Judy Bullockus is a useful lab rat.

The Capo Unified School Board member used the n-word in a meeting this week. We, Democrats of South Orange County, brought attention to it. Now it's off to the races ...

The campaign literature doesn’t lie.

In case you missed it, earlier this week Judy Bullockus, veteran member of the Capo Unified School Board and walking, talking billboard of moronity, dropped the n-word during a meeting.

Here’s the video, as a refresher …

And, like you, I was initially pretty shocked. Having grown up in the sticks of rural upstate New York, it certainly wasn’t the first time I heard an educator say something that offensive. Hell, I remember my eighth grade history teacher (where have you gone, Mr. McGee?) literally joking about the inability of Blacks to ski—as my best friend (one of three Black kids in the grade) sat silently and listened. But that was nearly 40 years ago. And not only was Judy Bullockus speaking in the lord’s year of 2025, but she was doing so into a microphone. At a meeting. In front of other humans.

It was bonkers.

But, if we’re being honest, it’s also not as stunning as one might thing. From go, Bullockus has made clear she’s 100-percent in on all things MAGA, all things Trump, all things dehumanizing and cruel and asshole-ish. Judy Bullockus comfortably slinging the n-word is about as surprising as Kid Rock dropping a Miller Lite can in your bushes, and if you don’t believe me, here are two Tweets from last year that she liked …

The one on the left is teen fondler Matt Gaetz, the one on the right is supporting the prosecution of Nancy Pelosi for having the audacity to confront the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. But that’s Judy Bullockus in a nutshell. She’s a woman who, in 2024, voted to ban the award-winning book “Two Degrees” because it fails to present the “other side” of climate change. She’s a woman who seems to think “diversity” is more offensive than the n-word. She’s a woman who seems to want the lord in schools and guns in schools and libraries to ban any books that offend, well, her. Or Jesus. Or her and Jesus.

So while her language was disgusting, it should not come as a surprise.

Judy Bullockus is who she says she is.

And that’s where we—the Democrats, liberals and sane conservatives of South Orange County—come in. Where we have to come in.

Throughout modern history, Republicans near and far have won the culture battle by jumping all over opposition misstatements and missteps—then amplifying them. They don’t just hear something, criticize it and move on. No. The grab onto it and pin it to the opposition. Then they repeat it and repeat it and repeat it some more.

Did you hear about Judy Bullockus? She used the n-word in a school board meeting.

Guess what Judy Bullockus did?

Hey, do you know Judy Bullockus?

In the aftermath of Bullockus’ grotesque comment, a meeting attendee sent me the video. I then wrote this Truth OC post about it and shared it via my BlueSky and Instagram accounts. Others posted it on their socials, and many of us forwarded it to editors and reporters we know at varied publications.

Within 24 hours, the Orange County Register published this, Voice of OC published this, Reddit had this and literally hundreds of thousands of people across America heard the n-word emerge from Judy Bullockus’ lips.

That’s how you spark something; how you get a movement going; how you expose a dolt who hides her ignorance behind a phony smile and dime-store piousness. You follow by asking more questions: Why did nary a single hard-right member of the Capo Unified School Board object to their running mate’s words? Why haven’t any of them uttered a statement of condemnation since? Are there other examples of Bullockus spewing such hateful speech? When? Where?

The next Capo Unified School Board meeting is April 23. If we’re smart, and have our act together, we’ll attend as one big army, with signs and prepared questions about her conduct.

Montell Jordan said it best.

This is how we do it.