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sarchasm

(1,239 posts)
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 07:41 AM Oct 16

The Weave

It’s really “bob and weave” isn’t it? Definition from Cambridge Dictionary. …verbatim.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/bob-and-weave#google_vignette

bob and weave
idiom mainly US (UK usually duck and weave)

to move quickly up and down and from side to side, usually in order to avoid hitting or being hit by something:

• He went on a run through midfield, bobbing and weaving around defenders.

• You'll see publicists behind the stars, cellphone in hand, bobbing and weaving when photographers are near to keep themselves out of the spotlight.


to repeatedly avoid answering questions or dealing with a situation:

•If you try to bob and weave and avoid answering, to the voters it's a turn off.

•After 11 years of bobbing and weaving, of partial, hesitant reform, the government may finally have to act.






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The Weave (Original Post) sarchasm Oct 16 OP
When tRump thinks he's weaving it's hard not to be heaving Blue Owl Oct 16 #1
I thought "the weave" True Dough Oct 16 #2
Ditto. littlemissmartypants Oct 16 #10
Yes, another example of his low IQ. ms liberty Oct 16 #3
Pure machismo sarchasm Oct 16 #21
I'ma snatch his weave JustAnotherGen Oct 16 #4
You're so funny! littlemissmartypants Oct 16 #11
I think he is referencing the combining of threads to create a fabric. Gore1FL Oct 16 #5
His handlers still think they can teach him things. He still takes their words and mixes them into unrecognizable mush Attilatheblond Oct 16 #16
Absolutely. Gore1FL Oct 16 #17
Very accurate. Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 16 #22
I'm sure that's the concept he's trying to convey, because he thinks it makes him sound intelligent. bluesbassman Oct 16 #20
The scary thing is, he thinks it proves he's a genius William Seger Oct 16 #6
It's not... littlemissmartypants Oct 16 #12
Agreed ProfessorGAC Oct 16 #19
"I don't want to do that." Kid Berwyn Oct 16 #7
The thing on DonOLD's head Historic NY Oct 16 #8
next level bullshit jcgoldie Oct 16 #9
It ought to be referred to as "The Drool." (nt) Paladin Oct 16 #13
More like the evade moniss Oct 16 #14
So Trump thinks he's weaving when he's really bobbing... ananda Oct 16 #15
Mental health professionals call it "circumstantial speech" and it's a sign of mental impairment btw usregimechange Oct 16 #18

ms liberty

(9,898 posts)
3. Yes, another example of his low IQ.
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 07:58 AM
Oct 16

Someone smarter and with better comprehension would have discarded using "the weave" because they would have understood that the phrase begins with either "bob" or "duck" and the meaning is to shrink from or avoid.
It's another case of the Orange Man grifting so hard that he reveals himself.

sarchasm

(1,239 posts)
21. Pure machismo
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 10:42 AM
Oct 16

His machismo (another word that is accurately applicable to this horrible person) won't let him realize that we are all on to this backward imbecile's severe projection.

Early voting starts here today, and I cannot wait to vote all the way down the blue column!

Gore1FL

(22,025 posts)
5. I think he is referencing the combining of threads to create a fabric.
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 08:37 AM
Oct 16

He's an idiot, and he isn't doing it, but that is what he is referencing.

Attilatheblond

(4,814 posts)
16. His handlers still think they can teach him things. He still takes their words and mixes them into unrecognizable mush
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 10:25 AM
Oct 16

Then he tries to spit out their lessons, but since he never understands what they say, and he's too dumb to know he never understands, he spews out their talking points all wrong. 'The weave' is the excuse they offer for his insane ramblings and then he does repeat 'weave' like he is some genius storyteller. "Weave" is the latest crutch for his badly limping mind.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,064 posts)
22. Very accurate.
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 10:55 PM
Oct 16

He's such a blatant bullshitter who understands little of substance. I will never understand how anyone can listen to him and not see that!

bluesbassman

(19,964 posts)
20. I'm sure that's the concept he's trying to convey, because he thinks it makes him sound intelligent.
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 10:41 AM
Oct 16

The problem for him of course is that anyone with an IQ above room temperature hears what he says and realizes immediately that there is no story being woven together, he's simply Gish galloping his ass off repeating his same shop worn tropes, cliches, and stereotypes.

William Seger

(11,149 posts)
6. The scary thing is, he thinks it proves he's a genius
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 08:42 AM
Oct 16

DonOld apparently thinks his disjointed ramblings all "come together" to make some kind of point, and that people tell him he's a genius for doing it. Back in 2016, psychiatrists were saying that a malignant narcissistic personality disorder is not a mental illness, no matter how severe. However, losing contact with reality is certainly a mental illness: The ramblings themselves, his belief that they indicate superior intelligence, and the imaginary friends telling him they do just that are all part of DonOld's advancing dementia.

littlemissmartypants

(26,076 posts)
12. It's not...
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 09:46 AM
Oct 16

an either/or proposition for his psychological state. It is always a gestalt. Three things can be true at once. Such things are assessed on a scale, an axis.*

I just want ONE (so-called) journalist to ask him to define the word 'cognitive' the next time he uses it in a sentence.

I also wish we had a dartboard here with his face on it and we could all take turns throwing and keeping score.

❤️

*The Multi-Axial System in the DSM-IV
https://www.verywellmind.com/five-axes-of-the-dsm-iv-multi-axial-system-1067053

ProfessorGAC

(70,989 posts)
19. Agreed
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 10:40 AM
Oct 16

He even said experts were impressed by that ability.
But, real experts in linguistics & presentation say its a horrible way to make a point, so nobody who told him how "brilliant" that is was not an expert.
Besides, he rarely gers back around to making the original point, so that part is a lie, too.

Kid Berwyn

(18,599 posts)
7. "I don't want to do that."
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 08:46 AM
Oct 16

1.) Answer questions.
2.) Be held responsible.
3.) Share plans.

Which shows what TSF knows:

1.) Nothing.
2.) How to avoid accountability.
3.) What he plans is unspeakable.

jcgoldie

(12,046 posts)
9. next level bullshit
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 08:59 AM
Oct 16

He does it whenever he can see he's rambling and completely losing people now...
"Hey I'm not babbling nonsense, you just can't keep up because I'm a genius!"

Sure uncle don its time for bed...

moniss

(6,258 posts)
14. More like the evade
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 10:18 AM
Oct 16

and he would seem to fit this on several levels which according to Merriam-Webster are:

transitive verb

1 : to elude by dexterity or stratagem
2 a: to avoid facing up to "evaded the real issues"
b : to avoid the performance of : dodge, circumvent especially : to fail to pay (taxes)
c : to avoid answering directly : turn aside

usregimechange

(18,505 posts)
18. Mental health professionals call it "circumstantial speech" and it's a sign of mental impairment btw
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 10:29 AM
Oct 16
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