That’s my point. Grift isn’t the correct term to use for that argument. But he’s heard it, he’ll use it, then we’ll have a bunch more people roaming around saying anything is grifting.
And they do the news. How does one grift the news without immediately being fact checked and called out? I can’t fathom a possible scam or swindle scenario.
“Another exclusive, Tom. We learn chickens are telepathic so we’re going live to get the opinions on the egg crisis with resident telepath, Kim Donovan. But only if Congress approves more funding, so write in those letters.”
I think it could be more tactical than simply not using the correct word. Trump has been a grifter his whole life; selling people things and not delivering on them…entering into contracts and not honoring his side of the agreement.
Being a grifter is a pervasive and consistent theme in his life, so when he accuses others of grifting, it indirectly softens those same accusations when levied at him.
Yeah, so he’s heard the term, got upset by it, and sent it back out on others to upset them. Like when a tankie calls a tankie a tankie but neither of them are tankies, they just know from personal experience people don’t like being called a tankie so tankies are now anyone but them. Next thing you know, a mindless mob are calling things like public new media channels tankies grifters.
That’s my point. Grift isn’t the correct term to use for that argument. But he’s heard it, he’ll use it, then we’ll have a bunch more people roaming around saying anything is grifting.
And they do the news. How does one grift the news without immediately being fact checked and called out? I can’t fathom a possible scam or swindle scenario.
“Another exclusive, Tom. We learn chickens are telepathic so we’re going live to get the opinions on the egg crisis with resident telepath, Kim Donovan. But only if Congress approves more funding, so write in those letters.”
I think it could be more tactical than simply not using the correct word. Trump has been a grifter his whole life; selling people things and not delivering on them…entering into contracts and not honoring his side of the agreement.
Being a grifter is a pervasive and consistent theme in his life, so when he accuses others of grifting, it indirectly softens those same accusations when levied at him.
Yeah, so he’s heard the term, got upset by it, and sent it back out on others to upset them. Like when a tankie calls a tankie a tankie but neither of them are tankies, they just know from personal experience people don’t like being called a tankie so tankies are now anyone but them. Next thing you know, a mindless mob are calling things like public new media channels
tankiesgrifters.