Status quo Joe

Post Trump President who's not going to change anything

I voted for Status quo Joe

by EricIvan November 9, 2020

Status quo ante bella

The situation as it was before the girl
Derived from the Latin exp. "status quo ante bellum"

"He really got his life together for a while, but ever since the breakup it is status quo ante bella"

by acemcwinters January 29, 2024

Status-Quo Dogmatism

The blind, quasi-religious belief that the existing social, political, and economic order is not just the best possible system, but the only natural and correct one. Change is seen as inherently dangerous and unnatural. This dogma often appeals to "tradition," "the way things have always been," or "human nature" as immutable laws, treating any proposal for reform as a foolish rebellion against the cosmic default settings of society.

*Example: "His status-quo dogmatism was exhausting. 'Why should we change the zoning laws? Suburbs and cars have worked since the 50s! Why have multi-family housing? That's not how it's done!' He couldn't conceive that the 'way it's done' was itself a choice, not a law of physics."*

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Status-Quo Purity

The aggressive policing of any deviation from established norms and traditions, punishing even mild reforms as contaminating a supposedly pristine, stable system. This goes beyond resistance to change; it's an active crusade to purge "impure" elements—be it new cultural ideas, technologies, or social roles—to maintain a frozen, idealized version of the past. The goal is a museum-diorama society, sterilized of dynamism.

*Example: "The neighborhood association was a cult of status-quo purity. They fined a homeowner for a non-beige mailbox, fought a new bike lane as a 'moral decay vector,' and demanded the book club remove a novel published after 1995. Their mission wasn't stability; it was the militant preservation of a specific, curated year no one actually lived in."*

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

frosty the status-quo man

Term of semi-endearment used to define luddites or other change averse, retrospective-type, hindsight focused individuals.

frosty the status-quo man is over there goin' on about how great life was before the Internet

by thefirebuilds August 28, 2008

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by GetThemOutOfYOurLife June 11, 2025

status quoter

Someone who, uncomfortable with social interaction, copes by communicating with every available cliché they can think of.

"Hi Hank, how's it going?"
"Heyyy Bob...long time no see..i'm not too poor...ya know, can't complain. Keepin' out of trouble, -still doin' a little bit of this and that...gotta make hay while the sun shines, if ya catch my drift...well...gotta shake a leg... -don't be a stranger."

-(Hank is a status quoter)

by limegreen January 30, 2004