Chewing the cud implies a halfway swallowing where food awaits a second trip to the mouth for further chewing before a second swallowing. The words of Kenyan politicians should be chewed twice before ingestion. Some politicians have a consistently toxic rhetoric and should be classified and labeled unfit for the public’s mental health.
Jesus undid injuries by words. He actually is described as The Word. The Creator spoke creation into being. Demons heard commands and they fled. Words are a conduit of power in the divine world. This relevance of words in the divine world should inform on their value in the earthly realm. Words do not only have speech value. They have spiritual value too. When people chant party slogans in stadiums repeatedly, they are not only moving lips, something is happening to their spirits too.