Well the gloves are off and it's about fucking time:

[ShazzieB]

78. I'm pretty sure it's been in the dictionary for a while, lol.

But I know what you mean about how it's being used more and more often these days, not just in casual conversation, but in situations where you wouldn't expect it to pop up.

Appropriate is a subjective term, imo. The way I look at it, words are just words. Humans make them up, humans determine what meanings to ascribe to them, and how much we react to them is also up to us, imo, at least to some extent.

That said, I do agree that the f word seems much more out of place in some contexts (like the president's tweets!) than others, and it can be jarring (even to me) to encounter it unexpectedly in some of those contexts.

At DU, where we're often discussing the latest horrible thing(s) Schlump has done, I often find myself resorting to the f word and its derivatives (f***ing, f***er/y, as f***, etc.) because it's gotten really hard to find other words that are strong enough to express how I'm feeling. I do have a much more extensive vocabulary, but there's nothing else that expresses the full extent of my loathing and contempt for that Orange Hellbeast tne way the f word does. I'm sorry if that offends anyone, but it seems to be something I almost can't help doing these days. I know some of my recent posts have been pretty liberally laced with it, but that is a reflection of how distraught I was when I made thise posts.

Unfortunately, Schlump has reached a stage in his dementia where he is losing his impulse control and his ability to filter his thoughts before they come out of his mouth. He's always been a vile, despicable person, but he used to be able to behave in a way that concealed his worst qualities, especially when speaking publicly. He can still do that sometimes, but those times are getting fewer and farther between and will eventually be nonexistent. I'm afraid we're going to see more and more posts that are laced with cuss words from him, more and more disjointed and nonsensical "speeches," and more and more incidents where he calls someone "Piggy" (or worse), until he loses his verbal communication abilities completely. I just hope he's out of office before he gets to that point, because it's not going to be pretty,