Posted on 01/21/2026 10:58:30 AM PST by V_TWIN
In a blow to liberals everywhere, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to bring back insane asylums and mental institutions.
President Donald Trump revealed that he had signed an Executive Order to bring back mental institutions and mental asylums, stressing the importance of getting 'people off the streets.'
During a press briefing on Tuesday, Trump highlighted the accomplishments of his administration.
'[I] Signed an executive order to bring back mental institutions and insane asylums,' Trump said. 'We're going to have to bring them back. Hate to build those suckers, but you've got to get the people off the streets.'
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If they actually bring back these institutions & they operate properly, then we’ll find out who the crazies are. It should maybe be publicized to satisfy a lot of confusion.
Though I am probably not very good at it, I love to write.
The sparingly and non pointed use of that “cuss word” was in a part of my writing where I am talking about a real world personal experience.
As such, making it sound like I’m speaking to the reader, using the vulgar, makes it more natural and real. IMHO.
Sometimes the use of a word like that, especially not expected from you, has a great “shock effect” when you want to push a point.
At some point you sound sterile and become ineffective if you try to be non offensive for everybody. Or you sound very stiff and unfunny, unpersonable (ironically the cuss words do the same thing, they are unpleasant, unfriendly, make one sound unapproachable).
Nasty, foul language, are entirely over used, everywhere, in music, movies, people talking... I don’t think I need to convince you that it makes people sound ignorant. But that word has already been cleared by the decency police in the movies, music, news media, social media...
Just like “ain’t” is a word today: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ain%27t
Facebook would allow the use of this “cuss word” as I used it, and they are also a community for 13 and up: https://www.facebook.com/ActionforChildren/posts/do-you-know-the-age-restrictions-on-the-apps-your-child-is-using-heres-a-guide/10157258501214757/
The “cuss word” $h.. has lost its significance as some word that can not be used in good company. For example, if your spouse is in the kitchen, burns their hands as they pull a pan from the oven, and yells out “the cuss word,” you do not need to divorce them.
Your social standing will not be impacted by this. No one is going to think that your spouse wears a grill, dew rag, or is full of classy tattoos all over their genitalia just because they said that word. Ask the priest what you need to do to be forgiven, but even in fine society it would be perfectly fine if that word slips out, even with “children” around.
I don’t give a darn what defense you make for it, or how you express yourself. It’s against the rules here to drop the s-bomb, the f-bomb, or any other cursing. I guess you think it’s ok if someone crosses our borders and stays here undocumented, because they eloquently explain they don’t need no stinkin’ rules. I’m not impressed by that, either.
The founder of this site asks users not to use cuss words. End of story.
Another EO requiring legislation and appropriation — that Trump will never get unless he focuses on the midterms rather than Greenland.
These are just social norms, and they change constantly, are perceptive, and not based on anything than some idea of decency (which is just group consensus).
Some words get deleted, others added. You better not refer to people with a low IQ as “retarded” today in public. Black people can only be referred to with the “N-word” by other black people (they have made that their own personal word, they should specify that in the dictionary), and so on...
The problem with your argument is that “$h..” is not really a “cuss word” anymore.
It has become mainstream acceptable.
You can adapt to the times, or you can lecture people about your idea of decency from 40 years ago and feel better / superior for it.
As to the Free Republic, they in general do a very good job at balancing free speech in terms of expressing ideas, and literary freedom (how these ideas are presented), with offensive language.
If you want to be a Don Quixote and be on some crusade to make the FR safe for 9-year-old Mormons reading about geo-politics, national security or economic policies, you can latch onto this guy, he’ll give you lots of things to be offended by and express your surely sincere concerns over: https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4363326/posts?page=34#34
P.S. If you go around saying “shoot, darn,” whatever, you may as well say the real thing since you’re expressing the exact same idea, the same meaning, only using some decent veiled language where you substitute a word. EVERYONE knows what you’re actually / really saying. This isn’t about some child’s innocence, it’s about you.
But I said enough about this.
Simply don’t read any of my posts in the future. Simple enough.
Here’s a better suggestion: Don’t post to me.
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