The language of Trump

[Brian37]

Columbia University professor of linguistics John McWhorter joins to discuss the unique way Donald Trump speaks which is unlike any president America's had before.

Well he's the dumbest and crookedest piece of shit we've ever had as president so it sort of makes sense.

I wouldn't say dumb in every context. He is a great con, and knows how to pander to bigots because he is one. But he is not as smart as Mueller or Obama or even McCain.

Even Reagan and Lincoln would hate the fucker.

[Cyberman]

He is a great con,

The beauty of that is that it works better in French.

[Brian37]

He is a great con,

The beauty of that is that it works better in French.

Please don't insult one of my favorite songs.

[Lucanus]

Columbia University professor of linguistics John McWhorter joins to discuss the unique way Donald Trump speaks which is unlike any president America's had before.

A friend of mine is actually writing her master's thesis about the way Trump speaks. I'll keep you posted if you want

[Angrboda]

It's an interesting discussion, but I don't think his presentation necessarily tells us anything about the validity or invalidity of his politics.

On that score, as I was observing last night, he hasn't been any more effective a leader than Obama was, being unable to get his political ideas enshrined in law, aside from the tax cut. All his major accomplishments have been through appointment or a stroke of the pen. That will have a lasting effect with respect to the supreme court. All the rest of it will go away in time, as him and conservatives of his ilk are replaced by other leaders who aren't so inept at leading and can get their politics reflected in law.

[Brian37]

It's an interesting discussion, but I don't think his presentation necessarily tells us anything about the validity or invalidity of his politics.

On that score, as I was observing last night, he hasn't been any more effective a leader than Obama was, being unable to get his political ideas enshrined in law, aside from the tax cut.  All his major accomplishments have been through appointment or a stroke of the pen.  That will have a lasting effect with respect to the supreme court.  All the rest of it will go away in time, as him and conservatives of his ilk are replaced by other leaders who aren't so inept at leading and can get their politics reflected in law.

UGGGG...... He is the apex of the GOP, but the GOP set him up for decades.

If you can't win on economics, use social issues to divide so that poor and middle class rural whites vilify urban blacks.

It LITERALLY IS the old Daffy Duck cartoon where he pits Foghorn against the beagle and sells boobie traps to both and says, "You better watch out for the other guy".

IT IS ULTIMATELY ABOUT MONEY, and the rich and the right have FOR DECADES used race and social issues to divide the races and the middle class and poor against each other TO PROTECT BILLIONAIRE TAX BREAKS.

The GOP long before Trump ran, has created needless problems, fucked over even their own supporters in favor of billionaires and then offered themselves up as the solution for a needless problem they created.

[Minimalist]

He is a great con,

He isn't a great con.  If he was he wouldn't have been bankrupt and forced to rely on the Russian mob for money.  Don't give him too much credit, man.  He bankrupted a fucking casino.

Great cons are people like the pope or some of these jesus freak megachurch scumbags.  They are GREAT.