Which was, literally, a joke.https://twitter.com/soledadobrien/status/994971174982516736 …
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
That is revisionist history. He didn’t say it in a joking manner & his statement was on the heels of President Trump discussing critical comments Senator McCain made about one of his rallies. I rewatched the clip and I didn’t see anything that would indicate he was joking.
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Replying to @davideisaacson
It's your opinion versus a professional humorist with three decades of joke-writing experience who recognizes this as a common joke form. Aaaand I laughed hard the first time I heard it.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
True, I lack any experience as a professional humorist and you have been quite successful in that regard. So as an expert what joke form was expressed here that I missed?
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Replying to @davideisaacson
He reframed the situation from hero to loser in a way your brain reflexively recognizes as simultaneously "true but false." It uses two of the six dimensions of humor: clever and mean. More here:https://bit.ly/2FJsoQg
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
Read the article but don’t personally see the connection. One, and this is just me, I didn’t view it as a “true but false” I just saw it as a petty insult from a man who didn’t serve or sacrifice. I get the ‘mean’ part (only a hero cause he was captured), where was the clever?
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Replying to @davideisaacson
Reframing him as a loser because he got caught. It is not a valid point, but it is a clever in the nonsensical way of humor.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
What you’re saying IS possible, maybe POTUS has a dark/mean sense of humor and this was him joking, but nothing you’ve said leads me to believe it’s probable. First, context matters. He was “punching back” at McCain for comments the Senator made about his supporters. This... /1
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Read Win Bigly for more context. The NY sense of humor is tougher than the Minnesota version.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays @davideisaacson
Nice try to hawk your book. A couple more sales would raise it to 6,765,991 on the best sellers' list.
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Now that’s a joke!
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