This is what he said. This is what the man said, verbatim, in Detroit last week:

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@i_gvf Yes, I agree.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Pagan_Activist And not even an enjoyable rabbit hole to do down! If you're speaking of Trump's amazingly demented word salad….

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MerelyAHut I agree: truly demented. No way to sanewash or spin this in any other way.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@ordrad @futurebird Isn't that insane? The man claims he's engaging in a brilliant rhetorical tactic called "weaving"? And he claims an English professor told him this?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@TheDailyBurble I wonder how one amplifies a word salad.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@jetton @MishaVanMollusq

Yes, a hell of a job, I hear.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@FloydyStu I couldn't agree more.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse And to make it all more dramatic, he apparently waved circles in the air as he spoke — his tiny hands dramatizing the words.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MishaVanMollusq Good quote.

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@TheDailyBurble @futurebird I wonder how one amplifies a nonsensical world salad.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mastodonmigration @futurebird Absolutely.

[thedailyburble@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy @futurebird Well day after day that day's outrageous statement is on my feed, so I suppose something is working.

[lolonurse@ohai.social]

@wdlindsy
Oh, the tensions & pressure this next 3 weeks are going to be unbearable... 🤯

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse I fear so. We have to find ways, each of us, to keep hope alive and sustain hope in each other, I think.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@TheDailyBurble @futurebird It has been clear all along that Trump's ongoing strategy is to suck up all the air in the room when it comes to the media. We collude in that strategy by repeating what he said. But at the same time, we cannot afford to ignore him and cannot refuse to report and discuss what we said, because he's pre-eminently dangerous to us all.

[thedailyburble@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy @futurebird
Well you can meta it. It's obvious that the daily outrage is for the run up to the election and to drown out his opponent's points. It's a timing thing too. I will not amplify trump at this point he spews to grab a headline and social media attention. What needs amplifying is what he doesn't want to amplify, which requires some thought and a bit of not falling for the obvious trails he sets which just goes to his advantage. I don't know how else to explain it.

[thedailyburble@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy @futurebird I'd suggest (but very quietly because I am unsure) that like all others who aspire to power what he does is a far weaker aspect and better attack point.

[lolonurse@ohai.social]

@wdlindsy
I have hermit/recluse tendencies anyway, and I'm finding myself retreating into the comfort food of my being - music. But I know we do need to encourage each other, & continue the work of convincing younger, more jaded people than ourselves to F*^¥in' VOTE! (I honestly can't understand how any but the very most stupid of people haven't finally seen through the mango monster.)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse It's wonderful that music feeds your soul and allows you to escape. And, yes, absolutely, we have to do all we can to urge the younger folks we know to go out and vote — as if their future and lives depended on it. By they way, and partly vis-a-vis music, have you seen "White Bird"? I found it really wonderful and recommend it.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@TheDailyBurble @futurebird I'm sorry, but I'm not clear as to what you're saying to me here.