All Ass
When listening to an episode of the Due Dissidence YouTube channel, featuring duo Keaton Weiss and Russell Dobular, I observed the duo mocking United States (U.S.) President Donald Trump’s reported behavior relating to the complimenting of U.S. Senator Jon Husted’s ass.
While the word ass sometimes regards an offense way of referring to a stupid, stubborn, or detestable person (e.g., Trump is an ass), often compounded with a preceding adjective (e.g., Trump is a dumb-ass), it’s also an informal and impolite reference to a person’s buttocks.
To demonstrate the latter use of the term, on at least five different occasions, Trump apparently praised Husted’s buttocks. For example, Trump stated, “I looked at his [Husted’s] ass, and I’ve never done that with a man before. Off the record, women, yes, men, no, okay? By the way, I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before, [rapper] Nicki Minaj, right?”
This is the state of U.S. politics—a major world leader apparently making an ass of himself, according to Weiss and Dobular, by complimenting a man and a woman’s asses. Because I like ass, I haven’t healthily self-distressed or unhealthily self-disturbed with beliefs about this matter.
Instead, I’m reminded of the album, Culture (2017), by former hip hop trio Migos (rappers Offset, Quavo, and the late rapper Takeoff). The anthology contained the track “All Ass”, produced by Purps, and is precisely about what one may envision regarding its title: buttocks.
Additionally, I think of a psychoeducational lesson on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). Even if you don’t appreciate ass as much as I do, I invite you to consider my perspective, as it applies to the current state of U.S. politics.
Specifically, REBT uses unconditional acceptance (UA) to relieve self-induced suffering. This is accomplished through use of unconditional self-acceptance (USA), unconditional other-acceptance (UOA), and unconditional life-acceptance (ULA).
With my approach to REBT, I incorporate author Stephen Covey’s concepts regarding the circles of control, influence, and concern, as well as an area of no concern. UA maps onto the circle of control (USA), circle of influence (UOA), and circle of concern and area of no concern (ULA).
The circle of control encompasses only oneself, the circle of influence encapsulates elements which may be subject to one’s sway, the circle of concern engrosses most matters one can imagine, and the area of no concern relates to all content which isn’t yet imagined.
Regarding my circle of control and USA, I acknowledge that I’m a fallible human being who has control over how I react to Trump, Husted, Minaj, and so forth. Concerning my circle of influence and UOA, I admit that the aforementioned people are also flawed, though not asses.
Relating to my circle of concern and ULA, I recognize that matters outside of my control and influence—such as political outcomes—are merely a concern for me. Pertaining to my area of no concern, an imaginary realm in which ass doesn’t exist, I’m unbothered by such absurdity.
Given this point of view on UA, people who act like asses while commenting on asses – rather than addressing the genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and terrorism in which the U.S. has actively been involved during Trump’s administration – can be accepted unconditionally.
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