Donald Trump's foul mouth is just a cover for his ignorance

The Washington Post ^ | February 8, 2016 | Michael Gerson

[EveningStar]

...In real life, expletives are often used as a form of aggression or cruelty. A co-worker who tells you to Trump yourself is usually being unpleasant. A co-worker who does this every day is often creating a hostile or demeaning work environment. Language suitable for decent company is a form of politeness, which is a species of respect, which is an expression of morality. And if I am the last holdout on this issue, so be it. I don't really give a damn.

Win or lose, Trump has brought the language and sensibilities of cable TV to presidential politics...

[maine-iac7]

You post: “ You really are politically naive, aren’t you? Everyone of the candidates in this race want MONEY and power, except Trump. He’s the only one not asking for money.”

Talk about naive.

Trump CRAVES, DEMANDS power.

No, he can’t be bought - with money.

But he can be bought with favors. Admits it himself.
He’d deal with the devil to get what he wanted.

His ‘art of the deal’ is pay for favors - in politics, that’s called quid pro quo. You know, how ObummeCare got pushed on s without ONE republican vote.

Do we need this kind of ‘dealing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiONmygWErQ

[maine-iac7]

It’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility that some of these posters are paid trolls.

Well, I suspicion that part of your post is true -

But I suspicion Trump if financing the bank of trolls -

[maine-iac7]

You post: “You vote for your Rinos! I will vote for Trump!”

Insinuating Cruz is also a RINO is either disingenuous, on your part, or ignorant.

“Cruz has a 100% lifetime rating from the ACU, a 97% rating from Conservative Review and a 100% rating from Heritage Action. “

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2015/12/01/the-conservative-case-for-ted-cruz-n2087162

[ETL]

Probably both, since it’s becoming increasingly clear that Trump and Putin are in cahoots in the scheme to restore Russia to a major superpower.

[BobL]

That doesn’t prove HE’S GAY. Not at all...

[Diamond]

I found it humorous that he needed to use a profanity to make his point that profanity is bad.

He was formerly a speech writer. I think he intended that line as a humorous, tongue-in-cheek punch line. Sort of like we see here on FR, damm you!

Cordially,

[stratboy]

And yet he’s does well. 2nd in Iowa is not too bad. Leading in NH, etc. I guess time will tell.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

LOL

[trebb]

Because politeness, and claiming one wouldn't say $&!t even with a mouthful, has gotten us so many victories.

GO TRUMP!

[cymbeline]

“Trump has brought the language and sensibilities of cable TV to presidential politics”

Well put!

[ETL]

Not that I necessarily disagree, but who are you quoting?

[sonofagun]

I feel that Trump thinking everyone else is stupid is a glaring red flag.

Our current President thinks just like Trump in that respect.

[odawg]

It is odd how people react to that; then they click on the TV during prime time and settle back and hear much worse and never utter a word of protest. And on TV, it is said in seriousness.

[Elsie]

Win or lose, Trump has brought the language and sensibilities of cable TV today's youth to presidential politics...

[Elsie]

I think oral sodomy in the oval office irretrievably lowered the bar in all public discourse for a lifetime Mr. Gerson.

Well; we HAD a chance to elect Mitt; but we BLEW it...

What is your church doing to help the male to stay true?

 

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"All of this should be conveyed without having priesthood leaders focus upon intimate matters which are a part of husband and wife relationships. Skillful interviewing and counseling can occur without discussion of clinical details by placing firm responsibility on individual members of the Church to put their lives in order before exercising the privilege of entering a house of the Lord. The First Presidency has interpreted oral sex as constituting an unnatural, impure, or unholy practice. If a person is engaged in a practice which troubles him enough to ask about it, he should discontinue it."
- Official Declaration of the First Presidency of the Church, January 5th, 1982

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"Prophets anciently and today condemn masturbation. It induces feelings of guilt and shame. It is detrimental to spirituality. It indicates slavery to the flesh, not that mastery of it and the growth toward godhood which is the object of our mortal life. Our modern prophet has indicated that no young man should be called on a mission who is not free from this practice. What is more, it too often leads to grievous sin, even to that sin against nature, homosexuality. For, done in private, it evolves often into mutual masturbation-practiced with another person of the same sex and thence into total homosexuality...."
- Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, Pages 77-79, 81-82

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"Among the most common sexual sins our young people commit are necking and petting. Not only do these improper relations often lead to fornication, [unwed] pregnancy, and abortions - all ugly sins - but in and of themselves they are pernicious evils, and it is often difficult for youth to distinguish where one ends and another begins. They awaken lust and stir evil thoughts and sex desires. They are but parts of the whole family of related sins and indiscretions. Almost like twins, 'petting' and fornication are alike."
- Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, page 65

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"Also far-reaching is the effect of the loss of chastity. Once given or taken or stolen it can never be regained. Even in a forced contact such as rape or incest, the injured one is greatly outraged. If she has not cooperated and contributed to the foul deed, she is of course in a more favorable position. There is no condemnation where there is no voluntary participation. It is better to die in defending one's virtue than to live having lost it without a struggle."
- Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, page 196

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"And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth." (Genesis 4:9-14.) That was true of murder. It is also true of illicit sex, which, of course, includes all petting, fornication, adultery, homosexual acts, and all other perversions. The Lord may say to offenders, as He did to Cain, "What hast thou done?" The children thus conceived make damning charges against you; the companions who have been frustrated and violated condemn you; the body that has been defiled cries out against you; the spirit which has been dwarfed convicts you. You will have difficulty throughout the ages in totally forgiving yourself."
-Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, "Love Versus Lust", BYU Speech January 5, 1965. Often-used quote still used today in LDS seminary classes.

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"I do not find in the Bible the modern terms "petting" nor "homosexuality," yet I found numerous scriptures which forbade such acts under by whatever names they might be called. I could not find the term "homosexuality," but I did find numerous places where the Lord condemned such a practice with such vigor that even the death penalty was assessed."
- Apostle Spencer W. Kimball, "Love Versus Lust", BYU Speech January 5, 1965

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"If adultery or fornication justified the death penalty in the old days, and still in Christ's day, is the sin any less today because the laws of the land do not assess the death penalty for it? Is the act less grievous? There must be a washing, a purging, a changing of attitudes, a correcting of appraisals, a strengthening toward self-mastery. There must be many prayers, and volumes of tears. There must be an inner conviction giving to the sin its full diabolical weight. There must be increased devotion and much thought and study. And this takes energy and time and often is accompanied with sore embarrassment, heavy deprivations and deep trials, even if indeed one is not excommunicated from the Church, losing all spiritual blessings."
-Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, Page 155

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"How like the mistletoe is immorality. The killer plant starts with a sticky sweet berry. Little indiscretions are the berries -- indiscretions like sex thoughts sex discussions, passionate kissing, pornography. The leaves and little twigs are masturbation and necking and such, growing with every exercise. The full-grown plant is petting and sex looseness. It confounds, frustrates, and destroys like the parasite if it is not cut out and destroyed, for, in time it robs the tree, bleeds its life, and leaves it barren and dry; and, strangely enough, the parasite dies with its host."
- Apostle Spencer W. Kimball, General Conference Address, April 1, 1967.

[PJBankard]

It isn’t a curse word as long as a Woman says it.

That's kind of sexist, isn't it?

[Elsie]

If you wouldnt use it in church...

1 Kings 16:11
And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.

Ezekiel 23:20
There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

[Elsie]

Vulgarity outside of a stag audience will not.

[Elsie]

You rang??

[Harpotoo]

They can’t get over that Trump speaks American!