# Rashida Tlaib use profanity cals for trumps impeachment **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 4, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206 "2019-01-04T18:42:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206/121 "2019-01-07T10:53:30Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Naturally if you feel she should be replaced, you want Trump replaced as well for his profanity, right? There are very many reasons why Trump should be replaced but two wrongs don’t make a right. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206/122 "2019-01-07T11:37:44Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > There are very many reasons why Trump should be replaced but two wrongs don’t make a right. Apparently you’ve been whooshed. The poster does not literally think that Trump should be replaced due to his swearing alone. He is calling out the other poster for _not_ thinking Trump should be replaced without giving the same courtesy to Tlaib. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206/123 "2019-01-07T13:30:12Z")
> [@Ramira](#): > > It seems like an unnecessary gift for rhetoric to the opposition without gaining you anything but pleasing the hard core opposition. The “rhetoric of the opposition”? The response I’ve seen so far to the response is a big fat, “Are you fucking kidding me?” People are pissed - not that she swore, but _that this is considered an issue at all_. And really, it’s about time there was some real pushback on the media from the left, because this kind of petty bullshit is stupid and damaging, especially when you remove it from the concept of modern discourse. Meanwhile, what do we get out of it? Well, a democratic politician sounded subversive and revolutionary. She sounds like she’s saying what people have been wishing the democrats would say for ages. It’s charismatic, and I certainly support her more. It’s this kind of thing that pushes the overton window - not all the way to “impeach the motherfucker” (a perfectly valid and reasonable thing to say, mind you!), but away from “this is just business as normal” and the crushing centrist bias the mainstream media holds. > [@Mr\_Smashy](#): > > Seems kind of hypocritical to be critical of President Trump’s brash public discourse style if the Democrats aren’t going to curbstomp this freshman congressman for what she said. I mean, if you have no sense of scope, scale, or location, then sure, that might make any sense whatsoever. “Impeach the motherfucker” is a thoroughly reasonable sentiment spoken in a brash way. “Grab 'em by the pussy” is… _not_. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206/124 "2019-01-07T14:48:30Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Apparently you’ve been whooshed. The poster does not literally think that Trump should be replaced due to his swearing alone. He is calling out the other poster for _not_ thinking Trump should be replaced without giving the same courtesy to Tlaib. Quite possibly, but Trump is still despicable, deplorable \ and should not be POTUS. But that doesn’t mean that Tlaib should be given a pass. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206/125 "2019-01-07T14:57:18Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Quite possibly, but Trump is still despicable, deplorable \ and should not be POTUS. But that doesn’t mean that Tlaib should be given a pass. For which? For using the word “motherfucker” in public? People swear, fercryinoutloud. Or for saying that they were going to impeach Trump? If the House doesn’t impeach Trump, it will be one hell of a dereliction of duty. Should she pretend that that isn’t the case? ---
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206/126 "2019-01-07T15:14:34Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > The “rhetoric of the opposition”? The opposition is the Republicans and reinforcing their own solidarity. > [@](#): > > The response I’ve seen so far to the response is a big fat, “Are you fucking kidding me?” People are pissed - not that she swore, but _that this is considered an issue at all_. yes among yourselves. That does not say very much. > [@](#): > > She sounds like she’s saying what people have been wishing the democrats would say for ages . what the Left active partisans have been wishing for. Reminds me of the rhetoric of the Tea Partist or the Trumpists and their saying they are finally saying what ‘the people’ want said… If you look only to your own group for the audience. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206/127 "2019-01-07T15:46:10Z")
I do like the meme: “The obscenity isn’t calling this President a motherfucker. The obscenity is calling this motherfucker the President.” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206/128 "2019-01-07T15:57:25Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Quite possibly, but Trump is still despicable, deplorable \ and should not be POTUS. But that doesn’t mean that Tlaib should be given a pass. No, it means that we have bigger fish to fry, and that this is just another in a long line of desperate “Look! Over _there!_” type stories. I find it rather precious that any Republican thinks they have the right to bring up the topic of proper decorum when their own President is a lying, cheating, womanizing bigot. I suggest the lot of you stay away from stones you have no right to throw. ---
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206/129 "2019-01-07T15:57:47Z")
[quote=“Rick\_Kitchen, post:111, topic:827206”] And? Have you ever heard the old white men who swear on the floor of the Congress? But it’s the brown woman, doing so in a bar in a private meeting, that is being criticized. [/QUOTE] Yeah, it’s fascinating how blatantly biased Republicans are on this kind of issue - old white guys say ‘fuck’ in formal communication, and they’re praised for not pandering to political correctness. Brown woman does it, and it’s terrible, and a breakdown of the country, and everyone should clutch their pearls and head for the fainting couch. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206/130 "2019-01-07T16:57:17Z")
> [@Ramira](#): > > It is about being clever not being self-satisfying. You should knit this as a sampler and send it to the GOP. They haven’t been getting this message for a couple of decades now. Your attempt at disguising pearl-clutching as intellectual discourse would be so much more interesting if it weren’t complete and utter bull cookies. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206/131 "2019-01-07T17:06:35Z")
Here’s the deal-If you want to see some shame, y’all have got to _show_ some shame first…and it damn well better be proportional. ---
**Author:** ![GottaBeMeh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/57b2e6/32.png) [@GottaBeMeh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GottaBeMeh)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206/132 "2019-01-07T17:14:58Z")
Love it, we need more tough bitches like her. I also love that that it no doubt chaps our Retard In Chief’s ass that she’s both a woman and a muslim. > [@Railer13](#): > > I agree 100%. We need more folks willing to speak their minds…and actually say what the majority of the country is thinking. > > After all, isn’t that why so many folks voted for Trump? Because he said publicly what they were thinking privately? More folks voted for Hillary. You can thank the Electoral College for the past 2 years’ shit show. ---
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206/133 "2019-01-07T18:04:27Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > You should knit this as a sampler and send it to the GOP. They haven’t been getting this message for a couple of decades now. > > Your attempt at disguising pearl-clutching as intellectual discourse would be so much more interesting if it weren’t complete and utter bull cookies. Disguising? Pearl clutching? Pearl-clutching means, apparently > [@](#): > > The phrase pearl clutching, which means being shocked by something once-salacious that should now be seen as commonplace, like sex, since I have not pretended to being shocked at all about the language, this does not even make sense. I am not even an american my dear. I just do not wish to see you people screw up yet again and have the world suffer from yet another four years of that stupid Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206/134 "2019-01-07T18:51:19Z")
This topic is a litmus test for maturity. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206/135 "2019-01-16T16:33:35Z")
> [@Mr\_Smashy](#): > > To Pelosi’s credit, she’s going to have a talk with the girl. :rolleyes: > [@U.S. Constitution](#): > > No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the _ **Age of twenty five Years** _, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. (Emphasis added.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rashida-tlaib-use-profanity-cals-for-trumps-impeachment/827206.md?page=6)