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

[thedailyburble@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy It's said so that it can be amplified.

[ordrad@lor.sh]

@wdlindsy @futurebird
"Weaving"

[merelyahut@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy NPR played a snippet of Trump making this statement about "Biden's circles." It sounded absolutely insane. He is truly demented.

[pagan_activist@beige.party]

@wdlindsy

Well, that was quite the rabbit hole.

No, I’m not done.
With the rabbit hole, I mean.

Al was FaceTiming with me while I read my Mastodon to him.

We’ve done much the same thing through out our marriage. I read the news, or we watch, or listen to various sources. Then we discuss it. Some days all day, like Jan 6. The day Diana died. The Challenger explosion.

He watched me, fascinated, as my mind just did its thing. I narrated, of course. He is not at all surprised that I am technically, a socialist and that djt is a full on fascist.

Have to return to the hole. ️

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"When The New York Times released a scathing article on Trump’s rapid mental decline last week, it gave an opening for the rest of the Press to follow suit. We were hoping this would be a turning point, an opportunity for other outlets to hone in on Donald’s brain failures and the fact he is not fit to twist an Oreo. Or dip it in the milk."

~ Scott Dworkin

#Trump #MentalDecline #age #dementia #media #NewYorkTimes
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Press Breaks Record For Worst Week of Coverage Ever

5 more corporate media fails

(www.dworkinsubstack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"But the article came and went, and the corporate media just kept on normalizing Trump’s erratic ranting and raving. And the Times is already back to their old tricks, repeating Donald’s lies and attacking Kamala Harris over fake controversies. This is a major press fail of the highest order. And if Trump were to win, the abysmal coverage of his cognitive decline would be one of the major reasons why."

#Trump #MentalDecline #age #dementia #media #NewYorkTimes
/7

[i_gvf@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy Bottom line, with MSM in decline, how many of them want a return to normality and how many crave more years of eyeball collecting chaos?

[barbramon1@mas.to]

@wdlindsy Better late than ever, I suppose. Unfortunately, trump's decline didn't begin just last week. NY Times should have exposed him much, much earlier, not days before an election.

[deembe@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Does he get out of bed and dress himself unaided? If this is the cream of the Republican political class then the USA has got as Bigly issues as the UK has been left with by our right-wing spanners.

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@wdlindsy @MylesRyden Oh, that makes sense too It was spelled out on the sign, which is consistent with "veiled threat" language; as opposed to the chant I wish would be revived of "I CALL BS" from the "OK, Boomer" era...

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@geonz @MylesRyden I can see where the sign would have wanted to spell it out — clear message. I missed it in using the search function for the thread since that function is very literal-minded and I was searching for BS and not bullshit.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Deembe You're right about that. As to whether he gets out of bed and dresses himself unaided, I can't answer. Fortunately, I have not been in his bedroom.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Barbramon1 I very much agree. And for weeks on end, the New York Times was ranting and raving about Biden's age and purported loss of mental acuity. Funny how that concern vanished when Biden was out of the way and Trump left standing as the oldest presidential candidate in history, and as clearly far gone down the path of dementia.

[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.