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How can paired teleprompters be that fatuous? Making it a contest for which is more dreadful as he pivots from one to the other, and improvises. Is "fatuosity" an actual word, or a concept some have it some not?
OED online
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun fatuosity. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
This word is now obsolete. It is only recorded in the late 1600s.
More than that, "see meaning and use," toggle that and get a subscription wall.
So much for the OED. The phrase "used to be."
Webster - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fatuity -says
fatuity
noun
fa·tu·i·ty fə-ˈtü-ə-tēfa-,-ˈchü--ˈtyü-plural fatuities1a: something foolish or stupidb2archaic : the condition of being affected with intellectual disability or dementia
Crabgrass favors "fatuosity" anyway, but current usage seems "fatuity" when the speaker deserves it. Indeed, "fat-headed fatuity" says it all. While repeating itself.
And he's the President of the United States.
AI, or Steven Miller likely wrote the speech. I'd exempt AI, and take Miller authorship.
And it is all at a Ralph Reed presentation. Knock millions of doors for Jesus.
Poor man. Hung on a cross. And forever after abused by hucksters. Fatuity after fatuity dumped at the foot of the cross. As if what the Romans did was not enough, the torment of faith protestations for benefit goes on and on and on -
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It is easy to stop there. It is enough to make the point, not overkill.
However, bear with me. Irony is its own reward.
Guardian on the Trump speech at the Ralph Reed event -
Donald Trump has previewed a Republican strategy for the midterm elections, seizing on a progressive sweep in New York to portray Democrats as “godless communists” who pose an existential threat to the nation.
The US president, who was a child during the “red scare”, seized on wins by democratic socialists backed by the mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, to stoke fears that the Democratic party has embraced extremism that could lead to the violent persecution of Christians.
Remember that - red scare times, 1956 I-Like-Ike times. Red Scare days.
More -
[...] He focused on Tuesday’s Democratic primary election results in New York, where three leftwing [?] candidates endorsed by Mamdani, a Democratic socialist who is the city’s first Muslim mayor, upset incumbent or establishment rivals.The radical left “want to resume the transgender mutilation of children, they want to restart the war on Christians and churches, and as you saw with the communists elected in New York recently … they want to completely destroy the traditional American way of life,” Trump warned.
[...] Mockingly, the president said as a communist he could give free rent, houses and food, but the country would inevitably fail after two or three years. He said: “Everyone will suffer or die. That’s what happens.”
[...] He described the election winners in New York as “very troubling people” and claimed without evidence that they “want to destroy our country, and they hate our country and our people”.
Republicans have spent months trailing in the polls as voters accuse Trump of breaking his campaign promises to lower prices and keep the US out of foreign wars. But party strategists believe they have spotted an opening in the rise of Mamdani, giving them an opportunity to tag the entire Democratic party with the most extreme views of the left.
Put differently, the bull shits farther and farther to the Right, under the arrow of time, until falling of that edge of the earth by being too enamored with rightwing bullshit rhetoric over truth, first, and a disrespect for what some -indeed many - in the past have regarded as total reasonableness.
Consider:
Heather Cox Richardson, in turn, in addressing the podcast camera almost too tediously lays out what American tradition has been, the place of capitalism as a part of national heritage; Nineteenth Century leading into Twentieth; and a host other present day middle-road liberal ideology of arguably sound but conservative political management and goals - sounding at times too middle of the road from the Crabgrass view; while being of the stripe Trump stands at Ralph Reed's podium to label "marxist" as each of the two teleprompters tell him to say, Dems want to destroy the fabric of the nation.
At great length Richardson sets the table her way, sensibly so, pedantically so, until at about min 40:00 to 40:30 of the video she drops the hammer.
Take your choice, watch it sequentially or go to see the hammer drop first, whichever you've time or inclination to do, but she does construct a consistent coherent verbal structure, something Trump does not know the meaning of and JD shies away from as if it could give him a disease.
(Trump and JD in competition in moving with the bull rightward. Goosing the bull along. Marco a tag-along kid.)
And yes, the bull only moves Rightward, and fools never notice. And lo, we've got a trillionaire calling shots these days. A first. And groceries cost more, surprisingly so?
If you follow up on the Trump - Ralph Reed extravaganza speech, wear hip waders. It gets that deep.

