"Own the libs" is no substitute for substantive policy
All of you, grow up. Seriously. Grow up. Stop acting like 4Chan torlls.
I know this is going to offend people, and I am probably wasting my time writing about this, but I am going to say it anyway. Is it really too much to ask to have a little professionalism at the White House? Let's put aside whether having a mixed martial arts event at the White House is a good idea or not. I want to focus on this:
"Michelle Obama is a man."
Does that really need to be yelled at the white House, about a former First Lady whose husband has been out of office for 9 years now? What exactly does this accomplish, other than trolling and taunting people? Does it lower tax rates? Does it cut spending? Does it protect unborn babies from abortion? Does it cut regulations? Does it help secure the border? Does it do anything at all other than "own the libs?"
Can you imagine President Reagan or President Bush sitting there smirking had something similar been yelled at an official White House event in 1986 or 2006? Can you imagine Mitt Romney smirking after that was broadcast to the entire world in 2014, had he been elected two years earlier?
I know, I know. The responses are obvious. I am a faggot. I am a cuck. I am clutching my pearls. I have Trump Derangement Syndrome. I am a hypocrite. Did I mention I am a faggot? Blah blah blah. I have heard it all before, literally thousands of times.
But there was a time in my lifetime when this kind of crude insult would not be publicly spoken at the White House on international TV. Behind closed doors, it certainly would have been. President Richard Nixon and President Lyndon Johnson were notoriously salty. But it is not something that would have been said publicly, before social media made politicians think they need to act like 4Chan trolls to connect with their voter base.
Would it really hurt President Trump to ask people to keep a lid on this kind of thing? Would it really be that terrible to keep the most crude insults on social media, and not on the White House lawn?
"But what about..." Yes, the open depravity celebrated by Democrats is indeed terrible. Having a topless woman show off her mastectomy scars and having a topless man show off his surgically constructed "breasts" was a terrible thing, a stain on President Biden, and a stain on the country's reputation. Filming hardcore pornography in the United States Senate was repulsive. Democrats should have more respect for the institution and more respect than the voters to allow this to go on. Even President Clinton had enough shame to try to hide his sexual dalliances with a White House intern instead of doing it publicly.
That does not justify shouting crude insults at the former First Lady. Whataboutism does expose hypocrisy, and people who defended garish public displays of sexual deviancy are showing their objection to the June 14 comments are based in partisanship, not principle. But two things can be true at once: The hypocrisy of some Democrats and Leftists is bad, and it is also bad to be openly shouting about the First Lady's genitals on an internationally broadcast event on the White House grounds.
All of this needs to stop. We need to have more respect for our institutions and traditions than both parties have shown. We need to have statesmen who take policy seriously, not 4Chan trolls who think the highest political achievement is making people on the other side angry. "If you are taking fire, you are over the target" is and has always been a stupid generalization when applied to responses to needless trolling and taunting. If someone walks up to you and slaps your mother across the face right in front of you, and you give him the beating he deserves for doing that, the slapper is not "over the target." He is just a jerk. Everyone needs to grow up.