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ghostsinthemachine

(3,569 posts)
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 11:58 AM Sep 2016

The ten most bizarre moments of 2016 Presidential debate

3. The word saladiness

Trump tossed some of the biggest word salads ever. He threw everything from the fridge and beyond in there. It was unbelievable. Uuuge! He was, in fact, mostly incoherent the entire night. One highly incoherent point came when he was asked about cyber security threats: "I don't think anyone knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She's saying Russia Russia Russia, but I don't. Maybe it was. I mean it could be Russia; it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be someone sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay?"

In addition to word saladiness, there is just the fact that Trump's world is pretty much a logic free zone. This was exhibited in his reponse to whether he has renounced his racist birtherism campaign against President Obama, and what took him so long? The answer is he wants to move on, she started it, and he got Obama to produce his birth certificate, and he's very proud of that. It's an illogical, offensive non-answer. Truly Trumpian! The word salad stems from a brain salad.

4. The weird brags

More at link


http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/10-most-bizarro-moments-debate-and-just-after

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The ten most bizarre moments of 2016 Presidential debate (Original Post) ghostsinthemachine Sep 2016 OP
Hillary's been fighting ISIS her whole life BainsBane Sep 2016 #1
WTF? Proud Liberal Dem Sep 2016 #3
He said it last night BainsBane Sep 2016 #4
Oh yeah. Right Proud Liberal Dem Sep 2016 #5
"It also could be someone sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay?" Motley13 Sep 2016 #2
Thanks! LAS14 Sep 2016 #6
Very good list describing what we experienced last night! Madam45for2923 Sep 2016 #7
This is the point I noticed Maeve Sep 2016 #8

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,409 posts)
3. WTF?
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 12:06 PM
Sep 2016

ISIS has been around for 70+ years? Hillary's been at war with ISIS for her entire life? Even as a baby? Whoa. That's some industrial size crazy there.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,409 posts)
5. Oh yeah. Right
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 12:24 PM
Sep 2016

I couldn't remember her exact age.

That sort of statement sounds like something that could have been in some really bad movie.

Motley13

(3,867 posts)
2. "It also could be someone sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay?"
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 12:03 PM
Sep 2016



I didn't think the maggot was smart enough to hack.


Maeve

(42,281 posts)
8. This is the point I noticed
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 08:02 PM
Sep 2016

7. The temperament thing.

On a night where Trump interrupted, yelled, smirked, was rude to everyone, and incoherent to the point of possibly having a brain aneurysm, he saw fit to claim that he has "the best temperament" of all. Just to clarify, to him this means "because I know how to win." He has the best temperament, because he has the "winning temperament," and "we don't win anymore." This little run-on sentence suggests it is possible that Trump does not know what the word temperament means.

I really don't think he understands the word.

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