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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVerbal Diarrhea
What tRUMP says is often described as "word salad" but to me that is a misnomer.
People with legitimate issues like stroke have "word salad" incidents.
BUT his words are imbued with such a malignant, odorous fumes, it can only be:
VERBAL DIARRHEA
Would you agree?
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Verbal Diarrhea (Original Post)
TigressDem
Dec 2022
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zuul
(14,624 posts)2. Yep, with a side of mob speak.
niyad
(113,259 posts)3. Exactly.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)20. Great minds and all that..... nt
if..fish..had..wings
(662 posts)4. Logorrhea
is the correct term.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)5. Actually Logorrhea follows with a sputter after mental constipation.
But it presents pretty much the same once it begins.
Only the preceding mental log jam of "DOH what was I saying?" marks the difference.
Lettuce Be
(2,336 posts)22. In middle-school English I chose to define logorrhea, diarrhea of the mouth
Seriously, I recall being pretty pleased with myself for the great find!
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)6. Covfeferhea. . . nt
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)17. gesundheit
keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)7. Word salad
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)12. Yeah, but that's often a result of a legitimate disability
He's just been trained to be egotistical about his lack of coherence.
KS Toronado
(17,199 posts)8. Agreed
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)16. It sounds awful, but it is descriptive.
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)9. I guess for me I don't want to think of those words every time he speaks.
Word salad works for me.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)13. I can't listen to him either way.
He stinks up the space.
I can read his words and be objective, but the toxicity is there and too overpowering when I see that orange face.
Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)10. Fitting for such a vulgar, disgusting, lecherous shlub
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)14. Thanks.
fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)11. An Orange Pig with diarrhea of the mouth.
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)15. Exactly