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Moostache

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4. I notice it more in terms of respect given than sexual identity..
Mon Aug 13, 2018, 04:43 PM
Aug 2018

Politicians (right and left) have a tendency to use on the Surname and omit the honorific title when referring to someone they disagree with or wish to paint as subservient...hence "Bush" instead of "President Bush" or "Obama" instead of "President Obama"...this goes back a long way in American politics, I know at least as far back as President Kennedy (Eisenhower and earlier are somewhat different in the fact that "Ike" was widely known first as "General Eisenhower" and "Ike" well before eve becoming President)...

In the current times though, I refuse to call the usurper in chief by anything remotely in the same zip code as respectful, so it is "trump" or "orange shit gibbon" until we elect the 46th President of the United States for me...

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