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Trump Growing Stranger and more Dangerous

  
By:  TᵢG  •  one week ago  •  70 comments


Trump Growing Stranger and more Dangerous
... I would inform the threatening country, in this case, Iran, that if you do anything to harm this person, we are going to blow your largest cities and the country itself to smithereens, ...

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This guy wants to be president of our nation.  

First let's look at the trivial bullshit that occupies this guy's mind:

Not only is this absurd behavior for a presidential nominee, but Trump —the most prolific, famous liar of our times— is trying to make a big deal out of the fact that Harris did not list McDonald's on her professional resume.   This pathological liar is accusing Harris of lying about her resume when he daily makes up outrageous and damaging lies of consequence.

Now let's go to the other extreme and see how rhetoric from the loose-cannon is dangerous and reckless:

And this:



How does anyone consider this guy fit for office?


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TᵢG
Professor Principal
1  author  TᵢG    one week ago

This is what unfit for office looks like.

 
 
 
Dig
Professor Participates
1.1  Dig  replied to  TᵢG @1    one week ago

It's hard to imagine anyone being more unfit. 

Doesn't seem to matter to the knuckle-dragging cultists, though.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
1.1.1  Tessylo  replied to  Dig @1.1    one week ago

Looks like the audience is 100% inbred.

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
1.1.2  Trout Giggles  replied to  Tessylo @1.1.1    one week ago

LOL! That's where I'm from!

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
1.1.3  Tessylo  replied to  Trout Giggles @1.1.2    6 days ago

You did say there's a lot of trumpers where you're from right?

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
1.1.4  devangelical  replied to  Tessylo @1.1.3    6 days ago

she's surrounded by the cross burning sect of the maga cult.

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
1.1.5  Trout Giggles  replied to  Tessylo @1.1.3    4 days ago

yep

 
 
 
Gordy327
Professor Guide
1.2  Gordy327  replied to  TᵢG @1    one week ago

I think the assassination attempts might have left him unhinged. Or perhaps more than usual.

 
 
 
TᵢG
Professor Principal
1.2.1  author  TᵢG  replied to  Gordy327 @1.2    one week ago

I think the fact that he might lose the election is pushing him further over the edge.

 
 
 
Gordy327
Professor Guide
1.2.2  Gordy327  replied to  TᵢG @1.2.1    one week ago

Perhaps that's the main reason. His ego can't handle the possibility. 

 
 
 
TᵢG
Professor Principal
1.2.3  author  TᵢG  replied to  Gordy327 @1.2.2    one week ago

His ego is a major factor.   The other factor is that if he loses he loses all power and must deal with his indictments as citizen Trump.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
1.2.4  Tessylo  replied to  TᵢG @1.2.1    6 days ago

I believe that's it more than anything.  He hasn't said much about either 'attempt' afterwards other than to say that he's been saved by god or some other such shit and as continues to spread the same hate and ignorance.  

If Smith's evidence is able to be revealed prior to the election, I think that might just push him off the cliff.  His actions or non-actions will be revealed.  

 
 
 
Krishna
Professor Expert
1.2.5  Krishna  replied to  TᵢG @1.2.1    6 days ago
I think the fact that he might lose the election is pushing him further over the edge.

And to follow up on that-- some people are of the opinion that he's afraid that he might actually might end up in jail.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
1.3  Tessylo  replied to  TᵢG @1    one week ago

Look how happy the inbred morons are cheering and smiling and chanting 'send them back'.

Those folks who are here legally.

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
1.4  Split Personality  replied to  TᵢG @1    one week ago

Fox cut away from airing this rally/speech/whatever it was because it was identical to Tuesdays rant somewhere in NC about furniture makers and Chinese chairs.

He linked his trade policies to the animosity he claimed other countries harboured towards him.

Fox News abruptly stopped broadcasting Trump's speech after he embarked on an extended tirade about the supposed deterioration in furniture quality, as seen in a tweet with the video clip.

"This is why people in countries want to kill me," Trump declared.

"They're not happy with me. It is; it's a risky business. This is why they want to kill me. They only kill consequential presidents; remember that. But this is why. If you're one of the countries that's affected, you're not happy with what I'm saying."

During the same address, the ex-president also made the odd suggestion that Ukraine should concede victory to Russia in the ongoing conflict. His remarks came during another disjointed discourse in North Carolina on Wednesday.

He further described the Ukrainian populace as "dead" and the nation itself as "demolished," prompting speculation about his willingness to make concessions regarding Ukraine's future if he were to be re-elected.

Trump posited that Ukraine should have offered compromises to Vladimir Putin prior to his February 2022 incursion, asserting that even "the worst deal would've been better than what we have right now."

He elaborated: "If they made a bad deal, it would have been much better. They would've given up a little bit. And everybody would be living, and every building would be built, and every tower would be aging for another 2,000 years."

Fox News cuts off Donald Trump's speech as he goes on bizarre rant about furniture (msn.com)

 
 
 
Gsquared
Professor Principal
2  Gsquared    one week ago

Trump's resume consists of one word:  Fraud

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
2.1  devangelical  replied to  Gsquared @2    one week ago

and aspiring despot ...

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
2.2  Tessylo  replied to  Gsquared @2    one week ago

I saw a quote on the waste of human flesh elsewhere, part of it was to the effect of - he is the result if Frankenstein built a monster created of all the worst qualities of a human being.  

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
2.2.1  Tessylo  replied to  Tessylo @2.2    6 days ago

Also what Kim Jong-Un has said about him revels that he is not in love with the wanna be dictator.

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
3  Trout Giggles    one week ago

.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
3.1  devangelical  replied to  Trout Giggles @3    one week ago

does that dot represent trump's last functioning brain cell or his entire brain? 

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
3.1.1  Trout Giggles  replied to  devangelical @3.1    one week ago

last functioning brain cell...I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
3.1.2  devangelical  replied to  Trout Giggles @3.1.1    one week ago

no comment, since my joke is shorter than the necessary disclaimer ...

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
4  Kavika     one week ago

Trump's continued lis put many people in danger and he doesn't care. Haitians is just another example of this.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
4.1  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Kavika @4    6 days ago

You can add his recent speech that if he loses it would be the Jews who did it to that list. 

 
 
 
Gsquared
Professor Principal
4.1.1  Gsquared  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @4.1    6 days ago

He's disgusting.  

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
5  JohnRussell    one week ago

Trump is like the person in quicksand who keeps grabbing at the sludge around him and as a result keeps sinking further and further into the pit.  He's in up to about his neck right now. 

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
5.1  Trout Giggles  replied to  JohnRussell @5    one week ago

The sad part is he doesn't know he's drowning

 
 
 
Gsquared
Professor Principal
5.1.1  Gsquared  replied to  Trout Giggles @5.1    one week ago

He might.  That's why he sounds so desperate all the time.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
5.1.2  devangelical  replied to  Gsquared @5.1.1    one week ago

he is ramping up the extremism on the campaign trail ...

 
 
 
Gsquared
Professor Principal
5.1.3  Gsquared  replied to  devangelical @5.1.2    one week ago

He is, far beyond anything we ever seen in a modern American presidential campaign.  His fascist proclivities are on full display.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
5.1.4  devangelical  replied to  Gsquared @5.1.3    one week ago

lacking any policy, platform, or facts, racism and xenophobia is the red meat he tosses his brainless sycophants.

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
Professor Expert
5.1.5  sandy-2021492  replied to  Trout Giggles @5.1    6 days ago
The sad part is he doesn't know he's drowning

I think he does know, but doesn't know how to save himself.  Lies, rants, and playing the victim won him the Oval Office in 2016, so he thinks they'll work this time, too.  He doesn't realize that they only work with his base.  But that's the strategy he knows, so that's his default.

 
 
 
CB
Professor Principal
5.2  CB  replied to  JohnRussell @5    6 days ago

How is Donald and his  'noise-making machine' doing in the electoral college?

Electoral College

Electors and the Election Process

The Electoral College is the process by which the United States elects the president and vice president. These offices are elected by electors, who are selected by political parties.

The number of electors in any state is equal to the number of U.S. senators and representatives that the state has in Congress. North Carolina has two senators and 14 representatives, for a total of 16 electors. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president.

In North Carolina, political parties file the names of their candidates for electors for their nominees for president and vice-president with the North Carolina Secretary of State. If unaffiliated candidates qualify, they also must file with the Secretary of State the names of their candidates for electors for their nominees for president and vice-president.

A vote for a candidate named on the ballot for president and vice-president is a vote for the electors of that party or unaffiliated candidate.

Learn more at  Electoral College | NCSOS . For more information, also see  The Electoral College | National Archives .

If the Electors Vote for President, Why Should I Vote in the General Election?

During the general election, your vote helps determine your state’s electors. 

When you vote for a presidential candidate, you aren’t voting for president. You are telling your state which candidate you want your state to vote for at the meeting of electors.

The states use these general election results, also known as the popular vote, to appoint their electors. The winning candidate’s state political party selects the individuals who will be electors.

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
6  Kavika     one week ago

Yes, some NT members see him fit for office, unexplainable but it is what it is.

 
 
 
MrFrost
Professor Guide
7  MrFrost    6 days ago

Voting for trump must be like masturbating with sand paper; it might satisfy the immediate need, (to vote), but it going to cause damage, (to the country), in the long run.  

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Senior Expert
7.1  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  MrFrost @7    6 days ago

You got true grit, MrFrost, true grit.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
8  JohnRussell    6 days ago

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@scarylawyerguy
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Arlington Cemetery - 1 month ago
Migrants eat cats - 2.5 wks ago
Laura Loomer riding on Trump's plane - 2 wks ago
Jews to blame if I (Trump) lose - 1 wk ago
All of it, flushed right down the memory hole yet the media would have buried anyone else under an avalanche of coverage

 
 
 
Gsquared
Professor Principal
8.1  Gsquared  replied to  JohnRussell @8    6 days ago

Let's not forget that he promised a "bloody" mass deportation.

 
 
 
evilone
Professor Guide
8.1.1  evilone  replied to  Gsquared @8.1    4 days ago
Let's not forget that he promised a "bloody" mass deportation.

And the prosecution of media, social media and anyone else that said mean things about him.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
9  JohnRussell    6 days ago

Trump wants to put Google in jail for being mean to him

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Tessylo
Professor Principal
9.1  Tessylo  replied to  JohnRussell @9    6 days ago

There are no good stories to reveal and display about the former 'president' convicted felon conman rapist traitor.

I wonder why?

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
9.2  Split Personality  replied to  JohnRussell @9    6 days ago

RETRIBUTION for playing the same game that Twitter is playing !

/S

 
 
 
CB
Professor Principal
9.3  CB  replied to  JohnRussell @9    6 days ago

Crooked Donald has a 'beef' yet again! He get a lot of mileage out of throwing, 'highlights,' 'spotlights,' and 'shade,' on business that he thinks he can impact by the power of his spoken words. Corporations tremble. . . because Crooked Donald is 'not pleased' with them. (Well, one or two corporations MIGHT tremble. . . . ) On the real, most corporations tell him to kiss 'cracked bricks' and suck 'water basins' tucked behind leaking toilets. 

Crooked Donald's shtick is 'tired' and played out. Even Kim Jun Un ain't 'down' with it anymore. Donald has failed the 'test' of dictator 101.  Getting and keeping the presidency no matter who likes it or not. Kim Jung Un can not rely on Donald hanging around to get the things he needs done in the United States started and finished.  /s

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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10  JohnRussell    6 days ago
@ChunkMonkeys
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This looks like a hostage situation.
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Trump, standing aside Zelenskyy, lies that he's "leading in the polls," decries "the impeachment hoax" that stemmed from him trying to extort Ukraine in 2019, and claims that Zelenskyy called him to congratulate him on Zelenskyy's victory (you do the math on that one)
 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
10.1  Tessylo  replied to  JohnRussell @10    6 days ago

This looks like a hostage situation.

A lot like in 2019

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
11  JohnRussell    6 days ago

it sounds worse than it reads

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
11.1  JohnRussell  replied to  JohnRussell @11    6 days ago
@urbanmyths
I cannot imagine how President Zelenskyy must feel standing next to the man who tried to blackmail him into concocting a fake criminal investigation into Joe Biden for the 2020 election and knowing better than anyone that Donald Trump is a Russian asset
 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
11.1.1  devangelical  replied to  JohnRussell @11.1    5 days ago

not to mention standing next to the asshole american traitor that sides with putin, the enemy of all ukranians ...

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
11.1.2  Tessylo  replied to  JohnRussell @11.1    4 days ago

I feel so for this man having to meet and stand next to this traitor scum effectively making him a hostage again and holding his tongue and for all that he and his country of innocents has had to endure.   This former 'president' despicable convicted felon traitor racist scum dictator killer wannabe failure. 

 
 
 
CB
Professor Principal
11.1.3  CB  replied to  Tessylo @11.1.2    4 days ago

I can't prove it but I am pretty sure a literal shower or at least a mental 'hose down' was desirable after that meeting between men and minds!

 
 
 
CB
Professor Principal
12  CB    6 days ago

Crooked Donald sought to use a sitting president as a backdrop for his LYING commentary. That video clip at 11 is excruciating to watch. But, I applaud President Zelensky for holding it together under extremely vexing circumstances of this fool LYING and USING him as a prop!

I have nothing good to say about Crooked Donald. Not a damn thing anymore. Crooked Donald is a non-stop train wreck that somehow has permanently blocked the tracks he occupies.

 
 
 
Tacos!
Professor Guide
13  Tacos!    6 days ago
Harris did not list McDonald's on her professional resume

That’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard all week. Is this really the reason they’re accusing her of lying about it? That’s insane. 

Your résumé should be relevant. When I apply for a legal job, I don’t waste space and time telling them I worked at Taco Bell when I was 18.

I don’t know which is more stupid - the people who spread this story or the people who accept it.

 
 
 
Igknorantzruls
Freshman Quiet
13.1  Igknorantzruls  replied to  Tacos! @13    6 days ago
When I apply for a legal job, I don’t waste space and time telling them I worked at Taco Bell when I was 18.

Inspirational ? was that Taco Bell job, cause the first half of that name rings a Taco Bell curve bald a Brazzilian times zero, to Trump is infinity, and beyond, that witch word up he could cast and spell hands down some girls heavy pants like a McNasty French fried poataoe head that almost exploded inn a puff of smokethat was know joke, and we due, due to Trump and his Mc Scrfews Loose like his grabbed pussies women gone wild about the TRump Child who has threatened to sue McDonalds to get them to STOP selling those  Gay Happy Meals, cause he's the art of the deals, oh kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,kjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjust dozed back too sleep , fore my sole to keep, stepping upon overturned stones as the Blizzard of McFlurrian Flakes is more confused than a Mickey Dddddd's that wakes N bakes, Hot Apple Pies, filled with The American Pie Disguised Pied eyed filling inn the ditch that required more than a quarter pounded hard porn star could fake, asz the little Don snake, was no lie for the won who lost and attempted to get well hung, his VP, and know,  it doesnt standnfor  V ery P erverted, but obviously exerted to pressure one penced up, to concede Trump lost hair and the election, and it wasn't even McClose, just a fast food over dose like the lies spread from this guys lying eyes and lips, as if it were being proclaimed out the back of his hips, just don't let him slip the tips inn, without taxing a runaway run on concurrent sentence that taxes everyones brain, for Trump to me , is Mayor McSleaze along with the Hamburgerer Clown who has US A ll a bit upside down and out , for Donald the Clown has proven beyond a doubt, he'd fck N soak Us in a drought, fore his skin is in the game for only one reason, and it just might be a deformed form of Treason 

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
13.1.1  Tessylo  replied to  Igknorantzruls @13.1    4 days ago

You're a freaking genius poet Iggy - I forgot all about putting your words to music - I think we discussed that one time, it would be pretty awesome.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
13.1.2  Tessylo  replied to  Igknorantzruls @13.1    4 days ago

you and cjold should talk - he's a rocker from back in the day....

 
 
 
TᵢG
Professor Principal
13.2  author  TᵢG  replied to  Tacos! @13    6 days ago

Worse still, Trump supporters claiming that Harris lied about something as irrelevant and trivial as working at McDonalds while in college.   They are bent out of shape that she might have lied about this triviality yet support the worst, by far, pathological liar of any politician in notoriety today (possible all of US history) and not a word about his endless stream of lies.

This is a cult.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
13.2.1  devangelical  replied to  TᵢG @13.2    5 days ago

... a death cult.

 
 
 
CB
Professor Principal
14  CB    6 days ago
Harris did not list McDonald's on her professional resume.

Crooked Donald is a small and petty man and we will be a 'small and petty' nation for four MORE years if he in office! (So let me be petty too: Some Americans will die with this petty and small man in power. If he wins.)  An 'effing' troll president. How pathetic.

If you thought Crooked Donald trolled our nation and the nations of the world last time, buckle up, we have not seen 'ANYTHING' like what's coming. . . . 

 
 
 
TᵢG
Professor Principal
15  author  TᵢG    6 days ago

This is Trump in desperation.   Of those who actually listen to speeches (as opposed to running on sound bites), how many believe what this lying scoundrel says?

After all, how many times does this moron have to use rhetoric such as ' nothing we have ever seen before ' and the like before people get a hint of his dishonest hyperbole?

How, after objectively listening to this real life Archie Bunker with a megaphone, could anyone decide that this is who should be our next president?

 
 
 
CB
Professor Principal
15.1  CB  replied to  TᵢG @15    6 days ago

Goodness, he is literally scripting (like molasses pouring) from a manual worded strip! Please, give him back the teleprompter so he can do that "death-stare" thing he does when tearing through his monologue!

And goodness, if I never, ever, here the emphatic phrase, "There has never seen anything like it." It will be a true blessing.

Now let me use it before I lose it:

"Crooked Donald. There has never seen anybody like him!" 

 
 
 
TᵢG
Professor Principal
15.1.1  author  TᵢG  replied to  CB @15.1    6 days ago

This speech get worse as it goes on.   And he keeps coming back to the same points and repeating himself.  

I only wish this were broadcast continuously.  

 
 
 
CB
Professor Principal
15.1.2  CB  replied to  TᵢG @15.1.1    6 days ago
TRUMP: You know, I do the weave. You know what the weave is? I'll talk about, like, nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together. And it's like - and friends of mine that are, like, English professors - they say, it's the most brilliant thing I've ever seen.

In 15.2 (below), Crooked Donald does the self-styled, "Weave." (Rambling and emphatic hyperbole.)

 
 
 
Thomas
Masters Guide
15.1.3  Thomas  replied to  TᵢG @15.1.1    4 days ago

I only wish this were broadcast continuously.  

The problem being that the people in need of hearing the lies in what he is saying think that it is true. So it is reinforcing of their beliefs instead of eroding them.

 
 
 
TᵢG
Professor Principal
15.1.4  author  TᵢG  replied to  Thomas @15.1.3    4 days ago

We are living in bizarre times.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
15.1.5  devangelical  replied to  TᵢG @15.1.4    4 days ago

you'd think as the father of eric, trump would be more sensitive to the mentally impaired. not to mention himself ...

 
 
 
CB
Professor Principal
15.2  CB  replied to  TᵢG @15    6 days ago

Jinx! We are on the same 'page' in commenting about the use of emphatic phrases by Crooked Donald!

Breaking down former President Donald Trump’s rambling linguistic style

September 13, 20 24

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

We have one perspective on the language of Donald Trump. For years now, the former president's blunt talk has won praise from supporters and from himself.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

DONALD TRUMP: I used to use the word incompetent. Now I just call them stupid. I went to an Ivy League school. I'm very highly educated. I know words. I have the best words. I have the - but there's no better word than stupid.

INSKEEP: In this campaign, the 78-year-old former president has faced questions about his rambling public statements , like his 90-minute convention speech or the answers in his much-criticized debate this week. At a recent campaign rally, Trump sought to explain his style .

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TRUMP: You know, I do the weave. You know what the weave is? I'll talk about, like, nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together. And it's like - and friends of mine that are, like, English professors - they say, it's the most brilliant thing I've ever seen.

INSKEEP: Some critics have framed the weave as a sign of mental decline .

The linguist John McWhorter sees it differently. He is a professor at Columbia University and wrote about the weave in The New York Times.

JOHN MCWHORTER: The idea that Trump has that what he's doing is this kind of jaunty character trait called the weave is interesting. And he's not completely out of his mind on that, in that most of us are not as organized in how we manage topics in the heat of a casual conversation. I mean, casual speech is much less tidy than we often think. But when I listen to Trump, what I hear is a kind of verbal narcissism . And what I mean by that is that very often, the connection between point A and point B is something that's very difficult to understand. You have to almost parse it as if it was something in the Talmud, whereas it makes sense to him.

In other words, he can't be bothered to make the connection for us . He's not speaking to us, trying to communicate with us in any real way beyond, you know, the very primal aspect of it. He could be this way at 25. There are people who talk that way at 20. I don't think it's dementia. I think that it's a more elemental problem with his nature, which perhaps has gotten worse as he's gotten older, but I think it's less a matter of his aging than the fact that he knows he can get away with it.

INSKEEP: Trump was asked, what specific policy or law you would support that would be good for child care in America.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

TRUMP: But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I'm talking about, that because - look, child care is child care - couldn't, you know, it's something - you have to have it. In this country, you have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I'm talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they're not used to, but they'll get used to it very quickly. And it's not going to stop them from doing business with us, but they'll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we're talking about, including child care.

INSKEEP: What did you make of that particular passage?

MCWHORTER: One, it displays that he's inside of his own head, where we have to work to understand why, suddenly, he's talking about tariffs. But then once you get that what he's saying is that we'll get so much money from tariffs that it'll take care of child care, there is a great deal of evidence that we would not make that much money from tariffs and that it wouldn't be a good thing for the individual taxpayer. And then, two, what you can see is that he doesn't know anything about the child care issue, and it's rather predictable that that sort of thing wouldn't interest him. But that passage alone is beautiful evidence, like a framed picture, of why he is unfit for office .

INSKEEP: I'm trying to think of the most sympathetic way to interpret this in the way that Trump seems to interpret it and put it to you so that you can respond. I suppose he may be thinking of himself the way that a stand-up comedian would. A brilliant stand-up comedian might do this, might have several plotlines that all come together at the end. Is that, in fact, what he may be doing?

MCWHORTER: (Laughter) No. I mean, what he's describing does sound rather deft, as if he's just juggling a whole bunch of things because perhaps he's such a fertile mind. But really, what happens is he thinks of a second, and that makes him think of a third. Then he has to make some off-handed remark. And then usually, he then jumps rather parenthetically back to the first thing. That's not weaving. That's rambling, the verbal equivalent of somebody being extremely drunk.

INSKEEP: John McWhorter is a linguist, a professor at Columbia University and an opinion writer for The New York Times. Always a pleasure to talk with you, sir.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
15.2.1  Tessylo  replied to  CB @15.2    4 days ago
INSKEEP: I'm trying to think of the most sympathetic way to interpret this in the way that Trump seems to interpret it and put it to you so that you can respond. I suppose he may be thinking of himself the way that a stand-up comedian would. A brilliant stand-up comedian might do this, might have several plotlines that all come together at the end. Is that, in fact, what he may be doing? MCWHORTER: (Laughter) No. I mean, what he's describing does sound rather deft, as if he's just juggling a whole bunch of things because perhaps he's such a fertile mind. But really, what happens is he thinks of a second, and that makes him think of a third. Then he has to make some off-handed remark. And then usually, he then jumps rather parenthetically back to the first thing. That's not weaving. That's rambling, the verbal equivalent of somebody being extremely drunk.

Exactly what I've been thinking - he thinks he's Larry David/Jerry Seinfeld - that was genius how he actually weaved all the plotlines together, not what the brain dead former 'president' is doing.  

I love McWhorter's response - awesome -.............................. 'the verbal equivalent of somebody being extremely drunk' 

 
 
 
CB
Professor Principal
15.2.2  CB  replied to  Tessylo @15.2.1    4 days ago

Crooked Don is ' The Con. ' - A new television series larger than life starring Donald J. Trump as himself! jrSmiley_91_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
15.3  Tessylo  replied to  TᵢG @15    4 days ago

Just about everything he says is pepped with those fillers...and the like...

 
 

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