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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Thu Oct 6, 2016, 09:50 AM Oct 2016

A common thread I've noticed in the tRump campaign

I'm sure you have also.

From Pence on down through the surrogates they can't answer any questions hardly.
What they do instead is to try and change the subject with an avalanche of verbal diarrhea. Non-stop talking.

You'll see this in other campaigns also but the degree in which the tRump campaign does this is mind numbing.

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liberal N proud

(60,332 posts)
1. They are pros at diverting the conversation, never answer and keep talking
Thu Oct 6, 2016, 09:53 AM
Oct 2016

They just run out the clock on interviews never giving the interviewer a word while they spread lies.

And their supporters think it's great.

Panich52

(5,829 posts)
2. They either lie or deflect and try to change the subject to one of their fabricated Clinton scandals
Thu Oct 6, 2016, 09:55 AM
Oct 2016

Love the way Joy Ann Reid calls them on this.

ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts)
4. Fast talking is a salesman's tactic
Thu Oct 6, 2016, 09:58 AM
Oct 2016

Talk fast and don't let the customer have time to think! Makes you seem smarter, like you know what you are talking about.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
5. Then know that programming is divided into blocks
Thu Oct 6, 2016, 09:58 AM
Oct 2016

of fixed lengths before the break for the next commercials. If they fill as much of that time as possible with jabber jabber jabber, then there's less time for opposing views and follow-up questions.

BSdetect

(8,995 posts)
6. You have to admire their mental gymnastics
Thu Oct 6, 2016, 10:02 AM
Oct 2016

Could be a new Olympic sport.

They could also add Synchronized Mental Gymnastics as they are all in sync anyway.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. Reportedly Trump is addicted to cable TV political shows,
Thu Oct 6, 2016, 10:12 AM
Oct 2016

and his employees have orders to go on repeat his lies and fantasies, while he watches.

SNL did a great Perky Kellyanne imitation with this, but I suspect their comedy writers just copied and pasted from one of Perky's transcripts.

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