Andrew Yang said “asses” in Thursday’s debate. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Andrew Yang, the entrepreneur who didn’t wear a tie to the second Democratic debate Thursday night, wasn’t one of the most vocal candidates on the stage. But he was one of the most profane.

Russia, Yang said, is the biggest geopolitical threat to the United States. The Kremlin, he said, is “hacking our Democracy” and has been “laughing their asses off for the last couple of years.”

Andrew Yang "Russia has been laughing their asses off" pic.twitter.com/wvnSqlBw0a — gifdsports (@gifdsports) June 28, 2019

It’s not common for presidential candidates to use even slightly salty language on the debate stage. But we’ve seen plenty of it the past two nights. On Wednesday, former HUD secretary Julián Castro said “piss.” It’s one of George Carlin’s seven dirty words!

The viral image of a dead migrant man and his toddler taken over the weekend “should piss us all off,” Castro said.

Castro says the photo of two migrants who drowned in the Rio Grande “should piss us all off and spur us to action” #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/PumShlo6kH — TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) June 27, 2019

Bernie Sanders later got in on the act himself, declaring that on his first day in office he would “rescind every damn thing” Trump has done on the issue of immigration.

"On day 1 we take out our executive order pen and we rescind everything Donald Trump has done" @BernieSanders #DemDebate2 pic.twitter.com/sKjoACyP2V — People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) June 28, 2019

Four years ago, Sanders also said “damn” during the first 2016 Democratic primary debate, which, by the way, happened in October and only had five candidates onstage.

As the debate neared its end, Mayor Pete Buttigieg didn’t want to be left out. So he said “pissed.”

Buttigieg: "We have no idea which of our most important allies [Trump] will have pissed off worse between now and then." pic.twitter.com/9x0VuLMiRI — Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) June 28, 2019

Of course, we’ve seen Republican candidates get far more vulgar during debates, even if they didn’t resort to cursing.