Oh, of course. But the Republican voters who live in those states whose Republican officials have withdrawn their support will definitely hear about it. For the rest of us, it’s a handy summary and a reason to smile.
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Not cool. I get the joke but you just described my dad.
May I suggest something from Stephin Merritt? How about buried alive high on meth?
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‘Cunt’ in the US is a top-tier curse word alongside fuck, shit, and cock, I’d say. I only hear it as the ultimate derogatory insult for a woman here. Whereas when I was in Australia I definitely heard it used affectionally all the time. Aussies use insults the way Americans never do. “Oi, ya bastard fuckers, this here’s my mate Sam, he’s a good cunt, aren’t you, you bloody sod? Sizzle another sausage for him, will you?”
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There’s a great interview snippet with Hugh Grant, who briefly touched on what he saw as discrepancies in swearing between the U.S. and UK. Published well over a decade ago, so I can’t recall where I read it. The exchange went something like this:
Grant: Swearing is a very different thing here in the U.S.
Interviewer: How so? I mean, we do swear.
Grant: Yeah, you don’t swear. Like all the fucking time.
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Maybe there’s a handy synonym for “grab” that would make more sense in this context.
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What if one passes it on the left hand side?
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. Here’s what the OED has to say:
Can’t remember if this was posted on BB or elsewhere, but here’s a recent list of British swear words, ranked by the public in order of offensiveness:
I guess the British feel that “arse”, “bloody” and “bugger” are fine to say in front of kids.
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Butthole Surfers ruined the word for me years ago.
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I find it rather funny that bastard is considered only slightly less offensive than fuck.
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And ‘feck’ is fine for casual conversations, but ‘fuck’ is some serious swearing. Then again, I learned that from Father Ted.
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Do those even count as swear words?
Pretty sure I’ve said all the strongest ones in front of mine.
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OK, she looks decidedly odd photographed from that angle.
His hands aren’t big enough to grab a whole pussy.
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Three trophy wives?
Four grown kids?
♬F-i-i-i-i-ve g-o-o-o-lden tuu-u-u-rrds♬
Six bankruptcies
Seven seals of the apocalypse (seven _trump_ets?)
Eight lawsuits
Nine white folks
Ten-point plan
Eleven million people
Twelve-year-old campaigners
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I’m sure that your sentiment is reminiscent of that of many average Germans in 1929. I mean, it’s not like he could actually DO any of the things he says he’ll do; there’s the legislature that can’t do much of anything, there’s party politics that stagnates even the most obvious courses of action, and we are in a democracy, after all!
Until…he dissolves the legislature, with the blessing of the (bought and paid for) courts, and suppresses dissenters indirectly through a paramilitary arm of his violent supporters.
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Do you really think he could manage that, and the public would not-see it coming?
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Maybe they’re not doing them correctly.
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If he’s elected and puts a toady on the Supreme Court, he could, theoretically, do anything. Even if we see it coming, what are we going to do about it? Do you think it would be that hard for him to call on his supporters to form a paramilitary organization like the brownshirts to suppress opposition? Would the military act against him? Their legal Commander-in-Chief?
Please, please study the rise of the Nazis. A party with 37% of the popular vote seized control of the government when the rest of the government was too paralyzed to stop it. When the mainstream politicians finally caught on, Hitler dissolved the Reichstag. For years, it wasn’t the military or police who violently stomped out anyone who questioned the Nazis, it was the SA, an unofficial group that was formed when the National Socialists had a negligible representation in government.
The most effective early tactic they used was to get someone in power to do something small but objectionable, then make them double-down on it or be exposed. That was how they got somewhat decent people to become monsters - at least until they fought back (once it was too late) or committed suicide in shame.
It isn’t so much that the Nazi’s caught the German people by surprise. It was that they took small, plausible steps toward what the public thought was an implausible outcome.
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