Why insults are a political issue

Knuckleheads seems a very good word for people doing something ill-advised that has almost certainly been done by other people in their positions who were lucky or clever enough not to get caught. Knucklehead is a term that seems to date back to the eighteen-nineties, but became popular in the nineteen-forties, when a cartoon character named R.

Knucklehead became a stock figure in Air Force training posters warning against dumb behavior that could cause accidents. Some Republicans returned fire with their own brand of gobbledygook.

Sluts Across America, like the marchers in the recent Slutwalk demonstrations, embrace the word and its spirit, minus the scabrous implications. Use this tool to compare the groups on some key topics and their demographics. Pew Research Center now uses as the last birth year for Millennials in our work.

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Like Trump, he knew how to combine military threat with personal insult. Indeed, gifts can be a good way to make a joke. The best humour can be unintended. Take Nikita Khrushchev. Even when they speak the same language. In this case the joke was on the ambassador, who resigned soon after.

More recently, in July Sir Kim Darroch, the British ambassador to Washington, was forced to resign after a series of his emails to the Foreign Office about the Trump administration were leaked. The emails were mostly unflattering, but the president may have enjoyed being compared somewhat humorously to the Terminator character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger — an indestructible being who can walk unharmed through the fire and chaos he creates.