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Contra Axios: Dems Don't *Just* Have a 'Vocabulary Problem'

Democrats have lots of problems at the moment. And while vocabulary may be one of them, it's hardly their biggest issue in this midterm cycle.

Axios highlights their "vocabulary problem" this morning, but that is far from the actual issue plaguing Democrats. James Carville has spoken out for at least five years about the party's habit of speaking what he calls "faculty lounge bull***t," but the problem isn't the vocabulary. It's why they need the "faculty lounge bull***t" at all:

Unhoused people. Criminal justice-impacted individuals. Substance use disorder. Birthing people.

Several Democrats eyeing 2028 runs for president say the party has a vocabulary problem as much as a messaging one. The left's embrace of "woke" buzzwords alienated working-class voters and drove many of them to Donald Trump, they say.
Why it matters: To get them back, they want more Democrats to start speaking more like ordinary people — and less like progressive politicos or liberal arts professors.

The big picture: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has been the most vocal about the need for Democrats to "talk like a normal human being," as he's put it in speeches and interviews.

Axios thinks vocabulary is the key to Donald Trump's success:

The bottom line: Trump's speaking style may be rambling and disjointed, but no one needs a glossary to understand him. It's helped him win the presidency twice.

This misses the point entirely. Axios never asks the question of why Democrats and the Left developed this vocabulary in the first place. The answer: These euphemisms deconstruct reality and allow Democrats to live in unreality instead. As soon as these euphemisms (and worse) start to get stuck in firm meaning, the euphemisms get changed to newer and more ambiguous terms. George Orwell wrote 1984 on the basis of this phenomenon on the Left, in which an authoritarian socialist government continuously changed the language as well as history in order to create the most convenient fantasy for the masses that distracted them from actual reality, history, and truth.

Trump didn't succeed because he used blunt language. He succeeded because he addressed reality. He called criminals "criminals," not "justice-impacted individuals." He called women "mothers," not "birthing people." Voters responded to Trump because he spoke to their actual lived experience, not just because he used small words. 

Democrats don't have a vocabulary problem – they have a reality problem. The Left has created a new and ever-shifting vocabulary to both hide their reality problem and deal with its contradictions. Much of this comes from the Queer Movement, which demands the deconstruction of objective truth and reality. Thus we get pronoun enforcement with new entries like "xe," "chestfeeders," "birthing people," and so on, because biological reality is the most dangerous objective truth to their entire mission.

But even the Left's reality problem is secondary to their main issue: arrested development. Their candidates in this cycle especially all share the same failure-to-launch qualities. They mooch off their parents, prompting me to write a month ago, "Scratch a Commie, find a mommy." That group includes AOC, James Talarico, Zohran Mamdani, Graham Platner before he finally flamed out, and pretty much the entire cohort of DSA leadership. They are functionally children.

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/08/27/contra-axios-dems-dont-just-have-a-vocabulary-problem-n3818417

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/08/27/contra-axios-dems-dont-just-have-a-vocabulary-problem-n3818417

Armed man arrested at Trump National LA Golf Course had 208 notebook pages detailing First Lady's schedule, Secret Service agents

https://thepostmillennial.com/armed-man-arrested-trump-national-la-golf-course-had-208-notebook-pages-detailing-first-ladys-schedule-secret-service-agents

It has been revealed that the armed man arrested at President Trump's Los Angeles golf course had a trove of pages that included information about First Lady Melania Trump's daily schedule and Secret Service agents, as well as drawings of the golf course. Defendant Jeanine John Taele, 38, was taken into custody on August 2 after several sketchy visits to the golf course.

During Wednesday's preliminary hearing in LA, prosecutors told Judge John Lonergan that Taele had 208 notebook pages that contained lists of Secret Service schedules, drawings of the golf course, copies of the First Lady's schedule, and details of individual security members, the New York Post reported.
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Judge Lonergan revoked Taele's bail and described the allegations against the defendant as "alarming in this day and age with the violence that is creeping into our everyday lives, especially with the partisan political climate," per the Post.

Prosecutors told the Court that federal agents first observed Taele at Trump National Golf Course LA on July 31 during an assessment for the president's August 4 visit. Taele reportedly wore an earpiece and walked around the golf course filming agents planning security activities. Federal agents said Taele returned on August 2 and falsely claimed he was a State Department employee when confronted, and said he had firearms in his vehicle.

Looks like the guy has mental issues, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/trump-golf-course-gun-arrest-mental-health .

**** Canada



https://nypost.com/2026/08/27/media/canadas-cbc-instructs-staff-not-to-call-9-11-a-terrorist-attack-in-news-coverage/

In other words, the planes crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, not people. The same way news outlets describe traffic accidents such as "SUV involved in four deaths" rather than more accurately: DRIVER of an SUV killed four people in accident. Rush used to highlight such media madness with regularity.

And a related topical story:

Outrage: Top Canadian News Outlet Tries to Rewrite History of 9/11

Canadians are known to many in America as mostly friendly and cheery, sometimes goofy (remember the “hoser” brothers?), but also obsessed with woke.

They’re not usually known as “offensive,” but this latest move by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is a downright insult to the United States and its citizens. They want their broadcasters to stop using the term “terrorist attack” — specifically the actual terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.

If you’re not infuriated yet, just wait till you hear their insane replacement phrase: reporters should henceforth refer to 9/11 as “The hijackings [that] led to passenger jet crashes.”

I almost just broke my keyboard typing that.

This ridiculous woke denial of reality came in a memo discussing how the outlet would cover the 25th anniversary of that horrible day. They say this is not new and they’re reverting to guidance that they’ve used in the past.

Well, it was idiotic then, and it's idiotic now:

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation instructed its staff not to refer to the killings on 9/11 as “terrorist attacks” ahead of its coverage of the 25th anniversary, according to an internal memo.

The public broadcaster reaffirmed that it would avoid using words like “terrorist” and “terrorism” when describing events, directing its staffers to follow the longstanding company policy that previously landed them in hot water during their Oct. 7, 2023, coverage.

“Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks,” the memo read. “The hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Manhattan. The World Trade Center (WTC in second reference) was destroyed.”

The CBC’s explanation for this slap in the face to America is mind-blowing. They basically say they will shade the facts in order to be impartial. What?

“Our focus is to report the facts of such atrocities with accuracy, clarity and detail; to convey the scale and scope of violent acts wherever they occur; to quote the people affected, and to convey the views of officials and experts on these events. We bear witness,” Kerry Kelly, a public affairs spokesperson for CBC, told The Post.

“But CBC News does not itself designate specific groups as terrorists, or specific acts as terrorism, regardless of the region or the events, because these words are so loaded with meaning, politics and emotion that they can end up being impediments to our journalism.”

Of course, that’s nonsensical: the facts are that the planes didn’t crash; they were flown into the World Trade Center by terrorists who had planned the elaborate operation over several years by al-Qaeda and its masterminds, Osama Bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (who is finally set to go on trial in June 2028).

A “crash” gives the impression that it was an accident, but no, it was a terror attack that killed almost 3,000 innocent people.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/08/27/canadian-news-outlet-releases-new-hyper-woke-guidance-in-bid-to-rewrite-the-history-of-911-n2206163

Politico wrote a story about Ratcliffe's visit, citing "people familiar with the matter".

Funny how I never got asked about the visit. After all, I'm familiar with the matter.

Not deeply familiar, but familiar. -)

**** Canada

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation instructed its staff not to refer to the killings on 9/11 as "terrorist attacks" ahead of its coverage of the 25th anniversary, according to an internal memo.

The public broadcaster reaffirmed that it would avoid using words like "terrorist" and "terrorism" when describing events, directing its staffers to follow the longstanding company policy that previously landed them in hot water during their Oct. 7, 2023, coverage.

"Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks," the memo read. "The hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Manhattan. The World Trade Center (WTC in second reference) was destroyed."

The memo was signed, "BB," which the Toronto Sun, which first published the letter, identified as Basem Boshra, senior director of journalistic standards and public Trust at CBC News.

https://nypost.com/2026/08/27/media/canadas-cbc-instructs-staff-not-to-call-9-11-a-terrorist-attack-in-news-coverage/