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Related: About this forumBizzaro Trump
Trump is bizarre in so many ways that it's difficult to keep track.
At the first debate near the end he said: "I was going to say something extremely rough to Hillary, to her family, and I said to myself I can't do it, I just can't do it. It's inappropriate. It's not nice."
OK, so then Trump and his surrogates praise him and give him credit for "restraint" because he didn't saying something that Trump himself described as inappropriate!!??
So this is the level that the race for the presidency of the United States has descended to?
"Mommy, I was going to pick my nose but I remembered that you said that picking your nose is inappropriate and not nice, so I didn't do it."
"O my, Donald, what a good boy you are!"
Bizarre.
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Bizzaro Trump (Original Post)
ArtD48
Sep 2016
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underpants
(182,626 posts)1. Bizarro Trump could be its own DU Forum
unblock
(52,123 posts)2. except for all practical purposes, he did mention it.
it's like saying "i'm not going to say the word 'shit' because it's a bad word. you might get offended if i say 'shit'. but I've got great restraint. tremendous restraint. more restraint than probably anyone in the world. that's why i'm not going to say the word 'shit'."
he can't say he showed restraint, he can't say he didn't mention it. best he can say is that he didn't *explicitly* say it, he merely made an obvious allusion to it.
Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)3. By talking about how he was not going to talk about it he was talking about it.......
Bizzaro World indeed.
niyad
(113,074 posts)4. and the point is, by saying "I am not talking about it", he IS talking about it, and so
is everybody else.