Meme for 2011: Don't Touch My [INSERT AREA OF GOV'T INTERVENTION HERE] Junk
My delightful, mischievous, and ravishing friend Melissa O'Sullivan wrote to me this week to suggest that the populist rebellion against the TSA grope-search, familiarly (and crudely) called "Don't Touch My Junk" is really a great way to describe the grabbing and poking and intervening of the federal government into all sorts of private, intimate areas.
She suggests the following shorthand:
Obamacare: Don't Touch My Doctor Junk
Death Panels: Don't Touch My Dying Junk
'Net Neutrality: Don't Touch My Internet Junk
Environmental Regulations: Don't Touch My Electric Junk
I'm sort of taken with this -- it's clear, sharp, a little naughty, and it neatly ties up what unnerves a lot of us about the current administration, and government in general: too much touching and poking and prodding. Not enough restraint.
What do you think? Any others come to mind?
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May '10
Re: Meme for 2011: Don't Touch My [INSERT AREA OF GOV'T INTERVENTION HERE] Junk
Don't touch my .38 junk.
Oct '10
Re: Meme for 2011: Don't Touch My [INSERT AREA OF GOV'T INTERVENTION HERE] Junk
Don't touch my constitutional junk?
May '10
Re: Meme for 2011: Don't Touch My [INSERT AREA OF GOV'T INTERVENTION HERE] Junk
Don't touch my unborn junk
May '10
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Talk Radio: Don't touch my talking junk
May '10
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Fox News: Don't touch my foxxy junk
May '10
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Don't touch my gas guzzling junk
May '10
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Wealth Redistribution: Don't touch my rich junk
Vending machines: Don't touch my junk...food
Jun '10
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Privacy: Don't touch my private/secret junk.
Dec '10
Re: Meme for 2011: Don't Touch My [INSERT AREA OF GOV'T INTERVENTION HERE] Junk
I think it works even better to repurpose Liberal slogans for Conservative ends.
Death Panels: Whose Life Is It Anyway?
ObamaCare: Keep Your Laws Off My Body (or Our Bodies, Ourselves)
Aug '10
Re: Meme for 2011: Don't Touch My [INSERT AREA OF GOV'T INTERVENTION HERE] Junk
EPA: don't touch my CO2 junk.
Dec '10
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CO2 Is Healthy For Trees And Other Green Living Things.
Feed The Old-Growth Redwoods -- Drive An SUV
Dec '10
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Church and State: Don't touch my holy junk.
War on Drugs: Don't touch my junk.
Jul '10
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Taxes: Don't touch My pay junk.
Size of federal government: Don't touch My great-grandkids' junk.
Jul '10
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Socialism: Don't touch My Neighbor's junk.
Jul '10
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Internet regulation: Don't touch Claire's junk.
May '10
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Chinese yacht: Don't touch my sailing junk.
Oct '10
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Interfering with states trying to crack down on illegal immigration: Don't touch my border junk.
Oct '10
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Socialism: Go ahead, touch my neighbors junk.
Communitarianism: Your junk is my junk.
Edited on Jan 2, 2011 at 9:28pmJul '10
Re: Meme for 2011: Don't Touch My [INSERT AREA OF GOV'T INTERVENTION HERE] Junk
Hey FDA:
Don't touch my salty junk.
Don't touch my fatty junk.
Don't touch my sweet junk.
Hey EPA:
Don't touch my hot junk.
Don't touch my cold junk.
Don't touch my junk junk.
May '10
Re: Meme for 2011: Don't Touch My [INSERT AREA OF GOV'T INTERVENTION HERE] Junk
My junk is a Christmas present to the American people. Though for many, the rent on my junk may be too damned high.