I’m assuming that guy is akin to the Seal of Approval?
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For those “conservative” hand-wringers, let me remind the group that many “feminist” hand-wringers jumped on Wolf for remarks in her HBO special, Nice Lady.
Wolf is a glorious, snarky, equal-opportunity offender.
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On one hand I understand where Mika is coming from when she talks about Sarah Huckabee Sanders being humiliated on stage. I’ll admit that I could hardly stand to watch it. I tend to empathize a lot with people when I see them hurt, and when the camera went to Sanders it was painful for me.
The thing is, I can separate that from whether I think Wolf did anything wrong. As I often say, having the pain you’ve created mirrored back to you is not an unjust punishment. If Sanders didn’t know she was a liar, those words wouldn’t have stung the way they did (they would have been hurtful and confusing in a different way).
I wish that Sanders had some space to reflect on how it felt to be accurately described as a liar to her face in front of a room of people instead of by people on TV who are easy to dehumanize. Maybe that’s why the attack machine focused so much on that particular part of the routine. Unlike Trump himself, almost all the people around Trump can feel shame. Gotta replace that shame with indignation as quickly as possible or Sanders might re-evaluate whether she wants to keep doing the loathsome thing she does every day.
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I have a pretty strict no tolerance of “bad” language from my daughters (7 and 10), but I am straight with them I hope and tell them it’s because I don’t want them to be judged by their friends’ parents and barred from playing with them. I try to make it clear that I don’t actually care about taboo words but rather I care about being mean to people. And I somehow immediately stopped fucking cursing all the fucking time after my beloved blessed me with our daughters.
But I do really feel that the old Irish way of thinking about this makes sense to me. There were no “curse words” as such in Irish (no more than there were words for yes and no) but there was a whole grammatical tense for cursing, and blessing, people. This recognised that skilled people, poets (filedh) were those capable of roasting you to such an extent that boils would erupt on the recipients face.
This seems like the correct use of language to me.
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So my kids (17, 15, 10) have all heard plentybof curses at this stage from various sources. Rarely from me but certainly there have been times I’ve let something slip. My statement to each of them has been “words like that are adult language. And when you know how to use them in context as an adult you will be ready to use adult language”.
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Same here.
My kid has ridden public transit with me, including the subway; she’s already heard a ton of ‘coarse language’ just from our environment.
I’d be remiss as a parent if I tried to ensconce her in a bubble, ignoring the behavior of others as if it just doesn’t exist.
I’ve also told her I’m not at all unrealistic about her peer group; I know they will use profanity, and probably already do… but there’s a time and place for everything, never in a professional setting, and never where her ‘elders’ can overhear.
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Right wingers need their politicians to look strong.
Their leadership currently isn’t. But, they think that hitting back makes them look so; to not they think would make them weak.
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It was judged by the company it kept.
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Right said. And they had very little in the messenger’s message that they could credibly attack, so they found a little nugget, distorted that into the entire message, and attacked that instead. And they attacked her, of course, ad hominem being another of their tried n true diversionary tactics.
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WHY NOT BOTH 
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that’s brilliant, and I can’t argue taste!
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glad to hear you’re feeling it
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I think the delivery is part of her act and style. It works for me.
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She’s always like that. There was a deer-in-the-headlights vibe to her bits on The Daily Show.
They knew who they were hiring and what she was going to do. Or they should have.
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Ah, the giants…
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Not likely. She’s been all-in on Trump since she realized on the trail that her dad’s campaign was sunk. Gives him the same blind family loyalty she did Dad, too. She’ll sit in a bunker and poison her children before she gives up on that shit.
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Don’t forget the “Graham cracker crust of corruption”.
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