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GOVERNMENT, n. A modern Chronos who devours his own children. The priesthood are charged with the duty of preparing them for his tooth.

—The Devil's Dictionary

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The Chatbot Culture Wars Are Here

Culture war [n.] Any resistance, however mild, to relentless liberal cultural aggression

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"FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."

Ambrose Bierce, from "The Devil's Dictionary"

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Her Famous Mother Was Always Inaccessible. Then She Developed Dementia.

𝐟𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 [n.] a permission structure to excuse and validate being a horrible person, treating others like dirt, doing everything in the service of one's own narcissism and avoid all responsibility by blaming "the patriarchy"

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The Talented Mr. Vance J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power.

𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 [adj.]
1. Expressing any form of doubt or disagreement, no matter how polite or eloquent, towards the dogmas held by the liberal elite

2. Support for highly popular views that the liberal elite firmly rejects

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Le Pen’s Embezzlement Charges and What They Mean for France’s Democracy A court’s conviction of the far-right leader for embezzlement and its ban on her running for office have set off a new crisis for France.

𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐚𝐰 [n.] The ruthless use of legal power by liberals to destroy their enemies; cf. 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲

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“The Basic Liberal Narrative Is Gone”: Immigrant Rights and Abolition with Silky Shah - Public Books “A singular focus on conditions, rather than the violence of immigration detention itself, just lent itself to expansion.”

𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 [n.] manifest, blatant injustice

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Dems Keep Putting Themselves On The Wrong Side Of Popular Issues In Trump Era⎪Mary Katharine Ham President Trump's executive order that bans males from competing in women's sports, predictably, has the democratic party in shambles.

𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 [adj.] a policy for which 80 percent of the public holds one position, and the liberal elite activist class holds the opposite position

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𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐛𝐚𝐧 [n] when a public school refuses to include graphic pornography in the elementary-school library.

NOTE: The global e-book monopoly refusing to sell a book is NOT a book ban, but rather censorship in the public good

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𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 [adj.] lavishly funded by the U.S. government, Sorosish oligarchs, and other henchmen of the global liberal imperium
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The Purported DEI Rollback One more point to keep an eye on. You’ve likely seen that...

𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 [n.] racist, sexist discrimination against young white males due to their hereditary blood guilt for the ancestral sins of Bull Connor and Jefferson Davis

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Trump Officials Move to Quickly Expel Migrants Biden Allowed In Temporarily A memo appears to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to target programs that let in more than a million people.

𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 [adj.] permanent
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Trump Pulls the Military Back Into the Political and Culture Wars The removal of a portrait of Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from a Pentagon hallway was among the president’s early actions.

𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐫 [n.] any resistance, no matter how minimal, to the relentless cultural aggression of the Left

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Important to note that "equitable" means "racist, sexist discrimination against whites and males, in favor of lesser-qualified DEI hires"

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𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 [adj.] discriminates against whites and males on the basis of their race and sex; active discrimination in favor of lesser-qualified nonwhites and nonmales

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𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 [n.] absolute uniformity of thought; complete consensus and conformity to progressive dogma on all matters of controversy

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Support for Trump’s Policies Exceeds Support for Trump A new poll found the public is sympathetic to the president-elect’s plans to deport migrants and reduce America’s presence overseas.

𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 [adj.] a policy that is widely popular among the public at large, while being intensely opposed by liberal elites

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www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...

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Distorting history in the restitution debate. Dan Hicks’s The Brutish Museums and fact and fiction in Benin historiography | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge Core Distorting history in the restitution debate. Dan Hicks’s The Brutish Museums and fact and fiction in Benin historiography

𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 [n.] a credentialed academic whose technically correct, peer-reviewed research is designed to fundamentally mislead the public by passing all writing through a political filter of pre-publication censorship

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A New Age of American Interference in Europe Elon Musk and MAGA are already disrupting the status quo, and Europe seems ill-prepared.

𝐟𝐚𝐫-𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 [adj.] expressing any degree of dissent from the massively unpopular and civilizationally disastrous policies of the ossified mainstream establishment

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www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/w...

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Biden Issues Sweeping Deportation Protections Before Trump Takes Office The move allows hundreds of thousands of people from Sudan, Ukraine and Venezuela to stay in the country temporarily.

𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 [adj.] permanent

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www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/u...

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Christmas Market Attack in Germany Stirs Political Sniping After an assailant driving an S.U.V. killed five people, calls for solidarity have quickly given way to criticism by rival lawmakers, ahead of snap elections set for February.

𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐳𝐞 [v.]
1. to criticize or question, in any manner, the aggressive political agendas of liberals and leftists
2. to point out the inevitably disastrous consequences that follow from the implementation of said agendas
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a sticky #wicket :

a young witch found crying after rain
with no broomstick to sit on
and old moons melting in her hair
the pain of all neglected loves
reflected in her starless eyes

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In Late Push, Senate Democrats Narrowly Top Trump on Judicial Confirmations With the vote, the Senate approved its 235th lifetime judge of President Biden’s tenure, besting his predecessor by a single judgeship.

𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 [adj.] displaying a monolithically uniform commitment to progressive dogmas whilst evidencing a superficially varied set of surface characteristics #thedevilsdictionary #LinguaQuartiImperii

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"CABINET, n. The principal persons charged with the mismanagement of a government, the charge being commonly well founded."

- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary 1911

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How Liberal America Came to Its Senses The period of left-wing illiberalism that began about a decade ago seems to have drawn to a close. The final cause of death was the reelection of Donald Trump.

𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 [n.] vengeance wrought by the mob against its hated enemies; see also 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠

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Jim Leach, Iowa Republican Who Extolled Moderation, Dies at 82 During his 30 years in Congress, he resisted his party’s rightward tilt. He endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 and became a Democrat in 2022.

𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 [adj.] liberal; in support of liberal ideas while claiming the mantle of conservatism
𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 [adj.] a forceful advocate for liberalism and the expunction of conservatism from public life

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"Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy." Ambrose Bierce #TheDevilsDictionary

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