Someone who openly doubts and/or worries excessively about a political strategy and related outcome. Someone who does not have the guts to tackle controversial political issues whose outcome is difficult to address.
When you come up with a buzz words like Defunding Police to convey a concept like rethinking the police as the panacea for all social problems there will be a lot of politicians will become a bed-wetter.
by mlhiss June 09, 2020
Fencing is the actions of the go between for a thief and buyer of the thief's stolen goods. The buyer may unwittingly buy stolen goods from a fence in yard sales, flea markets, through classified ads, or other traditional markets. A shrewed form of fencing is when the fencer poses as a fence for stolen goods and sells cheap illegal imitations of name brand goods at high prices under the pretence that they are more expensive legit versions.
Pawn shops are no longer very good for fencing since the persons selling to them are finger printed, and there is strict accounting of all the goods sold.
by mlhiss November 19, 2011
Whip Inflation Now. It was a pin people were encouraged by Gerald R. Ford to wear in the 1970's to discourage runnaway inflation.
Geez, I wonder why Bush hasn't broken open Gerald Ford's surplus WIN buttons, inflation is going to get serious if he doesn't do it soon. It may have taken 15-20 years and a couple recessions but those WIN buttons really did the trick.
by mlhiss April 05, 2008
White supremacists that accelerate civil disorder and polarization and disruption of civil and political order by infiltrating social justice movements and accelerating the anger and violence and creating disorder within them. The System they believe is a facade with only a few hapless leaders that maintain it. Accelerationists hope to initiate a negative feedback systems where violence begets more violence, social turmoil, and people are forced into more extreme positions out of frustration and anger and will collapse the system and will ultimately result in racial polarization and racial division and separation of the races.
The protesters started out with a pretty clear goal of social justice and human rights for all. However, the protests soon became infiltrated with a few accelerationist who have stoked the anger and violence and looting and burning to make the perception of the protesters and their movement into the perpetrators vs the victims of social injustice in the eyes of the majority.
by mlhiss June 03, 2020
Turning air, water, and land into toxic substances at a global level. This occurs when chemicals, toxins, particulate matter, biological organisms, nutrients, radiation etc are released in large enough amounts to create an unsafe environment in which life forms get sick or poisoned. People can get sick directly from even small amounts of pollution such as mercury, or they can indirectly such as from the harmful effects of solar radiation when the ozone has been removed by a chemical bath. Nuclear fallout from power plants or weapons can have significant effects even when small amounts are released.
Global poisoning may dwarf the harmful effects of global warming and give India and China as examples.
by mlhiss April 25, 2017
The intuitive path that is created by walkers/hikers or drivers vs a marked trail or road. Once established it can become an alternative or preferred route. Typically it is a short cut on a marked trail or road but it can also be a well-worn ribbon of exposed soil or rut in an open space where there are few trails to connect desired areas.
The desire line became so popular that the marked trail became overgrown and hard to follow from lack of use. However, over time the desire lines became so eroded they were unusable and abandoned in favor of the switch back trails.
by mlhiss May 14, 2020
Where a politician is acting as an agent to do the heavy lifting for a person or special interest group, that could not possibly get support on it's own.
This is not to be confused with "leading from behind", where the leader does the actual leading from behind the scenes and the grass roots group does the heavy lifting for a leader who could not possibly get support on their own.
Being "lead from behind" is extremely common in the USA. In some cases a single politician is "lead from behind" by several different types of dominant individual and special interest groups that provide the best benefit packages to the leader, for help in specific areas.
This is not to be confused with "leading from behind", where the leader does the actual leading from behind the scenes and the grass roots group does the heavy lifting for a leader who could not possibly get support on their own.
Being "lead from behind" is extremely common in the USA. In some cases a single politician is "lead from behind" by several different types of dominant individual and special interest groups that provide the best benefit packages to the leader, for help in specific areas.
When Obama came to power he had the grassroots support of the majority of voters in the county. Now he is being "lead from behind" by a few of the biggest banker behinds (asses) on Wall Street. Instead of going to jail these Wall Street bankers are taking home millions of dollars in bonuses, that are made possible by government bailouts and by raising service fees to outrageously high levels. While much of the fuss is over protesters that Occupy Wall Street little mention is made of the Wall Street bankers who live in luxury and "Occupy the White House".
The tea party leaders are being "lead from behind" by the Koch Brothers, and Fox News (who carefully packages their message).
In America to understand politics you need to look at who is behind the leader. Sometimes it is hard to see who it is because it is often only through a small opening that they become visible and it is not always open.
The tea party leaders are being "lead from behind" by the Koch Brothers, and Fox News (who carefully packages their message).
In America to understand politics you need to look at who is behind the leader. Sometimes it is hard to see who it is because it is often only through a small opening that they become visible and it is not always open.
by mlhiss October 30, 2011