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Democrats embrace the f-bomb
The Hill ^ | 04/27/2025 | Julia Mueller

Posted on 04/27/2025 2:23:41 PM PDT by DFG

Democrats are embracing the f-bomb in congressional campaign messaging as they seek to tap into their party’s anger.

In recent weeks, a number of newly launched Democratic hopefuls for key House and Senate seats have pledged to “unf‑‑‑ our country” or have urged their party to “drop the excuses and grow a f‑‑‑ing spine.”

The ads are indicative of the rising temperature in American politics generally, but they also underscore the ways politicians are trying to resonate with base voters, many of whom have expressed frustration with Democratic leaders.

“I think that in the case of the Democratic candidates … the swearing reflects their sense of crisis,” said Michael Adams, a lexicography expert and author of the book “In Praise of Profanity.”

“There’s just a point at which the usual vocabulary will not be sufficiently expressive in the moment,” Adams said. “I suspect that this is a ‘no, I really mean it,’ type of emphasis … All of the niceties, all of the conventions, all that stuff — we have to put that aside because the situation in which we find ourselves is so dire politically, culturally and historically, that we just need to act.”

Democrat Nathan Sage last week launched his campaign by decrying that farmers have been “f‑‑‑ed over” and vowing to “kick corporate Republican [Sen.] Joni Ernsts’s a‑‑” in the midterms.

A spokesperson for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) hit back, arguing that Democrats “seem obsessed with saying ‘f‑‑‑ing’ and ‘a‑‑’ as the strategy to win back the voters that rejected them in 2024.” They pointed The Hill to examples of sitting congressional Democrats leaning on the language lately.

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To: DFG

Cursing used to show you a person was born as White Trash. Then the Hippies of the 1960s took over to make it popular. Then the new movie ratings (GMRX) in 1969. Now everyone in the movies uses the most vile language to communicate, and generations born since then must think it makes them “manish.”

No, they are still WHITE TRASH.


21 posted on 04/27/2025 3:50:44 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: GaltAdonis

I’ve already said it: “”Profanity is the tool of the inarticulate m****f****r.”


22 posted on 04/27/2025 3:52:53 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: DFG
Democratic hopefuls for key House and Senate seats have pledged to “unf‑‑‑ our country

That is precisely what President Trump is doing.

23 posted on 04/27/2025 3:59:29 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: DFG

F’n Democrats.


24 posted on 04/27/2025 4:03:30 PM PDT by yetidog
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To: DFG

When ayou have no reasonable argument, there’s always spluttering obscenities to fall back on.


25 posted on 04/27/2025 4:06:41 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: Jeff Chandler

For the democrat base, the f-word is a basic. check out their comments on X and facebook.


27 posted on 04/27/2025 4:10:21 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: DFG
"...we find ourselves is so dire politically, culturally and historically, that we just need to act.”

Getting the message out.

28 posted on 04/27/2025 4:36:00 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Democrats have already plummeted through the debased floor and are heading for whatever lies beneath that.


29 posted on 04/27/2025 4:36:26 PM PDT by Noumenon (You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. KTF)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Yep, since the election, they are a bunch of really p*ssed off MOFO’s, and they aren’t going to take it anymore!


30 posted on 04/27/2025 4:37:44 PM PDT by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: j.havenfarm

Some people seem to try to use the f-word in every sentence. Some multiple times.


31 posted on 04/27/2025 4:52:30 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: GaltAdonis

Some people seem to try to use the f-word in every sentence. Some multiple times.


You just sprinkle it over anything you say, and wham-o! You’ve got yourself a spicy sentence sandwich.


32 posted on 04/27/2025 4:55:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: kawhill

That’s right.


33 posted on 04/27/2025 5:24:27 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Az Joe

Indeed.


34 posted on 04/27/2025 5:27:55 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DFG

A brief foray over to DU demonstrates that all too clearly.

All they seem to know how to do is verbally crap all over everything since they can’t literally do it.


35 posted on 04/27/2025 5:42:06 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesu)
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To: DFG
I love it when Slotkin talks dirty to me.

Not really.

36 posted on 04/27/2025 5:58:36 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: DFG

I’ve watched some police body cam videos of traffic stops involving drunk drivers.

Generally, they’re somewhat civil.

Until the cuffs go on. Then their vocabulary deteriorates to a dozen or so choice words of which the f-bomb and variants thereof, play a major role. It’s like they’re trying to defile the LEO’s, who are often just laughing at them.


37 posted on 04/27/2025 6:02:45 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesu)
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To: DFG

It’s disgusting but not limited to Democraps.


38 posted on 04/27/2025 6:36:00 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: dfwgator

So fixing the damned roads only went so far, I guess.


39 posted on 04/27/2025 7:17:24 PM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan? (GO Red Wings)
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To: DFG

Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. (Luke 6:45) Profanity and vulgarity - which wanton use increasingly abounds today - is akin to passing gas in close company: while it can gain attention, it provides about the same positive enhancement. Why must one invoke the authority of God for one’s wanton speech, or allude to the bathroom or bedroom every few minutes? I have enough to deal with in my own heart.


40 posted on 04/28/2025 4:47:02 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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