Words, Labels, and Political Phrases we probably didn’t know we needed to know until Trump’s 4-year Reign of Terror

1. ALTERNATIVE FACTS: Contrary information matching one’s preferred narrative or interpretation of events.
2. ALT-RIGHT: catch-all descriptor for a faction of ultra-conservatives with white nationalist or anti-Semitic ideologies
3. ANTIFA: Anti-fascist movements and organizations, treated as a whole
4. APPROPRIATION LAWS: the act of setting apart something for its application to a particular usage, to the exclusion of all other uses and refers to the legislative designation of money for particular uses, in the context of a budget or spending bill
5. BIGLY: widespread mishearing of Trump’s use of big-league
6. BLUE WAVE: major Democratic electoral gain
7. CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW: prohibited unregulated contributions (“soft money”) to national political parties and limited the use of corporate and union money to fund ads discussing political issues within 60 days of a general election or 30 days of a primary election
8. CANCEL CULTURE: a modern form of ostracism when someone is thrust out of social or professional circles.
9. CARAVAN: procession of Central American asylum seekers to US/Mexico border
10. CDC: the US department of health
11. COLLUSION: secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose
12. CONCEDE ELECTION: the act of a losing candidate publicly yielding to a winning candidate after an election
13. CONSERVATIVES ADHERENTS: of a political philosophy favoring and preserving traditional values
14. COVFEFE: Trump tweeted, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”
15. DEEPFAKE: realistic digitally composed video used to misrepresent someone
16. DEFUNDING POLICE: a movement to refocus US police departments by reassigning parts of budgets to more community-oriented work
17. DELETED FAMILY UNIT: bureaucratic term referring to asylum-seeking families whose children were removed
18. DUMPSTER FIRE: poorly-handled out-of-control situation
19. EIGHTEEN (18) U.S. CODE § 610: Coercion of political activity
20. EIGHTEEN (18) U.S. CODE § 872: Extortion by officers or employees of the United States
21. EXECUTIVE TIME: presidential down-time
22. FACTICIDE: killing or distortion of facts
23. FAKE NEWS: actual news claimed to be untrue
24. FASCIST: far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and the economy
25. FLATTEN THE CURVE: the ability to manage the number of medical cases so as to not overwhelm the hospital system
26. FOREIGN EMOLUMENTS CLAUSE: prohibits the president from accepting personal benefits from any foreign government or official
27. HIMPATHY: flow of sympathy away from female victims toward their male victimizers
28. HOUSE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND REFORM: is the main investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives
29. IDENTITY POLITICS: based on certain elements of one’s makeup, such as skin color, ethnic background or gender
30. IMPEACH: process by which a legislative body addresses legal charges against a government official
31. INDIVIDUAL 1: pseudonym for Trump in documents from the Mueller investigation
32. INSURGENT: a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government acting contrary to the policies and decisions of one’s own political party
33. INSURRECTION: Rebellion or uprising, refusal of obedience, open resistance against the orders of established authority.
34. INTRANSIGENCE: refusing to compromise or agree; inflexibility
35. IMPLICIT BIAS: attitudes towards people or associate stereotypes with them without our conscious knowledge.
36. LOCKDOWN: restricting movement outside homes or geographic districts
37. MAGA: Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan
38. NEW NORMAL: the state to which an economy, society, etc. settles following a crisis, when this differs from the situation that prevailed prior to the start of the crisis.
39. OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE: an act “corruptly, by threats or force, or by any letter or communication, influencing, obstructing, impeding, or endeavoring to influence
40. OLIGARCHY: power structure in which power rests with a small number of people
41. ORBITING: ending communication with someone while still monitoring them on social media
42. OUTBREAK: sudden appearance of a disease in a community or geographic location
43. PANDEMIC: an event in which a disease spreads across several countries
44. PHARMACEUTICAL DEHUMANIZATION: is what they do
45. PHARMACEUTICAL DEHUMANICISTIC: is displaying explicit bias
46. PHARMACEUTICAL DEHUMANIST: is what they are
47. PRESSURE CAMPAIGN: intimidation, threats, and covert techniques relying heavily on the use of mass media and mass communications to persuade politicians the public wants or demands a particular action
48. PROGRESSIVES: US replacement for the word “liberals” term of abuse in American politics
49. PUSSYHAT: Pink knitted hat worn by demonstrators at the Women’s March
50. QANON: far-right conspiracy theory of Satan-worshipping cannibalistic pedophiles running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against U.S. President Trump
51. QUARANTINE: Restricting physical movements to one’s home or institution, separated from all others
52. Racially Charged: a deliberately vague racist attempt regarding racism
53. RECLAIMING MY TIME: Phrase used in congressional hearings when politicians are allotted a specific amount of time to speak and/or question those called to testify at such hearings.
54. RINO: Republican in Name Only
55. SANCTUARY CITY: municipal jurisdictions limiting their cooperation with national government’s effort to enforce immigration law
56. SECOND AMENDMENT: protecting the right to keep and bear arms
57. SEDITION: subversion of the constitution and incitement of discontent toward, or rebellion against, established authority
58. SELF-ISOLATE QUARANTINED: after being exposed to Covid-19 to help stop the spread of virus
59. SHELTER-IN-PLACE: being confined to one’s home
60. SHITHOLE COUNTRIES: Trump’s description for places he does not want to accept immigrants from
61. SOCIAL DISTANCING: distance individuals should keep from each other
62. STABLE GENIUS: is a proposed Act of Congress requiring presidential candidates to have a medical exam and publicly disclose the results before the general election (Trump refused the exam – IQ 110–115, with Borderline PSYCHOTIC FLAVORINGS: a Pathological Liar with a Gigantic Helping of Sociopathology)
63. SUPER SPREADER: a single person or event propagating “clusters” of a virus outbreak
64. TAKE A KNEE: Kneel in protest when others are standing
65. TENDER-AGE SHELTER: Children in Cages
66. TODAY YEARS OLD: an indication someone has just recently learned something
67. TRADE WAR: countries trying to damage each other’s trade, typically by the imposition of tariffs or quota restrictions
68. TRUMPERY: worthless nonsense.
69. TWEETSTORM: series of connected tweets about a particular subject, often a passionate rant
70. TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT: removing the president from office if s/he becomes incompetent, dies or resigns,
71. VIOLATING THE CONSTITUTION: is not a crime, however, it is a civil matter
72. WALL: proposed barrier along the US/Mexico border to prevent illegal crossings
73. WHITE CALLER CRIME: White people calling police on Black people for doing common-place things
74. WHO: World Health Organization
75. WOKE: Suggesting a high level of social consciousness
76. WUHAN: largest city in central China
77. WYPIPO: Humorous phonetic spelling of “white people” used to flag white privilege, cluelessness,
78. ZOOM MEETING: Group meetings held over videoconferencing channels

These were just off the top, feel free to add your own in the comments section

Kristeen Irigoyen-Hernandez Human Rights Advocate, Researcher/Chronological Archivist and member in good standing with the Constitution First Amendment Press Association (CFAPA.org) Kristeen Irigoyen-Hernandez aka Lady2Soothe Follow @OurVoicesEcho

Who was Ashli Babbitt

35-years-old Ashli Elizabeth Babbitt left the military after 14 years as an undistinguished low-ranking E-4 airman. Disgruntled by military hierarchy, discipline issues, insubordination, and demoted at least once, stunting her career. While married to Timothy McEntee, Ashli began an affair with her present husband Aaron Babbitt in 2016, filing for divorce from Timothy McEntee in 2018.

In 2016, separated from her husband Timothy McEntee, Aaron Babbitt’s former girlfriend, Celeste Norris applied for a court protection order; Ashli Babbitt, then known as Ashli McEntee saw Celeste Norris pulling out of a shopping center parking lot in southern Maryland, Babbitt spun her white SUV in a U-turn and began chasing Norris and rear-ended her car three times. “She was screaming at me and verbally threatening”. Babbitt was charged with reckless endangerment, malicious destruction of property, and tampering. The court granted Celeste Norris a protection order. The following year, Norris filed a second protective order petition, saying Babbitt had followed her home from work and called her “all hours of day and night.” The court granted the 2nd order.

Ashli Babbitt struggled in business, in 2017 she took out a $65,000 short-term business loan. After signing the loan agreement, she stopped making payments repaying only $3,400. The lender sued her and a judge issued a $71,000 judgment against her pool business.

Babbitt proposed starting a GoFundMe to pay for Trump’s addition to Mount Rushmore. Ashli Babbitt’s journey, illuminated through her extensive social media activity, court and military records, as well as interviews with those who knew her was one of paranoid devotion only increasing as Trump’s fortunes dwindled.

Ashli Babbitt aka “CommonAshSense,” became obsessed with online propaganda while her professional life collapsed. She avidly followed QAnon, and in more than 8,600 tweets ranted against immigrants, democrats, coronavirus safety measures retweeting posts promising a violent uprising leading to Trump’s second inauguration. “Nothing will stop us,” she wrote on Twitter the day before her death. “They can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours …. dark to light!”

It’s unclear exactly how and when Babbitt entered the Capitol but multiple videos captured the moment in a Capitol hallway where Babbitt was at the entrance of the Speaker’s Lobby as a crowd bashed in the windows of a barricaded door. Ashli Babbitt, leading the way hopped up to push herself through one of the door’s glass panels assisted by a male figure, as a man shouts “Bust it down!” As Ashli Babbitt climbed through the window a Capitol Police officer pointing a handgun in her direction fired a single shot and Ashli toppled backward into the crowd.

Kristeen Irigoyen-Hernandez Human Rights Advocate, Researcher/Chronological Archivist and member in good standing with the Constitution First Amendment Press Association (CFAPA.org) Kristeen Irigoyen-Hernandez aka Lady2Soothe Follow @OurVoicesEcho