• DeviantOvary@reddthat.com
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    4 days ago

    Back during his first presidency, I watched I think it was Mars rover landing. There was a press conference after the successful touchdown where he was speaking. At this point I knew the man was a stupid POS, but I’d never actually heard him speak for more than 10 seconds.

    Whoo boy. Not only was his body language and cadence annoying, he was talking absolute, mindless nonsense. I clicked off the stream and decided to come back later to catch actually smart people talking. Joke’s on me. Literally – in the original meaning of the word – an hour later he was still babbling nonsense. I was genuinely shocked at how much and for how long this man could talk with zero substance or coherence. The fact that so many people think he “says it as it is” either tells me these people a) never heard him speak for longer than 10 seconds, b) never actually listened with understanding, but just nodded along because he’s not a “lib’rul” or c) are actually genuinely so dumb, but by some incredible stroke of luck they’ve survived long enough to vote for him.

    • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      The answer is that Trump’s speech works for the new reason why empty new age platitudes work. Not because they say something interesting, but because they sound like they might.

      People aren’t hearing Trump speak because he’s not saying anything, they’re hearing what they want to hear in the word salad.