editors, Representing Kink: Fringe Sexuality and Textuality in Literature, Digital Narrative, and Popular Culture, page 11:

Fans of the show Supernatural have created digitally manipulated images of its two male leads, the Wincester brothers, in bed together (aka “Wincest”), and fan-fiction stemming from the popular children’s film Frozen (2013) casts the two sisters, Elsa and Anna, as lovers (aka “Elsanna”).

2019, Lara Karaian, “Relative Lust: Accidental Incest’s Affective and Legal Resonances”, in Law, Culture and the Humanities, volume 15, number 3, pages 8–9:

While other male/male fan pairings were referred to more often than elsanna, it was the first and only female/female pairing that I came across during my search.

2021, Victor Larsen, "'It Makes Me, A Minor, Uncomfortable': Media and Morality In Anti-Shippers' Policing of Online Fandom", thesis submitted to Ghent University, page 43

(fandom slang) The incestuous ship of the fictional sisters Elsa and Anna from the Frozen franchise.


anti-relationshipper

I realize the subject of the nature of M&S's relationship is a sore point around here, but I've never written about it before, and was invited to share my two cents. I'd like to propose that in addition to relationshippers and anti-relationshippers, there is a third faction of viewers, such as myself, who for lack of a better word I'll call "fence-sitters."

1996 June 24, Deb Mikels, “Never say never”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

I would probably be classed as an anti-relationshipper myself, because my advice would be to close out the Tease and have them settle down to a deep, abiding, nonsexual love.

1996 November 6, Lee Burwasser, “Re: Are shippers dumb?”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

I am a fervent and proud anti-relationshipper. No non-platonic relationship whatsoever, and I'm happy.

1998 April 2, Sean Carroll, “Re: RELATIONSHIPPER OR FRIENDSHIPPER?????”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang) A person who opposes the idea of a romantic relationship between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.


Jeff Davis's necktie

en-noun

Jeff Davis's necktie (plural Jeff Davis's neckties)


Sherman's bow tie

Sherman's bow tie (plural Sherman's bow ties)


space bridge

In a later Donahue/Pozner space bridge the question of editing was dramatically underscored on air in the Soviet Union.

1992, Ellen Mickiewicz, Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union, page 48:

(historical) A series of experimental international telecasts between Soviet and United States viewers, arranged by enthusiasts during the late Cold War era.


Great Society

[W]ith […] your desire, we will build the Great Society. It is a Society where no child will go unfed [or] unschooled. Where no man who wants work will fail to find it. Where no citizen will be barred from any door because of his birthplace or his color or his church. Where peace and security is common among neighbors and […] nations.

1964 March 12, Lyndon B Johnson, Remarks in Athens at Ohio University, The American Presidency Project:

We built the campaign strategy around a progressive program, the program that formed the framework of the Great Society. The Great Society was never, in my mind, just a visionary Utopian ideal. I considered it a realistic outline of what this nation could achieve in a limited period of time if we marshaled our will and committed our resources.

1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The 1964 Campaign”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:

[…] The Great Society was given a blank check. It bounced. While some of the poor advanced over the last twenty-five years, most who did so succeeded the old-fashioned way—by their own efforts. Most inner-city poor are worse off today than they were before President Johnson launched the Great Society.

1992, Richard Nixon, “The Renewal of America”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 292:

This required a legislative program, the Great Society, that would complete the New Deal and earn LBJ a place alongside FDR in the pantheon of heroic Democratic reformers.

2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 2, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part I. The New Deal Order, 1930–1980:

(historical, US politics) A series of programs launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson to eliminate poverty in the United States.


boba liberal

A reference to boba tea, a drink popular in Asian American communities.

I am admittedly vocal about my obsession with bubble tea; in fact, the editors of the Grub Street piece had cut several other mentions of it, on the ground that it was boba overkill. I also write for a mainstream, left-leaning American publication, and it’s true that I once wrote a Profile of the “Crazy Rich Asians” star Constance Wu. It hadn’t occurred to me that such proclivities made me a quintessential boba liberal (much less an idiot queen)[…]

2021 January 29, Jiayang Fan, “Chronicles of a Bubble-Tea Addict”, in The New Yorker:

But just as we’ve seen with the co-opting of the word “woke” as a sarcastic conservative slur against progressive ideals, the term “boba liberal” has been subverted, too. Instead of merely critiquing shallow identity politics, the term is now weaponized against progressive Asian Americans deemed insufficiently committed to the Asian cause — and nothing has accelerated that quicker than the panic over attacks on Asian Americans on the street.

2022 February 17, Eddie Kim, “Is the ‘Boba Liberal’ Really a Race Traitor?”, in MEL Magazine:

And Uncle Roger gets to both educate and complain about cultural appropriation without coming off as what Lau referred to as a boba liberal.

2022 April 18, 3:35 from the start, in Keep screwing up egg fried rice. It makes Uncle Roger happy, via NPR:

(US, derogatory, US politics) a liberal-leaning Asian American with politics or attitudes considered too tepid or whitewashed by other Asian Americans, stereotyped as focusing on superficial gestures over more meaningful actions especially in regards to Asian American activism.


Batfamily

Ace the Bat-Hound, a formerly lost dog, joined the Batfamily in 1959, wearing a black mask while assisting Batman and Robin […]

2010, Mitzi M. Brunsdale, Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes, page 15:

To put it simply, Dick Grayson has always been the “Relationship Robin”; he's the member of the Batfamily most known for cultivating relationships, and deeply trusting those who he cares for.

2015, Jordan Hass, Star Schneider, “The New 52 (2011-present)”, in Kristen L. Geaman, editor, Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder Scholars and Creators on 75 Years of Robin, Nightwing and Batman, page 160:

Each member of the Batfamily merges the world of Batman with different subject positions.

2018, Jeffrey A. Brown, Batman and the Multiplicity of Identity: The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero as Cultural Nexus, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The superhero Batman and his closest allies as a group.


Mordetwi

(fandom slang) The crackship of characters Mordecai from Regular Show and Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.


Nobama

Nobama has been an elected official 1997.
Governor Sarah Palin has been an elected official 1992.
Nobama has been to Iraq 1 time.
Governor Sarah Palin has been to Iraq 1 time.
Nobama has never held an executive position.
Governor Sarah Palin held executive positions by being mayor of Wasilla, Alaska and governor of the State of Alaska.
Democrats and Obamanics bitch and moan has ran only a small city and state.
What has Nobama run? I can tell you. Nada.

2008 August 31, Berkeley Bolshevik, “Experience? Nobama don't need no steenkin' experience.”, in alt.politics.democrats.d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

This is the environment the Nobama was raised in. This is what he brings to Washington. This is what the US is going to look like shortly.

2009 June 11, CharlesTheCurmudgeon, “OT: Chicago leading the way for Nobama”, in alt.autos.toyota (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

President Nobama and his family will be brutally butchered! Why so?
Well, what did happen to The Russian Tsar and his family during The Russian Revolution? Oh, they all got brutally butchered! And now we have Nobama royally busting his ass to cause an ARMED SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION, therefore I do expect him and his family to end up being brutally butchered.

2010 December 28, Nancy Luft, “### President Nobama & Family will be BRUTALLY BUTCHERED! ###”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:


Democrap

We had a Democrap in the White house and he let those 20 taliban Hijackers into the US to plan their 9-11 Attack. You lose again skank maggot.

2007 July 27, cuts success @dc.gov DOW UP 20 % in 12 Months : Another Bush Tax Cut Success, “Republican Candidates Afraid of YouTube Debates”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

> What in the fuck is a "Democrap?"
It's a lot like a Republiscum, only blue.

2008 August 19, Tiger Luck, “Democrap caught in $3.5 Million Scandal : AP Refuses to Identify him as Democrap”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

Democraps bend over & drop their pants for Democrap labor Union thugs and they get fucked Again with a snow job ! LOL!

2010 December 31, k00kery@gwk00ks.org UK Spanked With100 yr Record Cold Global Warming, “Democrap Labor Union Thugs Fuck over NYC Democraps! ROFLMAO! LOVIN IT !”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

(US politics, Internet slang, derogatory, mildly vulgar) A Democrat.


Obongo

Blend of Obama + bongo. Compare Bongo Bongo Land.

Obongo doesn't sound much like a Grik name, Pants?
Hussein does, though! LOL.

2008 June 6, Eli Grubman, “Obongo's uncle liberated Auschwitz”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

Unprecedented chatter coming from such a high level, unbecoming of this position, for very becoming for the Halfrikan.
Gutter talk like this is always reserved for low party functionaries or hired guns - But Obongo, low class half breed that he is, has no problem at all sinking into the gutter, and demeaning the office of the presidency while hes at it.

2010 November 1, Jesse, “Race baiter Obongo at it again”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

Another day in Mr. & Mr. Obongo's anti-White Zio-Marxist America -- a six month prison sentence meted out to a drunken White college prankster who draped a rope around a statue of James Meredith -- the ex-Air Force serviceman whose determination to become the first Black man to attend the University of Mississippi was perhaps the biggest news story of 1962.

2015 September 19, Topaz, “Obongo”, in alt.fan.adolf-hitler (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

(slang, derogatory, offensive) Barack Obama.


Democunt

Democunt faggots like you think that you can win arguments by creating a straw man or red herring factoid and then arguing it.

2004 November 9, George, “democunt called me last night”, in alt.politics.democrats.d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

Still can't get over the tone of voice that Democunt used on me when I stated my preference for McCain.
Boy, old Obama sure did a bippy-lick on some of these young broads.

2008 October 3, th...@anhywhere.usa, “democunt called me last night”, in soc.senior.issues (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

2009 December 27, Kickin' Names Takes It In The Ass, “Idiot DemoCUNT Napolitano On Failed Terror Attempt: "The System Worked" (So, the "system" must be: "burly male passengers subdue and beat the crap out of the terrorist")”, in alt.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

(US politics, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) A Democrat.


Refucklican

The bigger problem was not Refucklicans.It was arab oil control.You always have to kiss arab ass because of oil.why do you think Middle East conflict still going on?

2003 June 16, Crazyalec, “The lies that led us into war ...”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-30:

Refucklicans won't be able to disenfranchise enough blacks to cover how much they're going to lose by this time.

2003 July 2, Hello Man, “Toward One-Party Rule”, in alt.politics.usa.republican (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-30:

Not...its^([sic]) the Refucklicans that are doing that. It goes on on Fux News daily.

2004 May 1, msl...@aol.com, “Re: How far will the GOP go to win? How dirty will they GO?”, in alt.politics.liberalism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-30:

Clinton attacked bin Laden in 1998, and wanted to fight against al-Qaeda then. But the Refucklicans whined about him "wagging the dog" and didn't give him any support in his anti-terrorism efforts.

2007 August 6, Peacenik, “Why did Clinton ignore Bin Laden?”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-30:

(US politics, Internet slang, derogatory, vulgar) A Republican.


chubbing

Unknown. Attested as early as the 1950s.

The representative engaged in chubbing may or may not be in favor of the current bill but is trying to block consideration of the next bill on the Texas House calendar.

2013, Ken Collier, Steven Galatas, Julie Harrelson-Stephens, Lone Star Politics, 3rd Edition, page 129:

(US politics, Texas) The deliberate use of discussion and debate to delay legislative proceedings.


昭昭天命

ㄓㄠ ㄓㄠ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄇㄧㄥˋ

чжаочжао тяньмин

/ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ miŋ⁵¹/

/ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ miŋ⁵¹/


Bidenflation

(informal, derogatory, humorous) The intense inflation or stagflation in the United States experienced during the Joe Biden presidency.


Bidenist

(US politics) A supporter of American politician and US president Joe Biden.

(US politics) Of or pertaining to Bidenism.


Dark Knight

A moniker for Batman, the fictional superhero.


Italygate

(US politics) A QAnon-affiliated conspiracy theory alleging that the 2020 United States presidential election was rigged, with satellites and military technology used to switch votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden from the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy.


Cancún Cruz

Referring to Ted Cruz going on vacation to Cancún, Mexico, during the 2021 Texas power crisis.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said the senator shouldn’t have apologized, and the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. complained that people were trying to “cancel Cancún Cruz” — a defense wrapped in a classically Trumpian insulting nickname.

2021 February 19, Lisa Lerer, “How Ted Cruz Became the least sympathetic politician in America”, in New York Times:

You'd think they'd be ashamed of the shenanigans they try / But never Cancun Cruz or Lady G

2021 April 5, “Ted and Lindsey”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics):

Ken dressed up like Cancun Cruz and sang "Margaritaville." When he got to the chorus, everyone joined in and sang, "I tried to say that my kids were to blame, but I know it was my own damn fault."

2021 October 6, Joe Lovato, Blood, Love and Justice, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

We have all read about “Cancun Cruz,” and how he blamed his poor decision to travel to Cancun during Texas’ winter freeze on his daughters.

2022 April 4, “Cruz's actions display a lack of maturity, poor decision-making”, in Austin American-Statesman, page A8:

(US politics, derogatory, neologism) U.S. senator Ted Cruz.


Beijing Biden

A Republican coinage, in the belief that Joe Biden is either amenable to or in direct allegiance with the People's Republic of China.

He described Biden as "Beijing Biden" and soft on China, but a review of Biden's China policy by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Deutsche Welle, BBC and RFE/RL found that there are actually many similarities between Biden's[…]

2021 March 14, David Rong, William Luo, Haitian Liu, Contemporary China Review (Quarterly Journal): 当代中国评论（英文季刊）, Bouden House, →ISBN, page 37:


Moscow Mitch

Referring to Mitch McConnell's opposition to sanctions voted by the Senate against the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in 2018.

"Moscow Mitch" has acted as a Trojan horse for crony capitalists, allowing them to wield domineering control over our national politics and decision-making. He has been diabolically opposed to fairer political representation and[…]

2016 May 21, Tiffany Twain, Big Picture Perspectives and A Pursuit of Social Activism, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 16:

Moscow Mitch won't allow it. The Senate Republican majority leader told us he didn't like that nickname. So in deference, I will not call him that. Even before the House impeachment hearings began, Leningrad Mitch pledged that[…]

2020 May 26, Marvin Kitman, Gullible's Travels: A Comical History of the Trump Era, Seven Stories Press, →ISBN:

The efforts earned McConnell the moniker "Moscow Mitch." In September 2019, Sen. McConnell finally agreed to a bill authorizing $250 million for election security. The bill did not require that states use the funds for secure[…]

2021 February 9, Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:

(US politics, derogatory) U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.


DAI

Dragon Age: Inquisition
w:Dragon Age: Inquisition

(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age: Inquisition.


fusion center

(US politics, neologism) An American government institution for centralizing intelligence between law enforcement agencies.


Disney rash

So called because it is sometimes experienced by visitors to Walt Disney resorts, who find themselves undertaking an unusual amount of exercise (sports, etc.) in hot weather.


Shakarian

There's not enough Shakarian on my dashboard right now. This is my Shepard and her Garrus. Don't judge me.

2012 August 23, Jamie Summers (@darksakura), Twitter:

UGH my whole Tumblr dash now is just Royai and Shakarian and [modified .gif of No Face from the animated film Spirited Away being knocked over by a wave labelled "feels"]

2015 July 31, Sam Maggs (@SamMaggs), Twitter:

Found some new Shakarian fic, you won’t hear from me tonight 😂

2021 April 29, Kat Vakarian-Rutherford (@ShepardsKat), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Commander Shepard and Garrus Vakarian from the video game series Mass Effect.


光劍

/ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

/ku̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/


Trump country

(slang, politics, US) Rural areas in the United States where the majority of voters lean conservative and support the Republican politician Donald Trump.


Cheetolini

Blend of Cheeto + Mussolini, referencing the resemblance of Trump's facial complexion with the color of Cheetos and his perceived political similarity to Benito Mussolini.

"We don’t know the scope of involvement he has planned. The New York Times, though, reported that Obama’s team rushed to preserve intelligence regarding possible contacts between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia."
Trying to keep Cheetolini from destroying incriminating evidence hardly qualifies, IMO.

2017 March 7, Futbol Phan, “Worse than Carter, twice?”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):

“[…]But her being trans has nothing to do with those privileges; her gender identity is separate from the fact that she is not very smart and voted for Cheetolini.[…]”

2018 May 22, Franchesca Ramsey, Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist, Hachette UK, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:

Fang Fang went Bang Bang (important China collusion hoax news involving
money laundering, trade wars and presidential emolumenting). Did you
see where the Supreme Court did not follow Presidential Ordering and
throw away all the democrat ballots and declare an incredible landslide
for Cheetolini The Truly Great and Amazing?

2020 December 12, mixed nuts, “Here's one source for CCP troops in China...”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

(humorous, derogatory) Donald John Trump.


Buckwheat

After a character from the Little Rascals comedy films, from buckwheat. Popularized by politician Corey Poitier in March 2010 though attestations exist as early as February 2008.

How will "Buckwheat" Obama handle the ever increasing nuke threat from
Iran?

2008 February 4, Gabby Hayes, “"Buckwheat" Obama and Iran”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

You know as well as I do that OIF will end sweetly, nicely, AND WAAY
BEFORE 2012. Unlike Hitlary (always ducking sniper fire) and
Buckwheat (doesn't know when to duck or how to fire), McAmnesty will
leave a bloody trail of blasted ass from the Mall to Langley!

2008 May 6, Patriot Games, “Buckwheat Gets Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Endorsement!”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

If you voted for Buckwheat in 2008, it proves your^([sic]) not a racist. If you vote for Buckwheat in 2012, it will prove that you are a frickin' idiot. Life's tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid.

2011 August 4, L.W. Van Leuven, Pivotal Point, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 14:

Buckwheat was the first to ignore the 1st Ammendment^([sic]) and the government not
interfering with the free exercise of religious faith.

2012 February 10, duke, “Catholic bishops cry wolf on contraception”, in alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic (Usenet):

(humorous, derogatory) Barack Hussein Obama II.


Republicoon

WOW!!!! That's a great photo of my hero...got one with him and a rope and a
republicoon or jewdough republicoon...:o))))))))))))))

2003 June 18, Polybius, “Bush”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):

The bill pushed by anti-labor republicoon Oxley
of Ohio( ask anyone about this a$$hole), makes it legal for an illegal
alien to use any foreign issued id in a banking transaction in the USA.

2004 September 15, Pennsylvania Dutch, “~ BUSH'S GENOCIDE FOR OIL FUELS TALIBAN ~”, in alt.politics.gw-bush (Usenet):

Republicoons hate Americas^([sic]). They want Americans to work until they
are 70,
as to not be a burden , prevent Americans retrieve the *entitlements*
they paid for.

2011 April 15, Lost In Space, “America Haters: "Yeah! America Is Crumbling!!!"”, in austin.general (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, vulgar, derogatory) A Republican.


Republicoon

This sounds like republicoon mumbo jumbo to me. Probably written by one
of Mista Lincoln's mexicoons or cubacoons, because of the reference to
fast track.

2002 October 29, TL, “DEM Communication two days after Wellstone's Death”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):

Second, there is the republicoon negro ass reduction tax credit, for all negroes
who get special ass reduction surgery.

2003 May 2, Polybius, “Senate Dems Continue to Obstruct Economic Recovery”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):

2011 March 14, Michael Snyder, “Wisconsin -- Asswipes fuked themselve in the a-s trying to fuk Obama, by voting for the Union Killing Republicoon Neo-Coons -- HE,HE,HAW”, in alt.flame.cincinnati (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, vulgar, derogatory) Republican.


neocoon

Anyway, I'll be letting you know how things work out. I have a feeling
this is going to make me rich. Gotta get it, you know, before Bush
and the neocoons steal it all.

2006 November 17, jls, “Just Filed Online for Social Security Benefits”, in alt.appalachian (Usenet):

Hahahaha, I was waiting for this... if you righturds don't have anything
else that can
disrupt the opponent's election, get back to the issues that worked before
for the
neocoons. Abortion, gay rights and immigration. It ain't gonna work this
time.

2008 August 17, Titix, “B,TMM's support for infanticide”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

Yeah it is ironic how the left now takes the same actions in response
to criticism as the neocoons did.

2009 November 1, trav...@aol.com, “Re: Where was O'bamma actually born?”, in misc.legal (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory, offensive) A neoconservative.


neocoon

Like the rest of your NeoCoon colleagues, your Shamelessness is
showing. And ewe Wonder Why I ridicule your posts? Completely
unbelievable that you would say Shit like this to GlennD. RightWing
Slime have treated half the Sheeple in this country like garbage for the
last 5 years, and finally they're getting it thrown back at them.

2005 June 29, jmt, “OT: Best Democratic ticket.”, in rec.music.makers.percussion (Usenet):

so let's see, at least according to the neocoon propaganda;
Hillary's an psychotic, foul-mouthed, evil, murdering, (b/w)itch, as
corrupt as the day is long.

2007 December 25, Gnome, Alaska, “iDRMRSR's Holiday Realizatian”, in alt.slack (Usenet):

2014 May 17, spamthespammer, “Re: neocoon assfucker michael obama is gone bonkers...”, in us.politics (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory, offensive) Neoconservative.


Christian right

(Christianity, politics, US politics) Political factions in the United States and other Western countries who favour conservative values enacted into their countries' society and laws.

Muslim right

ultraconservative Muslim movements, various countries


Hillarygate

(US politics) The Hillary Clinton email controversy.


Obergefell

en-proper-noun

Obergefell (countable and uncountable, plural Obergefells)

/ˈoʊbərɡəˌfɛl/

(US, law, sexuality, US politics, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of Obergefell v. Hodges. A 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage; and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.


Atari Democrat

From Atari, a prominent video game system in the 1970s and early 1980s.

[Paul] Tsongas was, perhaps, the original neoliberal and Atari Democrat. In 1980, he had shocked the audience at an Americans for Democratic Action gathering by urging them to focus on economic growth rather than the redistribution of wealth and by advocating the deregulation of natural gas prices.

2004, John B. Judis, Ruy Teixeira, The Emerging Democratic Majority, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 132:

When Walter Mondale, a traditional New Deal liberal […] lost by a wide margin to Reagan in the presidential election of 1984, the Atari Democrats joined a larger group of frustrated Democratic officials to found the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC).

2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 4, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020:

information technology
information technology

(US politics, informal, historical) A member of the US Democratic Party who emphasizes the role of high tech, in particular information technology, for economic growth.


GEOTUS

Acronym of God Emperor of the United States. From a blend of God Emperor + POTUS, in reference to the fictional God Emperor of Mankind from the Warhammer 40,000 universe, and the common acronym for the President of the United States.

acronym

President of the United States
Warhammer 40,000


Faux News

From the similarity in spelling between fox and faux, denouncing alleged misinformation from the television channel's programmes.

Some of you benighted buffoons actually believe Faux News' claim to be fair and balanced. Some of you clueless clowns actually think Faux News is unbiased, and all other media have a liberal bias.
Well, now Faux News' London Bureau Chief has let the cat out of the bag. Faux News is biased, after all. Who woulda thunk it?

2005 May 31, ramashiva, “OT: NEWSFLASH!!! Faux News is biased”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-02:

If it wasn't for Murdoch infusing money into Faux News, it would have gone off the air a very long time ago.

2006 September 26, mordacp...@hotmail.com, “Faux news reports on the Clinton interview today”, in alt.impeach.bush (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-02:

Most viewers don't know Faux News has fake Liberals. Listen to NPR and you'll hear many of the "liberals" from Faux News giving conservative viewpoints. Some have been on NPR for decades giving conservative views.
Faux News is a far right media, the deception is accomplished by presenting fake liberals giving weak arguments for the moderates and the left. It isn't real.

2009 February 11, Physicist, “Faux News passes off GOP press release as its own reporting”, in alt.x.y (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-02:

(Internet slang, politics, derogatory) Fox News.


Communist News Network

Blend of Communist + Cable News Network.

CNN AKA The Communist News Network ran results of a survey showing the percentage of Juveniles that owned firearms. So who else other than Communists hell bent on taking away firearms from law abiding citizens would care.

1998 October 15, WM, “Communist News Network”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-03:

Not again! The Communist News Network gets caught in another lie.

2003 June 8, Alvin Valkenheiser, “The Communist News Network gets caught in another lie.”, in ny.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-03:

Interesting that even the Communist News Network can't even get its own quotes right, isn't it? You'd expect them to take other agencies out of context and jump up and down, but to take their own???

2008 October 23, Steele, “An interesting news Item on the Communist News Network”, in alabama.shoals.general (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-03:


Clinton News Network

Blend of Clinton + Cable News Network. In reference to allegations that the network's coverage is biased in favor of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Although the term was initially coined during Bill Clinton's presidency, it later experienced a surge in popularity during Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.

The new head of CNN's news division is a well-known Clinton supporter according to Vanity Fair, hence the term "Clinton News Network."

1998 March 19, Reina 616, “Clinton News Network vs. Fox”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-02:

2000 April 1, Red Herring, “ROTFL: Clinton News Network Lost 31% of Viewers in One Year”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-02:

2001 April 5, A real American, “Clinton News Network hammered yet again by Fox News”, in alt.politics.liberalism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-02:

Kaplan saw to it that CNN gave softball coverage to the Clintons and threw hardballs at their enemies. Under his watch, CNN came to be known as the Clinton News Network for its pro-Bill&Hill bias.

2004 February 18, Jim Dandy, “MSNBC, the New Clinton News Network?”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-02:

Since Fat Ass Matt Sticks His Head Up His OWN Ass And Ignores What The New York Times and The Clinton News Network Writes While Posting More Lies... We'll Just Keep Posting This (see below making Matt look stupider than he already appears to be)

2016 November 16, AlleyCat, “Could Trump be the First Mole impeached on the day he is inaugurated?”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-02:


クリントン

[kɯ̟ɾʲĩntõ̞ɴ]

A transliteration of the English surname Clinton


Femquisitor

You know what's nice? The Qunari Femquisitor is taller than everyone else. Yes. Good.

2014 June 11, Bryce (@robothyenas), Twitter:

Been looking at too many cool Femquisitors and now I want to restart again :(

2015 January 8, Garrus Dating Sim (@aitchsee), Twitter:

i fucking love blackwall, his romance is SO underrated. when i'm playing a femquisitor, he's the one i default to. 💖

2020 December 15, ϯ♄𝚎 ƃစဌ 𝜛ῑϯ⸦♄ (@dalishkadan), Twitter:

(fandom slang, video games) The female version of the Inquisitor player character from the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.


FemQuis

As a future FemQuisitor I appreciate all awesome artwork and posters that feature our awesome Femquis.

2014 November 6, Rogue_Slayer (@Rogue_Slayer), Twitter:

Luckily, I found a Youtube^([sic]) of the scene that exactly mirrors mine (Dalish Femquis, same mix of companions, etc)

2015 April 1, AutographedCat (@autographedcat), Twitter:

No kidding. I kept trying to romance Cass as a Femquis on PS4 but forgot about that. Flirting with Harding eased the pain.

2015 September 5, Bubblegumnex (@bubblegumnex), Twitter:

(fandom slang, video games) Synonym of Femquisitor.


Quizzy

From an affectionate shortening of inquisitor + -y.

I'm just glad that I can't lose approval with Cullen. He hearts my Quizzy no matter what. TRUE LOVE GUYS TAKE NOTE.

2014 December 24, Ash (@LadyFaceshred), Twitter:

Most of my DA art is of Fenris and Hawke (male) or my elf Quizzies and Iron Bull.

2018 November 29, Diana Davidsson (@Omegasama_art), Twitter:

FINALLY played The Decent DLC with a dwarf Quizzy and I flippin love it more than ever.

2022 June 1, Jen (@jentrevellan), Twitter:

(fandom slang, video games) The Inquisitor player character from the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.


FemHawke

Daaawwww. 2nd playthrough of DA2 and my FemHawke Mage just had the 1st romance scene with Anders. So cute.

2011 March 15, Rexluna (@RexlunaCosplay), Twitter:

I also have one male Hawke and all the rest are FemHawkes.

2013 March 2, MsinVader47 (@Vader47), Twitter:

Pretty sure that Ciri is voiced by the same VA as FemHawke in DA2.... giving me all the Dragon Age feels.

2015 June 17, Kelly (@mindofgeekness), Twitter:

(fandom slang, video games) The female version of the Hawke player character from the video game Dragon Age II.


AINO

(US politics, derogatory) Acronym of American in name only: an American who holds anti-American views.


Texiter

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Texiter.

(US politics) One who supports Texit (the proposed secession of Texas from the United States).


Criminal News Network

I no longer watch CNN. Its now Criminal News Network to me.

1998 December 9, Walt Horning, “CNN BUSTED - COMPLIES WITH WHITE HOUSE ORDER TO CENSOR”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-06:

Yes, act now. Impose sanctions right now and when the FM, that Slavic-faggot Papandreou, gets on the Criminal News Network (CNN), he can explain the situation to the dumber Americans who really haven't a clue about anything other than the 400 kilogram gorilla the slut Britney Spears fucked the other day.

2004 January 6, Dorian West, “A letter taken from a newspaper”, in alt.news.fyrom (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-06:

One must consider the (criminal news network) source . You libs are in for a real drubbing come election day . The only way Trump won't win is if y'all manage to assassinate him first .

2019 June 19, Terry Coombs, “FLORIDA Biden 50% - Trump 41%”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-06:


rebel yell

en-noun

rebel yell (countable and uncountable, plural rebel yells)

A cry used by Confederate troops in the American Civil War, to intimidate Union troops.


hamberder

From a 2019 tweet by Donald Trump, in which he misspelled hamburgers as hamberders.

Great being with the National Champion Clemson Tigers last night at the White House. Because of the Shutdown I served them massive amounts of Fast Food (I paid), over 1000 hamberders etc. Within one hour, it was all gone. Great guys and big eaters!

2019 January 15, realDonaldTrump, Twitter, archived from the original on 2019-01-15:

Donald Trump has bragged about serving a table groaning with McDonalds^([sic]) ‘hamberders’ to a football team visiting the White House. In a misspelt tweet issued Tuesday, the president wrote: ‘Great being with the National Champion Clemson Tigers last night at the White House. ‘Because of the Shutdown I served them massive amounts of Fast Food (I paid), over 1000 hamberders etc.

2019 January 15, Bod, “Donald Trump brags about serving McDonald’s ‘hamberders’ at White House”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

How many people were there that required 1000 hamberders? And he wasn't just serving those, there were chicken nuggets, pizza too I think.
So, two burgers per person, 500 people?
Anyone want to bet it's another gross exaggeration?

2019 January 15, trader_4, “Donald Trump brags about serving McDonald’s ‘hamberders’ at White House”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

If words could kill I would've turned Thanny into a pile of hamberder a thousand times over.

2019 September 16, gmsin...@gmail.com, “Beano O'Rourke: Police Wouldn't Go Door To Door To Confiscate Guns Under My Plan”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

Soon after she started in Congress, Devil’s Due, a comic book publisher, announced its latest product: […] Grab a hamberder and cup of covfefe and prepare to enjoy this read!

2020, Caroline Fredrickson, “Introduction”, in The AOC Way: The Secrets of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Success, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:

>> Do wish to purchase a hamburger today?
>
>Don't forget the On!ons.
Indeed, a hamberder with ketchup, lettuce, tomatoes, pickle and ONIONS is not really a hamberder.

2020 September 21, "Sir Hømer Hall, Esq.", “MOST HILARIOUS LIBTARD MELTDOWN E-V-E-R-!”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

food should not be a problem for Trump, given how much he loves McDonald's "hamberders" as he refers to them in his tweets. McDonald's is inexpensive, provides plenty of coupons, and must not be unhealthy because Trump eats them daily, his doctor reports he is in flawless health in spite of having suffered covid. He eats McDonalds^([sic]) as he alleges that it is harder to put poison in fast food, because you do not know which hamberder will be handed to the victim.

2020 November 26, marika, “Food Shortage?????”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

>> Also, if convicted and jailed, would he have Secret Service protection in the mess hall and showers?
>
> He'd be in Club Fed. Private accommodations, like other rich crooks get.
Would he get the hamberders and ice cream that he needs to stay alive? What about golfing facilities?

2021 January 7, Athel Cornish-Bowden, “It's over”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

(humorous) Deliberate misspelling of hamburger.


Mouse Kingdom

My brother (the minor regional poet and CnW artiste) went to Orlando (in the Mouse Kingdom) for a minor regional poet's confab oncet and hooked up with a cowboy poet from Wyoming.

1994 July 26, Ted Samse, “ORLANDO [not the sound of Florida in my ears]”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

Don't know what the temperture is by Maryjo, but the weather in Sarasota, Fl. is supposed to be up in the low 80's today. It is usually warmer here than Lakecity.
It is supposed to be in the same in Orlando, at the Mouse Kingdom where my husband and I are heading in just a couple of hours.

1999 November 6, Catherine Hassard, “OT A Message From George Carlin”, in alt.support.crohns-colitis (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

Not only do they have Mikey's stuff at the Mouse Kingdom, they have it at the Bullseye Boutique.

2001 April 8, Charlie Perrin, “More Magazine--and what magazines do you read?”, in alt.fashion (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

I am from Central Florida in the United States. About 45 miles from the giant mouse kingdom of Orlando.

2004 December 28, Mary, “RE: New Member”, in alt.healing.reiki (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

I am not in fact a Tampan. My ISP is located in Tampa but I am from further east. I AM regrettably close to the Mouse Kingdom, I admit. Tampa and Orlando kinda suck all the oxygen out of the air here.

2008 April 22, Jim Vandewalker, “Clansdell and Jim V.”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

The coming August, before the start of school, I was planning on going with some friends to the Mouse Kingdom in Florida.

2022 July 17, Obvious-Wrongdoer-18, “AITA For Saying That I Don't Love My Niece To Her Face?”, in Reddit, AmItheAsshole, archived from the original on 2022-07-18:

"On the Disney side--remember these people own a movie studio, cable TVvhannels and ABC--there's plenty of people who are technicall astute. Bran Ferren, Alan Kay, Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papret, and Danny Hillis, geeks all, have found comfortable homes in the mouse kingdom."

1998 March 10, Tripp1901, “Disney Buying Apple Computers???”, in alt.disney.disneyland (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

There's a current fan-myth that Mulan was directly inspired by Mononoke, which is incredibly unlikely given Disney's film began production long before Ghibli's. (Unless the Mouse Kingdom ransacked Miyazaki's early treatments - which were a variant on the Beauty and the Beast story, with a young girl forced to marry a mononoke (monster)).

1998 July 16, andrew osmond, “summer is here”, in uk.media.animation.anime (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

Robin the mad photographer (not terribly impressed with the Mouse Kingdom, if you couldn't tell)

1999 June 24, Robin Colleen Moore, “Three More Bodies Found In Disney Pond”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

I have a pair of co-workers (husband and wife, but she kept her name... we didn't know they were husband and wife for a while) who are great Mouse Kingdom freaks. She in particular wears Mickey Mouse stuff to work all the time.

The mouse kingdom has invaded the big apple on Broadway where the Lion King has been playing to sold out audiences for years.

2002 January 25, JSTONE9352, “NYINC”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

Welcome from another Californian. We seem to be getting quite a group here. I'm kind of near the mouse kingdom, but not as close as Sandra. Guess we are spread out everywhere. : )

1997 September 19, Bev, “WHO IS FORTY OR MORE?”, in alt.penpals.forty-plus-yrs (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

I sold the trip to Track Worlds on the proximity to the Mouse Kingdom (Le Royaume de Souris to you, Brian). It's spring break so the rest of my family is available to travel. Note, if you refer to the Mouse Kingdom to a travel agent they know exactly what you are talking about. You might have to explain Le Royaume de Souris though.
So Thursday, while I'm grooving on the Men's Points race, they are making the pilgrimmage. This is a big deal since my kid is old enough now that a lot of her friends have been there, or to the alternate Royaume de Souris in Florida.

2005 March 26, Bob Schwartz, “True Story”, in rec.bicycles.racing (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

We were at Disneyland, so long ago there was still a submarine ride, and this loud talking hot woman with another group who looked just like Kelly Harmon and honestly might have been her
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/kelly-harmon-1.jpg
said, as I put my video camera up against the sub window, “I bet that creep is going to put his video camera right up against the sub window“
And my mouse kingdom accomplice asked what cutie pie had said and I told her and she says “I don’t believe it, she’s too pretty to be that mean“

2021 June 10, anim8rfsk, “"Loki" Starts Today”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-19:

(humorous, uncommon) The Disneyland Resort.


Kelvinverse

From Kelvin + -verse, referencing the attack on the USS Kelvin by time-travelling Romulans in the first film, the point of divergence that creates the alternate universe.

From H. G. Wells's radio play The War of the Worlds to the cinematic blockbuster Star Trek Kelvinverse movies, themes of invasion, conquest, and colonization are the bread and butter of science fiction.

2020, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, page 30:

The show responded to fan pleas to return the series to the “Prime” timeline and explored a hitherto under-represented era of Star Trek history—roughly a decade before The Original Series, placing it roughly analogous to the same time zone the “Kelvinverse” films were exploring.

2021, A. J. Black, Star Trek, History and Us: Reflections of the Present and Past Throughout the Franchise, page 150:

In other words, the Kelvinverse versions of Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Sulu, Scotty, and so on, are not the same characters as their “Prime” counterparts (“whatever our lives might have been ... our destinies have changed”).

2022, William Proctor, “Star Trek (2009)”, in Leimar Garcia-Siino, Sabrina Mittermeier, Stefan Rabitsch, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the reboot Star Trek film franchise launched in 2009 (an alternate timeline of the original Star Trek universe).


FBTA

The FBTA aims to let people opt out of those echo chambers.

2019 November 5, Adi Robertson, “The Senate’s secret algorithms bill doesn’t actually fight secret algorithms”, in The Verge:

(US politics) Initialism of filter bubble transparency act.


homocrat

Blend of homosexual + democrat. Coined or popularized by lesbian author and activist Sarah Schulman.

Although assimilationist gays, or “homocrats” in Sarah Schulman's parlance (Shepard 2001), were beginning to be elected and appointed to positions of power around the country, this incorporation (or co-optation) did not extend to[…]

2005 October 9, L.M. Bogad, Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements, Routledge, →ISBN, page 128:

Some, such as author Sara Schulman, blame the problem on the “homocrats” seduced into inaction by Bill Clinton. Yet, the phenomenon is not unique to the last decade. Since the birth of the modern gay liberation movement in 1969[…]

2001, Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine:

56 These political insiders, called "homocrats" by lesbian activist Sarah Schulman, were like many others in the early days of the Clinton Administration: virtual political newcomers to Washington. In an interview following the[…]

2013 October 15, Craig A. Rimmerman, Gay Rights, Military Wrongs: Political Perspectives on Lesbians and Gays in the Military, Routledge, →ISBN, page 283:

In the seventies, the argument raged between grassroots activists and homocrats. In the 1980s, the fight was between those favoring direct action and the gay lobbyists. In the early nineties the term assimilationist was popularized by[…]

2015 November 18, Urvashi Vaid, Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation, Anchor, →ISBN:

Wealthy gays were outraged by our tactics, homocrats accused us of being counterproductive. Many people who felt that they owned or defined the gay movement were threatened by ACT UP. Within the organization there was a uniting[…]

2018 September 24, Sarah Schulman, My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan and Bush Years, Routledge, →ISBN:

(US, LGBT, chiefly historical) A gay person who supports slow and assimilationist movement toward equality, working politically with the Democratic Party; an assimilationist (as contrasted with a radical).


CPAC

(US politics) Acronym of Conservative Political Action Conference.


Trumpwave

In title, Trumpwave may once have evoked a certain ironic response, to be interpreted as derisive or polysomic. However, in current political times this genre risks becoming newly sincere.

2019, Emile Frankel, Hearing the Cloud: Can Music Help Reimagine the Future?:

A subgenre of fashwave music focusing on American politician Donald Trump.