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Miss Manners on Rudeness in the Age of Trump
The Atlantic ^ | February 16, 2017 | Judith Martin

Posted on 02/16/2017 6:32:13 AM PST by billorites

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1 posted on 02/16/2017 6:32:13 AM PST by billorites
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To: billorites

You won’t find a more polite and cultured guy than Mitt Romney.

What did THAT get us?


2 posted on 02/16/2017 6:33:36 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The sad part is in their minds Obama was polite and cultured.


3 posted on 02/16/2017 6:36:53 AM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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“2. Frankness (formerly Discretion)

Speaking one’s mind has come to be considered praiseworthy, regardless of the quality of what is expressed. Wholesale insults of segments of the society had generally been considered unfit for public consumption, however sincerely felt, but now the sincerity is the important part.”

Does she really think that this started with Trump’s campaign?


4 posted on 02/16/2017 6:37:43 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: Buckeye McFrog

All an act. A vicious, backstabbing, pathological lying weasel and treasonous scumbag. The REAL Willard.


5 posted on 02/16/2017 6:37:43 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: alternatives?

In his own words, Obama had “learned how to talk to white people”.

He’d say things that sounded cultured and high-minded, while at the same time scratching his nose with an extended middle finger.


6 posted on 02/16/2017 6:38:44 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: fieldmarshaldj

geez....I’m not a big Romney fan either....but all I said was that he had good manners.


7 posted on 02/16/2017 6:39:37 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

yep.

You can’t accomplish anything if you first don’t WIN!

Trump is a winner, his supporters knew this from the start and were more than willing to look past his many faults in order to WIN.

Now that we have WON, it’s payback time!


8 posted on 02/16/2017 6:41:59 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“You won’t find a more polite and cultured guy than Mitt Romney.”

Its no different than with the Bush clan, they’re all gentrified gentlemanly NWO globalist evil

It all has its roots in the spirit of anti-Christ, which is where they derive their power from,


9 posted on 02/16/2017 6:42:16 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: Buckeye McFrog

If he did, but it was the face he wanted the rubes to see. Some of us could see past the façade a LONG time ago. His act was as deceitful as Zero’s, only that Zero didn’t insult our intelligence by pretending to be a Republican.


10 posted on 02/16/2017 6:45:34 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: billorites

Dear Miss Manners,
If someone makes a vulgar comment to one person in a private conversation, and that conversation is subsequently betrayed to the public for money, does this convey a lifetime sentence on the commenter?

Once an apology is made by the commenter for a private statement made 10 or 15 years ago in the context of a private locker room banter session, is there nonetheless a lifetime of social ostracism to be endured?

Is it proper retaliation for those outraged by vulgarity to practice even greater vulgarity publicly and in forms such as wearing genitalia on ones head and shoving wet menstrual pads into the mouths of bystanders? What pray tell is proper etiquette?

Does social financial and other forms of ostracism and revenge also extend to the family members of the commenter for “ standing by him” ( please define the alternative ) and for how many generations is it proper etiquette to ostracize and try to ruin them? May the preschool of the commenters grandchild be targeted?

The progressive left is writing new etiquette rules here so we seek your gentle opinion.
Sincerely


11 posted on 02/16/2017 6:46:06 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: billorites

This is a left-wing approach to bemoaning the loss of manners that has as its subtext that President Trump is rude. It seeks to make fun of people who defend Trump in spite of his rudeness. It is not written as an objective piece about manners.


12 posted on 02/16/2017 6:48:51 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: billorites

Is Miss Manners a drag queen?


13 posted on 02/16/2017 6:49:26 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: WashingtonSource

This piece raises sanctimony to entirely new levels. Any ‘rudeness’ by Trump pales in comparison to what is uttered and done by his opponents.


14 posted on 02/16/2017 6:50:30 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Sorry, but Mitt was OBNOXIOUS to Trump!! Not mannerly at all!


15 posted on 02/16/2017 6:52:22 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

I wish we could have polite and civil debates, but the Democrats’ embrace of Alinsky has made that impossible.

Romney demonstrated that dealing with the Left in a polite way is bringing a penknife to a gunfight.


16 posted on 02/16/2017 6:55:05 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: billorites

Miss Manners has always had a blind eye to progressive barbarianism. Looks like things haven’t changed.


17 posted on 02/16/2017 6:56:17 AM PST by JusPasenThru (SJW is the weaponization of compassion.)
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To: billorites
Demanding that others must adhere to newly invented arbitrary rules of etiquette is a new form of bullying.

18 posted on 02/16/2017 6:56:59 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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Miss Manners should do a bit of research on Abbie Hoffman.
He’s the reason that no Leftist can get through a single paragraph without dropping the F-bomb.


19 posted on 02/16/2017 6:59:33 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: billorites
Having had eight years of a dignified president with an exemplary family life, people are hungry for the pleasures of scandal.

This sentence says it all. Miss Manners worships Obama.

20 posted on 02/16/2017 7:08:16 AM PST by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention. Chalk one up for creativity!)
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