But this horrific incident made me think we’re in a slap culture, where journalists, pundits, and tweeters like nothing more than slapping someone. People of all political persuasions do this, many are addicted and are rewarded with clicks, retweets, notes and just attention.
These are not physical altercations, in rare cases, but you can almost hear the slap and the back slap. They inflict pain like a punch in the nose.
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Donald Trump is the classic puncher: he calls the warring parties idiots, morons, thugs and, to other people of my ilk, enemies of others, yet no president has been beaten so viciously, at least occasionally unfairly.
Joe Biden, on the other hand, looks like the old back puncher, but he has a temper. He called Fox’s Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch” and questioned whether CNN’s Kaitlan Collins would be in the news business.
As with any president, Biden is slapped, called confused, senile and worse. He also showed that he can give a big slap when he said vladimir Putin “cannot stay in power. “Unfortunately, the sting of this neutralized coup through the White House’s reaction of not talking about replacing the regime, and the president now says he only expresses his “outrage. “It’s kind of a national pastime. But there are other regulations when you are POTUS.
It’s only been a few days since Ginni Thomas was slapped by almost everyone for her wild text messages in the Trump White House about her attempt to cancel the election. the hounds and others headed to barges off Guantanamo to face the courts for treason. I was very critical of those crazy conspiracy theories, in all honesty, she didn’t intend for the messages to be made public.
But now the slaps have spread to her husband, with liberal demands for Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from the Jan. 6 instances after refusing to do so in some instances beyond. It’s fair game, but some Democrats, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, insist that the judiciary resign or be accused of “further delegitimizing SCOTUS. “
AOC is a champion slap in the face, as she responded to the complaint of appearing maskless with her guy in Florida by saying, “If Republicans are angry, they can’t date me, they can only say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend’s feet. “. There is rare fear. ” And the PARLIAMENTARIAN gets a slap from the right. A concrete example: Last fall, Rep. Paul Gosar released an animated video of him killing AOC, the latest retirement fantasy.
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Speaking of the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson was beaten quite unpublicly in her confirmation hearings when Republicans tried to paint her as a candy in child pornography.
But it’s a walk in the park compared to Brett Kavanaugh’s portrayal as a high school rapist based on allegations without direct evidence. Supreme Court applicants are now expected to be immediately questioned as admissions.
I can pass by: restaurants and department stores refuse to serve Sarah Huckabee Sanders because they worked for Trump. Liz Cheney’s censorship for standing up to Trump. La pillory of each and every “Karen” who acts badly. Jussie Smollett faking a MAGA hate crime to score a political point. And the daily denunciations that have turned so many other people into fighters on Twitter and Facebook.
In his Substack column, Matt Labash gives a perfectly apparent explanation of why media and social media driven by complaints: a market for them.
“Don’t yell at your McDonald’s drive-thru for serving you junk food. If you consume McDonald’s, that’s what you came for. “
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And if you consume data over cable and stick to online wars, he says, “you’re going to have a lot of other people fighting over throwing food at each other. . . And the reason you’re staring/reading is the same explanation of why you’re left browsing the drive-thru window of your Big Mac, the high-calorie, fat, and dopamine-soaked drip of it all. “
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That’s why, apparently, everyone on the planet opined on Will Smith’s slap: we’re exaggerating this kind of thing. But it is part of a cultural shift towards rhetorical blows that violate society. And Will still won his Oscar.