The politician was in the limelight from the moment the scandal became public.

For example, the !Kung* Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana have an explanation for the Milky Way, which at their latitude is often overhead. […] *The exclamation point is a click, made by touching the tongue against the inside of the incisors, and simultaneously pronouncing the K.

2011, Teresa Hill, Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep: African American Perspectives →ISBN

Replacement of the forces by other, natural forces seemed a logical step in this direction. Somehow the delusional forces had lost some power over her, as expressed in the following statement: I also thought they could befuck themselves.