"You'll have like a herd mentality.."

[Magical Realist]

More bullshit straight out of his ass. What a pathetic moron.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V36ZA6Q...e_Yc8ReI9Q

[C C]

Surprisingly, he does have a prep team for interviews and debates, but their work is vestigial or ornamental if he doesn't listen to them anymore than advice from the rest of a POTUS entourage.

Trump abysmally seems to feel he's appearing on old comedy shows and wants to mimic Dean Martin's lackadaisical style of zero rehearsal.

Uh, this is politics... making people laugh from the errors of an amateurish production is the opposite of what candidates should be seeking. His anti-intellectual, automatic supporters might be receptive to clumsy "not putting on airs" performances, but the fussy independents he needs to impress and win over can be another matter.

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Dean Martin - The Glass That's Still Half Full: Greg Garrison, the original executive producer of the series [...] pops up at odd intervals to make comments on Martin's way of "working." Martin "never remembered a script. . . . He never read a script," Garrison says admiringly -- but is that really to be admired? Garrison lauds it repeatedly, marveling at Martin's cultivated indifference.

Everybody else, though, has read the script and is trying to maintain nominal standards of professionalism. You wonder how much they really admired Martin's irresponsible approach, dropping by the studio on taping day and finding it so very funny when he or someone else blew a line or made some other mistake. Martin's show may have been a kind of turning point in television, when professionalism started seeming suspect (now, of course, we have shows that star amateurs who advertise their amateurism). But Red Skelton over on CBS also made a career out of fumbling lines and bits of business and of breaking up in hysterics over either his own jokes or his mangling of them.

Wikipedia: Martin was initially reluctant to do the show, partially because he did not want to turn down movie and nightclub performances. His terms were deliberately outrageous: he demanded a high salary and that he need only show up for the actual taping of the show. To his surprise, the network agreed. [...] Martin believed that an important key to his popularity was that he did not put on airs. His act was that of a drunken, work-shy playboy, although the ever-present old-fashioned glass in his hand often only had apple juice in it. The show was heavy on physical comedy rather than just quips (he made his weekly entrance by sliding down a fireman's pole onto the stage.) Martin read his dialogue directly from cue cards. If he flubbed a line or forgot a lyric, Martin would not do a retake, and the mistake—and his recovery from it—went straight to tape and onto the air.

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Trump team plots how to bust Biden in the debates: Among the challenges for Trump is giving himself enough time and space to adequately prepare, especially when the president has never been a big fan of fat briefing books and prefers to make decisions on instinct. “Debates are all about practice, practice, practice, and Trump does not like to do that,” said Ed Rollins, chair of the pro-Trump Great America PAC. “He needs to spend a lot of time and resources to get this ready. It is a 90-minute debate, and you probably have 30 minutes of you talking. You need to have something precise to say.”

[...] During the 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump blew off his first round of debate prep. He refused to do a mock debate with a fake lectern, didn’t want any single person to play Hillary Clinton and wouldn’t simulate the parrying of questions between the moderator and candidates. Prep sessions took the form of a roundtable discussion with a motley crew of advisers, including Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, then-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Steve Bannon, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, with multiple aides posing questions to Trump.

The process was a “total s---show,” Christie later wrote in his book, “Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics.” And Trump World largely viewed his first debate against Clinton as a losing performance...

[Syne]

Really? You want to drag one slip of the tongue while completely ignoring the scores of very regular gaffes from Biden? As if Biden's problems could even be helped by prepping, where he can barely manage to read a teleprompter without giving it away.

Trump handled Hillary in debates just fine. So Biden will be like debating a child, even if they cheat and give Biden the debate questions, like they did for Hillary. I'd rather have a President who can think on his feet, especially in an emergency, than one who has to prep and consult before making any decision. Well-rehearsed politicians, who always tell people what they want to hear, are the swamp.

[C C]

[...] As if Biden's problems could even be helped by prepping, where he can barely manage to read a teleprompter without giving it away. [...]

Yep, even though Biden is willing to rehearse (one source claims he over-prepares), there's a limit to how much it could help in his particular case...

Brain Atrophy In Elderly Leads To Unintended Racism, Depression And Problem Gambling
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...100332.htm

"As we age, our brains slowly shrink in volume and weight. This includes significant atrophy within the frontal lobes, the seat of executive functioning. Executive functions include planning, controlling, and inhibiting thought and behavior. In the aging population, an inability to inhibit unwanted thoughts and behavior causes several social behaviors and cognitions to go awry. Age-related inhibitory losses have also been implicated in social appropriateness. "

[confused2]

"You'll have like a herd mentality.."
Makes sense to me.

[Leigha]

The thing I wish he'd stop doing is talking about the pandemic as if he's a medical expert. He doesn't ''know'' everything, and it would help his campaign if he would just stop pretending like he does. No one would fault Trump for not having all the answers when it comes to Covid. I feel that he takes snippets of what he hears from the healthcare professionals, and then spins it in his own way. I just think that is reckless behavior.

[Syne]

You don't think the President of the US is privy to info we may not be?

[Leigha]

That's not what I'm saying. He is privy to all the info, but shouldn't share everything he hears, lest he botches it, like we have seen time and again over the past six months. He has core competencies, but I think he should leave much of this to the medical professionals.

[Syne]

How would you possibly know if he shares everything he hears, seeing as you're not privy to everything he hears?
Medical professionals do not have the authority, nor sworn an oath, to protect the country, which includes more factors than simply a pandemic...like the deaths due to neglected healthcare, increased suicide, substance, and domestic abuse, etc.. You don't know what he's botched, as we still don't have the final, reliable data on Covid, and even the medical professionals have repeatedly reversed themselves.

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

[Leigha]

Like when he suggested for the public to consider drinking bleach as a cure? He wasn't joking. I watched that press conference. Even if he was being sarcastic, as President of the US, that's pretty embarrassing, don't you think? In the middle of a pandemic, when millions have lost their jobs, and thousands have died, you're the leader of the free world...being sarcastic and cracking jokes about cures? What great leadership! (that's sarcasm)

I'm not sure why Trump supporters feel the need to rush to his defense, never conceding that he could be in the wrong at times.