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There are a few words I've heard since roughly the Nov 2024 election, and maybe prior, on several news networks, that are never clearly defined, and I can only approximate what they're supposed to mean.


wheel house

I've heard both conservative and liberal networks use this term, saying this issue is "a wheelhouse for the Democrats", or "a wheelhouse for the Republicans", or "a wheelhouse for Trump". And although never clearly defined, I interpret to mean an issue or incident that plays to their strengths, or gives that side the political advantage or high ground. But I have no idea what its origins or precise meaning is.
Possibly a slang term that emerged from baseball, and was applied to political players.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelhouse




Nepo-baby ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepo_baby )

One could just more precisely say nepotism (which originates from the corrupt practice of Italian political leaders over the least 200-300 years appointing their nephews to cushy high positions in the government they lead ( nepo being the Italian word for nephew) .

The example most in the news lately is the Democrat Marxist (euphemistically described as "Socialist") candidate for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani. He's 33 years old and yet has only worked about 3 years of his life, he is the son of wealthy parents, apparently his mother makes a ton of money making Hollywood movies. He is a failed rap musician, and lives in a multimilliondollar apartment in Manhattan that his mother provides for him. He wants to tax the rich to pay for everything, and yet he is the definition of the idle entitled rich who never earned it.
In an interview, Mamdani was asked about running for mayor, and he plainly said that he probably couldn't run for office if it wasn't for his wealthy family, that it costs a ton of money, and if his mayoral bid is not successful, that's okay because he won't have campaign debt and can just continue to live well off family money.

Mamdani has vocally said he wants as mayor to de-fund the police, and says that prisons serve no purpose and are obsolete. And yet he had TWO expensive weddings with the bride he just married, one in another country, and now a second ceremony in the last few days in Uganda, the last expensive celebration protected by 20 heavily armed private security guards. So armed protection and prisons for threatening people are apparently only obsolete if you're the middle class or poor, but rich Democrat / Marxists apparently NEED protection.

And in addition, when someone online posted about seeing a New York City police officer crying and grief-stricken in his police car, and concluded "LMAO", Mamdani gleefully exulted in that this police officer was grieving.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/29/...ni-aoc-chuck-schumer-kirsten-gillibrand/



Wikipedia lists its own nepo-baby examples, the ones that come to mind for me are Zohran Mamdani, and Hunter Biden.

And from before the term existed, George W Bush falls in this category (who someone wrote a book about during his presidency, titled Fortunate Son.)
But in both political families and Hollywood families, there are thousands of examples to choose from.