{"id":6874,"date":"2022-01-08T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/?p=6874"},"modified":"2022-01-08T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T08:54:09","slug":"should-we-call-lying-politicians-bureaucrats-scumbags-lets-break-down-the-word-scumbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/2022\/01\/08\/should-we-call-lying-politicians-bureaucrats-scumbags-lets-break-down-the-word-scumbag\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we call lying politicians &#038; bureaucrats Scumbags? Let\u2019s break down the word Scumbag."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>scum\u00b7bag \/\u02c8sk\u0259m\u02ccba\u0261\/ nounDEROGATORY\u2022INFORMAL noun: scumbag; plural noun: scumbags a <strong>contemptible or objectionable person.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scumbag sounds like a really bad thing to call a person. However have people even thought to look up what something means? You would find the term was created to describe exactly what it was intended to refer to. Lets take a closer look at the word Scumbag so we can begin to use it for that in which it was intended was to warn people, of crooks, cheats, liars, and so much more greasy activity comes with a Scumbag. Seems as if the only person that doesn\u2019t like the use of the word Scumbag is a Scumbag.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Contemptible &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6877\" src=\"https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/0AE586A9-8D25-4C8B-81AF-B81DF3515995-300x140.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/0AE586A9-8D25-4C8B-81AF-B81DF3515995-300x140.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/0AE586A9-8D25-4C8B-81AF-B81DF3515995-1024x479.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/0AE586A9-8D25-4C8B-81AF-B81DF3515995-768x359.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/0AE586A9-8D25-4C8B-81AF-B81DF3515995-1080x505.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/0AE586A9-8D25-4C8B-81AF-B81DF3515995.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>objectionable &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6878\" src=\"https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/F56738DA-CDC1-4251-B679-6C34E71C33B0-300x104.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/F56738DA-CDC1-4251-B679-6C34E71C33B0-300x104.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/F56738DA-CDC1-4251-B679-6C34E71C33B0-1024x356.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/F56738DA-CDC1-4251-B679-6C34E71C33B0-768x267.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/F56738DA-CDC1-4251-B679-6C34E71C33B0-1080x375.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/thedaily.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/F56738DA-CDC1-4251-B679-6C34E71C33B0.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You decide!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>scum\u00b7bag \/\u02c8sk\u0259m\u02ccba\u0261\/ nounDEROGATORY\u2022INFORMAL noun: scumbag; plural noun: scumbags a contemptible or objectionable person. Scumbag sounds like a really bad thing to call a person. However have people even thought to look up what something means? You would find the term was created to describe exactly what it was intended to refer to. Lets take a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,6,4,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid19","category-general-news","category-justintrudeau","category-lockdowns","category-vaccines","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<title>Should we call lying politicians &amp; bureaucrats Scumbags? 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