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For years, when forced to refer directly to the president, UD has privately used the formulation “Mr Fuckface.”

UD is a firm believer in not listening to, not using the name of, not acknowledging, evil-doers. She is totally on board with the famous Monty Python sketch in which we encounter, in a nice post-war British hotel, a curious group of German gentlemen, one of whom is “Mr Hilter.” You can very lightly manipulate the name and use that, but you must try very hard never again to use the name itself, and you must contort yourself in all sorts of ways (turn off the radio, as I just did, when a comment by Dead Cruz is forthcoming) to avoid granting actual ongoing empirical social existence to evil-doers. UD takes shunning way seriously.

Yet she has all this time kept the name Fuckface off this blog – rather surprising, you might say, given UD‘s … pahnshah for bad words. But since we’re now in a real fight with him and his fellow fascists (Round One at the Capitol goes to them) it’s time to get explicitly down and dirty. Fuckface it is.

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UD was just listening to an interview with Sen. Pat Toomey, who referred to Ff as “this person.” Brilliant. Family-friendly – unlike Fuckface – and profoundly contemptuous.

Brilliant. Like: Who is this person? Does anyone know who this person is? What this person is?

Margaret Soltan, January 8, 2021 10:54AM
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