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Donald Trump's foul mouth is just a cover for his ignorance
The Washington Post ^ | February 8, 2016 | Michael Gerson

Posted on 02/08/2016 7:51:33 PM PST by 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...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conservativehero; disaster; foul; horribleterrible; michaelgerson; nastydisgusting; noclass; oped; realitytv; richgreatwhitehope; showbiz; tds; trump; walkingdisaster; whitekanye; whiteobama
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To: Red Steel

I meant that since most if not all of the first posters to this thread just happened to be big fans of KGB/FSB Putin (also Trump), that it looked like there might be some kind of coordination going on.


41 posted on 02/08/2016 8:18:34 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ETL

Trump would feel right at home on DU.


42 posted on 02/08/2016 8:19:07 PM PST by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: EveningStar

Yes, of course, unlike, let us say, “Give ‘em hell Harry.”


43 posted on 02/08/2016 8:19:26 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: ETL

“You Putinistas must ping each other privately before posting a thread.”

Have you tried cold compresses around your head? It might work for fevered imaginations.


44 posted on 02/08/2016 8:19:46 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Vote Tom Sawyer, because Sid is a sissy snitch and Tom gets the fences whitewashed.)
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To: EveningStar

Like Hillary calling people “Fu#$!g Jew Bastard?” if they hand her a bill for services she contracted for?


45 posted on 02/08/2016 8:19:48 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Red Steel

Julie Newmar as Cat Woman

The other Cat Woman wasn’t bad either, Eartha Kitt


46 posted on 02/08/2016 8:20:22 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Sooth2222

I was stating a fact based on personal experience. Being a left coasty, I find that northeasterners swear s great deal more and in their general speech, not just when mad.


47 posted on 02/08/2016 8:20:27 PM PST by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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To: EveningStar

Michael Gerson, an evangelical intelligentsia from the CFR..

Kiss my grits, oh ye of vaunted mental and moral superiority.


48 posted on 02/08/2016 8:21:07 PM PST by sockmonkey (Donald Trump will ban auto-correct with an Executive Order. Go Trump!)
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To: EveningStar

“In real life, expletives are often used as a form of aggression or cruelty.”
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That’s been my experience in life. Cussing is a bully’s weapon.


49 posted on 02/08/2016 8:21:46 PM PST by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: EveningStar
Cruz hesitated on his answer because I guess how something sounds or is deemed politically correct is more important than the truth of what he believes. Or even worse, he doesn't know what he really believes or would do.
50 posted on 02/08/2016 8:21:46 PM PST by visualops (Why yes, I am on the #TrumpTrain. I'd like to win for a change.)
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To: onyx

LOL!


51 posted on 02/08/2016 8:22:05 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Vote Tom Sawyer, because Sid is a sissy snitch and Tom gets the fences whitewashed.)
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To: Red Steel

I thought it didn’t matter what you did in your own house but it does matter what you do in public.

There goes the neighborhood.


52 posted on 02/08/2016 8:22:16 PM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: EveningStar

I don’t think Trump is ignorant at all.


53 posted on 02/08/2016 8:23:00 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: PJBankard

Would you call your mother one?


54 posted on 02/08/2016 8:24:23 PM PST by pilgrim
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To: Psalm 144

I know who is and who isn’t a Putin butt kisser. It’s pretty obvious. You of course are one yourself. Why you slime balls are allowed to remain on this site to do what you do is a mystery.


55 posted on 02/08/2016 8:25:04 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: PJBankard
Sean Connery photo: Sean Connery 01ASeanConnery.jpg I know Pussy Galore. Pussy is a friend of mine. Ted Cruze is no Pussy Galore. Pussy Galore photo:  pussygalore_jamesbond4.jpg
56 posted on 02/08/2016 8:25:10 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: ETL

“I meant that since most if not all of the first posters to this thread just happened to be big fans of KGB/FSB Putin (also Trump), that it looked like there might be some kind of coordination going on.”

A True Patriot who was more than a keyboard commando and who was actually smart enough to figure itt out, would design a flow chart to show what happened and post the image.


57 posted on 02/08/2016 8:26:31 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Vote Tom Sawyer, because Sid is a sissy snitch and Tom gets the fences whitewashed.)
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To: pilgrim

No I wouldn’t because she isn’t one.


58 posted on 02/08/2016 8:28:42 PM PST by PJBankard (It is the spirit of the men who leads that gains the victory. - Gen. George Patton)
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To: ETL

In the immortal words of Ronald Reagan, there you go again.

:-)


59 posted on 02/08/2016 8:29:47 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Vote Tom Sawyer, because Sid is a sissy snitch and Tom gets the fences whitewashed.)
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To: EveningStar
And if I am the last holdout on this issue, so be it. I don't really give a damn.

ohhhh, so it's the degree of swearing it's opposed to then

the WaPo never struck me as a moral authority anyway

60 posted on 02/08/2016 8:30:44 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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