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Its really bob and weave isnt 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.
Blue Owl
(55,008 posts)True Dough
(21,251 posts)referred to that rat's nest on his head.
littlemissmartypants
(26,076 posts)ms liberty
(9,898 posts)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)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!
JustAnotherGen
(33,958 posts)No joke.
Earrings are coming off right this minute.
littlemissmartypants
(26,076 posts)Gore1FL
(22,025 posts)He's an idiot, and he isn't doing it, but that is what he is referencing.
Attilatheblond
(4,814 posts)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.
Gore1FL
(22,025 posts)I think Trump outsourced his weaving to China and Russia.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,064 posts)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)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)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)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.
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*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)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)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.
Historic NY
(38,184 posts)as he bobs and weaves around questions.
jcgoldie
(12,046 posts)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...
Paladin
(29,074 posts)moniss
(6,258 posts)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
ananda
(31,042 posts)down the dementia rabbithole.