I honestly don't think they hear themselves say it. I had to chide a person on a bus coming home from a baseball game for throwing F bombs in front of little kids (four and five years old, maybe) on a bus; to his credit, he did admit he shouldn't have been doing that and stopped.

I was on a plane about a year ago, and two men were having a conversation about work and seriously, about every third word was "f**ker". I actually considered calling the stewardess, but I let it go and I still half regret it. It was excruciating to listen to them four feet away talking like that.

Now, I'm hardly against swearing and I've been known to use a lot of profanity myself, but in some situations, including work, I would not. Like it or not, for Representative Tlaib, she made that remark while she was essentially at work and yes, it's inappropriate to do it in public. Closed door meeting, maybe different, but c'mon! Try to hear what the rest of us hear when you throw that word around.

With a swedish model.

Mother fucker is fairly tame....

Apparently she was at a private event. The headline I read was misleading.

I still get tired of people throwing F Bombs all.day long in front of kids.

Rashida Tlaib is just speaking to the "forgotten Americans".

Trump's policies are hurting more than just children in cages, but that is beside the point. Entirely.

Just because kids were put in cages in various presidential administrations (including the current one and the previous one) is not relevant to whether or not it is appropriate for members of Congress to use that language in that context.

You can send me a PM so we don't clutter the thread if you want.

It is awful now and it was awful before.

No excuses for any administration which allowed this occur.

I seriously doubt the forgotten Americans are all sitting around waiting for someone to be "speaking to" them with profanity.

Why can't you folks who aren't offended by foul language understand the nuance of optics and leadership? We DON'T care if Tlaib says motherfucker ten times in a row to her peers behind closed doors. But in the public limelight, first thing, it would have been prudent to show some solid leadership and, oh I don't know, some imagination. I mean, is fuck, fucker, etc. all we got? Calling for impeachment would not have gotten the same attention had it been said without the profanity. As silly as that may be to YOU, it isn't to everyone. Why play into Trump's hands?

But whatever. This debate has already so beyond jumped the shark. Oh, wait, let me rephrase that so I too can sound like I'm a progressive rebel - the motherfucking shark!!!

But for some reason, they don't ask a lot of questions about tearing families apart, caging and torturing children, or children who are just so gosh-darned stubborn that they die while in custody in an attempt to embarrass the Emperor Trump.

discourse

Contrasts and comparisons are two wholly separate concepts. You did know that, yes?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211624611

As I posted elsewhere the press HAS to have two horses in this race. They have to stir this up to keep the right happy. The use “access” as an excuse.

She's in a different world than she was last week.

And, maybe the press DOES have an agenda - but that's a reality and she needs to adjust to it if she's not going to put her foot in it.

If I were in government or when I am talking face to face with people, I never swear. Online is a little different.

She has to realize that everytime she opens her mouth now, a camera or a microphone will be near, or there will be a person that runs to the Press with what she said.

Be tough, be thorough, but don't distract from that with poorly chosen speech.

shit-stirring.

publish an article you disagree with, is involved in RW nonsense. Why aren't you using your phone to call the quoted Democratic elected officials, demanding they retract their quotes, instead of complaining about a publication printing something you've decided is right-wing elephant dung?

I simply don't think this site's purpose is to be a news source nor a news aggregation site. It's purpose is to advance the Democratic agenda and I think repeating news coverage that works against that end is contrary to the site's purpose.

from the SOP in the LBN Forum, the Administrators

Most DU’ers feel the Hill traffics in DEMS IN DISARRAY narratives and structure their articles in ways to divide Democrats.

not my opinion. Don't like it? Feel free to add my name to your ignore list.

You just seemed to not understand why you are getting backlash in this thread.

ITMFA

https://www.impeachthemotherfuckeralready.com/

now this is what they are discussing on CNN!! really? a curseword?

WHO THE FUCK CARES?

what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

This is a big nothing, so of course the Hill and Politico are going to make it a “thing”

....purists--leave that hypocritical hyperbole to evangelical "christian" lying repubs. Today Speaker Pelosi, publicly stood by her colleague...lets do that shall we. Frankly, she is just iterating what many of us are thinking...get this mal [bad, sick evil] hombre out of our WH ; or as she aptly said "impeach the mother f....er" When I read her comment..it ended an already perfect day: Dems in charge of House, Speaker Pelosi at the helm, steller democratic leadership team..her comment was icing on the cake. [Note: of course with all due respect to Rep. Cummings...I usually agree with him--yet, not on this issue.

[Jan42019 ktla ccnwire] snip

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she “wouldn’t use” Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s salty comments about impeaching President Donald Trump, but she also downplayed the episode and noted it was “nothing worse than the President has said.”

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ktla.com/2019/01/04/pelosi-says-rep-rashida-tlaibs-impeachment-comment-is-nothing-worse-than-the-president-has-said/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwj_wbHgjtXfAhUM7p8KHSAcB9gQFjAIegQICBAB&usg=AOvVaw3mAKUWUfadL6avWc906CzX&cf=1

many said the language was "too strong" and shit like that. Nobody is "pushing back" all that hard.

She was very low key when speaking about it.

She said it wasn't a big deal.

She said she's not in the censorship business.

She said she had a "generational" reaction to it.

She said she wouldn't use the term, but understood (and respected) those who do.

She said that the words on the President have weight and affect people's lives. Rashida Tlaib's words did no such thing.


I heard no disarray and no controversy in the Democrat's LEADER comments.

But of course rags like The Hill gotta do what they do cuz its what they do when they do shit.