Yes, I’m talking about the point where Donald Trump gleefully repeats the woman who called Ted Cruz a p*ssy. And yes, I know that we all – and that includes Presidential candidates – know the word. But here’s the thing: there’s nothing brave or transgressive about that little routine. If Donald Trump wants to call Ted Cruz a p*ssy, he should come out and openly say so. But playing it out that way was just passive-aggressive, *I*-didn’t-say-that deniable dreck that I normally associate with progressive suckweasels.
Seriously, be PC or not PC as you please, but don’t coarsen the debate unless you’re prepared to own it. That was not owning it. That was faking it.
That’s what SHE said.
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(Odds of this joke working in non-verbal form? Low.)
Remember when Obama flipped off Hillary in a deniable way? Maybe the Donald just thinks this is the new normal for presidential.
‘s the corollary to Heinlein’s bit about an armed society.
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Or, if you prefer, when the State rather than the individual has the monopoly on how one must respond to a given offense, the ones giving offense have a much wider range of choices .. because the State is lazy and will rarely act.
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Mew