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To: SeekAndFind

He did not say we “should” do that.

But he was “thinking out loud” at the time. I understand what he was doing. You think through a problem and try to make connections. Eisenstein did it when he imagined riding a beam a light through space when trying to come up the theory of relativity.

But, those types of thought processes are best kept behind closed doors until you have worked on them a bit.

That said, he was not being sarcastic at all. And he should have explained what he was really doing. And then stop doing it.

Playing that, without context, is going to add to the perception that he is out of his mind.

Don’t get me wrong. I “get it.” But he needs to stop it.


2 posted on 04/26/2020 6:44:13 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt
Don’t get me wrong. I “get it.” But he needs to stop it.

Agreed.

4 posted on 04/26/2020 6:46:03 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Vermont Lt
Exactly. You can't brainstorm like that on a national stage in front of an extremely hostile and disingenuous press.

He should never have put out a statement that he was being sarcastic. His gut instinct was fine there, but it just wasn't the right place for brainstorming.

15 posted on 04/26/2020 6:55:21 AM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: Vermont Lt

It’s called brain storming. Problem solvers in the real world do that all the time.


19 posted on 04/26/2020 7:12:45 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Vermont Lt

Trump should not be Trump?


30 posted on 04/26/2020 7:45:43 AM PDT by Western Phil
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To: Vermont Lt

[He did not say we “should” do that.

But he was “thinking out loud” at the time. I understand what he was doing. You think through a problem and try to make connections. Eisenstein did it when he imagined riding a beam a light through space when trying to come up the theory of relativity.

But, those types of thought processes are best kept behind closed doors until you have worked on them a bit.

That said, he was not being sarcastic at all. And he should have explained what he was really doing. And then stop doing it.]


I’m gonna have to agree. Brainstorming is not something you do at a press conference in front of a rabidly hostile audience.


39 posted on 04/26/2020 9:30:16 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Trump opened himself up for this. I saw the briefing and it was a dumb a$$ thing to muse about in that venue.


43 posted on 04/26/2020 10:03:27 AM PDT by damper99
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To: Vermont Lt
Eisenstein did it

Do you mean Sergei Eisenstein, the acclaimed Russian director of "The Battleship Potemkin?" I didn't know he dabbled in theoretical physics as well as cinema.

46 posted on 04/26/2020 10:41:43 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Vermont Lt

I made that same point in other posts and was attacked by the Trump-worshippers. The fact is that he sometimes lets his mouth run away with him and he ends up looking either petty or foolish. He needs to restrain his impulsiveness. He’s giving away a lot of ammunition to his (and our) enemies.


47 posted on 04/26/2020 10:44:44 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Vermont Lt

I made that same point in other posts and was attacked by the Trump-worshippers. The fact is that he sometimes lets his mouth run away with him and he ends up looking either petty or foolish. He needs to restrain his impulsiveness. He’s giving away a lot of ammunition to his (and our) enemies.


48 posted on 04/26/2020 10:56:30 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Vermont Lt

Yes, I see what the press is trying to do. They are despicable liars who are anti-American.

But yes, Trump needs to stop it. They are getting him off topic. Also, there are many more of them, and there is only one Trump.

They are trying to wear him down, and they may be doing it.


51 posted on 04/26/2020 12:34:59 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Stop the fearmongering! Post flu statistics along side COVID-19 statistics!)
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