Thursday, August 13, 2020

Hurrible

Trump has described Harris' interrogation of Kavanaugh as "hurrible" and Harris as "nasty"

So what does the OED say about "nasty"?

"Of a person (also occasionally, a piece of writing): ill-tempered, spiteful, unkind (to someone), an unpleasant, contemptible, or cruel person.

"Morally corrupt; indecent, obscene, lewd".

What's interesting about Trump's word choice here is how well it fits him.

He is by all accounts (and there have been many) ill-tempered. His public conduct is frequently spiteful. He treats people who he perceives as not loyal or no longer loyal to him unkindly. And his rhetoric is manifestly cruel. Trying to have taxpayer money spent on his properties for his personal enrichment, bargaining military aid for political favors speak to his instinctively corrupt approach to everything he touches. His "relationship" with women, "grabbing them by the pussy", having sex a porn star (he's married by the way - three times already), all fit 'indecent, obscene, lewd'.

It's been noted before in this blog that this looks like projection. 

As for Harris' comportment, she has been firm but calm, never indulging in name-calling but staying laser focused on the facts and the case at hand.  That's not nasty; that's competence.

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