The preceding sentence uses the word "scumbag" appropriately, meaning "low, vile or worthless person or group of people." You call someone "scum" when their behavior is utterly reprehensible, like President Bill Clinton having sex with an intern in the Oval Office, or pundit/lawyer Jeffrey Toobin masturbating during a live Zoom call with his colleagues at The New Yorker.
During last night's Republican Debate, demure ex-Governor, ex-U.N. Ambassador and current candidate for the presidency Nikki Haley hurled the word at fellow debater Vivek Ramaswamy when he mentioned her daughter. I was truly shocked.
It's not as if he called her daughter a slut or accused her of selling drugs to toddlers. He simply said that she uses TikTok, which was at the moment under discussion for being a dangerous Chinese surveillance tool. And for that Nikki spat out, "Leave my daughter out of your voice. You're just scum!" That's what I call a short fuse, maybe a bit too short for a president.
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