i just spent a few minutes watching some clips on american mainstream media while i was eating some overbuilt nachos - cnn, abc and something called ms now that i take it is the same thing as msnbc - and it's like stumbling on a portal to a different dimension. clip after clip was made up of conservative, religious people that go to church, celebrate easter and don't swear. it felt like a time warp to 1955.

these people are so unused to interacting with particular language, are so sheltered from any kind of real existence, that they needed to come up with some pile of psychobabble bullshit to explain why donald trump, who is a grown ass old man, needed to use words they consider "bad". they are so out of touch that they needed to grapple with some reason a man might use words most normal people consider conversational or inflective. i listened to a half dozen of these pseudo-intellectual attempts to deconstruct the language, generally into some kind of pseudo-scientific freudian slop. i walked away from it somewhat startled. who the fuck watches this goddamned bullshit?

how many times do i swear on a daily basis? i'd say 50 times some days, 100 times other days. it's not like i'm a character in a tarantino film, although i wouldn't be surprised to find out that trump is. that would explain everything. it's just how normal people speak in the real world.

what i saw on these news shows in their analysts' reaction to an actual person use a normal word demonstrates with clarity why the democrats have such difficulty competing. their out of touch conservative mannerisms have no basis in contemporary reality.

do the polling for me.

my guess is that over 90% of americans will take no offense to the president swearing on twitter and will instead consider the democrats' reaction to be a threat to the president's right to free speech. democrats should not dwell on this. it's a trap. move on.