BIPOX to BOYOCRACY
A CAUTIONARY NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
Do not read the following if you are either eagerly or egregiously offended by forthright observation, free expression, honest wit or harmless word-play.
[NB key roots: archy, cracy (“rule, government, power”) / arch, crat (“ruler”)]
BIPOX ● the BIPOC plague of race-hustling currently disfiguring American society [Black, Indigenous, People of Color (abbrev) + pox]
BIRKENSTOCKRACY ● up-market lesbians; our modern-day bluestockings and bloomers [Birkenstock ® + aristocracy]
BITCHKRIEG ● cattiness, or cat-fighting; alternatively, a feminist offensive [bitch + blitzkrieg]
BIZZWORD ● a business cliché or buzzword; any lexical unit of egregious marketing jargon [biz + buzzword]
BLACKISTOCRACY ● the African American cognitive elite—the fabled “talented tenth” [black + aristocracy]
BLACKLASH ● the communal looting and destruction of one’s own neighbourhood businesses and property in response to authentic or fomented racial grievance, either way [black + backlash]
BLACKONOMICS ● the bling economy [black + economics]
BLACKWARDNESS ● the stubborn persistence of material and mental poverty among sub-Saharan populations worldwide [black + backwardness]
BLAIRISTOCRACY ● the New Labour elite of nineties and noughties Britain [(Tony) Blair + aristocracy]
BLATTOCRACY ● the power of the red-top press, or similar human “cockroaches” [blatt (“newspaper”) + blattoid (“cockroach”) + cracy]
BLIMPERIUM ● the mental realm of crusty old colonels [(Colonel) Blimp + imperium]
BLISS-ARTIST ● a happy-clappy, hippy-dippy dipshit [bliss + piss-artist]
BLISSKRIEG ● “Oh! What a Lovely War”; similarly, a charm offensive [bliss + blitzkrieg]
BLOOMOCRACY ● flourishing government; democracy in bloom [bloom + democracy]
BLOTTOCRACY ● government by drunkards, over a nation of drunkards [blotto + cracy]
BLOVIATION INDUSTRY ● political speechifying, speechwriting, media coaching and such [bloviation (“verbal pomposity”) + aviation industry]
BLUETOCRACY ● the reign of super-wealthy upper-class twits [blue (blood) + plutocracy]
BOBOCRACY ● the cultural ascendancy of bourgeois bohemianism [Bobo + cracy]
BODYOCRACY ● corporatism, or the corporate state; alternatively, the “body politic” [body + cracy]
BOGEYNOMICS ● voodoo economics [bogeyman + economics]
BOILERPLATINUM ● premium boilerplate; beyond gold standard mainstream media cliché, verbiage, BS [boilerplate + platinum]
BOLSHEVICTUALS ● communist starvation rations [Bolshevik + victuals]
BOLSHEVIXEN ● meet comrade Deirdre Spart [Bolshevik + vixen]
BOMBASTADOR ● a blowhard bloviator; a blustering, bullying braggart on the stump [bombast + ambassador]
BOMBOCRAT ● a US politician keen to bomb one and all into democracy; a B-52 Democrat [bomb + democrat]
BONARCHISM ● the principles and practices of good government—a hypothetical construct? [bon (“good”) + monarchism]
BOOMOCRACY ● let the good times roll; a prospering polity [boom + cracy]
BOOTOCRACY ● violent repression; stormtrooper tyranny [boot + autocracy]
BORGOCRACY ● total assimilation to total power [(The) Borg + cracy]
BOROUGHCRACY ● local government red-tape [borough + bureaucracy]
BOSSARCHY ● the boss class bossing it [boss + archy]
BOTOCRACY ● the baleful influence of AI and automated social media apps on human affairs [bot + cracy]
BOUGHTOCRACY ● a government in someone’s deep pockets [bought + cracy]
BOUNTIFOOL ● a naïf in regard to extending a warm woke welcome and welfare to all and sundry incomers [bountiful + fool]
BOURGEOISEASE ● comfortability and complacency in life stemming from middle class income and social status [bourgeosie + ease]
BOURSOCRACY ● government serving the interests of the stock exchange and stock markets [bourse + cracy]
BOWLITICS ● the politics of the begging bowl; fund-pleading [bowl + politics]
BOYAROCRACY ● an Eastern European country controlled by its oligarch class [boyar (“nobleman”) + cracy]
BOYOCRACY ● a social network of not-so-old boys; patriarchy lite [boy + cracy]
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