Euphemisms Can Destroy the Meanings of Our Words
Polite society lives in a world of euphemisms. If you have a low IQ, it may be more tactful to refer to you as “intellectually challenged” than “stupid.”
This phenomenon is even taken to the point of jokes; if you’re short of stature, you may be said to be “vertically challenged.”
Let’s hope there is something similar at work in the meme here. Normally, those in public office who take bribes, especially those at the highest levels of government, are not regarded as “ethically challenged,” but simply as “criminals.”
Before the advent of Donald Trump, the term “narcissism” was used very seldom in America; it normally came up only in the context of the Greek myth in which a young man was so taken by his own image, reflecting in a pond, that he eventually fell into the water and drowned.
In the politics of conservative Americans, the term “The Great Reset” refers to their desire to take government and social norms back to some point in the past. Though it’s unclear exactly how far into the past would satisfy those folks, it seems that a good estimate would be the 1950s, before Roe, the Civil Rights Act, gay rights, and certainly anything remotely resembling “woke.”
As suggested in the meme here, another reason the Republicans are getting killed at the polls is their effort to throw sand in the gears of the U.S. military. I’m referring of course to Alabama Republican senator Tommy Tuberville’s ploy to raise awareness for the need to ban abortion, by blocking thousands of promotions with in our armed forces, thus gumming up our entire defense apparatus.
As suggested by the Arabic proverb here, we face a real threat from Donald Trump who says that, if re-elected, he will use the federal government to punish his enemies.
Donna Kay Smedley writes:
This quote from Hippocrates reminds me of something astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said to an interviewer who asked him, “Well, if there is all this stuff in the universe that we don’t understand, why can’t that be God?”
It’s so gratifying to see these victories for organized labor.
From the American Energy Society: US supermajor Chevron 
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