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Thread #132499 Message #4113459
Posted By: Donuel
15-Jul-21 - 04:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Subject: RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves
George HW Bush publicly used the words kick ass referring to what he would do to Saddam. His son relied on lawyers to make the courts determine his election instead of voters. Trump uses the f word and tried to overthrow Congress via violence to declare election victory. He put well placed loyalists in the Pentagon, FBI and CIA to improve his chances of a coup.
We carp about it now but even the Romans wrote letters of the downhill decorum in the quality of leadership. power corrupts etc.
The main difference between Hitler and Trump is that Hitler ordered mass murders of disloyal dissidents. Trump only instigated riots, assaults and kidnapping. He wanted officers to shoot demonstrators in the legs at the border and on our streets but there was resistence.
Today we are not all using the words treason, sedition and insurrection correctly.