Friendly reminder: word choice is always important.
Especially when you’re talking about the 2024 election.
Perhaps Uber Facts –– a website and social media account that shares daily random certitudes –– could use a reminder.
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But honestly, they probably knew exactly what they were doing when they posted, “Donald Trump is edging Joe Biden in the polls” earlier this week.
Yep! You read that correctly. And sorry for putting that image in your head!
While trying to describe the two politicians’ neck and neck race (which Newsweek also reported on this week), they used the word “edging.”
Also known as the slang term for “coming nearly close to climax or ejaculation, then purposefully stopping sexual stimulation in order to delay the same, so that the ultimate climax will be more intense,” according to Urban Dictionary. Not to be confused with “gooning.”
The post has been viewed 12.3 million times and counting.
So naturally, social media was not going to let them get away with such a flagrant display of covert horniness.
To be fair, this is hardly the first time the word has been used in the context of an election.
But it might be time to rethink our vocabularies, considering gays and straights have co-opted the term –– and even Medical News Today has an article on the “generally … safe practice.”
(That being said, we don’t know which is worse: Trump edging Biden or this 2000 pairing between Bush and Gore. Again, sorry for the mental image!)
Innuendos aside, the 2024 election is no laughing matter –– or mindless jerk sesh –– for the LGBTQ+ community.
As the frontrunner for the Republican ticket, Trump has been working overtime to cosign the conservatives’ fight against trans rights.
In a video posted on Truth Social (ew), Trump vowed to “stop” gender-affirming care for children if elected, intimating his ban would also extend to people of “any age.”
“The left-wing gender insanity being pushed at our children is an act of child abuse,” he said. “Very simple.”
Which is certainly a far cry from the man bragging his administration “did great with the gay population” back in 2022.
(We’ll also never forgive him for letting his daughter Tiffany speak to the gays on his behalf at this cringe-worthy 2020 event.)
On the other hand, the Biden-Harris administration recently reversed a Trump-era “License to Discriminate” rule, restoring “protections and requirements” for patients, regardless of a provider’s belief.
And in his 2023 State of the Union address, Biden voiced his support for trans and non-binary youth, as well as the need for Congress to pass the Equality Act “to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity.”
(@Congress, we’re still waiting! Where’s a shameless Taylor Swift Pride music video when you need it?!)
Nevertheless, according to Newsweek, “Biden narrowly beats Trump in two of the last six serious surveys,” while “Trump leads in three and one is tied.”
So, it’s looking like we’ve got a very tense, close, and emotionally-fraught election year ahead!
Forgive us if we have to laugh at some edging jokes now and then to stop ourselves from crying.
Check out more of the funniest reactions to Trump “edging” Biden below.
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT
— print("i hate for loops") 🇪🇸/🇷🇴 (@deadysu) March 5, 2024
ShaverC
What’s gonna happen if Trump wins? How many tears will be shed here?
Baron Wiseman
@ShaverC
Many, many tears of joy.
dbmcvey
What will happen? He’ll declare himself dictator, assassinate all his rivals, put anyone his MAGA conservatives don’t like in prison camps and stack the Supreme Court with anti-gay judges.
What will you do?
dbmcvey
Oh, but first he’ll pardon himself.
dbmcvey
And then, Shaver and Barren, they might pretend to be okay with you for awhile, but whatever they said to your faces they always felt you were, well, degenerates. Eventually they’ll deal with you, with say, a party. A night of long knives. Because no matter what, you’re not really one of them.
inbama
Putin and Xi will be thrilled as it will be the end of the American Era.
dbmcvey
Hell has frozen over. I agree with inbama, again.
abfab
Some songs say it quite splendidly.
Midas Man
Song by Renaissance, Annie Haslam
Gold – said the man to the many
I want money and I’ll make it grow
I will count my worth in gold – wealth untold
I’ll sell my soul – Midas Man
Sold – said the man to the many
Work for me, I’ll only steal your time
I will count my money out, there’s no doubt
I’ll sell my soul – Midas Man – Midas Man
I’ll take from the blind and I’ll get up ahead
I’ll sneak up behind and I’ll steal
I’ll take all that you have
And then all that you’ve concealed
I’ll take anything I can get – I’ll make you
I’ll break you and I’ll make you sweat
Nothing is worth nothing unless it’s
Made for Midas Man
Gold – said the man to the many
Pots of gold are all I want from you
Quarter time for treble days the only way
To sell your soul – Midas Man – Midas Man
I’ll take from the blind and I’ll get up ahead
I’ll sneak up behind and I’ll steal
I’ll take all that you have
And then all that you’ve concealed
I’ll take anything I can get – I’ll make you
I’ll break you and I’ll make you sweat
Nothing is worth nothing unless it’s
Made for Midas Man
Midas – Midas – Midas Man
Songwriters: Michael Dunford / Betty Thatcher
Ronbo
The big news is that the Biden’s person who triggered a coup against a democratically elected President in Ukraine, Victoria Nuland, was sacked.
They have Nuland on record (the phone) selecting actual Nazi party members to replace their elected President. Search out the Nuland-Pyatt call to see a coup in action.
Why did she trigger a coup? Their previous democratically elected President favored Russia a bit too much. Remember, all the people she endorsed (including avowed Nazis) were installed into government position. Yatseniuk, Klitsch, Tyahnybok have repugnant history.
Worst of all, Nuland stated that she could push this coup past Biden without question – she could roll Biden. And she did. Biden is not up to the job any longer if imperialists like Nuland can roll him so easily.
Ronbo
What? Since Victoria’s involvement in the coup was NOT widely reported on FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS or even the NY Times, it can’t be true… can it?
Most all this happened PRIOR to the Russian invasion of the Ukraine! Over $70,000,000,000 (that’s billion) of USA dollars have been subsequently spent on Nuland’s folly – just in Ukraine. Ukraine has been gutted; Russia appears stronger. Nuland’s State Department hand includes: Iraq, Cheney, Afghanistan, Syria and many other attempted coups.
Just as Fauci OWNS the Covid pandemic, his determined insistence into Covid gain of function research (that he pushed and approved) resulted in world-wide disaster, Nuland and Biden OWN the trillion dollar quagmire in the Ukraine. The Bucha false-flag incident was revealed to be Nuland’s CIA operation. Nuland has been failing since she was brought into the State Department under President Clinton and stayed far too long – she has a total and complete record of failure under Bush, Obama and Biden.
Check out Breaking Points, if you want your news uncensored. The devil is in the details – which the establishment seeks censored. It’s how “failing-up” occurs.
abfab
The Hudson Institute. The Steamboat Institute. Tony Blankley. The Daily Caller…and then out pops this kid, Saagar Enjeti (born April 21, 1992).
No thanks.