"Waste, fraud, and abuse"

The consistent messaging from the Elon- and Felon-led and Magapublican-supported Oligarcoup is the chant "waste, fraud, and abuse" along with the claim that cleaning it up is what "people voted for" and that "people love what we're doing".

To break that down a bit, I present the following Newspeak-esque definitions:

People

"People" only refers to oligarchs and the rich leadership of Magapublican base. Interestingly, "people" also includes supportive foreign oligarchs, authoritarians and dictators (wannabe and actual) and right-wing groups - basically, anyone vaguely (or solidly) fascist. Newly added are human traffickers like the Tates.

Notably absent groups are women, Blacks, the indigenous and anyone else lumped together as immigrants (except, maybe, EB-5 visa holders), Democrats (which now includes anyone labeled a RINO), those catalogued (literally, soon) as LGBTQ+, the disabled community, etc. No doubt this list will grow. Individual people in these groups may provisionally qualify based on their performative, uh, performance. Until they don't.

The Poors

The poors are the portion of the country that don't qualify as people. (This includes me and probably you, too.) This is the servant class. Anyone dependent on any government services is in the poors. Anyone in the United States who makes less than $360,000 a year falls here.

This includes the vast majority of the magaverse, many of whom believe themselves to be people but they are wrong. To be clear, no one in this category are counted as people for the purposes of ruining, er, running the country.

Waste

Waste is any wealth, money, services, or benefits that go to the poors and not to people.

Fraud

Fraud is any action or policy that diverts wealth, money, services, and other benefits from people to the poors.

Abuse

Abuse is any action or policy that would prevent or reduce wealth, money, services, or benefits from going to people.

Free Speech

Free speech is one of the legal rights necessary for people to fully express their unique humanity. Being edgy and "controversial" is a positive expression of individuality - just like all the other people expressing the same sentiments. Free speech may carry negative implications (and cause actual harm) to the poors but that's a price that people are willing to pay. Preventing people from saying whatever they want to say - or preventing anyone from hearing their free speech - is illegal oppression. "Punching down" is free speech.

Hate Speech

Hate speech is used by the poors to infringe on the legal rights of people. Anything that contradicts free speech - or risks limiting its distribution - is hate speech. Anything that hints at people not being "good" is also reprehensible. "Punching up" is hate speech.

Fake News

Fake news is anything that draws negative attention to People or their endeavors or might incite the poors to inflict discomfort on people.

Legal Rights

Property Rights

Human Rights

Human Rights are fictional concepts that the poors like to whine about. Things like DEI, clean air, safe medicine, health care, etc. Do not confuse human rights with important rights like property rights.

Stay mad!

Do these alt-language definitions make their monstrous bloviations more transparent?

Certainly, this list is not complete and I'll update it as I figure things out. Hopefully, though, this list will allow you to cut through their obfuscatory blather to understand what they're really saying.

Stay mad.

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