Why we, politicians, keep # $% and swear
In his speech to the main American military officials in Virginia earlier this week, the secretary of war Pete Hegseth said that the Trump administration is “made with this shit”.
He referred to the so-called “awakened culture” which, according to him, had infiltrated the army.
That a word of curse be used so intentionally and publicly by such a senior political figure is something that would have seemed out of words not so long ago.
But such a colorful language among us, politicians, especially during Trump administrations, seems more common.
Trump himself, who may have attenuated his public curse since entering the presidential race a decade ago, can still let some explanatives fly. Indeed, he marked political history in June when he became the first president to drop a public bomb during the expression of frustration in the face of the Israel / Iran conflict.
The two countries “have been fighting for so long and so hard that they don’t know what they are doing,” Trump told journalists.
US President Donald Trump, speaking on Tuesday when he was leaving for a NATO meeting, expressed his dissatisfaction at the same time in Israel and Iran: “We have essentially two countries that have fought for so long and so hard that they do not know what they are doing.”
The vice-president, JD Vance, also did not hesitate to cursed, although a large part seems relegated to social media. Last month, Vance referred to the former Obama assistant who became the popular podcaster Jon Favreau as a “Dipshit” concerning his comments on the shooting in an immigration detention center.
The current administration “is more comfortable, perhaps to be more conflictual and therefore to use a language which would be considered more conflictual and more problematic than perhaps other politicians,” said Roger Kreuz, professor of psychology specializing in linguistics at the University of Memphis.
But the Democrats are not in a subsidence of the Department of the Mouth and, as some recent titles have observed, seem to make a conscious effort to show that they can curse with the best of them.
Questioned in August by the popular prospect of Newsletter Parnas on Trump’s control over the DC police, the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, replied: “No F-King”.
In April, a certain number of democratic hopes ran on a promise of “und – K our country” and that the party “would abandon the apology and cultivate the spine of King”.
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Senator Adam Schiff said in March on Jimmy Kimmel Live! That Trump “can go himself”.
And last month, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand told an audience at New York University if she and her democratic colleagues “do not help people, we should go home.”
The American Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, said that the Trump administration was “made with this shit”, in a speech declaring the end of “awake” culture to complete the American military officials in a base of the Marine Corps in Quantico, in Virginia.
Michael Adams, provost English teacher at Indiana University Bloomington, whose books include In praise of blasphemy, cPolitical culture Ompares today to the George W. Bush administration. In 2004, it was a great political incident when the vice-president Dick Cheney was taken at the microphone saying to Senator Patrick Leahy: “Go ahead.”
Although Cheney never disowned the commentary and later declared that it was one of his most proud moments, he was not served in public consumption either.
At the time, “everyone swore, but almost everyone took care not to swear where they had been heard publicly,” said Adams.
But when the Trump campaign entered 2015 to 2016, all of this changed, because Trump did not care if the public heard him swear, said Adams.
And it becomes a problem for Democrats.
“They could see that this type of language was interpreted as a kind of desire not to follow the rules, because compliance with the rules brings you to the status quo,” said Adams, and at the time the voters wanted “a big change”.
With the two political teams who are now spitting explanators in public, the United States entered at a time when Blas National review.
“When politicians through the spectrum swear these days, it is not a shift on a hot but express, part of their brand,” he wrote. “They don’t curse because they have lost their composure. They curse because their social media team has run the figures.”
However, Andrew Bates, a former assistant to former American president Joe Biden, says that some of this CUSSing come from real frustration.
“The truth is that (politicians) are motivated by the same things as most people are – like the anger to see honest people who have refused to be fairly fair – and we must prove it by showing a fight,” he said Politico In March.
Caitlin Legacki, a veteran of the democratic campaign, also said Politico That the key to swear is not to do it or force it.
“If elected officials go to Cuss, they must mean it. If they are authentic for whom they are and how they feel, voters will probably agree with this and even refer to it,” she said.
“But if it is not authentic, there is nothing more worthy of cringing teeth.”
Until now, the blasphemy train does not seem to have rolled in the Canadian political landscape. Of course, the elected officials of Canada were from time to time surprised cursed, although most often it is not a planned public statement, but during a heated debate in the House of Commons.
Perhaps the most famous or the most infamous, was in 1971, when Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau rocked feathers after pretending to have abandoned a bombe f during a particularly rancid debate. He later insisted that he had used the word “Fuddle-Duddle”.
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Perhaps the recent thing from the closet to the public curse was the YouTube video of last year by the conservative leader Pierre Hairyvre. The video was entitled “I call BS” and criticized the Trudeau government regarding housing costs. (Only the initials were used, and the full word has never spoken.)
It is difficult to say that this political trend for swearing in the United States will go north. But it is doubtful that he leaves the American policy to soon.
“I’m not sure you can really stop this,” said Adams. “I do not think that the swears will generally disappear. If we accept that politicians will be part of the general culture, we will not be surprised when they swear.”
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