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

William Lindsey :toad:

@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.

William Lindsey :toad:

@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.

William Lindsey :toad:

@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.

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@i_gvf Yes, I agree.

William Lindsey :toad:

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

William Lindsey :toad:

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

William Lindsey :toad:

@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?

William Lindsey :toad:

@TheDailyBurble I wonder how one amplifies a word salad.

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@jetton @MishaVanMollusq

Yes, a hell of a job, I hear.

William Lindsey :toad:

@FloydyStu I couldn't agree more.

William Lindsey :toad:

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

William Lindsey :toad:

@MishaVanMollusq Good quote.

William Lindsey :toad:

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

William Lindsey :toad:

@mastodonmigration @futurebird Absolutely.

Cabbidges

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

lolonurse

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

William Lindsey :toad:

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

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@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.

Cabbidges

@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.

Cabbidges

@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.