John Oliver Explains How Trump's Habit of Speaking Gibberish Could Destroy American Politics
If you dont have time to watch the whole thing , start at 2:45 and watch for a few minutes
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HBO host John Oliver explained during Sunday's episode of Last Week Tonight that President Donald Trump's tactic of speaking in nonsense stream of consciousness is eroding discourse to the point that we're increasingly unable to identify important information.
Even in formal settings, the president routinely goes on long ramblings that bear little or no relation to the topic at hand. The function is to distract the listener and avoid engaging any narrative that could be used to hold the speaker accountable.
Oliver brought the tactic to life by showing a printout of a speech Trump delivered about Iran. The following is the actual text of Trump's remarks.
“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, okay, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, okay, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right — who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas, because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”
Did any of that make an ounce of sense? Of course not. Oliver described the speech as resembling “a drunk driver crashing a pickup truck full of alphabet soup.”
Oliver explained that Trump's style of communication is a danger to the country as it spreads to other leaders and increasingly prevents serious discourse from occuring
“The natural endpoint is the erosion of our ability to decide what’s important, have an honest debate and hold one another accountable,” he said.
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He can really pick Trump apart.
No wonder trump likes to text.
He may be in trouble soon though, I heard they are going to add more characters.
It keeps the small minded busy. Look at how they react to his tweets. They act like cats chasing a laser pointer.
Where was this analysis of Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, and many other Congressmen and Congresswomen that have spoke similarly during the Obama Administration?
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Why can't you address Trump's unusual speech pattern and its negative effects on the American society?
Because, Trump's speech patterns are not the first time such speech patterns were used in politics, and IF his speech patterns are going to be a degradation of civility and political understanding; then those PREVIOUS USES of speech patterns need to be condemned for starting it. Or, are you intentionally blind towards the people whom have come before Trump and tried their best to obfuscate their political platform by using those speech patterns?
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You have to have a secret decoder ring to make sense out of Trumps ramblings.
I can't get past the fact of how much John Oliver reminds me of a British Anthony Weiner.
When did we start taking comedy show's seriously?
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Aww It’s OK to say trump intents to mislead or lie. Or have you believed this type of misleading, meandering, insane talking bull shit behaviour has always been ok ?
Normally we just call it BS ing us and some politicians are quite successful at it their whole careers.
But I've never heard it called ..."Obfuscating" before.
Liying, BSing, misleading, avoiding, rambling, insane speaking, and drunken incoherent garbage... Yes. But...obfuscate ?
Thanks for helping expand my vocabulary.