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This reads like a 4th grader wrote it

One of the key rules in composition is to write at a level the intended audience will understand. I read my older sister's PhD dissertation on writings by Midieval Carthusian Monks. I couldn't make heads nor tails of it. If it reads like a 4th grader wrote it, then that reflects what the writer thought of the intellectual capacity of the intended audience.

 

[EyeballKid]

One of the key rules in composition is to write at a level the intended audience will understand. I read my older sister's PhD dissertation on writings by Midieval Carthusian Monks. I couldn't make heads nor tails of it. If it reads like a 4th grader wrote it, then that reflects what the writer thought of the intellectual capacity of the intended audience.

Thing of it is, he’s not even reaching a consistent 4th grade level. He’s not modeling good spelling, punctuation, capitalization, or basic grammar and vocabulary.

I’m probably taking this more to heart than I should. But given that a large part of my professional life has been dedicated to breaking down key scientific/medical concepts and government policies into bite-sized pieces for public consumption, Trump’s messages always piss me off.

There’s a difference between (a) speaking/posting in “plain language” for a lay audience, and (b) speaking/posting like an actual 4th grader who gets held back a year and is the class bully.

I don’t think Trump is intelligent or savvy enough to purposefully and consciously take either approach.

Rather, I think he really has the psychological and intellectual capacity of a 4th grade bully.

 

[Zoo_View]

I remember reading in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s that newspapers, including the “paper of record,” The New York Times, and, the Washington Post, were written so that 8th graders could read them.

In 1968, our parents were in Prague when the Soviets invaded to end the Prague Spring.

Our grandparents chose to keep silent the info that our parents were in Prague when the Soviets invaded; except, we’d already known our parents were headed to Prague.

The NY Times and the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle were delivered each day. So, newspapers were readily available.

Grandad started pulling the TV out of the closet (as a rule, my grandparents didn’t watch TV - unless it was a major news event). We knew something was up when the TV was brought out of the closet.

Anyway, my brother and I were devouring news because our parents were in a bad place. My brother was 2 grades ahead of me. I don’t know if he was reading and I was following along. He’s never been a big reader.

But, we were at my grandparents for 4-5 weeks. The last 3-4 weeks, I was devouring the local papers - especially the Prague news.

In 1968, I entered 1st grade at Estes Hills Elementary. My older brother entered 3rd grade.

Along with 6 other classmates (not grade mates, classmates), the teacher and librarian thought we read at the 7th-8th grade level……on Day One of 1st grade - none of us were geniuses - we grew up in educated households that valued the 3R’s and we had older siblings, and our parents and grandparents and aunts/uncles read to us.

To us, reading the newspaper in 1st or 2nd grade was no big deal.

To Trump, who doesn’t read (that’s not saying he can’t read), reading The NY Times or WAPO or WSJ at any age is unheard of.

One could write the paper for a kindergarten level and Trump wouldn’t read it.

Write it at the WSJ or WAPO level and Trump likely couldn’t understand it.

 

[nycfan]

 

[altmin]

Moms for Liberty honored this GOP Rep. He was just arrested for kiddie porn. - LGBTQ Nation

“We as legislators have an obligation to insure that our children have no harm done to them,” he once said.

www.lgbtqnation.com

Moms for Liberty (M4L), the anti-LGBTQ+ extremist hate group, reportedly honored South Carolina state Rep. RJ May as their 2023 Legislator of the Year and had him speak at their 2022 event on “Reclaiming Education in America.” May was just arrested this morning over nearly a dozen federal charges for distributing child sex abuse material — he has a wife and child.

May’s indictment is notable since M4L regularly seeks to ban LGBTQ+-inclusive children’s books as a form of “pornography” and regularly accuses LGBTQ+ people and their allies of “grooming” children for sexual abuse, a decades-old claim that inspires hatred and violence against queer people and their supporters.

 

[UNCatTech]

So, a "Truth" post is now an executive order?

 

[Zoo_View]

So, a "Truth" post is now an executive order?

Yes.

 

[lightbluenc]

Trump making a post with 2 em dashes? He didn't write that, but it looks like someone in his inner circle used chat gpt to write a prompt look like trump wrote it, but still failed in removing the AI-ness of it.

 

[UNCatTech]

Moms for Liberty honored this GOP Rep. He was just arrested for kiddie porn. - LGBTQ Nation

“We as legislators have an obligation to insure that our children have no harm done to them,” he once said.

www.lgbtqnation.com

Moms for Liberty (M4L), the anti-LGBTQ+ extremist hate group, reportedly honored South Carolina state Rep. RJ May as their 2023 Legislator of the Year and had him speak at their 2022 event on “Reclaiming Education in America.” May was just arrested this morning over nearly a dozen federal charges for distributing child sex abuse material — he has a wife and child.

May’s indictment is notable since M4L regularly seeks to ban LGBTQ+-inclusive children’s books as a form of “pornography” and regularly accuses LGBTQ+ people and their allies of “grooming” children for sexual abuse, a decades-old claim that inspires hatred and violence against queer people and their supporters.

I really dislike this group and all that they stand for.

They seem like the types that would tell an abused woman to give him another chance and pray about it.

 

[donbosco]

 

[Zoo_View]

Moms For Liberty Mom #1 - “he’s started hitting me.”

M4L Mom #2 - “How have you angered him?”

……fastforward…..

M4L Mom #1……..”He’s molesting the children.”

M4L Mom #2 (and 3 and 4 and 5……)……”When did you last have sex? Men have needs.”

 

[donbosco]

Do Truth Social posts contain date and time? I have to assume they do. I’ve never been to the site.

 

[nycfan]

Do Truth Social posts contain date and time? I have to assume they do. I’ve never been to the site.

Yes, if you open them individually. Otherwise they just have a time stamp if you scroll through unopened posts (22 m ago or 11 h ago etc.)

 

[nycfan]

The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security​

The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.

Gift —> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/...e_code=1.PU8.fTpI.-V32q9Mkn8Kc&smid=url-share

“… Social Security is now run by Frank Bisignano, a former Wall Street executive who was confirmed as commissioner on May 6. In an interview with The Times this month, Mr. Bisignano rejected the idea that DOGE was to blame for problems at Social Security.

But Mr. Bisignano acknowledged that the 40 percent figure cited by Mr. Musk was incorrect. “We’re going to be a fact-based, rule-based organization that can count,” Mr. Bisignano said.

In a statement later provided by the agency, Mr. Bisignano said: “The work that DOGE did was 100 percent accurate.”…”

 

[Mulberry Heel]

I really dislike this group and all that they stand for.

They seem like the types that would tell an abused woman to give him another chance and pray about it.

Yep. At least one Moms for Liberty leader (she's actually a cofounder of the group) and school board member in Florida, who had spent her time on the school board trying to remove anything related to LGBTQ topics from her county's public schools and libraries, and prevent any discussion of LGBTQ issues in schools, was caught having threesomes with her GOP politician hubby and a young woman they were paying for sexual services for both of them. The young woman also accused her husband of physically abusing and raping her.

Her hubby was forced to step down from his leadership post in the Florida GOP, but despite repeated calls from parents and others for her to resign as a school board member (for blatant hypocrisy if nothing else) she adamantly refused and said that the scandal had nothing to do with her role as a school board member (WTF?) and she would not address "personal issues" at board meetings. One of the people who called her out for her hypocrisy was a local high school valedictorian who was told he could not mention that he was gay in his valedictorian speech. I have little doubt that there are many other members of Moms for Liberty who also are in no way practicing what they preach and pass rules and restrictions on for everybody else. A loathsome organization, imo.

 

[ZenMode]

I'm looking forward to a time when there news cycle is a little more... entertaining. Things have been very "blah" as of late. Boooooring.......

 

[ZenMode]

The grift rolls on....

Trump Mobile: President’s Company Unveils Wireless Service Delivered via AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, Plans to Launch a U.S.-Made ‘Sleek, Gold’ Android Smartphone​

Trump Mobile: President’s Company Unveils Wireless Service Delivered via AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, Plans to Launch a U.S.-Made ‘Sleek, Gold’ Android Smartphone

President Trump and his family are getting into the wireless business, in partnership with the three major U.S. carriers.

variety.com

 

[farce©]

"In addition, in August, Trump Mobile plans to release the “T1 Phone” — described as “a sleek, gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States."

I think that's bullshit. They won't say who is manufacturing the phone. Is Trump going to use an Android phone now?

 

[HeelInTheOzarks]

Trump phone…lol

My single biggest regret in life is not getting in with a business capitalizing on the maga grift. I would be so rich selling shit to these losers.

 

[Calheel]

Trump phone…lol

My single biggest regret in life is not getting in with a business capitalizing on the maga grift. I would be so rich selling shit to these losers.

Not too late.

But keep in mind a bunch of other people have thought of that exact same business plan -- so it is not as though you would have no competition.