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When I mentioned Doctor Hannibal Lecter. I'm using that as an example of people that are coming in from Silence of the Lambs.
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Trump: I don't think I've ever said this before. So we do these rallies. They're massive rallies. Everybody loves, everybody stays till the end. By the way, you know, when she said that, well, your rallies people leave. Honestly, nobody does. And if I saw them leaving, I'd say, and ladies and gentlemen make America great again and I'd get the hell out, ok? Because I don't want people leaving. But I do have to say so I give these long sometimes very complex sentences and paragraphs but they all come together. I do it a lot. I do it with raising cane. That story. I do it with the story on the catapults on the aircraft carriers. I do it with a lot of different stories. When I mentioned Doctor Hannibal Lecter. I'm using that as an example of people that are coming in from Silence of the Lambs. I use it. They say it's terrible. So they say so I'll give this long complex area for instance that I talked about a lot of different territory You know, for a town hall, there's a lot of people but the fake news likes to say, the fake news likes to say, oh, he was rambling. No, no, that's not rambling. That's genius. When you can connect the dots. Now, now, Sarah, if you couldn't connect the dots, you got a problem. But every dot was connected and many stories were told in that little paragraph
newdeal2
(581 posts)Somewhere an English professor is laughing
wnylib
(23,650 posts)in language arts classes who are either laughing or scratching their heads and saying, "Huh?"
Think. Again.
(15,606 posts)wnylib
(23,650 posts)that their parents would ptefer that they didn't.
But I was responding to a post about English professors laughing at Trump's word salad. The point of my post was that even children would recognize that it was nonsense and laugh at it.
delisen
(6,332 posts)A tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.
wnylib
(23,650 posts)it applies so well, too, to the orange one.
" 'Tis a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
AZ8theist
(6,134 posts)allegorical oracle
(2,818 posts)"coming in from Silence of the Lambs"?
nikatnyte
(304 posts)If you don't think so, please interpret that insane jumble of words and tell me what kind of sense it makes. People are coming in from The Silence of the Lambs? What on earth does that mean? What "dots" are there to connect? Holy Crap is right.
2naSalit
(90,847 posts)It proves that he really is confusing insane asylums with political asylum, he thinks the immigrants want to be put back in insane asylums but we are sending them out into the rest of the country. He really thinks this.
wnylib
(23,650 posts)Does he mean the movie, Raising Cain? Spelled Cain, not Cane.
Catapults on aircraft carriers - Is that from another movie? Or is it from his ridiculous July 4th speech about the Continental Army protecting the airports?
I think that he knows that he's losing whatever mental marbles he has and is trying to explain it away as a sign of genius. But his explanations only confirm for us that his cognitive decline is accelerating.
Mosby
(17,002 posts)Seriously though, he learned somewhere that the new catapults on air craft carriers are electromagnetic, not steam powered and he thinks if it's raining they won't work.
2naSalit
(90,847 posts)Added on components, he's been on the asylum thing since the escalator ride.
You could be right that he might know he's losing it and trying to cover. It's good to recall how the media covered for saint ronnie when his Alzheimer's was really kicking in. This is the same only worse.
woodsprite
(12,086 posts)We have one around here. It only sells chicken fingers in quantities of 2 to 100. Their boxed meal is fingers, coleslaw, Texas toast, and French fries served with Canes sauce (basically a mix of ketchup, mayo, and ground pepper).
tetedur
(950 posts)Dan Razin Caine
Caine allegedly told Trump that ISIS was not tough, but they just dont let us do our job. The general then went on to promise the then-president that ISIS could be defeated in a matter of four weeks, per Trumps retelling Saturday, which was nearly identical to how he told the story back in 2019. Trumps advisers allegedly told him at the time it would take four years.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2882237/man-behind-trump-plan-eradicate-isis-4-weeks/
wnylib
(23,650 posts)at least now I have some frame of reference for "raising cane."
DJ Synikus Makisimus
(542 posts)More verbal diarrhea from Trump's oral sphincter.
Docreed2003
(17,475 posts)It proves the point we've been making for a while that he thinks asylum equates to "insane asylum"
2naSalit
(90,847 posts)Tirade proves, to me, that he really does not know the difference.
wnylib
(23,650 posts)in their home countries and coming to the US because we have the best asylums.
Bristlecone
(10,349 posts)No doubt about it.
The Third Doctor
(346 posts)Solly Mack
(91,712 posts)Yeah, ok. Genius? Sure. Whatever you rambling blowhard.
brush
(56,331 posts)plan for 50k small business aid, 25k aid for home down payments, 6k aid for first child to parents...oh so much policy delineation, trump.
Your weaving word salad wins the night.
Solly Mack
(91,712 posts)hatrack
(60,309 posts)Solly Mack
(91,712 posts)rsdsharp
(9,830 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(12,317 posts)Meanwhile the orange jackass gets a pass
spanone
(137,251 posts)Why is she in Michigan??
yardwork
(63,362 posts)I can't think of too many instances where a governor led a political rally in another state. It seems rude.
Jack Valentino
(436 posts)so poorly delivered that no one understood what point you were trying to make, without this explanation---
(and indeed most of us presumed that there was NO point at all,
just more of your incoherent blathering...)
So THANK YOU for explaining to the American people
that you are even WORSE than we thought,
if that is possible, which it apparently is.
By the way, Hannibal is still waiting for your RSVP on his dinner invitation!
What's for dinner? Dog, cat, or YOU ??
Wiz Imp
(421 posts)if the purpose of bringing him up is to compare immigrants to him, then why does he always call him the late, great Hannibal Lecter. Immigrants are bad, but the horrible man you are comparing them to is great? Huh? He seems to talk admiringly of Hannibal Lecter so what is the point. None of it makes any sense. I know. I know. It's Trump. it only makes sense to the brain dead cult members who think everything Trump says is brilliant even it's total gibberish.
Jack Valentino
(436 posts)I don't claim that his monologue makes any sense at all.
lastlib
(24,390 posts)Tarc
(10,532 posts)...at its core a tale of a woman finding and honing her inner strength to navigate multiple male-dominated spheres of influence and control. From Crawford's FBI to Chilton's hospital to Lecter's aura.
Phenomenal film, even better novel..
Backseat Driver
(4,555 posts)therefore, do a "quid pro quo" with Lecter, therefore revealing her dark secret PTSD from her monstrous bedtime childhood experience that she's long been challenged to overcome in her mind. The folks are coming into those rallies to hear the tough guy raise Cain (act in an aggressive, troublesome fashion--amazingly enough, a Biblical reference) but they are scared of their own monsters in the dark (Clarice's PTSD from her bedtime childhood experience when the lambs were all finally slaughtered and silenced from their screams). That's what he does and he's chuckling all the way to the bank because he thinks it's his genius by which he's lost those pesky inhibitions.
I don't recall his catapult on aircraft carriers reference; is he confusing it with the drag line & shute to slow down before going sliding overboard on descent?
allegorical oracle
(2,818 posts)Think. Again.
(15,606 posts)It's like when we get trolls here on DU that highjack a discussion and start posting complex responses that go off in all sorts of different directions and bring in all sorts of barely related new topics, with the intent of distracting and diverting from the OP discussion topic.
He's trolling.
Blue Owl
(53,750 posts)IbogaProject
(3,328 posts)A legend in his own mind.
lastlib
(24,390 posts)make him stay after school and DIAGRAM that sentence! He'll be there til he's old enough to graduate!
calimary
(83,446 posts)Martin68
(24,051 posts)dweller
(24,444 posts)Martin68
(24,051 posts)The man is severely demented.
littlemissmartypants
(23,725 posts)It is characteristic of this...
Logorrhea (psychology)
This article is about the psychological term. For the linguistic and stylistic term, see Verbosity.
In psychology, logorrhea or logorrhoea ( from Ancient Greek ?ό??? logos "word" and ῥέ? rheo "to flow" ) is a communication disorder that causes excessive wordiness and repetitiveness, which can cause incoherency. Logorrhea is sometimes classified as a mental illness, though it is more commonly classified as a symptom of mental illness or brain injury. This ailment is often reported as a symptom of Wernicke's aphasia, where damage to the language processing center of the brain creates difficulty in self-centered speech.
Characteristics
Logorrhea is characterized by "rapid, uncontrollable, and incoherent speech".[1] Occasionally, patients with logorrhea may produce speech with normal prosody and a slightly fast speech rate.[2] Other related symptoms include the use of neologisms (new words without clear derivation, e.g. hipidomateous for hippopotamus), words that bear no apparent meaning, and, in some extreme cases, the creation of new words and morphosyntactic constructions. From the "stream of unchecked nonsense often under pressure and the lack of self-correction" that the patient may exhibit, and their circumlocution (the ability to talk around missing words) we may conclude that they are unaware of the grammatical errors they are making.[3]
Examples of logorrhea
When a clinician said, "Tell me what you do with a comb", to a patient with mild Wernicke's aphasia, which produces the symptom of logorrhea, the patient responded:
What do I do with a comb ... what I do with a comb. Well a comb is a utensil or some such thing that can be used for arranging and rearranging the hair on the head both by men and by women. One could also make music with it by putting a piece of paper behind and blowing through it. Sometimes it could be used in art in sculpture, for example, to make a series of lines in soft clay. It's usually made of plastic and usually black, although it comes in other colors. It is carried in the pocket or until it's needed, when it is taken out and used, then put back in the pocket. Is that what you had in mind?[4]
In this case, the patient maintained proper grammar and did not exhibit any signs of neologisms. However, the patient did use an overabundance of speech in responding to the clinician, as most people would simply respond, "I use a comb to comb my hair."
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More...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logorrhea_(psychology)
tanyev
(43,990 posts)Wednesdays
(19,299 posts)We need to bring that back. They were all a hoot, and would fit TCF to a tee.
Most of them are long gone, but I found one that still works:
https://godammit.com/palin/
orleans
(34,553 posts)thank you!! i'm going through it and thinking i might post some of these on fb -- just for fun
she was quite the spellbinder, wasn't she?
soandso
(407 posts)there are more. I like this one:
I'm ill about the position that America is in, and should not be rewarded, but look at my hair
I could see Trump saying that.
Trump is totally ADHD. I have a friend, in his 70s, who I have known for 50 years and he talks the same way. He also cannot read a book from front to back because his brain can't pay attention long enough. As a result, whatever books he does read, he skips all over that place. I seem to recall seeing a photo from Trump's office where a drawer was open and a bottle of Adderall was in it.
Here's a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who even wrote a book about Trump's issue:
https://www.amazon.com/Recognizing-Adult-ADHD-Attention-Hyperactivity/dp/1949642224
Beetwasher.
(3,112 posts)How? Nothing else needs to be said.
Wednesdays
(19,299 posts)Crowman2009
(2,715 posts)0rganism
(24,382 posts)... mothers with small children would shield their children's eyes as they crossed the street to avoid him, whispering, "Come along dear. Don't stare at the funny old man."
... tourists would pose around him briefly taking selfies, then hurry away.
... locals passing him on their way to work would ask the city council to do something about the annoying madman.
... even the bravest pigeons would keep their distance although occasionally targeting him with feces from above.
Diamond_Dog
(33,793 posts)marble falls
(60,182 posts)Srkdqltr
(7,251 posts)allegorical oracle
(2,818 posts)yardwork
(63,362 posts)"Illegal immigrants are pouring into our country bringing crime and disease. The Democrats are doing this to you. I will protect you. The media tells lies about me, but I'm brave and I keep standing up and telling you the truth. A lot of people are listening. Let's take back our country."
This is what Trump's followers hear. This is what our seemingly reasonable relatives and neighbors think when they tell us "I don't like Trump but I like his policies."
This is what we're up against. It's age-old propaganda against the other.
Fight back. Tell people that you aren't afraid of immigrants.
dalton99a
(83,307 posts)yardwork
(63,362 posts)And it is evil. It is truly just what the Nazis did in the 30s. It's the attitude that allowed slavery to be legal in the U.S. for hundreds of years, and repressive Jim Crow laws for 100 more years. It's the attitude that allowed massive, continent-wide genocide of indigenous people here.
There's a simple way to fight back. Every time you hear someone say "I like his policies," say "I'm not afraid of immigrants. The immigrants I know came here for a better life, just like my ancestors. They work hard. I'm glad they're here."
Imagine if millions of Americans started saying "I'm glad they're here" every time immigrants were mentioned.