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

[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.

[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.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@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.