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On vulgarity - A patriotic 4th of July response to Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR) and the rest of the GOP [1]

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Date: 2025-07-04

(By way of introduction, Representative Steve Womack has represented Arkansas’s 3rd District since 2011. It includes Fayetteville (University of Arkansas), Walmart’s corporate headquarters in Bentonville, and the home of Tyson’s Foods in Springdale, and is the wealthiest district in Arkansas. Senator William Fulbright, who wound up establishing the internationally prestigious Fulbright Program / Fulbright Schiolarships, represented this district back in the day. Trump won the district by 25 points with 61% of the vote in 2024

He chairs the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and also sits on on the Approriations Defense and Financial Services and General Government Subcommittees.)

The other day , Rep. Steve Womack , who was presiding over the debate over Trump’s monstrous budget bill for part of the day, reprimanded Rep. Josh Riley (D-NY) for “vulgar speak” for having the termerity to blast Republicans for blasting the middle class. The money quote, I think — “Don’t tell me you give a shit about the middle class when all you are doing is shitting on the middle class.”

Here’s my response to Womack’s scolding::

Representative Womack,

I see that you were greatly offended by Representative Riley’s remarks on the floor the other day, accurately pointing out the staggering hypocrisy of you and your entire treasonous, morally bankrupt party toward the middle class. You boldly directed theNew York Congressman to “...avoid vulgar speak,” noting that “We do have families.”

While I have no doubt that your virgin ears were singed and tormented by the accurate use of the words “shit” and “shitty,” your standards of “vulgarity’ are, how shall I put this, fucked up.

The first definition of ‘vulgar,’ according to Merriam-Webster, is:

1.a lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste : COARSE lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste 1.b morally crude, undeveloped, or unregenerate : GROSS 1.c ostentatious or excessive in expenditure or display : PRETENTIOUS

I couldn’t help but notice that “morally crude, undeveloped, or unregenerate” was one of the most prominent of these definitions. Gross.

So it says an awful lot about you as a human being (none of it good) that you are so easily traumatized by a couple of “naughty words — and don’t give a damn about other vulgarities:

The fact that you see zero vulgarity — none — in cutting health care from 12-17 million people, and SNAP benefits for millions (including millions of children you supposedly care about) more. All to pay for tax cuts which primarily benefit people like white nationalist, Neo-nazi sympathizing Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires.

The fact that you don’t give a shit about the vulgarity of thousands of masked, anonymous, chickenshit unidentified ICE, HSI and other federal agency fascist thugs ripping families — remember, “we do have families” — apart, targeting noncriminals, violently kidnapping people off the streets dressed like they are invading Fallujah.

For the children you profess to care about, I could also highlight your lack of concern about exploding our national debt , or your contempt for any efforts to address climate change, and indeed embrace of policies which will exacerbate the crisis.

But I will close with your laughable lack of self-awareness and credibility on this topic in particular:

That fact that every day you ignore the vulgarity in the bigoted, cognitively failing traitor, convicted felon and walking vulgarian who you worship, and spinelessly serve. The scumbag is the walking definition of vulgar in both word and deed. In every single meaning of the word. Every fucking day. You know, just so we know exactly who I am talking about here, the bigoted, corrupt imbecile who attempted to overthrow an election and who undoubtedly has fantasized about fucking one of his own daughters.



So Rep. Womack, spare us all the lecture on vulgarity, you hypocritical and shitty, shitty human being.

On this 4th of July, I send you — and all of your Republican colleagues — a hearty, full-throated, and very patriotic FUCK YOU.

How very unbecoming of me.

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