I saw a red pickup truck on I35 yesterday with

[UpInArms]

A large window decal ...

It said

FUCK TRUMP
2020

And was a thing of great beauty ...

I wish I had been quick enough to take a picture ...

But, it made my day.

[FakeNoose]

1. Remember when people used to be shocked by that word?

It was considered trashy, vulgar or something to be censored?

Now we applaud it.

[whopis01]

3. Until you said "Now we applaud it" I thought the word

you were referring to was “Trump”.

You know - “trashy, vulgar or something to be censored?”

[North Shore Chicago]

16. lol

[Mr. Evil]

27. LMAO!

You just made my day.

[tavernier]

4. I guess I'm the last remaining who still thinks it's trashy

and vulgar. But mostly I think it’s boring. I really miss Colonel Potter of MASH fame... that man knew how to curse in a much more interesting way.

[Evolve Dammit]

5. Oh horsepucky!

[Mossfern]

10. You're not alone.

My therapist, when we started out, used it a few times and I was trying to figure out if that was a way she was gauging me.
She doesn't use it any more even though I never called her out on it.

[redstatebluegirl]

13. Nope not fond of it.

I am not a prude, and I can swear with the best of them, but I find that word and a couple of others that are popular these days as really vulgar.

[Delarage]

15. Same here

I can curse with the best of them, but only in certain company. Never public and I hate it when I here people casually cursing in public with people they don't know, including kids, around. But I totally love the sentiment of the sticker.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

45. Yes.

I also will not use any demeaning words referring to the vagina, or anything associated with it(d-bag), against men or women. I am completely sick of that as it's misogynistic.

People are using F as the all purpose verb, S as the all purpose noun, and F-ing as the all purpose adjective. I don't think they would speak that way if they understood that those are just placeholders that show a lack of thought. They need to be a lot more creative than that. I think people should use creative insults and foreign languages to cuss.

My parents were the parents of the boomers. They absolutely freaked out over the word "shit" when I was a kid. I never used those words and never heard them either, until I was grown. Now that I'm old, I agree with them that using those words shows a lack of imagination.

[Blue_true]

47. Dropping a well placed F-bomb is a thing of beauty and drives a message home.

The problem today is that it is over-used, often in ways that add nothing to the point that a person is making.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

52. I agree.

George Carlin explained why the words were bad in the famous Seven Dirty Words sketch. It was the subject of a Supreme Court case, FCC versus Pacifica, where a man was driving in his car in the afternoon, heard the sketch and sued Pacifica. The Supremes said it was not obscene because it was explaining why those words were bad. It led to the imposition of late night hours for adult oriented material.

When I was young (60s and 70s) the parental generation lost their minds over "shit" and it was unthinkable to say the other words. My parents would never use those words. They managed to express their frustrations well using bastard, bitch, son of a bitch, hell and goddamn and godforsaken. We didn't say "fuck off". That was unthinkable. We said "Go to hell". Got the idea across.

I once had to tell a young stand up comedian, "Shit and fuck are NOT funny. You can't say those words just to get a laugh. You have to have actual meat to your material that is funny." I have turned off Gotham Comedy more than once when guys just talk about gross sexual stuff that probably nobody wants to hear. It's not funny anyway.

In the meantime, I think people should resurrect archaic insults and use foreign languages.
Blackguard! Whoremonger! Trollop! Strumpet! Figlio da putana! Heilege-fliegende-kinder-scheisse!! (I made up that last one myself and I don't even speak German.)

[A HERETIC I AM]

17. MONKEY MUFFINS!

[tavernier]

18. Pig Feathers!

There is a whole page online full of Potterisms, but it won’t link. Fun read.

[Marcuse]

20. Tuck Frumpf!

[aggiesal]

24. I'm with you on this one ...

I don't like it being used as a noun or an adjective.
It's a verb and I don't like it being used as verb, especially in public and around kids.

Going to ball games, I hear fans using it all the time. I'd stand up and just tell them
"There are kids around". They know what I'm saying.

My daughter used it in a conversation we had recently and I jumped down her throat for using it.
She's 22 years old. I told her, I can't stop you from using it, but don't use it around me.
And if you're using it around me, you're using it more when I'm not around.

It's use is unprofessional, no matter what the circumstances.
If the act of having sex is personal and private, then the noun describing that act should be personal and private.

That's how I feel.

[tavernier]

26. Are you my twin from another mother?

[FakeNoose]

28. I'm going to agree with you on this

Public use of the word - like a sign on one's vehicle - is unprofessional without a doubt.

How we use these words in private with close friends is one thing. But displaying it right out in public is still an affront. I guess I'm an old-fashion girl.

[Aristus]

29. There's a story of a writer who felt very uncomfortable with the word.

He tried to include it in his writings, to lend authenticity to the way people actually speak in real life. But he had a hard time even typing out the word.

One day, he rolled a fresh sheet of paper into his typewriter (this was a few decades ago) and wrote it out, filling the whole page, no spaces in-between each four-letter sequence, top to bottom.

When he was done, the word had lost its power. He had demystified it.

[tavernier]

31. The word doesn't mystify me

What mystifies me is that there are people out there that don’t seem to know how to communicate with any other words. I once heard a guy at the beach close to us speaking to a friend, and his story made absolutely no sense because every other word was f f f f f f f. And pretty soon he just stopped and stared straight ahead as if even he had forgotten the point of his story. So yeah, his brain was thoroughly demystified.

[grantcart]

30. It's the last recourse for a weak mind

Also it weakens the word when you need it.

If every other Tom Dick and Harry deserve the epitaph then what do we use for Hitler.

[lame54]

36. This is a big fucking deal...

Joe Biden caught on hot mic whispering to President Obama regarding the signing of the ACA into law

The list of important intelligent men using the F word is very very long

[grantcart]

41. You missed the point. The ACA was a big fucking deal and worthy of a big word.

But now that it's use has become commonplace for every kind of fucking deal it has lost its power and is now just a watered down garnish.

[lame54]

42. What does that have to do with...

Weak minds?
Which was your premise

[SWBTATTReg]

43. I agree with you, accusing anyone of using this word and others (that are supposedly inappropriate)

means that someone has a 'weak mind'? How insulting.

First of all, judge not, least you be judged.

I also would say that those that rise too rapidly to negatively describe others as 'weak minded' in using such 'inappropriate' words have no right to judge others, none what-so-ever, and it grieves me to hear of such attempts to silence people, on DU, who may not have the education that some of us may been lucky to have (the MBAs, the multiple degrees, etc.).

IMHO, it's far more important to me to hear someone's opinion other than how they spell or say something (the opinion is far more important than the delivery mechanism). Most people get the point that the person is attempting to make, and that's the critical, most important point.

[a la izquierda]

50. Thank you.

I’ll take my 3 degrees and soon to be law degree and hide here in the back with the rest of the crass, working class folks among whom I grew up, most of whom are highly intelligent. Pearl clutching over a word. Fucks sake. 🙄

[SWBTATTReg]

51. Amen!

[IronLionZion]

19. Impeach the mother.....

Lots of GOP were clutching their pearls when Congresswoman Tlaib said that at an event with her supporters.

[Crunchy Frog]

48. And yet when Dick Cheney directed it at Patrick Leahy...

not so much.

[Historic NY]

21. Trump !!

yesh I do.

[aggiesal]

23. Not everyone! n/t

[Crunchy Frog]

46. I remember how shocked I was the first time I heard an "old" person use it.

I then had to wrap my head around the fact that "old" people of that time were quite a bit younger than the old people when I was growing up.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

2. Fuck Trump 2020

Please - VOTE - VOTE - VOTE

Why are the polls not showing 80% Biden?

[jayschool2013]

6. Minneapolis? Des Moines? KC?

Just curious.

[UpInArms]

7. North of Kansas City

Probably near Cameron ...

Very very republican area ...

Was glorious

[jayschool2013]

8. Excellent.

Thanks.

[MineralMan]

9. My Red 1996 Ford Ranger Has a "Veterans for Biden" sticker

on its tailgate. So far, that has gotten my extended cab side window shattered by a BB gun. Fortunately, all of the irregular chunks of glass stayed in place, so I carefully taped over the entire window with 3M clear, heavy-duty packaging tape. Take that right wing BB gunner! I never looked out that window, anyhow, so who cares. But, I don't park on the street any longer. Pickup is in the driveway up by the garage.

[roamer65]

22. I figured it was ur red truck.

[murielm99]

11. We have a red pickup, too.

The back windows have stickers for JB, Tammy Duckworth and Susanna Mendoza, all Illinois Democrats.

No one has messed with us.

[cannabis_flower]

12. What state was that in?

I-35 runs from Texas to Minnesota.

[UpInArms]

32. Missouri

northwest corner - very republican country

[keithbvadu2]

14. Trump and his evangelicals bumper sticker

Trump and his evangelicals bumper sticker

Pro?

[ProfessorGAC]

40. I've Seen That Sign

Not with the photo, but the FYF slogan. Idiot white trash in a house at the fringes of the township.
In his front yard, 4'x6' sign that says that.
When Trump loses, I'm sending home a note: "No! Fuck YOUR Feeling ngs!"

[CaptainTruth]

25. Great! I'm in a red area with a few Trump lawn signs & flags, but...

...I've also recently seen 2 "Veterans Against Trump" stickers, a huge Biden banner, & a sign that says "Donald Trump Make America Great Again - RESIGN"

[iscooterliberally]

33. Please don't fuck Trump. No one should have ever done that.

Now there are more of them. The world could have done without ever having any of them.

[Gothmog]

34. The local sheriff/candidate for TX CD 22 tried to arrest lady with this window sticker

Troy Nehls is a major league racist asshole who is the GOP nominee for TX CD 22 and is running against Sri Preston Kulkarni. Nehls is a small person who tried to arrest a lady with this window sticker

Link to tweet

[homegirl]

35. Cetainly not my habit

when in the company of others. These days comes in handy when I am upset (highly) with Trump/GOP statements and news coverage.

Then I let loose in three languages and one dialect. Strictly in private.

[Grokenstein]

37. That reminds me, I saw my first personally-witnessed Ken yesterday

Guy picking up family in front of the airport terminal. Apparently someone told him to put on a mask; he was yelling about how he was "outside so it don't matter, it's stupid to wear a mask anyways." He was dressed like Junior Samples and quickly scrambling into his enormous black pickup (AKA "The Overcompensator," AKA "My BBC, And I Don't Mean The British TV Network," AKA "Why Is Gas Prices So Got-Damn High" AKA "I'm Batman" ).

[lunatica]

38. It's become so common that it's lost it's charm

[dem in texas]

39. here's one that was in Dallas - West Oak Cliff

Was on Blue Ridge where it dead-ends at Cockrell Hill. Was painted over after a few weeks. Too bad.

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[Initech]

44. Amen to that!!!

[augyboston]

49. That's great

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Unfortunately, I've got a neighbor down the road who had a Trump-JFK, Jr. 2020 sign in his pick up truck's back window.

I did a bit of reading on this and the idiots who read QAnon, think that JFK Jr. never died and he's been hiding out in Pennsylvania for nearly 20 years and that he's a big Trump supporter.

WOW!