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tgards79

(1,463 posts)
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 09:48 AM Oct 2016

BTRTN Debate #3: Trump is Victim of His Own White Noise

Last night Donald Trump needed a big win to reverse his campaign's death spiral. Instead, the campaign that began with a downward escalator ride finally hit rock bottom:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2016/10/debate-3-trump-is-victim-of-his-own.html

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BTRTN Debate #3: Trump is Victim of His Own White Noise (Original Post) tgards79 Oct 2016 OP
An interesting linquistic analysis reggieandlee Oct 2016 #1

reggieandlee

(872 posts)
1. An interesting linquistic analysis
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 02:30 PM
Oct 2016

...Donald Trump seasons his every sentence with hyperbolic language: “So stupid.” “A total disaster.” “Massively terrible.” “You should be ashamed of yourself.”“The worst deal in history.” When every single utterance is phrased in the extreme, he deadens the impact of his own words.

His constant paeans to the wonder of his own magnificence, coupled with his high-decibel verbal excesses in slandering his opponents have simply become white noise that no one really hears.

So last night, the only way Donald Trump could break through the white noise of his own rhetoric and hyperbole was to attack the essential notion of American democracy itself..."

Good stuff!!

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