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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany: 'Hey Karen. Watch Your Mouth.'
https://www.thedailybeast.com/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-to-white-house-press-secretary-kayleigh-mcenany-hey-karen-watch-your-mouth?ref=homeChicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany: Hey Karen. Watch Your Mouth.
Blake Montgomery
Updated Jul. 16, 2020 8:20PM ET /
Published Jul. 16, 2020 6:20PM ET
marble falls
(57,093 posts)babylonsister
(171,066 posts)marble falls
(57,093 posts)and in a week and a couple of days I'll be back to being the normal "Wreck of the Hesperus" that makes me me.
I'm waiting for Covid to clear so I can go to Goldbraith, Tex to leave flowers at the grave of the last of the "turkey processor boys" from that article you posted about Iowa a few years back. He died earlier this year and his life after was better, he actually ended up owning his own house in Waterloo, Iowa and came to Tex a year or so ago where he was from. He was surrounded by friends - his family being all gone.
For some reason the OP of yours really got to me. I was living in Iowa not more than 20miles or so from where he was enslaved while he was still being used and abused.
I moved to Texas before he was freed, and he moved to Texas after you posted your OP.
We're all connected somehow. More of us need to come to that understanding and act like it. Your OP is clear example of the real connection we all have.
Wawannabe
(5,661 posts)Feeling better?
marble falls
(57,093 posts)Never thought I'd be glad for that! 10 days of antibiotics and the headache, the abdominal pain, alternating chills and fever and sleeping all day will be gone!
catsudon
(839 posts)the proper usage of Karen, I approve.
Thekaspervote
(32,767 posts)Response to Thekaspervote (Reply #2)
PTWB This message was self-deleted by its author.
Nature Man
(869 posts)and has nothing to do with what you're trying to accomplish right now.
Cool stratagem bruh.
Celerity
(43,383 posts)spooky3
(34,455 posts)So other words would be better.
searching, I'm searching . . .
Gawd forbid someone should say something offensive about Chump on DU. What are people thinking?!!??!???!111
spooky3
(34,455 posts)Sociopath, greedy pig? You know, words that have nothing to do with someones race, sex, age, disability, etc.?
spooky3
(34,455 posts)Response to spooky3 (Reply #19)
Nature Man This message was self-deleted by its author.
spooky3
(34,455 posts)Later.
ornotna
(10,801 posts)It's not being used to insult all old people. Don't see the problem here.
marble falls
(57,093 posts)I think a lot of people use it because its as close to using the "r" word here as is allowed. At best its ageist.
Rules are not made out of exceptions.
ornotna
(10,801 posts)Not slang, an actual word in the English lexicon. It's not a number, it's use here refers specifically to tRump, I don't see it used here for anything else. It's not being used to slander the the entire elder population.
: a person in his or her dotage
Definition of dotage
: a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness
marble falls
(57,093 posts)dictionary, too, have been in it as long as has the ageist term - maybe longer.
ornotna
(10,801 posts)You equate the word dotard with the "c" and "n" words? Seriously?
Well okay then, I guess we're done here.
Hope you're feeling better soon. https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213763289
Celerity
(43,383 posts)A short history of dotard, the arcane insult Kim Jong Un used in his threat against Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/21/a-short-history-of-the-word-dotard-which-north-korea-called-trump/
Response to Celerity (Reply #13)
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oasis
(49,387 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)PatSeg
(47,450 posts)I'm seeing an awful lot of very impressive women mayors across the country. It actually makes me a bit hopeful.
marble falls
(57,093 posts)intentions understandable and principled.
Nature Man
(869 posts)just like Nazis.
wnylib
(21,466 posts)If it struts, shouts, and smells like a Nazi, it IS a Nazi.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,347 posts)institutions. What's past is prologue, for sure.
iluvtennis
(19,859 posts)Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)Works for me!