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st say oh that's a hoax let me explain very clearly you can even check it yourself I was not involved in writing it and you can look at my policies in public and you can see that not once have they ever been overlapped with them on some of these things. On some they do overlap. And you'd think that the facts would be enough to make that story go away right but because the media is a propaganda mac…
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The other thing that gives me this little hint is do you remember years ago he was famously he got a Prius and he was all you know hey you know even a celebrity like me will just drive a Prius because we got to save the environment and now he says it was just the worst car and admits that the electric cars have problems with rare earth minerals and you know maybe they're not so good for the environment after all. And then he also said he got a Tesla after that and he hated it. So he's basically said that the buying of tiny vehicles that are good for the environment didn't really work out for him. Well he's got Bjorn Lomborg on saying these green cars might be more as much bad as good depending who's calculating the bad and the good. And I think he's signaling that he's evolving on at least the risk level what you should do about it for the environment.
So I can't read his mind it would be unfair for me to say I think he's changed his mind but the signaling and the foreshadowing is definitely there and I think that he may be having, if you took Trump out of the news I feel like Bill Maher would be a Republican or no he wouldn't be a Republican that's too far. I feel like he would be close to it you know more like an independent who's not batshit crazy. So I think it's really only Trump that keeps him from saying you know I'm not even so sure about this climate change stuff. He just wouldn't want to agree with Trump that would be too far but I feel like he's leaning that way or at least he's open to the arguments because he had Lomborg on which again he's had him on in the past before. So Trump.
I've said this before does not get enough credit for the quality of his writing and it's because you know the press wants to paint him as a sixth grade vocabulary crazy person but I just love his writing when he does these extended posts on Truth. And he was getting on also Maher for his guests but let me just read it and I'm going to tell you a writer way of looking at things.
So when I was first selected to be a syndicated cartoonist my editor who was the first person in the world to look at my writing and say hey I think you have commercial level writing ability just in the context of a comic strip and here's how she explained it to me. She said your writing is voicy like voice. And I didn't know what that meant so she explained it's voicy meaning that you can tell that it came from one personality. So my writing displays my personality more than other writing does. A lot of people if they're not professional writers they're not good at it they'll write in a way that looks like everybody else who's trying to write. You'll see no personality you'll just see that they're struggling to put words in the right order so that they can say something. When you read Trump's anything you can hear his voice and you hear his personality. That's voicy.
Voicy for non-fiction stuff. If you're writing for fiction you want the characters to be the voice that's different. If you're writing for non-fiction let's say career advice politics anything that's based on facts you want it to be voicy because that's what makes it fascinating and interesting and it holds your attention and what holds your attention is what influences you. So it'd be one thing if you said ah that's interesting but then you didn't remember it. If you remember it and especially if you read it more than once because just the way it was said and then you post it because you thought it was funny that's the ultimate writing. The ultimate writing is interesting you'll remember it and you'll share it with somebody. You can't beat that. And Trump does that by being the ultimate voicy candidate.
Now I'm going to show you what I mean by simply reading a sort of a lengthy post he did on Truth. So listen to it not for the perfect grammar you can't tell but you know maybe there's a typo in here don't care. All right good writing is not about the grammar the editors fix your grammar. It's not about your typos the editors fix your typos. It's not even your job. You did the first draft but somebody else does that stuff. So see how voicy this is.
All right so Donald Trump talking about Maher he says the ratings challenged Bill Maher on his increasingly boring show on HBO is really having a hard time coping with Trump derangement syndrome all in caps. He is a befuddled mess sloppy and tired and every conversation with B and C list guests seems to start with or revert back to me. This week he had quote dumb as a rock bimbo Stephanie Ruhle from MSNBC on the show along with a Trump hating loser Bret Stephens who seemed totally confused and unsure of himself very much like Maher himself. Stephens should find himself another line of work because I'm driving the failing New York Times absolutely crazy and it's very hard perhaps impossible for a writer to write well of me without suffering the wrath of the degenerate editors who with a push from the top have gone insane. They apologized to the readers in 2016 for their complete and total miss and they'll do it again in November. The failing New York Times is badly run quote newspaper that has totally lost its way. Put it to sleep. Put it to sleep. Who says that?
So if you want to know if you want just one example out of 50 from that what makes it voicy "put it to sleep put it to sleep" who says that? Who would ever use those words in that sense on that? Put it to sleep it's like a dog. I just put it to sleep anyway. So have I made my point? So my point is that every word he writes you see him you feel him you can hear him and you remember him and then you want to repost it. That is the ultimate the ultimate great writing. If you're sti
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ll on the he had a typo and he spelled a word wrong oh you're missing the show. You are missing the show if it's the grammar you're worried about anyway. Best writer in the public sphere in my opinion. So Boeing as you know Boeing's been having a hard time with its Starliner and its various aircraft and stuff and you know some of its equipment's not working late and cost overruns and stuff like t…
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