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Since when are all politicians just three letter abbreviations? AOC, DJT, MTG, where did this come from I hate it
IKR?
Yea, WTF?
LOL
LBJ, JFK, FDR…
Hell, TR had a two letter abbreviation!
My guess is back when Twitter had the 160 character cap
FDR and JFK pre-date that by a bit.
Source?
Holy moly.
No shit. He asked why it was so prevalent now.
Where? Because... No, they didn't.
Ah yes, the early days of Twitter, back in 1932 when FDR was elected.
Telegrams did charge by the letter.
Dude he asked why it was so prevalent now.
Because it's a political tradition since 1932?
Sort of sounds to me like asking why saying "God bless America" is so prevalent now. Because it's standard political stuff.
Ah yes, who could forget president GRFJ?
I don’t know if you’re being purposefully dense or just ignorant but there’s definitely an uptick in politicians and public figures being referred to by their initials in the media for the last 20 years.
Of fucking course I realize it’s not the first time in history it’s been done.
The only two people I can think of are AOC and MTG. Who else?
DJT, ACB, KBJ, HRC, RBG to name a few
The first one a handful of people tried to make happen and it didn't. Never heard of the second or third and I don't even know who you're talking about. Absolutely no one called her the fourth, but I'll give you the last one.
Amy Conan Barrett is the 2nd, and Ketanji Brown Jackson is the 3rd.
I'd hardly call either of those common abbreviations for their names.
Tbf this is the first time I've seen Jackson's name abbreviated like that. It took me a second to get hers. But I feel like ACB is fairly common. Then again, maybe her name just jumps out at me immediately because I have a special hatred in my heart for women who turn against women. Fuckin' bitch.
Either way, I wasn't agreeing or disagreeing with the sentiment of politicians using initials for their names or not, just stating whose initials they were.
No one calls them that, though.
I've only heard those two referred to as Barrett and Jackson at the minimum. Why is it so prevalent to call politicians by their last name?
I personally love CFT
Cucker Fuckin Tarlson
Compassion Focused Therapy?
Crazy Fucker Trump?
Convicted Felon Trump
Proposal fot extension to 4: Convicted Unrepentant Narcissist . . .?
Cock and Fall Torture
Conformal Field Theory?
My favorite was President TBI.
Cold Fusion Tags?
Since immigrants started running for office
Aren’t immigrants the vast majority of people that run for office. The people on the ballot are rarely Native Americans
FDR says what?
Make America natives country again!