Rhetorical Analysis On Lincoln Riley

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Reluctantly, Biden butchered her name, calling her “Lincoln Riley”, in response to one of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s interjections throughout the 2024 annual State of the Union. Greene, referring to the 22-year-old nursing student murdered at the hands of an illegal on February 22nd this year, exclaimed “It's about Laken Riley!” Biden then followed with “An innocent woman who was killed by an illegal." Illegal. The sexy of the sexy. A word that, up until the very point the issue at the border started to grow, was generally used to describe an illegal alien. Used by the vast majority of politicians without a problem being raised, the term perfectly describes the phenomenon. Citing the disjointed argument of “no human being illegal”, any Democrat who has his head screwed …show more content…
Anyone who dares to toe the sill of the Left’s Overton window and call abortion what it actually is called regressive, misogynistic, blatantly untrue, and embarrassed in countless media smear campaigns, and embarrassed by their peers. In this day and age, leftists and even liberals are fighting for a monopoly on language. The elites in charge of the language we speak not only do this to appeal to people’s emotions, but to make their arguments coherent. News anchors, politicians, and activists use intimidating terms like “stochastic terrorism” to confuse people into thinking it is a valid term with an actual meaning, marketing it as an effective “gotcha” statement to stop any member of the opposition in their tracks. To the untrained, inexperienced ear, vague words with many terms make Democrat pundits sound smart, and seem to always be one step ahead of their counterparts. Over time, the Right has responded to this by attempting to ramp up their language too, however with real words, as opposed to some term synthesized by a powerful activist in 2010, attempting to be the next Lemkin (creator of the word