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Sunday, December 4, 2016

TBFURMAN: Euphanism

TBFURMAN: Euphanism:

Euphanism

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I do not believe "euphanism" has received enough attention.


The story is over in Slate, but even they whitewashed the fact that Trump not only does not know what a euphemism is, he also does not know how to pronounce the word.

By the way, the whole clip is just batshit. I've known guys like this; they just keep talking and string together nonsense and nobody calls them on it because it's just not worth the effort.

Here's the whole thing. It's a CNN embed code so don't blame me if it doesn't work on your IOS device.



Very, very low intelligence on display there. No internal coherence throughout the whole thing. It's not just a failure to know the meaning and pronunciation of a word; it's the whole I'm going to bully you with my voice thing he's got going. It probably works inside his family, but the Russians or the Chinese or even that little monster running the Philippines---- someone is going to call him on it. He's going to get a lot of people killed before he's done.
It's all such familiar behavior, if you've been 
TBFURMAN: Euphanism: