Reply 1 - Posted by:
Harlowe 5/14/2024 12:31:39 AM (No. 1717438)
Mr. Thomas may need to be reminded that American Presidents uttering profanity is not unusual as evidenced by reviewing transcripts and recordings available through the “Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center”
FTA:
If you are the parent of young children, are you OK with your kids hearing former President Donald Trump’s language and putdowns ...
~ Agee. Not good for children to hear profane language and agree most MAGA supporters, parents or not, would prefer President Trump refrain from profanity as well as criticizing Joe Biden’s walking which is due to a medical issue and not a political issue.
Trump’s cursing was the perfect finish to a week that included ... but that doesn’t justify a potty mouth.
~ Unless one has walked in President Trump’s shoes since he descended the escalator in 2015, that person cannot know the depth and breadth of what he and his family have had to endure so, while not pleased with a potty mouth, exasperation/frustration can be understood by fair-minded, nonjudgmental people of faith.
Trump uses Hell as a curse word with increasing frequency. Does he believe in Hell? Does he believe in Heaven and know how to get there? His fervent evangelical supporters, some of whom bizarrely claim he shares their faith, should ask him.
~ It has been reported that President Trump has a deep and abiding faith but does not wear his faith on his sleeve so would be aware of heaven and hell as well as how to get there. Passing judgment on him or those who “bizarrely claim he shares their faith” is judging others and warned about in Matthew 7:1-3.
Maybe it’s generational, but isn’t behavior objectively and eternally right or wrong? We seem to be trying to have it both ways. Curse words are bad when used by a politician we dislike but are ignored, even praised, when one approves of a politician.
~ Behavior is not generational, it is parental; Scripture is clear about the duty of parents to teach their children in “the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” The analogy presented about curse words being ignored by politicians based on like or dislike is no different than the lies of politicians as evidenced repeatedly and emphatically by the mainstream media.
Perhaps Trump should consult the wisdom of our first president. George Washington said: “The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing…is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.”
~ The wisdom of President George Washington is a national treasured; however, President Washington was not the victim of vile hostility as is President Trump these past nine years.
According to the Association for Psychological Science, regular swearing “is a defining feature of a Type A personality. It is negatively correlated with conscientiousness, agreeableness, sexual anxiety, and religiosity.”
~ Psychological analysis being applied to President Trump at this point in time is grossly unreasonable; textbook is one thing, living a life under constant reprehensible, unjustified assault is another. Likewise, the recurring innuendo regarding President Trump religion brings to mind the following quotation:“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.” ~~~ (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 5/14/2024 12:40:16 AM (No. 1717439)
Cal Thomas, go F yourself.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/14/2024 12:42:09 AM (No. 1717440)
I am not offended. More never Trump tripe.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
commonsence 5/14/2024 12:43:12 AM (No. 1717441)
Our Republic is on The Verge of falling, And this idiot is concerned about bad words. It's a kid to being shot in the chest, and worried about a hang nail
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Catherine 5/14/2024 1:14:02 AM (No. 1717450)
Gigglepuss said the F word today when speaking in public. So Cal, what's your take on that?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
SALady 5/14/2024 1:17:25 AM (No. 1717451)
I'm not voting for Donald Trump for Pope. I'm voting for him for president. So, considering the alternative, his language doesn't bother me in the least!!!
As such, I want him to be the biggest, baddest, dog in the fight -- since he will be fighting that fight for our country and future!!!!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
49 Ford 5/14/2024 1:39:18 AM (No. 1717455)
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. " --- John F. Kennedy
"I don't care if it's horsep_ss, it works." -- John F. Kennedy
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 5/14/2024 1:39:36 AM (No. 1717456)
His direct addressing of serious matters with his blunt force style and language doesn't bother me. This we need more of. But he fills up a lot of air with 8th grader level taunts and braggadocios blather that makes me cringe. This I could do without.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NYbob 5/14/2024 1:46:50 AM (No. 1717459)
Sure Cal. How old is the photo Cal is using? He is a vain bushy who wonders how a parent could possibly stop their child from swearing because President Trump said hell and B S in front of a crowd of an estimated 100k who chanted B S? Cal longs for the days when he could whine 24/7 about democrats, safely cushioned by a Republican party that either was out of power or careful to never use it to stop the Deep State.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
avital2 5/14/2024 4:02:37 AM (No. 1717467)
judge not lest ye be judged. considering all DJT has been subjected to, expletives are a small result. i would have considered employing worse, much worse.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 5/14/2024 4:18:29 AM (No. 1717473)
He is surrounded by the vilest of lying hypocrites (whited sepulchers) who are working diligently to completely destroy Donald Trump and the very freedoms that he is fighting to defend - freedoms which allow Americans to openly preach & practice their religious beliefs. Yet, Cal Thomas self-righteously focuses on Donald Trump’s use of profanity to describe the evil and egregiously profane behavior of the foul, lying, hypocrites who are dishonoring God, denying US the freedom to worship Him, & destroying the liberty bestowed in our Founding Documents.
I’d rather teach a child to not use bad language, and to always stand for what is right.
There are things to admire about Donald Trump. If there are admirable qualities in his attempted destroyers, I have yet to see them. Maybe Cal Thomas could point them out for us in one of his columns.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
chumley 5/14/2024 4:42:57 AM (No. 1717481)
I maintain what I said when he was running the first time. If I knew him I probably wouldn't like him. I would not want to be his neighbor or employee. He is boorish and makes me cringe daily. All that said, he knows how to make money, and he isn't a communist. He doesn't want the country to fail and will fight tooth and nail to keep that from happening. That alone puts him way ahead of any democrat.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Sully 5/14/2024 4:43:45 AM (No. 1717482)
Ah the ol "mean tweets" cudgel.
Let us review:
1. the US gvt used it's most sophisticated spying apparatus on the American people and then on an election candidate for POTUS, who somehow managed to win anyway.
2. Those same spooks then phonied up massive false evidence of treason against that same man.
3.The outgoing POTUS committed actual treason by sabotaging the new president's admin.
4. In the following election, all swing states stopped counting ballots overnight on false pretenses miraculously reversing win projections after adding ballots with Zero chain of custody.
But Cal thinks our problem is curse words. He has reduced himself to The Church Lady and no longer a serious voice of reason.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
judy 5/14/2024 5:11:38 AM (No. 1717485)
Cal is about as boring as Joe Biden...what does Cal have to say about Kamala's filthy language???
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 5/14/2024 5:17:43 AM (No. 1717487)
Cal Thomas is trying to take the high road with make believe refinement, undermining trump. But Trump is a tough New Yorker if you can't stand it just stay away.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rinktum 5/14/2024 5:24:36 AM (No. 1717491)
I am someone who hates profanity. I believe it leads to culture rot and it is pervasive today. Sure, I would love to turn the clock back when cursing was frowned upon to such an extent that men would apologize to women when a profanity slipped their lips. Now women are more profane than men. It has cheapened our culture to the point that you hear the most profane words come out of children’s mouths. I am shocked and dismayed by the language today. It doesn’t sit well with me because I grew up in a different time when respect was a virtue and that meant no cursing in public. Now it is a verbal free for all that I would not expect would have happened if women had not so enthusiastically embraced it. Our society is paying the price for the cheapening of our language. So I am no fan of profanity. Sure, I would prefer that President Trump be more careful with his words, but having said that I cannot imagine the frustration he feels every single day he sits in that Courtroom. I do not give him a pass but I do understand his choice of words. Cal Thomas is being nit picky with his thoughts on this while the country is hanging by a thread. He’s swallowing a camel and choking on a gnat. There are other issues that require his attention. How about the democrats using lawfare as a political weapon? Now, that is something that really matters. Grinding on the use of a four letter word seems petty. We have bigger fish to fry.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Adam 5/14/2024 5:32:11 AM (No. 1717492)
I agree with Lucianne’s close friend Cal.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
5 handicap 5/14/2024 5:48:28 AM (No. 1717495)
I doubt there is a bigger hypocrite in America than Cal Thomas except maybe Mike Johnson. In 1070s Baltimore one would exhort him to "Go scheisse in your hat, Cal".
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 5/14/2024 6:12:32 AM (No. 1717498)
Excuse me, Cal Thomas, but I am certain there are other situations that you might not judge so harshly. How about a cancer patient going through some very painful procedures that could possibly produce a swear word? For that matter, any medical procedure that might produce a lot of pain. How about some of violent actions that get inflicted on innocent people that produce a lot of pain? The list could go on but concerning Donald Trump and his profanity, some of the emotional pain he has had to endure since deciding to run for President including 2020, I am surprised maybe even disgusted you are even bringing this up.
Cal Thomas, your definitions are much different than mine. . .
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
skacmar 5/14/2024 6:22:24 AM (No. 1717502)
Cal Thomas has ventured into Mitt Romney Paul Ryan territory riding his moral high horse. What is worse? Saying "hell" once in a while during a firey speech or, like Joe Biden, lying every time you opened your mouth as shown during his last interview where he lied at least 1 time per minute? Stop the moral purity tests.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 5/14/2024 6:25:15 AM (No. 1717505)
Do not care. Not important. People who are so sensitive maybe they aren't the right kind of people to do what has to be done - destroy liberalism. We need gutter fighters, not shrinking violets.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
rightdog 5/14/2024 6:38:57 AM (No. 1717517)
C'mon, Cal! The worst I have heard him say in public are the "S-word" and "BS-word", uttered in the halls of every middle school (and some elementary school) halls since forever. Meanwhile the alleged VP drops "F-bombs" in public at a leadership conference only yesterday, then giggled about it. To say nothing of the profanities that dems in congress drop all the time. Do I wish he's not do that? Of course, but no need to get all worked up about it.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
downnout 5/14/2024 7:04:59 AM (No. 1717540)
Oh bless your heart, Cal.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
CivilServant 5/14/2024 7:11:46 AM (No. 1717544)
I don’t care if “Cal” is friends with God Himself, Cal, GFY.
We NEED a bomb thrower. Not a cunning linguist.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
jkb 5/14/2024 7:12:03 AM (No. 1717545)
This is 'mean tweets' 2.0. I don't care. We're all so over the abuse of America. I remember when a president forced us all to talk about how a cigar was used in the Oval Office.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 5/14/2024 7:15:28 AM (No. 1717546)
Let's all help old Cal find his fainting couch, shall we?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
privateer 5/14/2024 7:19:37 AM (No. 1717549)
Two middle school boys rode their bikes past my house yesterday. They were conversing loudly, and from 50 feet away I could tell that practically every second word was the F word. Who brought about this degradation of language, culture and decency? I blame, primarily, the handmaiden of the Commiecrats: Hollyweird. I bet those two don't even know who PDJT is. I miss the days of Silent Cal.
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1. How many young children actually observe and listen to political discourse?
2. How do you explain the news talking about war and murders and robberies?
3. How do you explain abortion to young children?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/14/2024 7:37:04 AM (No. 1717555)
If Trump indeed loses the election it won't be because of what Mr. Thomas says.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
TCloud 5/14/2024 7:49:23 AM (No. 1717562)
Hey there Vern, Cal Thomas talking about you? Soft handed Cal said that? He would like Biden and Cadres, ID leather working gloves as a pair of socks! Give em Hell TRUMP!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/14/2024 7:52:12 AM (No. 1717564)
never bothered much about what Cal Thomas ever had to say and this is another example of why I don't, never have and never will ..... listen to him
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/14/2024 7:59:06 AM (No. 1717568)
Trump spent his entire life in New York, conversing with construction workers and other regular people who grew up there. Take a walk down a street in New York (not now but you know what I mean) and you will hear much worse. I don't care how a man talks, it's what he does that counts. Try surviving a day in the military without hearing every "bad" word in the book. Every school kid in the world picks that language up from adults if it is used around them but television, movies and the Internet doesn't censor bad language, only conservative views. IOW get a life, Cal. Wait until full-blown dementia kicks in for Joe's rotten brain if you want to be shocked.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
philsner 5/14/2024 8:18:10 AM (No. 1717576)
He says as Kamala drops an f-bomb. Thomas, as the cliche goes, you are past your expiration date.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
felixcat 5/14/2024 8:36:52 AM (No. 1717593)
Cal Thomas - proof that dinosaur political hacks live forever it seems. He is a regular (Wednesday morning) on the Larry O'Connor show here on wmal.com talk radio and that is when I change the station. I'm sure he will have a column soon on Kamala's use the f word. /sarc
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
GAJIM 5/14/2024 8:40:08 AM (No. 1717599)
So when does his raging article appear concerning the recent words of this nation’s incompetent VP as she gives instructions on how to open a door?? Or go back to when our incompetent president whispered into the ear of the then President Barry Sotero about what kind of a big deal his signing of legislation was? (On a hot mic)
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
red1066 5/14/2024 9:05:04 AM (No. 1717617)
Cal, you are so wrong. Trump's language is exactly what the majority of Americans feel about the state of this country. Every second of every day REAL Americans are bombarded with anti-American rhetoric. They can't even escape for a couple of hours at a movie or watch a tv program without being told what they think and who they are is destroying democracy all by the people who are actually destroying democracy. This is exactly why Trump is so popular. A little cussing once in a while never hurt anyone especially when it used to make a point.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
nuclearnavymom 5/14/2024 9:07:04 AM (No. 1717618)
Not gonna lie, I like it.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
franq 5/14/2024 9:10:55 AM (No. 1717621)
Zhoa's life and entire administration are four letter words.
Don't think Trump's salty language will stop me from voting for him.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
cartcart 5/14/2024 9:15:16 AM (No. 1717623)
Now do Biden and Harris.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 5/14/2024 9:16:59 AM (No. 1717624)
The pearl-clutching antics of Never Trumpers always amazes me. Better that the left burn America to the ground than for someone to utter a mean word.
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I agree with Cal Thomas. I admire his writing, have for years.
You expect me to vote for Biden, or the Democrat if and when he's ousted?
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 5/14/2024 9:43:49 AM (No. 1717633)
I find these prissy Republicans so tiresome.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Birddog 5/14/2024 9:59:48 AM (No. 1717641)
"You Suh...arrr nought a Gentleman"- Cal Thomas
"Too true Magoo...but I am also not going to go meekly into the Gulag, or allow others to be dragged there with out fighting back...hard. Bringing nothing but a stiff upper lip to a knife fight...against a Mob... is the path to a literal Hell on earth, or death"
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Namma 5/14/2024 10:01:07 AM (No. 1717642)
Came-la-la just dropped the F bomb ! much more disgusting, because, she is a women and VP! Very unrefined for a female. So Cal, going to write an article about her potty mouth?
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Birddog 5/14/2024 10:25:12 AM (No. 1717653)
I just saw a recent photo of the 81 yo Thomas....he has had a severe facelift, he now looks nearly oriental, and an obvious "New Hairline, as well as is using "Plumper" of some sort to smooth his facial wrinkles.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
mariboo72 5/14/2024 10:26:56 AM (No. 1717654)
#16 100% agree! Exactly what I was going to comment. I was raised in a home where swearing wasn't allowed and our children were, too. But even fifteen years ago my kids would tell me that I would be shocked to hear the language they heard in school and on the school bus. Nowadays children hear profanity from their parents on a regular basis. I doubt that they're shocked or offended by Trump's language. Do I like it? No, but we can't turn back time. Cal Thomas is in his eighties and must not get out much.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/14/2024 10:39:48 AM (No. 1717673)
Didn't I see Cal Thomas' name on the HATE TRUMP RINO list?
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
David Key 5/14/2024 10:56:24 AM (No. 1717708)
And what, precisely, have the soft spoken democrat lite republicans such as Thomas accomplished over the decades he has been around? Trump gave us the current conservative supreme court. He pushed for America first and keeping America strong as an industrial country. I admit to admiring Cal thirty years ago. Yet for years I saw him accommodate and speak every so politely while the so called right kissed and made nicy nicy while the democrats proceeded to destroy our nations institutions. Give me harsh spoken Trump any day of the week.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
janjan 5/14/2024 10:56:41 AM (No. 1717709)
Cal is from that era when conservatives would volunteer to lay down in the street and let liberals drive over them with a truck just to be polite. Everyone can see where that strategy got us.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
BarryNo 5/14/2024 11:29:40 AM (No. 1717730)
You want to hear crude, listen to LBJ, sometimes. When not reading from a scripted speech, the man's mouth was a sewer.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
His_Highness 5/14/2024 11:42:24 AM (No. 1717739)
Did Mr. Thomas hear what Ms. Harris said, yesterday? Does she undermine herself?
I get it. Mr. Trump is not particularly a nice guy.
Trump did not take showers with his daughter. Nude showers. Also, Biden has been exposed as a rapist, but that's ok, for Mr. Thomas.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/14/2024 11:44:49 AM (No. 1717740)
I am in blesed ignorance - don't know who Cal is, why his pearl-clutching should bother me, and how anyone here would know who Lucianne's friends were.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
nerdowell 5/14/2024 11:52:34 AM (No. 1717744)
It was New Jersey, as the writer notes.
Also, I'd call Trump's language vulgar, or common, but not profane.
But he needs to dial it back a little.
The thing that is attracting people is his submission to
the law, and the patience, humility and stoic courage with which he endures his prosecution. It shows his
faith in our system and commitment to it. Even the blind can see it, and it is compelling!
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
Harlowe 5/14/2024 11:59:16 AM (No. 1717749)
Cal Thomas would serve a far better purpose by focusing on the impact the entertainment industry has had and continues to have on children and society in this country rather than the occasional Trump rally that might contain an occasional word of profanity. The blood, crime, demonic-themed stories, games, guts, profanity, sexual perversions, sexual promiscuity, violence, etc., in music, movies, and television saturate almost every day and hour in the lives of children and adults and does far more harm than an occasional obscenity uttered by President Trump.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/14/2024 12:09:48 PM (No. 1717757)
To the contrary, Trump has showed remarkable restraint. How many people would have been removed from the courtroom objecting to what is going on?
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 5/14/2024 12:41:19 PM (No. 1717771)
What's Cal's thoughts on VP cackles?
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/14/2024 1:06:57 PM (No. 1717777)
Saying "hell" makes one "not a nice guy"?
His daughter describes him as "blunt", which the dictionary defines as "uncompromisingly straghtforward",
Works for me.
As for his being kind, we have heard many reports. He saves the vitriole for his enemies.
I'll stick with 2016 when the sign on his campaign office wall said LET TRUMP BE TRUMP
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
Hazymac 5/14/2024 1:29:56 PM (No. 1717785)
Porky Pig has a comment ... "Son of a b-deep dip, son of a b-deep dip...." Same as Porky, when I drive nails with a hammer and smash my thumb, I might say a bad word. It makes me feel better for an instant. Oh, sugar. Oh, Shirley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MCMrY6cWdU (Porky Pig hammers his, um, thumb)
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
kiwinews 5/14/2024 1:37:38 PM (No. 1717786)
About thirty years ago the President of The United States of America taught young children what oral sex is and is not and demonstrated alternate uses for cigars. I am NOT worried about Donald J Trump using any language that then-Vice President Joe Biden ("it's a big f*ing deal") was admired for and that is regularly heard in TV films and a major music industry. You are right, small children should not be exposed to it - so leave the kids home. Like the sign says at the amusement park: You must be this high to participate in politics.
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
Hazymac 5/14/2024 1:38:19 PM (No. 1717787)
Plus, Cal needs to get off the Paul Ryan Little Miss Chastity pony. We need to win in November, not obsess about Trump's animadversions. Talking dirty is in bad taste, but it's not necessarily wrong. In my life there are some things I've seen that would make a preacher cuss, and might cause the air around his head to turn grey. Sometimes I do, too. As the interactive computer "Intelligence" said to Team America after getting something wrong, "I'm sorry."
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/14/2024 2:21:51 PM (No. 1717805)
Come on, Cal. Hollywood and the music industry has the cussing influence on lock. President Donald Trump is proper, comparatively speaking.
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
broken01 5/15/2024 8:21:59 AM (No. 1718191)
I used to like Cal Thomas and have only swore when I was really angry or hurt myself on accident but let's face facts. Children today listen to music that is laced with curse words. They hear their parents and other adults "curse like sailors" in ordinary conversations. Just the other day I heard two young Black teens use the F and the N word (with the a not the er) while taking to each other. PDJT has been under assault by democrats and RINOs since he came down that Trump tower escalator in 2015. He at this point has a right to be just a tad bit frustrated. We need a fighter in the White House not a wilting, mumbling, bumbling stumbling numbskull.
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