Talk:Turd Reich

Twitter

I did a thorough historical search of Twitter and found the earliest use of #TurdReich (about former Canadian PM Harper’s Government/administration), the earliest use about Trump’s administration and the earliest use about Boris Johnson’s government, which was only four days ago but took forever to find, as #TurdReich has been trending massively here in the U.K due to the Tories’ recent decision to allow water companies to release sewage into the water with impunity. Overlordnat1 (talk) 04:03, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

RFV discussion: January 2022

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Turd Reich

Rfv-sense "(by extension) A right-wing government." Only Twitter cites given and I only find uses in sense 1 on Usenet. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 13:23, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

I created both senses and I was worried someone might query the second sense that took ages to research and source, as I carefully selected the very earliest Tweet using the term (about Harper’s administration), the very first tweet using it to refer to Trump’s administration and the very first one using it to refer to Johnson’s government. There are many hits for books about the Trump White House if you look on Google Books and one about ‘Jokes in the Digital Age’, which no doubt quotes Twitter but is nonetheless an archived book, but unfortunately it’s not currently possible to get a full, or even snippet, view in those books to prove that the term in used therein to mean ‘right-wing government’. There can be no doubt that it’s a valid term that’s been used hundreds if not thousands of times on Twitter over the course of 10 years but I fear it may not meet our attestation criteria (which is a shame as it was the terms use on Twitter that inspired me to create the entry in the first place). Overlordnat1 (talk) 14:19, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

@Overlordnat1: I want to use this opportunity to point out that results showing up on Google Books don't necessarily contain the queried term (not even when using quotes). In this particular case, Google Books suggested "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show" by Jonathan Karl to me ([1]) but searching for "reich" in the corresponding epub file (not OCR'd) yields no results ([2]). Anyways, I don't want to be petty and I agree that our CFI need revision, so I'm going to retract the RFV. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 14:59, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. Overlordnat1 (talk) 15:09, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

RFV-retracted. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 14:59, 22 January 2022 (UTC)