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bog-standard
adjective
- informal.completely ordinary; run-of-the-mill
Example Sentences
When I asked the Trump campaign to comment on questions that have been raised by commentators within and outside the crypto field, including questions about the family’s partners in World Liberty Financial and about whether Trump’s launch of a new business venture raises the potential for massive conflicts of interest if he becomes president, all I got from Brian Hughes, who is identified as a “senior advisor” to the campaign, was a bog-standard attack on Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
In 2005, for example, University of Colorado professor of ethnic studies Ward Churchill became the target of a nationwide campaign calling for his dismissal after an essay he had written after 9/11—which used needlessly incendiary language to make a bog-standard argument about the attacks being blowback for U.S. foreign policy—went viral.
The notion that those programs are drivers of the federal debt is also a bog-standard GOP talking point.
What one finds is that, for all his bluster and claim to be the only truth-teller in the GOP field, the truth is that he’s a bog-standard Republican committed to all the most noxious policies of his party.
Republicans showed they were willing to crash the U.S. economy to make some bog-standard complaints about the federal deficit, most of which they created themselves through the 2017 tax cuts they enacted for the wealthy.
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