All cattle, no hat

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Obviously he doesn’t know much about what TExans say. But still, when he read this on the page prepared by his staff or the DNC, what did he think it meant? When his speech was over, did he ponder it, or did he just think “Texans are inscrutable”.
 
How do we determine whether there is any substance? I guess it all depends on whether or not you trust the parties involved. If Obama negotiated the agreement, my guess is that you would have a republican claiming there is no substance.
 
Hey Chuck, here is another saying you shoud familarize yourself with:

“Better to keep your mouth shut and seem a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
 
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How do we determine whether there is any substance?
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We can’t yet, it’s a historic step but still just the first step - It expressed intent,
The substance will be negotiated by experts in the coming weeks/months.

I prefer this first step over ongoing B-52 bomber sorties.

Incidentally, Trumps level of preparation was appropriate in hindsight. The experts will now be working out the hard details, not Trump. This is as it should be.
 
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Pretty sure Schumer doesn’t want to know what Texans think about him, bless his pea-pickin’ heart.
 
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Xystus said:
Hey Chuck, here is another saying you shoud familarize yourself with:

“Better to keep your mouth shut and seem a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
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“Chuck Schumer” and “keeping mouth shut” are two mutually exclusive concepts.

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Ridgerunner said:
Obviously he doesn’t know much about what TExans say. But still, when he read this on the page prepared by his staff or the DNC, what did he think it meant? When his speech was over, did he ponder it, or did he just think “Texans are inscrutable”.
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He simply misspoke. He meant to say " all hat, no cattle", which means exactly what he wanted to say.
 
LeafByNiggle said:
He simply misspoke. He meant to say " all hat, no cattle", which means exactly what he wanted to say.
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Trump would be crucified if he’d made a slip-up like that. What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
 
Team Trump makes plenty of slip-ups too, like when Heather Nauert of Trump’s state department said of the D-day invasion, “We have a very strong relationship with the government of Germany”
 
LeafByNiggle said:
Team Trump makes plenty of slip-ups too, like when Heather Nauert of Trump’s state department said of the D-day invasion, “We have a very strong relationship with the government of Germany”
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We did…we were killing them by the thousands.
 
LeafByNiggle said:
Team Trump makes plenty of slip-ups too, like when Heather Nauert of Trump’s state department said of the D-day invasion, “We have a very strong relationship with the government of Germany”
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Never said they didn’t. By bringing it up, however, you’re both proving my point and giving me permission to mock Schumer in turn. (He doesn’t seem too bright, poor fella.)
 
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LeafByNiggle:
Team Trump makes plenty of slip-ups too, like when Heather Nauert of Trump’s state department said of the D-day invasion, “We have a very strong relationship with the government of Germany”
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Never said they didn’t. By bringing it up, however, you’re both proving my point and giving me permission to mock Schumer in turn. (He doesn’t seem too bright, poor fella.)
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I cannot give you permission to mock anyone. I don’t have that authority.
 
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LeafByNiggle:
I cannot give you permission to mock anyone. I don’t have that authority.
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Well, poor choice of words on my part, then. Your mocking of Trump is tacit approval of my mocking of Schumer.
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Actually, if you read closely what I wrote, I did not mock Trump or his state department person. I just pointed out that they can slip up. So what? I slip up too. Plenty of times. I admit it. I’m not mocking myself. I’m just being honest.
 
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or perhaps a Freudian slip ?
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Might not be. Reminds me of a podcast about language in which they talked about various slip-ups of the tounge that sometimes were also labeled as Freudian.
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Mike:
There’s a very famous example of this kind of speech error. Once, when Ted Kennedy was giving a speech about education, he said, “Our national interest ought to be to encourage the breast and brightest.” And, you know, a lot of people jumped on that and they said, oh my God, look at that, it’s a Freudian slip.
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I think all that happened there was that he was anticipating the “br” sound in brightest and used it in best. And then there are speech errors that are sort of the opposite of that. They’re called “perseverations”. So, for example, if I wanted to say “it’s raining cats and dogs” but instead I said “it’s raining rats and dogs,” that because the “r” sound from raining is persevering in the next word.
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This specific example probably isn’t applicable to the slip-up above though. I wish I could remember some of the other causes as I think they may be applicable.
 
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