Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) was busted on leaked audio berating a male staff member with a barrage of profanity so vile even a sailor would cringe. Her constant F-bomb drops are not only disgraceful, but are prime examples of what a title looks like in the hands of someone drunk on power.
The following audio was obtained by Current Revolt and shines a light on the character of Jackson Lee, a candidate for mayor in Houston, Texas, and endorsed by twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton:
I’m not so naive as to believe that some folks don’t use the filthiest of foul language in their daily conversations with family and friends. I don’t. I find it disgusting and unattractive, but, again, I do realize some do, and it’s their prerogative to do so. The congresswoman appears to take advantage of that right often. How do I know? The F-word rolls too naturally off her tongue for it to be new to her or even a habit she just recently picked up. Again, it’s her choice to casually cuss.
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However, it’s hard to believe someone would use such language to communicate with a staff member, and when a member of Congress does so, it’s baffling on one hand but, on the other, highlights what people are made of. Some will say that power doesn’t turn people into something ugly; it just reveals the ugliness already there. That’s a thought that would make an interesting conversation. I don’t know what came first in this case—the chicken or the egg, so to speak—but I know that only someone who has bought into the lie that she is better than others, entitled to be catered to, and deserving of fealty speaks to someone else in such a demeaning manner. So whether humanity was lost somewhere in the process of what should be public service or was nonexistent to begin with, these endless years in elected office don’t help—the escorts, the chamber, the meals, the mic, the taxpayers’ money—have combined to gas up these people, who have come to believe they are to be served, rather than to serve. And, honestly, it’s appalling.
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We don’t hear Jackson Lee’s staffer saying anything once she started cussing him out, but what man is okay with a woman speaking to him like that? He had to be grinding his teeth and clenching his jaw, but he remained silent and took it—and she knew he would because he’s as drunk on her power as she is. He, too, has embraced the ridiculousness that she is somebody and, therefore, he has to eat whatever she dishes out.
I don’t know how that audio got into the hands of Current Revolt, but from their hands to our ears. Is it the end of the world? Does it sink her campaign for mayor? No and most likely no. But should it? Well, that’s for the people to decide. Folks have become so desensitized to tyrannical behavior they’ll accept anything. I say it’s one thing to accept some filthy language flying out of a person; it’s another thing to look the other way as the person who has been hired to serve others uses that language to degrade, demean, and dehumanize another under the delusion that she’s justified in doing so.
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