What an enshittified election season we’ve been living through in the U.S. of A.! I’m speaking here of language, of course: of Donald Trump’s “shit vice president” remark, in reference to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, covered in this space just a few days ago by Ben Yagoda (and which even the usually dainty New York Times printed without expurgation); of traded accusations of “bullshit” by TV host Anderson Cooper and radio host Charlamagne tha God on Cooper’s CNN show over the network’s lopsided reporting on Trump and Harris; and of “chickenshit” hurled at the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, whose billionaire owners separately broke with tradition and prevented their papers’ editorial boards from endorsing a presidential candidate.
But the shit compound that drew the most – and the most gleeful – coverage was uttered in an address given by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, at a rally in Madison, Wisconsin, on October 22. The word was dipshit, and it wasn’t about anyone on either ticket.
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