Fokk Me!

Today, MSW criticized a new female member of Congress for calling Trump a Motherfucker. I disrespectfully disagreed, as below.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/new-members-congress-need-deploy-self-discipline

Any publicity is good publicity, especially for a back bencher, if they spell your name right. For Congresswoman Tlaib, that is hard to do without looking at it in the article. She is still a back bencher and spellcheck will recognize Tlaib but not Tlaib's.. Rep. Ocasio y Cortez is not doing much better, especially because people hyphenate her name rather than use the correct Spanish form, which I have done. The difference is Rep. Tlaib's fifteen minutes of fame have probably ended. Rep. Ocasio is just getting started, although she also has a long way to go.

Rep. Tlaib's  comments were not profane, just vulgar. (I still want to type Tailb and spellcheck still does not recognize it.) The word vulgar has the same root as vulgate, as in the Latin Vulgate Bible. It means the common tongue. People often say pardon my French when it is used, but the word is not a French word, it is German, derived from the word Fokken, which is to penetrate, although there is nothing penetrating about the mind of Trump. It is only vulgar in the english speaking world because of immigration and World War I. I will not validate the ban on these words because doing so would only abet such racism. I will use the german rather than dashes and see if it is flagged. If not, I will fokking sue Facebook for discrimination based on national origin. As for George's list, only four five and six can no longer be said on TV, and four and five are only bad because they are not Politically Correct as a slur against women and gays.

If Tlaib had called him a G_ddamn Motherfokker, she would have been using profanity, however she would still be inaccurate.  Trump is a Motherfokking Idiot with delusions of G_dhead. (note my treatment of the name of G_d). He is totally incompetent to do the job he ran for, so his party is full of enough motherfokking fools who nominated him. He was never a good negotiator, unless asking your father for money (who was also a motherfokking racist) or selling out your country to a crypto-commie bastard are considered making a good deal. Trump is also four and five, by the way.

If being well salted lets one be salty, then I must qualify to use the term motherfucker, since I have been around Washington for way too long, having first walked into the Capitol 35 years ago today as an intern.  As an intern, if I had used the term motherfucker, Senator Jepsen would have sent me home to Iowa, which has enough Germans to make use of the word Fokk a colloquialism. I am now an expert on tax policy and if I do not make comments on the Tax Policy Center web page, people would wonder where I was. In tax policy circles, I am considered a though leader and I would still not use vulgarity on their site (and if I don't clean this screed up on Facebook, I will get flagged. Indeed, MSW's article may be flagged for even mentioning the word.

Rep. Tlaib's only sin was using the term with the camera on. At least Senator Romney did not think he was being taped by a waiter when he talked about the 47% of non-taxpayers who would never vote for him - and he was right because he broke the 13th Commandment - Thou shalt not get caught. It was an open secret that the Clintons cuss like sailors, until the books Primary Colors and Game Change (I had to look this up, but that is likely a senior moment) outed them officially, but not on tape. This represented a lack of professional decorum, more on the part of the authors than the media. Nixon also used such vulgarity and he was no idiot, but still had the same delusions of G_dhead as Trump, although Trump is much worse and (to repeat myself) is an idiot.

I posted these comment on the NCR Facebook page an some Fokking Troll asked the stupid question "What does abortions do?" Probably a Russian Bot (note the bad grammar), but it gave me a chance to unload on him, as follows (and if Gene is a Russian Bot, his programmer was not even born when I started in the pro-life movement):

Gene, how does that fokking apply to the use of the work Fokk. In this context, which was having the right to call someone else a motherfokker, I first jumped into the pro-life movement in college and had devised a way for the Holy See to "adopt" all the unborn as Vatican citizens and then get Reagan to make an agreement recognizing that fact, thus allowing states to ban abortion. It was politely ignored with a letter from the Apostolic Delegate. 

I also wrote an unfortunate article in my college paper calling women who had abortions sociopaths. Lucking, I was in DC at the time as an aid to pro-lifer Roger Jepsen, so I avoided being castrated by female classmates. My next trick was having Congress interpret the 14th Amendment to give citizenship rights to the unborn as per Section 5 of the Amendment. This would actually work. Indeed, Justice Thomas tried a similar approach to use judicial authority delegated to the Court by the Civil Rights Act of 1875 *not a typo). Four Republican justices were not buying it (Roberts, Kennedy, Scalia and Alito). I was told that protecting the unborn would be a long slog to change hearts and minds. 

The pro-choicers seem to be winning that argument over time, as everyone who has ever gone to law school considers Roe to be settled law. I agree because Privacy is neither an eminassion or a penumbra. It is the bedrock behind the concept that there are some issues, particularly group class issues, where the moral minority (or majority) must leave individuals alone, thus prohibiting the tyranny of the majority against Latinos, Women, Gays and Catholics by the states. Strike one.

I have noticed that most of the action of the pro-life movement is in raising funds and volunteers for the Republican Party and its network of donors - with the only actions above that trying to look busy by getting actions before the Court, even though they have to know that Roe is not going anywhere. Strike Two.

When I was a doctoral student, I was reviewing films for a class I was leading a seminar in. It brought me to a Dateline special called "The Abortion Clinic." One of the doctors demonstrated why he does not like doing late term abortions, they showed one without being graphic, but felt he had to because the result in terms of female mortality would be unacceptable. He also made it clear that punishing doctors and not women would have the same effect. They also showed the result of a few first trimester abortions. No fetus to be found - they looked just like the results of a period - this is 90% of the cases. Strike Three, one out.

The reality is that any attempt to regulate first trimester abortions would require criminal investigation of not only perceived abortions but also miscarriages. Having been married and having to pick up the pieces after two miscarriages, the thought of that kind of power for the state sickens me. Pop (or pope) fly to center field. Two outs. 

I have a radio show online, although I do not do any shows (the meds are working). I have had more than a few discussions on the show and on Facebook about ending abortion by increasing the child tax credit to living wage levels ($1000 per child per month, distributed with pay - an idea I still support). Ardent pro-life Republicans would have none of it, even though Pope's Leo XIII and Pius XI say that is exactly what must be done to stop abortion. It turns out that pro-life Republicans don't want to subsidize the sexuality of families - so the pro-choice movement is correct - the movement really is about controlling the sexual activity of women. Strike Three - swinging! 

The inning is over, as is the game (and the inherent hellenistic misogyny infusing Catholic sexual teaching since the Church was given over to asexuals who think that their personal oddity is a sign of holiness gets the manager THROWN OUT. 

So, after my mental journey over thirty five years I have the chops to say, go away Troll - and I did not even have to call you an ignorant....well, I won't risk getting this post thrown out, even if I only use the German vulgarity rather than the English equivalent. I will use the term on my own blog, however.