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sarchasm

(1,179 posts)
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 08:41 AM 21 hrs ago

The Weave

It’s really “bob and weave” isn’t it? Definition from Cambridge Dictionary. …verbatim.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/bob-and-weave#google_vignette

bob and weave
idiom mainly US (UK usually duck and weave)

to move quickly up and down and from side to side, usually in order to avoid hitting or being hit by something:

• He went on a run through midfield, bobbing and weaving around defenders.

• You'll see publicists behind the stars, cellphone in hand, bobbing and weaving when photographers are near to keep themselves out of the spotlight.


to repeatedly avoid answering questions or dealing with a situation:

•If you try to bob and weave and avoid answering, to the voters it's a turn off.

•After 11 years of bobbing and weaving, of partial, hesitant reform, the government may finally have to act.






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The Weave (Original Post) sarchasm 21 hrs ago OP
When tRump thinks he's weaving it's hard not to be heaving Blue Owl 21 hrs ago #1
I thought "the weave" True Dough 21 hrs ago #2
Ditto. littlemissmartypants 19 hrs ago #10
Yes, another example of his low IQ. ms liberty 21 hrs ago #3
Pure machismo sarchasm 18 hrs ago #21
I'ma snatch his weave JustAnotherGen 21 hrs ago #4
You're so funny! littlemissmartypants 19 hrs ago #11
I think he is referencing the combining of threads to create a fabric. Gore1FL 20 hrs ago #5
His handlers still think they can teach him things. He still takes their words and mixes them into unrecognizable mush Attilatheblond 18 hrs ago #16
Absolutely. Gore1FL 18 hrs ago #17
Very accurate. Dark n Stormy Knight 6 hrs ago #22
I'm sure that's the concept he's trying to convey, because he thinks it makes him sound intelligent. bluesbassman 18 hrs ago #20
The scary thing is, he thinks it proves he's a genius William Seger 20 hrs ago #6
It's not... littlemissmartypants 19 hrs ago #12
Agreed ProfessorGAC 18 hrs ago #19
"I don't want to do that." Kid Berwyn 20 hrs ago #7
The thing on DonOLD's head Historic NY 20 hrs ago #8
next level bullshit jcgoldie 20 hrs ago #9
It ought to be referred to as "The Drool." (nt) Paladin 19 hrs ago #13
More like the evade moniss 19 hrs ago #14
So Trump thinks he's weaving when he's really bobbing... ananda 18 hrs ago #15
Mental health professionals call it "circumstantial speech" and it's a sign of mental impairment btw usregimechange 18 hrs ago #18

ms liberty

(9,729 posts)
3. Yes, another example of his low IQ.
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 08:58 AM
21 hrs ago

Someone smarter and with better comprehension would have discarded using "the weave" because they would have understood that the phrase begins with either "bob" or "duck" and the meaning is to shrink from or avoid.
It's another case of the Orange Man grifting so hard that he reveals himself.

sarchasm

(1,179 posts)
21. Pure machismo
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 11:42 AM
18 hrs ago

His machismo (another word that is accurately applicable to this horrible person) won't let him realize that we are all on to this backward imbecile's severe projection.

Early voting starts here today, and I cannot wait to vote all the way down the blue column!

Gore1FL

(21,686 posts)
5. I think he is referencing the combining of threads to create a fabric.
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 09:37 AM
20 hrs ago

He's an idiot, and he isn't doing it, but that is what he is referencing.

Attilatheblond

(3,970 posts)
16. His handlers still think they can teach him things. He still takes their words and mixes them into unrecognizable mush
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 11:25 AM
18 hrs ago

Then he tries to spit out their lessons, but since he never understands what they say, and he's too dumb to know he never understands, he spews out their talking points all wrong. 'The weave' is the excuse they offer for his insane ramblings and then he does repeat 'weave' like he is some genius storyteller. "Weave" is the latest crutch for his badly limping mind.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,977 posts)
22. Very accurate.
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 11:55 PM
6 hrs ago

He's such a blatant bullshitter who understands little of substance. I will never understand how anyone can listen to him and not see that!

bluesbassman

(19,739 posts)
20. I'm sure that's the concept he's trying to convey, because he thinks it makes him sound intelligent.
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 11:41 AM
18 hrs ago

The problem for him of course is that anyone with an IQ above room temperature hears what he says and realizes immediately that there is no story being woven together, he's simply Gish galloping his ass off repeating his same shop worn tropes, cliches, and stereotypes.

William Seger

(10,950 posts)
6. The scary thing is, he thinks it proves he's a genius
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 09:42 AM
20 hrs ago

DonOld apparently thinks his disjointed ramblings all "come together" to make some kind of point, and that people tell him he's a genius for doing it. Back in 2016, psychiatrists were saying that a malignant narcissistic personality disorder is not a mental illness, no matter how severe. However, losing contact with reality is certainly a mental illness: The ramblings themselves, his belief that they indicate superior intelligence, and the imaginary friends telling him they do just that are all part of DonOld's advancing dementia.

littlemissmartypants

(24,695 posts)
12. It's not...
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 10:46 AM
19 hrs ago

an either/or proposition for his psychological state. It is always a gestalt. Three things can be true at once. Such things are assessed on a scale, an axis.*

I just want ONE (so-called) journalist to ask him to define the word 'cognitive' the next time he uses it in a sentence.

I also wish we had a dartboard here with his face on it and we could all take turns throwing and keeping score.

❤️

*The Multi-Axial System in the DSM-IV
https://www.verywellmind.com/five-axes-of-the-dsm-iv-multi-axial-system-1067053

ProfessorGAC

(69,175 posts)
19. Agreed
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 11:40 AM
18 hrs ago

He even said experts were impressed by that ability.
But, real experts in linguistics & presentation say its a horrible way to make a point, so nobody who told him how "brilliant" that is was not an expert.
Besides, he rarely gers back around to making the original point, so that part is a lie, too.

Kid Berwyn

(17,504 posts)
7. "I don't want to do that."
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 09:46 AM
20 hrs ago

1.) Answer questions.
2.) Be held responsible.
3.) Share plans.

Which shows what TSF knows:

1.) Nothing.
2.) How to avoid accountability.
3.) What he plans is unspeakable.

jcgoldie

(11,912 posts)
9. next level bullshit
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 09:59 AM
20 hrs ago

He does it whenever he can see he's rambling and completely losing people now...
"Hey I'm not babbling nonsense, you just can't keep up because I'm a genius!"

Sure uncle don its time for bed...

moniss

(5,321 posts)
14. More like the evade
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 11:18 AM
19 hrs ago

and he would seem to fit this on several levels which according to Merriam-Webster are:

transitive verb

1 : to elude by dexterity or stratagem
2 a: to avoid facing up to "evaded the real issues"
b : to avoid the performance of : dodge, circumvent especially : to fail to pay (taxes)
c : to avoid answering directly : turn aside

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