For those of you who haven’t noticed, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has a problem with impulse control. It’s not just that he lies awake at 3 a.m. vomiting vitriolic tweets about items the news cycle has moved on from.
It’s not just about the look on his advisers faces when they realize that no, he hasn’t been taking his meds, and no, he didn’t stay on the topic as agreed, and yes, he really did just say whatever disgusting and shitty thing it was that he just said.
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It’s like he’s picking insults out of bag, holding out for just one more letter ‘T’ so that he can spell out ‘titties’ and enjoy the spontaneous laughter and applause of all and sundry. Until such time, he contents himself by using only the very finest insults known to man.
Like calling a woman in a position of power a “bitch.”
No, really, it’s a classic.
The woman in question was former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. Back in 2006, the man who intends to lead the free world with all the grace of a frozen turd slowly defrosting on a dinner plate, described Rice as:
“A lovely woman, but I think she’s a bitch.”
More locker room talk I guess.
Except, this was no locker room. He was addressing an audience at a New York Expo.
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Trump’s mind exists in a state of quantum flux, a kind of juvenile uncertainty principle where women can be lovely and bitches at the same time. In Trump’s world, the confused jumble of thoughts that exist inside the minds of all human beings are released without pause of filter. The dirty thoughts, the mean thoughts, the private thoughts. We all have them.
But do we climb on stage and call a woman a bitch just for doing her job?
No. No we don’t.
Rice was a political figure and as such, she set herself up to be criticized, disagreed with and, at times, even ridiculed. Many people disagreed with her political stances and nobody need ever apologize for calling her out on those. That’s politics folks.
What’s not OK is the gender specific levels of criticism that female politicians have to contend with; insults about trouser suits and an obsession with hairstyles are bad enough. But words like “bitch,” “cougar,” “sweetheart,” and “MILF” have no place in political discourse. None.
Oh, and while we’re on the subject, don’t call women in professional settings “girls” either; they hate that, and they are right to do so.
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Not that Rice really needs those with a fundamental distaste for her political ideologies to leap to her defense. Just last month she wrote on her Facebook page:
“Enough! Donald Trump should not be President. He should withdraw.”
Adding:
“As a Republican, I hope to support someone who has the dignity and stature to run for the highest office in the greatest democracy on earth.”
I guess that means she’s voting for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. No?
Still, one thing was clear, she remains unfazed by Trump’s comments. In a email to CNN she simply replied:
“Exactly. Can’t wait until November 9!”
Finally, Something that Rice and liberals can agree on.
Watch Trump justify his comments in this video that begins with the word bitch:
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