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Very happy about this.

I hate euphemisms, or being told to change my speech in any way because of someone's feelings this week.

People die, they don't "pass away".

It's black and not "African-American".

It's the Old Testament and not the "Hebrew Bible".

It's AD and not "CE".

It's BC and not "BCE".

It's Turkey and not "Türkiye".

It's Burma and not "Myanmar".

It's Bombay and not "Mumbai".

Relabeling changes the frequency alignments. Secure the hemisphere.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-snitch-saturday-september-6-2025

It was Harry S. Truman (D) who, in 1949, after chewing a bad oyster, decided that George Washington’s original war department title was too old-fashioned. He preferred the name we’ve all grown accustomed to, the sly progressive euphemism crafted to convince our enemies that all our aircraft carriers and ICBMs and Middle Eastern military bases are purely defensive in nature. Nothing to worry about. ...

Yesterday’s renaming is directly connected to the same reason Trump slaughtered USAID. USAID was the progressives’ passive-aggressive War Department, wearing lipstick and a sundress. The agency funded friendly-sounding NGOs that ripped countries apart more thoroughly than a heated barrage of cruise missiles.

Trump’s now ditching the subterfuge. He is saying, if we shoot you, you’ll be awake, armed, and facing us. We won’t shoot you in the back. ..

USAID disguised its regime-change operations as a philanthropy. NATO missions were sold as peacekeeping, and drone strikes were marketed as “surgical.” The happy-sounding branding pacified voters at home while sowing chaos abroad.

Trump’s name change is a promise that the era of euphemisms is over. Now, if America fights, it will be called war— and everyone will know it.

Progressive ideology survives on language manipulation like chupacabras survive on blood. Every bad idea needs a hypnotic cover euphemism: women are “birthing people,” censorship is “content moderation,” castration is “gender-affirming care,” and open borders are “humane migration policy.” They believe if they change the words, they change reality— at least long enough to pass the bill, pocket the grant money, or stage the coup.

That wasn’t yesterday’s only example of actions over words. At a Rose Garden fundraiser, President Trump announced details of his ongoing project to beautify Washington, DC. Not just happy talk, but real changes that everyone can see and touch.

"We're going to clean up the place,” Trump said. “We're going to put new grass in all the parks. We're going to re-grass them with the best guys in the country.” Then, tapping the nexus where law-and-order meets beauty, Trump said, "We're going to fix the curbs. I noticed some of your curbs are broken. You know why? They're hitting them with a hammer so they can pick it up and throw it at the police. But not anymore, they're not. Not anymore."

Optics matter. What we call things and what they look like isn’t just cosmetic— it’s strategic. Other countries don’t just measure our troop deployments, they also watch the words we use and the way our capital city presents itself. A nation that names its military “Defense” while maintaining 750 bases abroad looks sneaky and untrustworthy; a capital with parks that look like third-world dirt lots looks weak and structurally broken.

Trump’s point is that perception shapes power: restore the grass, restore the name, and you restore credibility. Allies see resolve, adversaries see strength, and the American people see a plain-talking government that’s finally willing to stop hiding behind ever-denser lexicons of euphemism.

Patrick says

Very happy about this.

I hate euphemisms, or being told to change my speech in any way because of someone's feelings this week.

People die, they don't "pass away".

It's black and not "African-American".

It's the Old Testament and not the "Hebrew Bible".

It's AD and not "CE".

It's BC and not "BCE".

It's Turkey and not "Türkiye".

It's Burma and not "Myanmar".

It's Bombay and not "Mumbai".

Yep. And it's USSR and not "Russia".