So, what’s with this new trend toward Democrat profanity? The peaceniks have finally found a bomb they want to drop, the one with an F. Every time they talk, it’s F-this and F-that. No surprise that when it comes to dropping bombs, they only want to drop them on us.
I guess their consultants are telling them that swearing demonstrates authenticity. Somehow, the more they swear like a sailor – back before the Navy got converted into a woke flotilla of genderqueer fatties under Obama/Biden – the more real they are. “Oh look, a senator spewed issued a profanity, vulgarity, and/or obscenity! We must immediately take them seriously! I mean, it must be a big deal if they’re going to break the norms by swearing!” But of course, like so many other norms, that norm has been blown all to Schiff.
Now, I’m not one of those people who reflexively hate swearing. I can swear up a storm but do it like a man, not a little femboy. I was in the infantry, where colorful language is de rigueur, though I had a very brave combat veteran colonel as my commander, who never swore. It was a little disconcerting to hear him refer to annoying people as “poopy heads” – I am absolutely serious – but the guy was a literal genius and a killer, so he got to say whatever he wanted however he wanted without me second-guessing him.
In contrast, that fat tub of mediocrity, Alexandr Vindman, now retired and no longer embarrassing the officer corps by wearing an Army uniform that fits him like a sausage casing, recently weighed in – figuratively, of course, because he apparently never did – about Kristi Noem when her bodyguards body slammed whoever Alex Padilla is. The leftist has-been’s pathetic fulminating on the Twitter Machine was, like pretty much his entire career, just ridiculous. Better he goes back to swallowing his anger – the only fear this guy ever inspired was in the manager of a Golden Corral when he walked in – than to start directing naughty words at a girl. “Take that, Kristi Noem – you’re not just a fascist! You’re a $@#&%@# fascist because your security won’t let some deranged screaming lunatic get close to you!” Hey, it’s not like a majority of the opposing political party thinks it’s A-OK to murder Republicans. And it’s not like any have tried. Oh, wait.
Regardless, who’s the person reading that who thinks, “Oh wow, he said, ‘$@#&%@# fascist’ instead of just ‘fascist.’ The ‘$@#&%@#’ put it over the top. I’m convinced!”
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It’s their consultants who tell these Democrats that if they proffer their profanity, they will sound more authentic. Of course, Democrat consultants are the same ones who suggested sending the Dylan Mulvaney of the DNC, David Hogge, Jabba the Dem, and Jazz Hands Walz out to convince men to identify with the Democrats. Their latest BS brainstorm just won’t work. It’s so obvious and so calculated that any residual shock value wears off, and it simply becomes tiresome. When you see some SSRI goblin trading her Chardonnay for swear words, it comes across as so transparently fake that you can’t help but laugh. It’s a tantrum, and all it demonstrates is impotence.
Dems have the worst consultants in the universe, and all seem to use the same one. This phenomenon began spontaneously a few months ago, seemingly out of the blue. Apparently, someone had this genius idea, and the memo was sent out. Before that, swearing was noticeable. If somebody swore, you paid attention because that was a gross violation of the norms. Now, every other tweet, speech, or sign includes something you’d get fined by the FCC for uttering on the air. It’s like their entire vocabulary has been reduced to George Carlin’s seven dirty words.
The message is that things right now are so unusual and so outside the bounds of the ordinary that no one can expect them to do the usual or stay inside the bounds of the ordinary. This is part and parcel of their entire approach to dealing with the populist conservative backlash against their grotesque mismanagement of not just our government but our whole culture. There is a Trump Exception to everything, and that includes decorum.
But the thing they don’t understand is that the norms that you bulldoze to obtain short-term advantage suddenly spring back once your current opponent has been vanquished. For one thing, the next opponent is going to be even worse – Donald Trump may be a “$@#&%@# fascist” in 2025, but we all know that JD Vance is going to be a “$@#&%@#$@#&%@# fascist” in 2028. And for another thing, as with every norm the Democrats have set fire to like a Los Angeles Waymo, they are establishing a New Rule that our side will start playing by. We’ve already seen it. Rep. Mike Lawler got into a shouting match with some Democrat idiot congressbot and dropped his own F-bomb when discussing it.
If this keeps up, everybody’s going to be swearing all the time, and then swearing won’t mean anything. Again, I’m not against swearing in the appropriate context, but the appropriate context is not every single context. If you look at my novels – and you should go pre-order my new one, American Apocalypse: The Second American Civil War – you will find that I rarely use profanity, obscenity, or vulgarity. It’s not because I’m afraid to speak those words; I constantly have to watch myself during broadcast appearances lest I let one fly. It’s because they tend to turn off a significant number of my readers. My folks don’t like to see them because gratuitous cursing offends them, and I’m the weird kind of author who likes people liking his books. I’m funny about that. Sure, a choice dirty word is sometimes the right word, but sometimes it's not, and that’s where we’re headed.
In the end, I think this stupid fad will fade away because it’s counterproductive. Sure, it may make Dems feel tough and believe they’re demonstrating authenticity, but that’s an illusion. People who dislike it will be offended, which will turn them off. People who are not offended will simply become tired of it. If everybody uses abnormal words, those abnormal words become normal, and then what? Where do you go from the F-bomb? The super F-bomb? In the military, you try to keep your reserves as long as possible because once you commit them, you’ve got nothing left. And that’s the problem for the Democrats. Other than a bunch of dirty words, they shout while pounding on the podium; they’ve got nothing else.
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