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"the media has a role in formenting division" (Original Post)
milestogo
Aug 2017
OP
I'm quoting from Trump's speech last night, in which he invented the word formenting.
milestogo
Aug 2017
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Shandris
(3,447 posts)1. He meant fermenting, because everything the media touches is soured. :-P n/t
longship
(40,416 posts)2. What's "formenting"???
milestogo
(16,829 posts)3. I think he meant "fomenting".
But contrary to what he has told us, he does not always have "the best words".
ck4829
(35,091 posts)4. If you believe that, then you're.... dermented
Because it was the media, not the people who said now it's the liberals "turn to suffer", 'joking' about throwing Jewish people into ovens, cheering on banning transgender people from the armed forces, discriminating against Muslims, waving Nazi and Confederate flags, etc. Sure.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)5. I'm quoting from Trump's speech last night, in which he invented the word formenting.
ok now I see what you did there
ck4829
(35,091 posts)6. I know, I know.
I was trying to join in.
Edit: Cool.
unblock
(52,331 posts)7. He clearly meant "formanting" i.e., breaking a complex sound into resonant frequencies.
It should come as no surprise that donnie would be highly sophisticated in the area of sound engineering and analysis