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"boogeyman" Definitions
  1. an imaginary evil spirit that is used to frighten children
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I don't love the investor as boogeyman kind of thing, because I think we're all the boogeyman.
"People don't know what to do when the boogeyman shows up — and the boogeyman is real," Clumpner said.
They used him as a boogeyman to sell more guns.
If so, why is he often portrayed as the boogeyman?
Huawei has long been a boogeyman in the U.S. Congress.
"Clearly they're looking for another boogeyman," Meehan said of Republicans.
Republicans set up a boogeyman in the derogatorily nicknamed Obamacare.
It's like this is the boogeyman of the AI, right?
Maybe. We've made Facebook a boogeyman over the last year.
With that boogeyman gone, they retreated to a stricter non-interventionism.
The search giant has become a boogeyman for many in Europe.
Mention his name, and like an internet boogeyman, he shall appear.
They've got to say that someone is the big, bad boogeyman.
What exactly is this seemingly all-powerful boogeyman among liberal Democrats?
I think they're always looking for a political boogeyman behind everything.
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The sale's top lot, Adrian Ghenie's "Boogeyman" (43), sold for £4,851,900 (~$6,404,000).
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Community leaders are hoping to parlay its boogeyman, tsunamis, into tourist dollars.
Insurers are backing the legislation, which gives the opposition an easy boogeyman.
For many, HIV is the ultimate boogeyman of the modern sex-scape.
The health insurance industry was isolated as the boogeyman that Democrats needed.
They did it, the girls said, to appease Slenderman, an internet boogeyman.
Seattle's remaining creative community has unified in its rage at a new boogeyman.
Does the "boogeyman of Westfield" have anything to do with the The Watcher?
And like many Republicans, he's hoping Schumer will be an effective political boogeyman.
In her mind, Mr. Manson, California's resident boogeyman, was a sinister, looming presence.
"People use China as the boogeyman for all their problems," Oscar scolds him.
The N.R.A., on the other hand, has long been a boogeyman for me.
More broadly Soros is a common boogeyman figure for those on the right.
Very quickly, we go into this boogeyman narrative about these savage, brutal criminals.
What's Brooks's evidence for the claim that Sanders is an authoritarian populist boogeyman?
The S-Files have acquired near-mythic boogeyman status in the French imagination.
Northam was the butt of every joke — and the boogeyman — during the rally.
With individual tax rates down, a new boogeyman is haunting investors: inflation worries.
All of these stories have collectively elevated Abedin to a boogeyman on the right.
Amazon has established itself as a bit of a boogeyman in the retail business.
And finally, Arizona is a red state and Californian Steyer is a convenient boogeyman.
It is not the boogeyman in the dark corner lurking to jump on you.
You know thats a great country when the boogeyman is a drag queen gator.
For years Pelosi has been the ultimate Republican boogeyman -- or boogeywoman, as it were.
Silicon Valley may now be alarming enough as a boogeyman to serve that purpose.
As a result, the Girl Scouts have become a sort of boogeyman for conservatives.
To create a narrative is too weak of a word, to create a boogeyman.
They also gave Cuomo a convenient foil and a boogeyman against which to campaign.
For more than a year, there were few consequences for Trump invoking an Islamic boogeyman.
It suffices to say that Venezuela is the right's en vogue boogeyman for scary socialism.
I never really could; he always remained some sort of one-eyed boogeyman to me.
If you try to act normal in pitch darkness, does the boogeyman leave you alone?
This year, big tech is a boogeyman and its representatives are nowhere to be found.
"I'm not looking to portray you as some boogeyman," Ms. Kelly can be heard saying.
It has become something of an astrological boogeyman, overshadowing the effects of other planetary retrogrades.
Sada Baby finds joy in being the boogeyman, and rap can always use more supervillains.
But the changeover is bittersweet; President Vladimir V. Putin has also lost a beloved boogeyman.
A gun-loving president always makes a less effective boogeyman than a gun-skeptical one.
Candyman's titular boogeyman appears when someone chants his name five times in front of a mirror.
Now, conflict between the United States and its trading partners appears to be markets' biggest boogeyman.
Soros is a boogeyman to conservatives, and attacks on him often have an anti-Semitic tinge.
The EPA is a helpful political boogeyman, but it's time for serious consideration of our alternatives.
Crapo's banking reform legislation is not the boogeyman that progressive groups make it out to be.
Strach said Hofeller was a "boogeyman" used by the plaintiffs to distract from their weak case.
That group, according to Solomon, was funded by Hungarian-American billionaire (and conservative boogeyman) George Soros.
Eventually I began to chase them — the boogeyman to their delighted screams — as the sun fell.
The European Union is a particular boogeyman of Hazony's, an "obviously imperial" threat to freedom everywhere.
Evers is polling well, building up Democratic hopes that they can finally extinguish the Walker boogeyman.
Atlanta It's safe to come out from under the covers; last week's boogeyman has been vanquished.
One regular Trump boogeyman — the American news media — has come in for particular ire of late.
But Obama served as a chief boogeyman for the GOP during his eight years in office.
Some of the country's leaders have even used Israel as a convenient boogeyman to explain violence.
Donald Trump has a new boogeyman to scare midterm voters, an unruly mob known as antifa.
The administration has made trade the boogeyman for all the legitimate angst and anger of American workers.
"It's like the boogeyman, when you are in your closet or under the bed," Mr. Naulings said.
Read more: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez replaces Nancy Pelosi as Fox News and Republicans' new boogeyman for 2020Rep.
He was a version of the boogeyman and, even 220 miles away, he was impossible to escape.
Still, GOP ad-makers will use impeachment as a boogeyman to frighten their voters to the polls.
For example, he mentions "marxists" at least five times, and "antifa" — the boogeyman of the GOP — twice.
The Ninth District has for quite some time been a sort of boogeyman for Republicans beyond Trump.
Outside of New York City, Republicans in the state have used the mayor as a liberal boogeyman.
Yet Mr. Trump may have inadvertently boosted Mr. Maduro and given credence to Mr. Chavez's favorite boogeyman.
The European Union will remain a convenient boogeyman for populists looking to score political points at home.
"He criticizes the boogeyman of 'factory farming' while leaving his favorite 'family farms' untouched," the article says.
If you said the word ISI it was like saying the name of the boogeyman to people.
Go deeper: U.S. and China are now tied in race to 5G Why Huawei is American's 5G boogeyman
"I had a friend tell me when I got the part, 'You're playing the gay boogeyman,' " he said.
"French" became synonymous with cowardice and retreat, providing an antiwar boogeyman in the form of an entire country.
Any party that tweaks the health system has to be ready to become both a savior and boogeyman.
Pimpkins is the (super stereotypical) pimp alter ego of Pumpkins, the delightful Halloween boogeyman played by Tom Hanks.
In the 1990s, the big bad boogeyman of health care was managed care, and Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs).
But because many Trump opponents can't stop him, every day, somewhere, a writer brings in the McCarthy boogeyman.
By the early '90s, the term was reduced to an abbreviation and inflated into a right-wing boogeyman.
But one thing is clear: Dietary fat was never the boogeyman health authorities made it out to be.
In the past year, the dossier has become the boogeyman of Republicans and a sacred text for Democrats.
Eric was feeling anxious about the boogeyman — something many in Trump's orbit might be worried about this week.
Doesn't it seem that the electability boogeyman is simply a tool for preserving the power of entrenched interests?
After being batted around as a boogeyman in the Democratic primaries, super PACs are now fully in play.
Sanders, by contrast, is a less frightening boogeyman for Republican voters than even nonwhite people outside of politics.
In invoking China, Sandberg is pitting Facebook against a bigger boogeyman in the current political conversation than itself.
It is the violence of strangers, of the monster under the bed, of the boogeyman around the corner.
In the process it's become the boogeyman that haunts the dreams of small retailers and big box stores alike.
They may imagine death as "the boogeyman" or a "ghost" and feel guilty about what happened, the organization says.
George Soros is a billionaire philanthropist, a former currency trader, a liberal champion and — in certain circles — a boogeyman.
Price: $15These black cotton-blend crew socks feature bright graphics of the boogeyman himself, Oogie Boogie, on both sides.
The 29-year-old freshman congresswoman has emerged as a new boogeyman for conservatives, and CPAC cemented that reputation.
His father, labeled El Cucuy (the Boogeyman) on Chris's phone, insists that he put his degree to better use.
His new piece, "The Boogeyman," is set to a selection of 1970s numbers (Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Gilbert O'Sullivan).
It would help us all if both countries stopped making each other a boogeyman to excuse their own paralysis.
The buy also underscores their plan to turn McConnell into a boogeyman, particularly in districts where Trump is popular.
Private equity may not be the boogeyman it's made out to be, but it can certainly do some harm.
She's like a real-life boogeyman: Everyone knows her green-colored magic can knock puny civilizations to the ground.
Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch and another long-standing 4chan boogeyman, is on the Atlantic Council's International Advisory Board.
To be clear, Ocasio-Cortez hasn't become a "boogeyman for conservatives" just because of her ideas and political positions.
If Bundy has to be the occasional boogeyman in a way that may be flawed to some, so be it.
By ignoring the company's workers in his tweet, Trump missed an opportunity for a righteous dunk on his billionaire boogeyman.
Only time I hit on her is if she's breaking into my house and I mistake her for the Boogeyman.
James was referencing the movie Boogeyman Pop, which is making its world premiere at the Cinepocalypse film festival in Chicago.
Zuckerberg has emerged as the new political boogeyman in a way that would be unthinkable just a few years ago.
Fiennes is like a folkloric boogeyman, stalking from town to town brandishing hammers and orbitoclasts, with Andy his obedient herald.
INGRAHAM: ...Oleg Deripaska who&aposs this guy made out to be this big boogeyman by the political party... do what?
The problems with that particular agency would exist all the same, because it's inefficiency that's the boogeyman, not budget imbalance.
"This country through government policy has had a fascination with one nutrient being the boogeyman of nutrition problems," he said.
"Toxic shame" is a phrase often invoked in the Antioch classrooms, a boogeyman for the students to hunt and destroy.
Bernie vows to be Wall Street's 'worst nightmare' For his part, Sanders has embraced his casting as Wall Street's boogeyman.
The far left has tried to distort Pruitt's views in a lame attempt to make him into an anti-science boogeyman.
Bergthold has been so effective, he's become something of a boogeyman for the adult entertainment industry and strippers across the country.
But with a $5.13 million budget, the tale of an internet-famous boogeyman has a quick path to profitability for Sony.
At the same time, Cox benefits from a feud with Newsom, a candidate Republicans have long painted as a liberal boogeyman.
The first part of the answer is that the boogeyman that was the only self-described socialist superpower on Earth disappeared.
But at the time, he was little more than a rumor—just the faint outline of a boogeyman in the dark.
In an instant, his credibility as both a UFC boogeyman and WWE's largest, meanest draw could've been destroyed by a loss.
Growing up as I did, with a family like mine, tucked away in the far Northwest, the South was a boogeyman.
On the other hand, conservatives must resist the lure of securing votes by exploiting resentment against the boogeyman of cultural imperialism.
They roared their approval when Mr. Trump began stirring up fears of angry, violent left-wing mobs, another far-right boogeyman.
Republicans are hunting for a boogeyman in the burgeoning impeachment fight as the party struggles to unify behind a single strategy.
Amazon, the perpetual retail boogeyman, is now worth more than two and half times its biggest brick-and-mortar counterpart, Walmart.
The big bad Verizon boogeyman has had a 803 percent drop in sales and its profits fell by 280 percent in 240.
"I had a friend tell me when I got the part, 'You're playing the gay boogeyman,&apos" Criss, 31, previously told PEOPLE.
Where Bates Motel has managed to avoid all of those pitfalls is in turning the Norman of the film into the boogeyman.
Republicans hammered Democrat Jon Ossoff with ads arguing he'd be a rubber-stamp for Pelosi's agenda, demonizing her as a liberal boogeyman.
BuzzFeed's Ali Watkins called the deep state "the proverbial national security boogeyman," and reported that intelligence officials were laughing at the concept.
"Everybody wants to make trade the boogeyman," said Nicole Bivens Collinson, a lobbyist and former trade negotiator whose firm handled several requests.
Everyone is looking for a boogeyman in the media environment, and I just think we all need to stick to our knitting.
Soros is the Jewish boogeyman of right-wing fanatics, and his image is routinely evoked as a dog whistle to anti-Semites.
Mr. Sharpton is many things to many people — a freedom fighter, a boogeyman, a racial opportunist, an aging man just hanging on.
It even has its own supposedly scary boogeyman, who turns out to be nothing compared with the boogeymen hiding in plain sight.
"Syria has been the boogeyman for a very long time," said Maha Yahya, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.
Now, many prominent political figures are wondering whether hopes for change were premature, and whether Moscow will inevitably remain Washington's main boogeyman.
Sanders's single-payer plan has worked as an additional boogeyman Republicans can add to this consistent strategy in attempting to repeal Obamacare.
And however many there were before the organization became a right-wing media boogeyman last year, there are almost certainly fewer now.
There is a lot about Andross that is terrifying, and the game does a really good job of building up his boogeyman status.
And Republicans have made it abundantly clear that the Green New Deal is emblematic of their new boogeyman for the 2020 campaign: socialism.
Student loan debt, the personal finance boogeyman for many in their 20s and 30s, rounded out the top four financial stressors for millennials.
FARA is not an information warfare defense and making it the boogeyman of the Russia investigation deters welcome foreign engagement in American politics.
Ocasio-Cortez replaces Clinton, Pelosi as Democratic boogeyman Ocasio-Cortez took center stage at CPAC this week — and she never even showed up.
It's unlikely House Republicans would actually vote for Pelosi, whom the GOP has for years cast as a boogeyman on the campaign trail.
In the horror stories that train riders in the New York area share, there is no more menacing boogeyman than the Portal Bridge.
Not as a Fox-induced boogeyman on the bar TV, one of those "coastal elites" dripping with contempt and condescension toward Middle America.
Republicans have realized that Facebook is a good boogeyman for them and a way to rile up the base, whatever the company does.
Cruz is very much appealing to the state's conservative base by attempting to paint his opponent as somewhat of a left-wing boogeyman.
The Northern Triangle countries have some of the world's highest murder rates, and Donald Trump has made Central Americans gangs a national boogeyman.
If you're predisposed to think the Obama administration would opportunistically invent a boogeyman to distract from terrorism, then Rice's answers do look awfully suspicious.
"The Americans" means our heroes, sure, but it also means a boogeyman you cook up in your own head, one that doesn't really exist.
I think modern feminists try to create a boogeyman out of what they call the patriarchy and hunt it down, but it's not necessary.
Since its black-clad activists burst onto the protest scene during the 2016 election cycle, antifa has been a favorite boogeyman of the GOP.
He's also faved tweets mocking "SJWs" or Social Justice Warriors—a concept encompassing a sort of liberal boogeyman for members of the alt-right.
Commonly called the equity or wealth gap, the discrepancy has been a Silicon Valley boogeyman blamed for larger gender disparities in tech and beyond.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership was the central dominating boogeyman at the Democratic National Convention, especially among people who have no clue what's in it.
Op-Ed Contributor LONDON — The word "Wahhabism" has become a boogeyman in the West, deemed responsible for the radicalization of Muslims around the world.
For generations, baseball's leadership has viewed gambling as the sport's boogeyman, a threat to the integrity of the game that must be stamped out.
Appeals court rules Trump administration can withhold grants from 'sanctuary cities' GOP casts Sanders as 2020 boogeyman MORE, said he hasn't seen such evidence.
United States officials have also accused Russia of seeking to undermine the treaty while painting Washington as the boogeyman who wants to destroy it.
But Temple reminds us that sexting can become a convenient boogeyman, conflating our worries about sexuality with our fears about our technology-permeated world.
Soros has long been a boogeyman for right-wingers, but President Donald Trump has helped pushed conspiracy theories about him into the Republican mainstream.
The government is a perennial boogeyman, and the main policy objective on the right has been to reduce the role of government in public life.
Other bot-like accounts were resurfacing unfounded allegations of "voter intimidation" by George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor and favorite boogeyman of the far right.
Speaking of Oakland, the city has often been the Bay Area's boogeyman — its once-high rates of crime and homicide kept outsiders away for years.
The Halloween franchise and its resident boogeyman return this fall with Halloween, which sees serial slasher Myers escaped from prison and terrorizing victims once again.
He rails against Waitina, a British official who defiles both men and women, while admitting the character may be no more than a generic boogeyman.
As such, both Warren and Trump are quick to identify a "boogeyman" responsible for the variety of issues facing the political world, the strategists said.
It seems there are double standards at work: Clinton gets a pass for recognizing the importance of encouraging work, while Trump is a heartless boogeyman.
Mr. Trump's unsettling comments in November came just as Cubans were mourning the death of Fidel Castro, for so many decades a boogeyman for Washington.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads After the 2016 presidential election, there was a brief period during which Steve Bannon was America's biggest liberal boogeyman.
What makes this story stand out from other similar tales is that King's Boogeyman is corporeal and dangerous, with the kill count to prove it.
John Wick (Keanu Reeves) aka The Boogeyman, is an ex-assassin whose life gets turned upside down when his wife, Helen, dies of a terminal illness.
And now Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has reached down into the political grab bag of scapegoats to pin the blame on another familiar boogeyman: video games.
Castle Rock seems to be moving in the direction of a more standard horror story, one with a kind of magical boogeyman lurking in the shadows.
As recently as 2008, you could still see Kamala, a tribal boogeyman from "deepest, darkest Africa," performing in face and chest paint and wielding a spear.
But no matter how many people blame the region's disappearances on everything from time-warped Nazis to Cthulhu, the Bermuda Triangle is not a geographical boogeyman.
"This is a project that doesn't present the kind of environmental boogeyman that a lot of the environmental community has been saying it does," Collier said.
But for Ryan, like most in his party, the deficit was a convenient boogeyman, only to be set loose when the GOP was out of power.
Opponents of legalization have cast those businesses as Big Marijuana — a boogeyman as threatening to public health, especially children's health, as Big Tobacco in earlier times.
Both on the left and the pro-Trump right, though, some skeptics complain that Moscow has become the automatic boogeyman, accused of misdeeds with little proof.
But surely we still have the levity, and the taste buds, to look past the White House and beyond Hollywood and tremble before a lesser boogeyman.
Is leaving a child in a car considered riskier than driving him because the boogeyman you can't see is scarier than dangers you face every day?
Teachers' unions, an important constituency to Democrats, have long considered them a boogeyman, arguing that charter schools draw students and funding away from traditional public schools.
With crisp, HD footage, 24-hour recording, night vision, motion detection, 355-degree of panning potential, and P2P/WPS encryption, the boogeyman doesn't stand a chance.
That's forced Planned Parenthood out of the program, costing the reproductive healthcare giant — the anti-abortion movement's biggest boogeyman — an estimated tens of millions of dollars.
I understand their frustration—and it's easy to pin it on the neoliberal boogeyman, but they don't really understand what the tenets of neoliberalism aim to do.
The humble spud has become something of a boogeyman, a strawman for angry PTA members demanding to know why their kid is getting a bit too chubby.
Over the long-term, demographic issues, economic stagnation and questions of who succeeds Russian President Vladimir Putin clearly ensure Moscow is not the boogeyman it once was.
Maybe not: Uber's long had skeptics, and it's not innovative to paint Kalanick, 40, as the boogeyman of Silicon Valley, where unseemly savants exist in vast supply.
"I had a friend tell me when I got the part, 'You're playing the gay boogeyman,' " Criss, 31, tells PEOPLE in this week's issue, on newsstands Friday.
For Clinton and her closest allies and supporters, "fake news" makes a convenient boogeyman because it paints her essentially as a victim of circumstances beyond her control.
Facebook has publicly painted Six4Three as an unsuccessful company that sought to exploit the same privacy vulnerabilities in Facebook's platform as the data-harvesting boogeyman Cambridge Analytica.
Porter gave Errol Spence Jr. all kinds of hell in a 12-round nightmare which the latter narrowly escaped from, and is a boogeyman opponent at welterweight.
I think the American people would like to know a little bit more about keeping the boogeyman of the Russian billionaires alive, keep the big fantasy alive.
After all, providers do complain about low reimbursements, and the stigma of the program's roots as a welfare program — and its role as a conservative boogeyman — persist.
"There's no boogeyman in the White House now to make people afraid of," said Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, a gun control advocacy group.
Many of them have studied history, sociology — and that academic boogeyman, critical race theory, a conceptual framework focused on the power structures that help maintain white supremacy.
The move was widely ridiculed: Mr. Poroshenko, having nothing left to offer, appeared to be grasping at nationalist straws and trying to instill fear in a boogeyman.
Quandl's Kamel said while it's easy to pitch Wall Street as the boogeyman who is making money off of people's personal information, that's far from the truth.
"He doesn't care about his son," Cosio adds about Chris' dad, who is listed as "El Cucuy" in his son's phone — subtlety likening him to Mexico's boogeyman.
After a trip to Mississippi State next week, Auburn will visit Baton Rouge, and two weeks after that L.S.U. will go to meet its perpetual boogeyman: Alabama.
"AOC sucks" might be the new "Lock her up," and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the Democratic boogeyman conservatives are looking to hold up in place of Hillary Clinton.
Republicans frequently paint Pelosi as a top adversary of their agenda and a boogeyman of sorts, and often attaching their Democratic opponents to her as a campaign tactic.
Big Tech, Once a CPAC Sponsor, Is Now Its Boogeyman Michael M. Grynbaum reports that big tech companies are no longer welcome at the annual gathering of conservatives.
"It is unpleasant to link Russia to every problem, even those with which we have no link, nor to make Russia into a kind of boogeyman," he said.
Ever since fake news became America's boogeyman in about the middle of November, 2100, academia has been trying document and quantify the causes and effects of the phenomenon.
Apparently, the man who's been lurking in people's houses since 143, and has now struck a plea deal with authorities, is a real-life boogeyman and serial rapist.
Hours later, the president echoed Mr. Dowd's accusations of corruption in the theoretical "deep state" that Mr. Trump has long cast as a boogeyman working to undermine him.
The boogeyman of rising prices will eventually be shooed away, but having to dance with the beast will leave scars on the financial behavior of Venezuelans for generations.
Starting from President Donald Trump's comments after the rally, in which he laid blame on "both sides" of the conflict, antifa has been transformed into a conservative boogeyman.
Patrick worked at Bain Capital, the private equity firm that served as a boogeyman of liberal Democrats and former President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, until last week.
In one way or another, politicians were often talking about the banlieues, which served as a kind of boogeyman, a stand-in for the social currents unsettling France.
Through it all, the president's allies continue to see Russia as a boogeyman for Democrats and a rapacious news media, an issue his core voters think is manufactured.
John Koskinen, who was appointed commissioner in 2013 to help stabilize the agency in the aftermath of those accusations, has instead emerged as a boogeyman to its critics.
Lastly, it is possible that Trump never intended to make good on his campaign promise yet needed a boogeyman to blame for its delay or its ultimate denial.
For years, Republicans have been using her as a boogeyman, painting pretty much every Democratic candidate nationwide as a tool of her and her radical San Francisco agenda.
Monster Rating: 913 Percent The Boogeyman is not a monster with a strict definition, exactly—maybe he's faceless, maybe he's monstrously disfigured, maybe he's enormous or maybe he's slender and small; maybe he hides inside wardrobes or taps one single long nail on the pane of your window—but basically if you've ever been in bed and, in a moment of clamp-like irrational terror, tucked your feet in under the duvet so no hostile mythical creatures can wrap one single, clammy, death-grip hand around your feet or toes, you've been afraid of the Boogeyman, and that shuffling-in-the-shadows freak-you-out nature to the terror of the Boogeyman is actually very cool indeed.
Having previously railed against the US president, who made the retired financier a boogeyman during his 20183 campaign, Soros said he still wishes that Trump was not in power.
A former Facebook executive told CNBC on Monday the social media giant is being construed as the "boogeyman on privacy" as it tries to implement privacy and security changes.
That original Photoshopped image, of an unnaturally tall man in a suit lurking just within sight, was meme-ified to the point where Slender Man is the millennial Boogeyman.
In one especially disturbing detail, Facebook employed a Republican opposition research company named Definers to discredit its critics by linking them to liberal billionaire and conservative boogeyman George Soros.
His long-held view of China as an economic boogeyman became a central part of his "Make America Great Again" campaign platform that promised a rebirth of US manufacturing.
As to the perpetual boogeyman of higher electricity prices, the one study that's been done (by consultancy Flink Energy) found that Oregon's legislation is likely to slightly reduce rates.
Before George Soros became a globally recognized billionaire — and boogeyman of the far right — he was a Jewish child growing up in Nazi-affiliated, and ultimately Nazi-occupied, Hungary.
After all, the risk of tightening too soon on an inflation boogeyman that might not exist is far worse than having to tighten rates later to dampen inflation pressure.
Diets front-loading protein— including Atkins, paleo, and keto—surged in popularity during the 2010s, and the boogeyman of "getting enough protein" continues to haunt everyone to this day.
Mr. Massey has distanced himself from Mr. Trump, a ready-made boogeyman in a general election in New York City, by saying his wife was a Hillary Clinton supporter.
It basically shows that the speaker or writer isn't willing to engage in serious discussion, preferring to scare people with a boogeyman of which he or she knows nothing.
They're incredibly rare, and in fact near impossible, in 21876, which makes bringing up fears of a "rigged election" this year a boogeyman at best and dangerous at worst.
The alarm clock is a dreaded device that crosses national and cultural borders, a real-life early morning boogeyman that inevitably wrests you forcefully from sleep each and every day.
Wrestling's past is littered with unfortunate roles for black wrestlers, from manservants and street thugs to voodoo priests and tribal boogeyman—and that's only looking back to the late 1980s.
We might get to explore cabinets or knock over imaginary blocks or fight a giant boogeyman or, in the case of Rez, travel through electronic space as a hovering body.
Now that their worst fears have come to pass and Republicans firmly hold both Congress and the White House, they will see that the boogeyman isn't so bad after all.
Purdue has repeatedly been slammed as the pharma boogeyman of the opioid epidemic over its allegedly deceptive marketing practices, which promoted the drug as safe and non-addictive for years.
They also hope to use Trump as a boogeyman, applying his negatives to congressional Republicans and appealing to the college-educated white voters that are cool to him, Kondik said.
Notably, Curtis herself reportedly consulted on the types of weapons her character would use in the film, to defend herself against Halloween's villain and Strode's own personal boogeyman, Michael Myers.
Mr. Blunt, who has served in Congress since 1997 and whose family is chockablock with lobbyists, is the archetypal boogeyman Mr. Trump has attacked in his assault on Washington insiders.
"The administration is using MS-13 in Willy Horton-esque campaign ads and as cover to make a boogeyman out of immigration," said Kevin de León, a California state senator.
"Unfortunately we see people trying to point the finger at us and trying to call us the boogeyman for things they don't like when it's not true," Mr. Hardin said.
White resentment needs the boogeyman of job-taking, maiden-ravaging, tax-evading, criminally inclined others to justify the policies that thwart the upward mobility and success of people of color.
Sanders, who has diversified his base since his failed 21625 White House run, is showing up as a boogeyman for Republicans looking to defeat Democrats up and down the ballot.
This key figure shattering the 50 percent threshold is significant – especially in light of the 2018 midterm races in which Democrats intended to make Trump the big, bad, racist boogeyman.
The trade war with China — a big boogeyman for investors — appears to be simmering down, and some companies claim to see an improving outlook for profits and the global economy.
It's clear, however, that the goal of the rule change is to satisfy Mr. Trump's supporters by at least partly defunding Planned Parenthood — the boogeyman of the anti-abortion cause.
The term "censorship" has become a boogeyman in the last 10 years, fueled by a broader awareness of (and debate over) issues of gender equality, sexual exploitation, race, and more.
Pelosi has long been used as a boogeyman for Republicans, and Democratic House candidates across the country spent two years trying to separate themselves from Pelosi on the campaign trail.
But it's not just that ... In the movie's telling, Dick Cheney became this awful boogeyman that accumulated power for his own end, but it kept going in the next administration.
Another Night Shift short story, "The Boogeyman" tells the classic demon/poltergeist tale of a family pursued by a horrifying supernatural entity that may or may not be murdering children.
But even leaving aside the initial question of what you might be paying now and how a tech company's swooping in could affect it, there's the more nebulous boogeyman of gentrification.
Based on the internet-created boogeyman-like figure with a blank face and black suit, Slender Man takes the creepy urban myth and turns it into a supernatural horror film villain.
Notably, pollsters did not mention Ocasio-Cortez — who has became Fox News' favorite example of a leftist boogeyman — by name when asking voters about their support of the Green New Deal.
Huawei has long been a boogeyman for American lawmakers, ever since a congressional report in 2012 concluded that Huawei — and ZTE — could become a tool for state-sponsored spying or sabotage.
He conjured the Clinton boogeyman and he, as a nominee to be an impartial Supreme Court justice, lambasted Democratic senators for allegedly engineering a political witch hunt to block his nomination.
At the same time, I think that there is a boogeyman created about people who are homeless, and the best communities are those communities that work to break down those stereotypes.
And with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation -- which Trump has frequently cast on the campaign trail as a "witch hunt" -- expected to end soon, Trump is looking for a new boogeyman.
"Frankly, I have been amused by the chatter suggesting that smoothing — or more accurately the failure to smooth — has now become some folks' boogeyman de jure," Roberts said in an email.
The storyline Republicans and right-wing media started to push was using the possibility of single-payer as a boogeyman to show what could happen if this repeal bill isn't passed.
Though the 1970s and '80s panic over porn had begun to simmer down by the early '90s, the advent of the internet fueled its slow burn back into a full-scale boogeyman.
"You have a disgruntled competitor that is trying to explain their loss around the boogeyman that there were threats made that nobody can document," said Daniel M. Wall, Live Nation's antitrust lawyer.
Spoilers I guess, but in this movieverse, boogeyman are the result of imaginary friends who get forgotten, and Frances cooks up a vat of "boogey goo," which is what they eat. Gross!
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Greengrass and Rouse build part of the plot around the familiar boogeyman of modern blockbuster-thrillers: the threat that the American government might create a perfect surveillance system, permanently ending citizen privacy.
PHILADELPHIA — For years President Obama has been a boogeyman to Republicans, uniting them in opposition to a Democrat they feel has taken the country in the wrong direction and failed to lead.
The judge as boogeyman has become the judge as savior — at least when intervening to block executive branch action or to strike down a regulatory requirement in the name of free speech.
The commissioner has been a boogeyman for Republicans for years, because many in the party think that he has misled them over accusations that the agency overzealously audited certain conservative nonprofit groups.
They accused their opponents of being part of a dark conspiracy, some linking it to the Hungarian-born philanthropist George Soros, who often serves as an all-purpose boogeyman for populists worldwide.
At the time, the Brazilian was deemed to be an unstoppable force of nature, MMA's equivalent of a heel-hooking boogeyman, following his various submission-related transgressions over the past few years.
"They are following in the footsteps of politicians of all stripes who have found it convenient to blame the boogeyman of unfair trade for domestic economic problems," said Eswar Prasad, a Cornell economist.
Clinton still looms large — the ultimate boogeyman to be invoked whenever a Republican politician is having trouble exciting his constituents, or when a Supreme Court hopeful needs to shore up his endangered nomination.
Former KKK leader David Duke has provided the Democrats with a boogeyman to run against, but he'll likely be a minor factor in the race, polling in the mid- to high single digits.
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If the anti-porn advocates were serious about helping this minority, they'd stop pretending that porn is the boogeyman and start paying attention to the very limited circumstances under which porn can be problematic.
Baldwin lends Santa an inexplicable accent, but that's not any stranger than Santa teaming up with Jack Frost, the Tooth Fairy and an Easter Bunny that sounds like Hugh Jackman to fight the boogeyman.
"You have a disgruntled competitor that is trying to explain their loss around the boogeyman that there were threats made that nobody can document," Daniel M. Wall, Live Nation's antitrust lawyer, told the Times.
"Wall Street is a very easy boogeyman to attack in situations like these," said Rufus Yerxa, a former US trade official who now leads the National Foreign Trade Council, in an interview with CNN.
"When I was growing up, dinuguan was a kind of culinary boogeyman, a dish that adults would tell gory stories about to scare children," said Genevieve Villamora, one of the owners of Bad Saint.
It is hardly the only assault on Mr. de Blasio, who has emerged as an all-purpose boogeyman for Republican strategists trying to maintain the party's filament-thin hold on the New York Senate.
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Other experts have noted Trump administration is using MS-13 as a "boogeyman" and overstating the threat it poses to drum up support for a crackdown on sanctuary cities and other hardline immigration policies.
Silicon Valley is girding for another political battle with the liberal city at its core, San Francisco, in a contest that could turn that celebrated pinnacle of success in tech — the IPO — into a boogeyman.
Weier and her friend, Morgan Geyser, are accused of stabbing their classmate, Peyton Leutner, 19 times to appease Slender Man, a kind of internet boogeyman who is often photoshopped into the background of existing images.
Something strange is in my backyard and whoops, it's my best friend whom I must hide Don't Look Under the Bed: Frances finds herself haunted by something that all signs point to being the Boogeyman.
The film, which opens Friday, tells the story of a group of friends in Massachusetts attempting to prove whether the internet boogeyman-like figure Slenderman exists until one of them goes missing, according to IMDb.
WASHINGTON — For years, conservative activists have clamored for the ouster of John A. Koskinen, the Internal Revenue Service commissioner, who became a boogeyman for the right amid accusations that the agency was unfairly targeting Republicans.
Since then, bots have become, for many people, a digital boogeyman, a viral weapon that can be wielded to influence political opinions, fool advertisers, prank unknowing social media users and get bad hashtags to trend.
The efforts to imbue an extraterrestrial-boogeyman scenario with tidbits about genetics and climate change (and even a hint of "Star Wars," to which the incidental scoring owes a lot) tend to squelch the menace.
With European Parliament elections on the horizon in May, it doesn't hurt their cause to reintroduce the specter of a bureaucratic boogeyman preventing them from stimulating the Italian economy and delivering on their campaign promises.
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It also pulled up unfounded allegations Kelley was a member of antifa, an umbrella term for loosely organized groups of anti-fascist activists across the country which have become an exaggerated boogeyman in the conservative media.
If they happen to hear something that's uncomfortable or disturbing from the mainstream media, they can click on Fox News and be immediately comforted and have their anger turned back on the true boogeyman — the left.
This movie – which scared the shit out of me for years, by the way – follows Frances (Erin Chambers), a teen girl who thinks she's being bullied and eventually realizes she's being haunted by the freaking Boogeyman.
And while the show has effectively established Negan as the big-bad boogeyman it's been building toward for years, the most important questions about the character are the ones TWD seems the least interested in answering.
When people find out I used to work as a dean of admissions at an elite liberal arts university, they want to gab about the wealthy and famous, bribes and scandal, the boogeyman of affirmative action.
Republicans have to beat their own boogeyman If Obama's compromise essentially backed Republicans into a corner they couldn't fight their way out of, why are they wasting time and political capital trying to overthrow the ACA?
The competition for these students is fierce, and aspiring universities promise a great deal, including campus environments that are "diverse" and "inclusive" — synonyms that both conjure and silence concerns about that unspoken American boogeyman of race.
Invoking the "socialism" boogeyman in Venezuela as a way to attack the Democratic Party for its health care and New Green Deal proposals shows how the hemisphere's worst crisis could be used in the presidential campaign.
Oh, and have I mentioned that Russia remains an elaborate, omnipresent boogeyman, or that there are rumblings of the collapse of a nuclear deal with Iran, even though nobody's sure the Iranians are reneging on the deal?
These provocative remarks haven't helped him in the polls or improved his standing on the left, but they have made him a conservative boogeyman and provided nightmare fodder for right-wing ad campaigns designed to fuel turnout.
Instead, these attacks are straight-up attempts to turn her into the boogeyman of the GOP base's Islamophobic nightmares, meant to gin up politically useful fear and anger by targeting one of the first-ever Muslim congresswomen.
Now that President Trump is making good on his campaign promises, there are concerns about what will happen to America's foreign and undocumented immigrant workforce, a boogeyman of Trump's campaign speeches—and a backbone of American agriculture.
In the 1930s, Harry Anslinger was the former deputy of the Department of Revenue for alcohol; prohibition had ended, and he faced an elimination of one-third of his entire agency, so they found a new boogeyman.
As the Tigers sauntered over to their band afterward, dancing along to "Hey, Baby" with the sliver of the crowd that was purple and gold, they did so having extinguished a boogeyman — and with extraordinary offensive panache.
Actors: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, John RoseliusDirector: David Lynch There's always some allegorical boogeyman in a David Lynch film, but it's the bizarre encounter that mixes the creepy and comedic that best showcases this footprint of Lynch.
" But, Ms. Simonyan added, "It is alarming to see the American political and media establishments across the political spectrum painting Russia as the ultimate boogeyman, referring to it exclusively as a menace, a thug, or a dictatorship.
From San Francisco to Seattle to Portland, numerous leftist locales have decided to buck conventional wisdom and raise their minimum wages in a bid to outrun the same economic boogeyman that haunted and sank Venezuela: income inequality.
But I'm also entirely fine with the knee-knocking, crazy-colored-subtitle-talking, fairy-tale-spouting villains who consider John Wick the boogeyman, and are throwing every possible resource toward stopping him because they're absolutely terrified of dying.
"Given its expansive fulfillment options (free two-day shipping, Restock, curb side Pick-Up and same-day through Shipt), we are less concerned about the AMZN boogeyman coming back to haunt TGT as retail sales moderate," said Horvers.
Southern lawmakers traditionally prevailed by arguing against federal interference in local affairs, by positing that anti-lynching laws would be unconstitutional and by playing on racial fears with rhetoric about black rapists, a favorite boogeyman of lynching apologists.
With his boogeyman approach to electoral politics, Donald Trump has deftly exploited anxieties about the impact of America's changing demographics on our national identity, and no group has been more vilified by Trump for political purposes than Latinos.
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Not only is it an avowedly liberal institution, but the government had recently begun using Soros himself as a kind of propaganda boogeyman, blaming him for mass migration much in the same way the American right does today.
Flipping has long been a bit of a boogeyman for art dealers and many high-level collectors, as it can distort an artist's market and disrupt the careful calibrations of pricing and placement that guide art career management.
I truly believe that if we are all so committed to progressive change, we need to look into our own house, and our own communities, because we'll surely find that the boogeyman has been right among us all along.
That archetype is dangerous because it creates this dynamic of a boogeyman — that sexual violence is created by a "bad guy" or a "bad apple" and that the everyday average Joe who makes you feel uncomfortable is above reproach.
Because principal reduction didn't reduce default rates for underwater borrowers, we can conclude that "strategic default," a boogeyman often cited during the housing policy debate, was simply not a primary driver of default decisions for the homeowners we studied.
All of this, the foundation of Walker's role as the biggest Democratic boogeyman in the state, helps explain why state-based operatives from both parties believe Baldwin will be best served by a campaign run in opposition to Walker.
Audience Score: 69%Erin Chambers of "General Hospital" fame stars alongside Ty Hodges and the Steve Valentine in a film about a high-school girl who takes on the Boogeyman with the help of her little brother's imaginary friend.
Photo: GettyRussia is a boogeyman once again, and the threat of nuclear war looms in the background of our daily lives, but it wouldn't be a real reboot of the Cold War unless the US was having problems with Cuba.
This is a widely known fact, yet in many respects, Trump functions as the perfect boogeyman and a symbol that the evils of racism are somehow out there…beyond the walls and value systems of liberal institutions and their diversity mandates.
What's unexpected is that the way they envision the world ending is through a form of unchecked capitalism, disguised as a superintelligent AI. They have unconsciously created a devil in their own image, a boogeyman whose excesses are precisely their own.
The moment he stops being the boogeyman in the jail cell and starts to become a vital player in the main ensemble could be hugely gratifying for his character and for viewers who suffered his shallow antics as a villain.
It's Halloween so why not tune in at 11AM ET to watch Peter Thiel, Facebook board member and the vindictive boogeyman behind the destruction of Gawker Media, discuss his support for Donald J. Trump at a National Press Club event.
Geyser and Weier, who were 12 at the time of the crime, lured their 12-year-old classmate into a park in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where they stabbed her 19 times to impress the Slenderman, a boogeyman for the Internet age.
Someone who is not a boogeyman, but someone whom, as Ta-Nehisi Coates so piercingly lays out in "Between the World and Me," parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, spouses, children and community had poured their love, hopes and dreams into.
The Saturday Profile PARIS — He is the intellectual much of the French left loves to hate, the writer whose rumpled look has racked up multiple magazine covers, the bookish essayist turned omnipresent media star and boogeyman for proselytizers of painless multiculturalism.
He marshaled pro-science forces to raise funds when he was supposed to go up against Smith, but it's unclear any of the other Republicans running to replace the veteran congressman will present as good of a boogeyman to scare donors.
No, those troops are being sent to gin up your irrational fear before the midterm elections because Trump is convinced the best way to motivate his base is to turn vulnerable brown and dark-skinned people into the perpetual boogeyman.
Then Vietor and Lovett spotted Bill Kristol, the founding editor of The Weekly Standard and a neoconservative boogeyman to liberals during the George W. Bush presidency, who emerged as one of the most forthright conservative critics of Trump in 2016.
Jordan Peele has defined a new voice within the horror genre over the last few years with movies like Get Out and Us, and his new project with director Nia DaCosta teases a similar take on the classic boogeyman story Candyman.
Appeals court rules Trump administration can withhold grants from 'sanctuary cities' GOP casts Sanders as 2628 boogeyman MORE, the president adopted a southern dialect to mimic the former senator's voice as he criticized Sessions for recusing himself from the Russian investigation.
Finally, the so-called pari passu clause – the boogeyman of Argentina's last restructuring, a provision traditionally understood to give different bonds equal legal ranking – could even become an issue again, with new clarifying language apt to be tested in U.S. courts.
Soros has traditionally been a boogeyman for the rightwing of the Republican Party, spawning conspiracy theories across the web that Soros is trying to "replace" white people in America by encouraging immigration to the U.S., among a host of other things.
"In 10 years, this commercial might have lived on in the heart of some young kid who saw a Muslim woman in a commercial and didn't see the boogeyman in my face, and instead saw a normal human being," she said.
There's no denying Split is problematic when seen in the larger context of cinema's use of mental illness as a catch-all boogeyman, and since the first trailers debuted the film has drawn criticism from mental-health advocates and the LGBTQ community.
Michael endures precisely because, like the new Halloween's sequel-free conception, he offers a blank slate: He's a "boogeyman" or a "shape," as he's also been called in the films, a monster that filmmakers and audiences can project their own fears onto.
Save for a few minutes in the season premiere, big-bad boogeyman Negan has been completely off the radar, leaving audiences to impatiently wonder what's been going on since we last saw him and Father Gabriel trapped in a trailer, surrounded by zombies.
The "politically incorrect" board at 4Chan (/pol/) is not quite the internet boogeyman many journalists make it out to be, but it has undoubtedly been home base for Trump's army of trolls and a training ground for the alt-right as a whole.
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"The boogeyman used to be the DEA, and now it's suddenly become the FDA," said Eric Cahan, owner of Mamacha, a matcha cafe in New York that served drinks infused with CBD until the New York City health department started cracking down.
The Democrats' looming business boogeyman assault on Trump is nearly identical to the attack leveled at the last GOP nominee, Mitt Romney, whose financial firm Bain Capital was savaged by pro-Obama super PACs over its practice of downsizing manufacturers for profit.
Its patent on the drug was set to expire in 22017, meaning its corner on the Valium market was drying up anyway, and if everyone had come to view the drug as a boogeyman, it was probably best to just move on.
Though there's certainly a little fat around the edges—the film doesn't skimp on laughs amidst all the scares—it's a small price to pay for the truly galvanizing finale, in which three generations of Strode women throw down against the boogeyman.
I assumed that by the time my two daughters and stepson were of age, society would have moved on from the institutional barriers that lurk in the shadows like some boogeyman, ready to jump out and thwart the forward movement of black folk.
The duo behind the image, Josie Keefe and Phyllis Ma, both 31, have made photographs, zines and stop-motion videos together since 2014 under the name Lazy Mom — an invocation of the cultural boogeyman of the "bad mother" who neglects her children.
The girls know Don Achille (Antonio Pennarella), the town's thuggish kingpin, as a real-life boogeyman; later, Marcello and Michele Solara (Elvis Esposito and Alessio Gallo), arrogant rich bros who cruise girls, sharklike, in their shiny car, become a more familiar menace.
Geyser and her friend Anissa Weier, both 12 at the time of the crime, lured their 12-year-old classmate into a park in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where they stabbed her 19 times to impress the Slenderman, a boogeyman for the internet age.
But it ran afoul of Mr. Orban's increasingly authoritarian and nativist government, which has turned Mr. Soros — a Jew who was born and raised in Hungary, but has lived most of his life in the West — into a kind of all-purpose boogeyman.
And Mr. Renzi needs Mr. Salvini as a boogeyman — he called him a "monster" — to elevate his profile and convince liberals that only he can keep the nationalist at bay while pushing forward his pro-globalization, pro-European and pro-American positions.
Cohen sums up the basic anatomy of a moral panic early on in his study: "Satanists"became a boogeyman that could be blamed for all sorts of anxieties related to"family values," crime, safety, class, and a whole network of other social and economic problems.
" Gilbert noted that the likelihood of both the Brexit vote and the Trump win was vastly underestimated by the marketplace, and that gold was sought after as a protective hedge, though neither case was a real "boogeyman, or at least that we've seen thus far.
However, Cuba's old guard realized that Obama's charm offensive had begun to fatally undermine their own authority and undercut their long-effective use of the U.S. boogeyman as a scapegoat for their own economic failures and as a justification for their continued political authoritarianism.
Cohen sums up the basic anatomy of a moral panic early on in his study: "Satanists" became a boogeyman that could be blamed for all sorts of anxieties related to "family values," crime, safety, class, and a whole network of other social and economic problems.
Those who insist single payer rationing is some kind of invented conservative boogeyman should talk about what completely government-controlled single payer looks like at the Veterans Administration hospitals, where we know of all too many patients who died while waiting interminably for care.
President Donald Trump was the latest to jump in on the chorus of Republicans decrying "far-left" activists trying to upend Kavanaugh's nomination, tweeting that the protesters in the Capitol were paid by George Soros — a liberal philanthropist and boogeyman for those on the right.
Read more: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez replaces Nancy Pelosi as Fox News and Republicans' new boogeyman for 2020Local police shot and killed on Saturday after he threw incendiary devices at buildings and vehicles in an attempt to free immigrants being held at the detention center.
During a speech to the British Parliament on Wednesday, Carter -- frequently held up by the right as a liberal boogeyman -- said if he had to choose between Trump and Cruz, he would choose billionaire businessman -- not the kind of endorsement any GOP candidate wants.
Separately, Facebook faced another controversy last November over its hiring of a PR firm called the Definers, to smear billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who often advocates for liberal or leftist causes and is treated as a boogeyman by right-wing media pundits and politicians.
The president and members of his administration have turned the predominantly Central American gang into a boogeyman to justify immigration policies, and Trump himself has on multiple occasions appeared to revel in describing the grisly details of murders committed by alleged MS-13 members.
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Appeals court rules Trump administration can withhold grants from 'sanctuary cities' GOP casts Sanders as 22020 boogeyman MORE, the first major congressional Republican to back Trump in 2016, is facing off against a prominent primary rival who invoked God when speaking of the president.
The tense psychological ambiguity of King's writing and the grim, terrifying certainty that no child is safe sets this tale apart from innumerable "scary thing in the closet" stories, as the protagonist fights to keep his kids away from the clutches of the Boogeyman.
It turns out that this isn't just a boogeyman: A new study that tries to get a handle on the prevalence of drugged drinks on America's college campuses found that spiked drinks are very real, indeed, and are still a common problem for young people.
But while Poynter's pledge itself consists of banal, seemingly uncontroversial statements—beginning with a "A COMMITMENT TO NONPARTISANSHIP AND FAIRNESS"—conservative outlets like Breitbart began attacking the organization shortly after the announcement last year for its connections to liberal donor (and right-wing boogeyman) George Soros.
John CornynJohn CornynThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Democrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape MORE (R-Texas), McConnell's No. 2, when asked about McConnell's "boogeyman" status among conservatives.
Long before he was a conservative folk hero with the support of the president, and long before his strident views on immigration and voter fraud made him a boogeyman to liberals, Kris W. Kobach was an ambitious young Kansan looking for a job in municipal government.
Not everyone names a specific boogeyman—rapper Cardi B has claimed that celebrities who have tested positive for coronavirus, like Idris Elba, are being paid to say that they have the disease by somebody for reasons—but if you have a go-to scapegoat, it's open season.
Terrifying parental figures have long been a boogeyman of great scary stories, from "Psycho" to "Carrie" to "The Stepfather," but these new movies are as likely to show us the perspective of the unhinged mother as her child, and the dynamics of their relationship are often complex.
Donna ShalalaDonna Edna ShalalaNo exceptions when it comes to our kids' health Sanders defends Castro comments in wake of backlash from some Democrats GOP casts Sanders as 2020 boogeyman MORE (D-Fla.), comes after Congress raised the age to buy tobacco products to 21 last year.
Martha McSallyMartha Elizabeth McSallyLoeffler releases new ad targeting Sanders's 'socialism' GOP casts Sanders as 2020 boogeyman Overnight Health Care: Officials confirm 85033 total coronavirus cases in US | ObamaCare favorability hits highest level in poll | McSally unveils bill to lower drug prices amid tough campaign MORE (R-Ariz.).
Republicans across the Capitol have slammed Pelosi's bill as an even bigger boogeyman to biomedical innovation than the Senate option, and even Grassley has used it as evidence that the GOP needs to get behind his legislation or face a world with fewer new life-saving medicines.
But all seven of the central children are well-cast and give strong performances, and seen through their eyes, Pennywise seems like a real threat — a childhood nightmare improbably manifested in the real world — instead of like the faintly goofy, try-hard boogeyman he could so easily be.
Bannon was also characterized as the boogeyman on the National Security Council in an attempt to divert attention away from the vigorous advocacy on the part of the usual suspects in Washington's foreign policy establishment to push the administration back in the direction of interventionism and regime change.
" Quantifying conference-call mentions ... "Amazon has replaced Google as the company others are most worried about: It's the new corporate boogeyman," by Recode's Rani Molla: "Both have long elicited fear, admiration and inspiration as evidenced by the frequency with which both companies are cited on conference calls across industries.
Democrats have barely mentioned House Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.), who, while viewed more unfavorably than Pelosi, is far from the partisan boogeyman that Trump represents.
He was unarmed and his hands were tied behind his back, yet even so, we've been nurtured on this image of the ISIS boogeyman, and I think it affects all of us — aside from his physical presence, just the idea of what these people had been capable of.
Then, the states suing the maker of OxyContin — the pill-sized boogeyman some blame for sparking the opioid crisis — asked that the family give up $4.5 billion of their personal wealth, after a previous proposed settlement had them forking over $3 billion and ceding control of Purdue Pharma.
Given the timely concerns about deepfakes and altered video, it's natural to assume the film will eventually head toward some sort of explain-it-all climax, using technology and machine learning as a boogeyman, and dissipating all the tension and unnerving weirdness the film has built up until that point.
"We were either shamans, mystic boogeyman, or pocahotties (Pocahontas hotties)," said Arigon Starr, creator of the comic book Super Indian, while speaking to VICE about the representation of Native Americans in pop culture at the first ever Indigenous Comic Con, which ran from November 18 to 20 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
With front-loaded confessions from two 12-year-old girls who attempted to kill their friend after believing in the Internet's boogeyman (named Slenderman), the chilling film explores the malleability of adolescence, coupled with mental illness and the impact of finding things in the deepest, darkest parts of the Internet.
Whether the inciting force is communism or sexism or the negligible boogeyman of Tinder coming along to redefine how we date, the result is the same: these stories are meant to remind us of what we value in being human, and why even painful and uncontrolled emotions are better than none.
It may not be said, but it is believed that they are complicit in their own deaths, guilty somehow — even at 2 or 4 or 6 years of age — of belonging to a nation that the world has appointed as its own boogeyman, a repository of all its vilest trepidations.
John RatcliffeJohn Lee RatcliffeGOP searches for impeachment boogeyman Democrats claim new momentum from intelligence watchdog testimony Hillicon Valley: Senate passes bill to boost cyber help for agencies, businesses | Watchdog warns Energy Department failing to protect grid | FTC sues Match for allegedly conning users MORE (R-Texas), a member of the panel.
In the end, when looking at the substance of your life, it must be ultimately unsatisfying to realize you spent yours as a professional boogeyman, a mythic monster lingering on the edges of the fight world's imagination but never being allowed in to test others or yourself in the cold light of reality.
Read more: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez replaces Nancy Pelosi as Republicans' new boogeyman for 2020 McConnell had characterized the vote as an "opportunity to go on the record" while railing against the bill's many features that Republicans say would devastate the economy and would be uniquely unfair to the US as a whole.
For Mr. Soros, who will contribute $5 million to the super PAC, the effort represents a return to the large-scale political spending that made him a liberal hero — and conservative boogeyman — in 2004, when he helped organize a failed $200 million advertising and voter-mobilization campaign to unseat President George W. Bush.
Tom EmmerThomas (Tom) Earl EmmerGOP searches for impeachment boogeyman House GOP battleground poll finds opponents narrowly outnumber impeachment supporters Democrat running for Hurd's seat in Texas raises M in third quarter MORE (R-Minn.), the chairman of the NRCC, has predicted that impeachment would cost the Democrats their majority in the House.
The attack by Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier stunned the nation -- especially after it emerged that they targeted her due to their fixation on "Slender Man," an internet boogeyman In a deal with prosecutors, Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder and got 40 years in a mental institution instead of serving jail time.
In the new Halloween (co-written and directed by eclectic arthouse and indie comedy filmmaker David Gordon Green), Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her role as the franchise's first "final girl," Laurie Strode, who's spent 40 years obsessively gearing up for one last fight against the boogeyman she rightly assumes will eventually come after her again.
John McCainJohn Sidney McCainMeghan McCain says Steyer should drop out: 'I hate that guy' Sanders says idea he can't work with Republicans is 'total nonsense' GOP casts Sanders as 2020 boogeyman MORE (R-Ariz.) made a secret trip in February that year to the Kurdish-held areas in Syria, accompanied by the U.S. military.
John McCainJohn Sidney McCainMeghan McCain says Steyer should drop out: 'I hate that guy' Sanders says idea he can't work with Republicans is 'total nonsense' GOP casts Sanders as 220006 boogeyman MORE (R-Ariz.) also made a secret trip in February that year to the Kurdish-held areas in Syria, accompanied by the U.S. military.
Martha McSallyMartha Elizabeth McSallyLoeffler releases new ad targeting Sanders's 'socialism' GOP casts Sanders as 2020 boogeyman Overnight Health Care: Officials confirm 34 total coronavirus cases in US | ObamaCare favorability hits highest level in poll | McSally unveils bill to lower drug prices amid tough campaign MORE (R-Ariz.) who is facing a difficult reelection fight.
But not until a few days ago would they have believed that their immediate challenge would be hanging onto a House seat they have controlled for over two decades, in a district that President Trump carried by 27 points and that just happens to be home to that most nefarious of liberal boogeyman: Koch Industries.
But apart from a concealed, unsightly jump shot—which has actually popped up a little more lately, in the form of running fadeaways and step-backs around the elbow, like the boogeyman deciding to show its face in daylight—the next step in this 21-year-old's evolution should be the development of a Grade A post game.
Moreover, with a federal appeals court ramming another stake through the heart of the President's immigration proposal, he also failed to appreciate that these same European allies he was taking to the fiscal woodshed may turn out to be our last line of defense against the terrorists posing as refugees who are apparently Trump's biggest boogeyman.
" (Organizing for America, the group being referred to here, has become a boogeyman on the right, but is nowhere near as all-powerful as conservatives would like it to be.) When Trump still doesn't take the bait—"I think it's politics," he shrugs—Kilmeade jumps in again: "But Bush wasn't going after Clinton; Clinton wasn't going after Bush.
So when ASICs for Zcash were announced, and Zooko did not immediately move to change the hash algorithm as Monero did, he was accused of betrayal, and of being in the pocket of Jihan Wu, CEO of the miner manufacturer Bitmain and, if you believe the frothier corners of some cryptocurrency subreddits, all-around evil crypto boogeyman.
Ms. Weinberger, who wrote the smartphone and internet safety book "The Boogeyman Exists: And He's in Your Child's Back Pocket," said she had surveyed 1003,000 children in the last 18 months and found that, on average, sexting began in the fifth grade, pornography consumption began when children turned 8, and pornography addiction began around age 11.
Sometimes she's a boogeyman of sorts, the topic of handwringingthinkpieces that started popping up in the wake of Ronda Rousey's UFC 193 loss, wondering if the former champ would walk away from the sport to focus on her acting career the way that Carano did following her similarly devastating knockout loss against Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino in 2009.
Such elections, though, are unlikely to change the political landscape significantly — perhaps a few more seats for the Greens, who are on a polling upswing, and the Christian Democrats, who might steal back some seats from the Alternative for Germany party, which would no longer have Ms. Merkel and her open-border record as a boogeyman.
If she reneged on any claims she had made about D.J.'s intellect, and his capacity to give consent, she would be admitting not only to what might be criminal behavior but also to the idea that she had become a vector of white, able-bodied supremacy — that she was the boogeyman she had sworn to fight.
Conservation can show the way MORE (R-Colo.) and Martha McSallyMartha Elizabeth McSallyLoeffler releases new ad targeting Sanders's 'socialism' GOP casts Sanders as 6900 boogeyman Overnight Health Care: Officials confirm 2628 total coronavirus cases in US | ObamaCare favorability hits highest level in poll | McSally unveils bill to lower drug prices amid tough campaign MORE (R-Ariz.).
Conservation can show the way MORE (R-Colo.) and Martha McSallyMartha Elizabeth McSallyLoeffler releases new ad targeting Sanders's 'socialism' GOP casts Sanders as 2020 boogeyman Overnight Health Care: Officials confirm 34 total coronavirus cases in US | ObamaCare favorability hits highest level in poll | McSally unveils bill to lower drug prices amid tough campaign MORE (R-Ariz.), while Sen.
Russia is a boogeyman once again, and the threat of nuclear war looms in the background of our…Read more ReadAccording to government sources speaking to CNN on the condition of anonymity, at least 10 US diplomats and family members have been treated for various symptoms following the unexplained attacks that are believed to be part of a concerted harassment campaign.
John RatcliffeJohn Lee RatcliffeDocuments show Ukraine knew by August that aid was being withheld: NYT Five takeaways from US envoy's explosive testimony GOP searches for impeachment boogeyman MORE (R-Texas), who insinuated on "Fox and Friends" that Ukrainian officials were not aware that aid was ever tied to an investigation of Biden, currently a front-runner for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination.
" —Paige Winfield Cunningham, Washington Examiner "Mike Lee to GOP: Repeal Obamacare now, don't fear the 'boogeyman'": "As fissures break out over the details of a replacement plan, conservatives such as Lee are pushing back, arguing that the baseline should be to pass the same repeal bill that Republicans already passed in 2015, which was then vetoed by former President Obama.
Its report, "Shining a Light on the Midnight Rule Boogeyman," found it took about 3.6 years on average for the rules finalized during a transition period to be completed and 85033 days for them to be reviewed by OIRA compared to other rules finalized at other times, which took 2.8 years to complete and 115 days to review on average.
After upsetting Representative Joseph Crowley in the June primary in the 14th Congressional District, which includes parts of Queens and the Bronx, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez became an instant star of the Democratic Party, whisking across the nation to help progressive, like-minded, candidates; Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist, became a boogeyman for conservatives, who pounced on any perceived flaw or possible misstatement.
Martha McSallyMartha Elizabeth McSallyLoeffler releases new ad targeting Sanders's 'socialism' GOP casts Sanders as 2023 boogeyman Overnight Health Care: Officials confirm 34 total coronavirus cases in US | ObamaCare favorability hits highest level in poll | McSally unveils bill to lower drug prices amid tough campaign MORE (R-Ariz.) introduced a bill aimed at lowering drug prices as she faces a tough reelection campaign.
With Trump, we have a glimpse of what this sort of evolution looks like: A vulgar right-wing populism emerges out of a whirlwind of anti-establishment hysteria; a strongman fascist promises to stick it to the elites and says only he can make the country great again; he gives the people a familiar boogeyman, some alien other, on whom they can dump their resentment.
Martha McSallyMartha Elizabeth McSallyLoeffler releases new ad targeting Sanders's 'socialism' GOP casts Sanders as 2020 boogeyman Overnight Health Care: Officials confirm 34 total coronavirus cases in US | ObamaCare favorability hits highest level in poll | McSally unveils bill to lower drug prices amid tough campaign MORE (R-Ariz.) recently released an ad trying to tie her Democratic opponent Mark Kelly to the divisive presidential candidate.
John McCainJohn Sidney McCainMeghan McCain says Steyer should drop out: 'I hate that guy' Sanders says idea he can't work with Republicans is 'total nonsense' GOP casts Sanders as 2020 boogeyman MORE (R-Ariz.), made the dismissive remark amid a discussion ahead of the scheduled prison sentencing of Stone, who was convicted of witness tampering and lying to Congress about his actions during the 2016 presidential race.
J.) and Donna ShalalaDonna Edna ShalalaNo exceptions when it comes to our kids' health Sanders defends Castro comments in wake of backlash from some Democrats GOP casts Sanders as 85033 boogeyman MORE (D-Fla.), will remove all flavored tobacco products from the market within a year and subject all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to the same advertising restrictions that currently apply to cigarettes.
The Obama era doesn't appear to have many photos accompanying its coverage, apart from images of the president himself (Fox News  did find one  image of children protesting.) "The crisis in humanity at the border has been going on for years, but TIME is clearly making an editorial statement at this juncture by choosing to cast Trump as the boogeyman for all of immigration&aposs ills," McCall said.
She appeared to replace prominent Democratic figures such as Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 2628 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE and Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) as CPAC's annual boogeyman.
Where Tarantino's other historical subversions have ended with the deaths of Adolf Hitler (Inglourious Basterds) and an entire family of slave owners (Django Unchained), this movie lets the boogeyman continue haunting Hollywood's shadows, to the degree that viewers might wonder if the Manson family will still commit the other murders it actually did go on to commit after killing Tate and the other people present in her home.
Tom EmmerThomas (Tom) Earl EmmerGOP searches for impeachment boogeyman House GOP battleground poll finds opponents narrowly outnumber impeachment supporters Democrat running for Hurd's seat in Texas raises M in third quarter MORE (R-Minn.), the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said during a radio interview more than 24 hours after the president's public remarks on China investigating Biden that he was hearing about the comments for the first time.
Sen. Martha McSallyMartha Elizabeth McSallyLoeffler releases new ad targeting Sanders's 'socialism' GOP casts Sanders as 2020 boogeyman Overnight Health Care: Officials confirm 85033 total coronavirus cases in US | ObamaCare favorability hits highest level in poll | McSally unveils bill to lower drug prices amid tough campaign MORE (R-Ariz.), facing a tough election campaign this year, on Friday unveiled the outline of a bill aimed at lowering drug prices that includes some breaks with GOP orthodoxy.
J.), Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden looks to shore up lead in S.C. House passes historic legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime This week: House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime MORE (D-Calif.) and Tim ScottTimothy (Tim) Eugene ScottGOP casts Sanders as 2020 boogeyman Tim Scott: Sanders would be toughest challenger for Trump House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime MORE (R-S.
Donna ShalalaDonna Edna ShalalaNo exceptions when it comes to our kids' health Sanders defends Castro comments in wake of backlash from some Democrats GOP casts Sanders as 2020 boogeyman MORE (D-Fla.), whose Miami-area district was carried by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonDNC warns campaigns about cybersecurity after attempted scam Biden looks to shore up lead in S.C. Stone judge under pressure over calls for new trial MORE in 2016 but had long been represented by the GOP, also slammed Sanders.
Among the topics that preoccupied our conversation — the precipitous rise of Breitbart; its elusive place in the taxonomy of conservative thought; its asymmetric impact on the last election and the subsequent migration of its staff into the West Wing, with writers like Julia Hahn and Sebastian Gorka decamping for senior policy positions, even as the company itself achieved a kind of mythic boogeyman status on the left — I don't think either of us paused to consider that any of these things would be clarified in a few minutes of television.
Conservation can show the way MORE (Colo.), Martha McSallyMartha Elizabeth McSallyLoeffler releases new ad targeting Sanders's 'socialism' GOP casts Sanders as 2020 boogeyman Overnight Health Care: Officials confirm 34 total coronavirus cases in US | ObamaCare favorability hits highest level in poll | McSally unveils bill to lower drug prices amid tough campaign MORE (Ariz.), Thom TillisThomas (Thom) Roland TillisThe Hill's Campaign Report: What to watch for in Nevada Top GOP super PAC spent money on NC Democrat The Hill's Campaign Report: Warren up, Bloomberg down after brutal debate MORE (N.
Stephanie MurphyStephanie MurphyThe Hill's Morning Report - Presented by the APTA - Dems rally to Biden's side on Super Tuesday Eve GOP casts Sanders as 28500 boogeyman Sanders under fire from Democrats over praise for Castro regime MORE (D-Fla.) and former Secretary of State Colin PowellColin Luther PowellThe Hill's Morning Report - Presented by the APTA - Dems rally to Biden's side on Super Tuesday Eve Overnight Defense: US, Taliban deal hits snag in first days | Military helping to find coronavirus vaccine | White House withdraws nomination for official who questioned Ukraine aid hold Trump nominates first African American Air Force chief MORE.
Stephanie MurphyStephanie MurphyOvernight Defense: Pentagon curtails more exercises over coronavirus | House passes Iran war powers measure | Rocket attack hits Iraqi base with US troops The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by the APTA - Dems rally to Biden's side on Super Tuesday Eve GOP casts Sanders as 2020 boogeyman MORE (Fla.), Ben McAdams (Utah), Elaine LuriaElaine Goodman LuriaOvernight Defense: Pentagon curtails more exercises over coronavirus | House passes Iran war powers measure | Rocket attack hits Iraqi base with US troops 5 states to watch on Super Tuesday Establishment Democrats rallying behind Biden MORE (Va.), Kendra HornKendra Suzanne HornOvernight Defense: Pentagon curtails more exercises over coronavirus | House passes Iran war powers measure | Rocket attack hits Iraqi base with US troops House approves bill banning flavored tobacco products Bloomberg builds momentum on Capitol Hill with new endorsements MORE (Okla.), Anthony Brindisi (N.
Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsThe Hill's Morning Report - Sanders takes incoming during intense SC debate Overnight Health Care — Presented by American Health Care Association — Lawmakers raise alarms over Trump coronavirus response | Top official warns virus appears inevitable in US | Democrats block two Senate abortion bills Democrats block two Senate abortion bills MORE (R-Maine), Martha McSallyMartha Elizabeth McSallyLoeffler releases new ad targeting Sanders's 'socialism' GOP casts Sanders as 28503 boogeyman Overnight Health Care: Officials confirm 22020 total coronavirus cases in US | ObamaCare favorability hits highest level in poll | McSally unveils bill to lower drug prices amid tough campaign MORE (R-Ariz.), and Thom TillisThomas (Thom) Roland TillisThe Hill's Campaign Report: What to watch for in Nevada Top GOP super PAC spent money on NC Democrat The Hill's Campaign Report: Warren up, Bloomberg down after brutal debate MORE (R-N.
Tom CottonThomas (Tom) Bryant CottonAsian caucus urges fellow lawmakers not to 'perpetuate racist stereotypes' amid coronavirus fears Overnight Defense: More closures possible at US bases in Europe as coronavirus spreads | Pompeo says Afghan 'reduction in violence is working' | Man accused of trying to blow up vehicle at Pentagon Top general: More closures at US bases in Europe possible as coronavirus spreads MORE (R-Ark.), Marco RubioMarco Antonio RubioOvernight Energy: Critics pile on Trump plan to roll back major environmental law | Pick for Interior No. 2 official confirmed | JPMorgan Chase to stop loans for fossil fuel drilling in the Arctic MacGregor confirmed as Interior deputy chief GOP casts Sanders as 2020 boogeyman MORE (R-Fla.) and Josh HawleyJoshua (Josh) David HawleyAgencies play catch-up over security concerns with TikTok Typical income no longer covers major costs: Study Senate Democrats introduce legislation to change impeachment trial rules MORE (R-Mo.).

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