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"Popular vote" is the not universally understood term.
It's probably more lack of experience than insanity. A seasoned politician can talk the pants off an interviewer without saying anything. In time, Trump should be able to develop a similar skill. |
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24th April 2017, 06:35 AM | #126 |
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I remain underwhelmed to the point of mild disgust by "professionals" who publicly diagnose peopl they haven't examined.
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24th April 2017, 06:44 AM | #131 |
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Sometimes people claiming insanity of another are lying for political reasons, other times they are telling the absolute truth. Same for psychiatrists........
With trumpf most actions and responses and decisions seem to most rational persons to indicate some above mid-level mental incompetence. Or highly id-level functionality. |
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And possibly both!!!
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Really?
No, he is trying to convince the interviewer that he doesn't watch TV shows that are critical of him but gets himself in a bind because he had just said that he does. He almost seems to be implying that he's developed a psychic sense of when not to watch, but at any rate he wants us to be impressed that he's "developed this ability" to not watch himself being criticized. WTF? There's more to it than the simple fact that he's lying, again (one insider says he "hate-watches" critical shows late at night while on the phone with friends, and that he does still watch at least the beginning of Morning Joe to see if they're talking about him). There's more to it than the fact that he irrationally considers anything critical to be "fake news." In denying that he even watches such shows, he's apparently become hyper-sensitive to criticism about being hyper-sensitive to criticism. His only defense is denial, but denying that it bothers him isn't enough; he wants us to believe that it can't bother him because he doesn't even watch it. Who is he really trying to convince -- us or himself? Would a sane person really expect either to work? |
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'i didn't think i would lose the ability to stop watching anything about myself'
is this... i mean apart from calling it an ability... am i ... |
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It's a different ball game when you are a politician.
I actually understood that he doesn't like CNN in that interview. A true politician would never have given away so much information in an interview. They know that every word they utter is potentially a weapon for their opponents. |
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The interest here isn't whether he speaks strategically. It is whether he speaks coherently at all. This is both in terms of syntax (the man cannot utter a sentence even approaching grammatical correctness and coherence) and in terms of the broader picture (in a short snippet of interview, he both confirms and denies watching CNN in one breath).
You're pretending that we're talking about how he fails to respond like a seasoned politician, when in fact we're talking about inability to speak like an adult and the appearance of an addled mind. |
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Just tried reading the annotated AP interview with Trump at The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.c6bee54cf503 That is some kinda talent, there. Interweaving three sentences into one. |
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Affectation of ignorance ("I don't understand you therefore you must be talking nonsense") is one of the ways you can dishonestly deflect a question. Good politicians know all the tricks.
Actually, I have known of a number of politicians who didn't appear to talk well in interviews. Some stuttered, some swore, some had nervous ticks etc. They provided great fodder for stand up comedians but some had very successful careers. So Trump botching an interview doesn't really prove anything one way or another. |
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It can't be syphilis.
Remember, Trump's "Personal Vietnam" was his ability to avoid STDs in the 70s. http://people.com/politics/trump-boa...sonal-vietnam/ “It’s amazing, I can’t even believe it. I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider,” Trump said in the interview when Howard Stern asked how he handled making sure he wasn’t contracting STDs from the women he was sleeping with. The business-mogul-turned-politician elaborated on the fact in the interview, calling women’s vaginas “potential landmines” and saying “there’s some real danger there.” |
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Yeah but this isn't your standard political speech, where you remain rather vague or maintain plausible deniability. We're talking about a man who just cannot speak for lengths of time in a way that is coherent unless he has a teleprompter.
Say what you will about Obama but he never had that problem. Trump sounds more like Palin. |
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I have already discussed poor political speakers above. Sometimes it is a liability and sometimes it has no effect on their ability to get things done. In a few cases (though definitely not in Trump's case) a quirky manner of speaking can even endear a politician to the voters.
At the end of the day, it is what happens when the mike is switched off that matters most. |
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I am reminded of the old SNL Reagan Mastermind skit, for some reason.
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