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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA British friend just sent me the perfect description of a trump* interview.
"Hes a man of many words...but very few coherent sentences."
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A British friend just sent me the perfect description of a trump* interview. (Original Post)
Siwsan
Aug 2020
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No doubt he thinks his word salad comes across as brilliant rather than sad, confusing and pathetic
Siwsan
Aug 2020
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malaise
(269,022 posts)1. Let me describe it in cricket terms - A magnificent cover drive for four
not a man moved!
Siwsan
(26,263 posts)3. No doubt he thinks his word salad comes across as brilliant rather than sad, confusing and pathetic
Listening to it is bad enough. Trying to read it has the potential to cause a brain bleed.
malaise
(269,022 posts)4. a Brain bleed is a perfect description
Squinch
(50,950 posts)2. My father used to say of people who spew nonsense like Donny Bodybags, "He's a talker. Not
much of a sayer, but he's a talker."
dreamland
(964 posts)5. So is this what he didn't want testing?!
So that he can justify his reasons for claiming that there are less deaths per "case" ?! He only wanted a way to validate his numbers and Rumpees will believe him because they are that stupid.
Captain Zero
(6,806 posts)6. Word Salad is a SYMPTOM
He's mental.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)7. Warren G Harding had a word: "bloviation"
He defined it as "the art of speaking for as long as the occasion warrants, and saying nothing". His opponent in the 1920 election, William McAdoo, described it as "the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea."
North Shore Chicago
(3,316 posts)8. Appreciate those of you
who watched this dull display of bullshittery, so some of us didn't have to.
Marcuse
(7,487 posts)9. Like a dull knife just can't cut, you're talking loud and saying nothing.
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)10. Yes, that is an excellent description.
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)11. The many words of an 8 yr old
2naSalit
(86,636 posts)12. But he's...
Texin
(2,596 posts)13. Ya gotta love the Brits. Absolutely dead on perfect description.