Pro Tip: If you find yourself bleating, "But he literally said that," you are demonstrating that you don't understand how words work. Meaning requires context. It never matters what someone LITERALLY said. It only matters what they meant, which context can help you discern.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
I watched the full briefing and saw the words spoken in context. He literally said it and meant it. And it was disastrously dumb.
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Replying to @BrianNormoyle
“Literally said it” is how you signal that you don’t know how words work. In context, it was obvious he was not talking about mainlining Clorox and Lysol. You are not that dumb.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
I’ll clarify the comment: I saw the full briefing and watched his words spoken in context. He meant what he said literally, not sarcastically. And it was disastrously dumb. You know it but defend the indefensible anyway. No matter; history is rarely kind to imbecility.
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Replying to @BrianNormoyle
Your public declaration that you can read the mind of a stranger, and you saw 2+2=9 in there, is noted. I will perform the same feat of magic and declare that I can read your mind and you are not so dumb as to think a president publicly recommended drinking Clorox. Am I wrong?
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
The video is there for anyone to observe the stupidity of what he said. Mind-reading isn’t required. If there’s a good explanation or justification for it outside his ham-handed “sarcasm” excuse, I haven’t seen it.
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Replying to @BrianNormoyle
You’re probably a smart guy, so my best guess of what is happening is that you are locked in a fake news silo of the left. You have to see the right’s debunking to know how bad it is.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
If his videotaped comments were as innocuous as you suggest I question why he walked them back as sarcasm the next day and falsely framed them as a question to a reporter, rather than a question to Dr. Birx et al. He didn’t suggest injections but what he said was plainly stupid.
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Replying to @BrianNormoyle
Same reason he once said, “Only Rosie O’Donnell.” Engaging in the topic would have been branded lying and created endless clips on the topic. Brushing it away as sarcastic takes energy out of the story and runs out the clock. I learned this method in Media Training.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
It seems you concede the disingenuousness of it. If he meant it, he showed monstrous ineptitude; if he was being sarcastic to own the libs/media, he was playing at games during a presidential briefing on an emerging pandemic and public health crisis. It isn’t really defensible.
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You should take a class in media relations. (I have.) Then compare his "Only Rosie O'Donnell" move with his "I was being sarcastic" move. One learns how to change the topic to avoid creating more targets for the press. That's all it was in both cases. Fact-checking it is dumb.
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