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"the media has a role in formenting division" (Original Post)
milestogo
Aug 2017
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I'm quoting from Trump's speech last night, in which he invented the word formenting.
milestogo
Aug 2017
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Shandris
(3,447 posts)1. He meant fermenting, because everything the media touches is soured. :-P n/t
longship
(40,416 posts)2. What's "formenting"???
milestogo
(22,792 posts)3. I think he meant "fomenting".
But contrary to what he has told us, he does not always have "the best words".
ck4829
(37,500 posts)4. If you believe that, then you're.... dermented
Because it was the media, not the people who said now it's the liberals "turn to suffer", 'joking' about throwing Jewish people into ovens, cheering on banning transgender people from the armed forces, discriminating against Muslims, waving Nazi and Confederate flags, etc. Sure.
milestogo
(22,792 posts)5. I'm quoting from Trump's speech last night, in which he invented the word formenting.
ok now I see what you did there
ck4829
(37,500 posts)6. I know, I know.
I was trying to join in.
Edit: Cool.
unblock
(56,071 posts)7. He clearly meant "formanting" i.e., breaking a complex sound into resonant frequencies.
It should come as no surprise that donnie would be highly sophisticated in the area of sound engineering and analysis
