posted by Arthur Foxake, 23 August 2025
It may look to a certain type of person that President Trump and VP Vance are trying to stitch up Europe and the UK, but these are the kind that I like to refer to as “highly educated on paper but lacking broad life experience, therfore are de facto as thick as pigshit.” In other words they are the kind easily manipulated by the constant stream of propaganda pushed out by mainstream media.
They are rhe sort of people to whom “nuance” is a kind of Italian sports car, irony is the final stage of laundry, and satire means having an extra cushion or two on your chair. This is the same ilk who believe that soliloquy is in fact a quiz show on the television, and would only ever use the phrase “metaphor” as in the sentence “I met her for a dance”.
The highly educated halfwits probably know that Trump loves Britain and Vance has expressed admiration for the UK, thus their critics are demonstrating a detachment from reality, but it would be harsh to expect that level of self-awareness from the highly educated halfwits but that doesn't make it OK for them to echo official propaganda as if they had thought of it themselves.
The fact is these higgly educated halfwits, as they run around waving their STEM degrees from tenth rate universities and claiming that science is infllible, even if it is pseudoscience like psychology or a social science such as Black Irish Lesbian studies or whatever, it that there is more to education that knowing how to solve equations or draw pretty coloured graphs.One of the most important things about about a prose narrative is that it doesn't just have to be captured on a page; it can also be related by the voice in a manner which ensures the important points will be remembered. One of the things this medium must rely on to succeed is the performer's knowing their audience. In early days the Norse sagas and Druidic Edda were all created to be committed to memory, delivered by spoken word just for this purpose. But the thing about the great sagas is that they were written to entertain, to teach, and sometimes, as rhetoric, to perdsuade. Thus they are not and need not be truthful reporting nor factual storytelling, neither of which are ideal techniques for political speechmaking.
The problem for the highly educated halfwit caste here is manifold. It begins with the fact that political speeches in the West and indeed further abroad have relied on rhetoric in order to get their message across since Roman times when Marcus Tullius Cicero wowed them in the Forum and seduce the Senate with his highly effective speeches. The problem with the STEM education model is that it focuses too narrowly on 'hard facts' and equations, failing to recognise fasts for the slippery, shape shifting things they are or understand that equations prove nothing, they are only as good as the data used by the algorithm.
In modern times, among the standard bearers for the art of rhetoric in the Englsh language have been Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, David Lloyd George, John F Kennedy, Aneurin Bevan, Benjamin Disraeli, Barbara Castle and Nigel Farage and Tony Benn.This list excludes military or religious orators such as Gen. Dwight Eisenhower or John Wesley.
During the Renaissance era the nature of political speech had become an art form which few could emulate as well as Lincoln or indeed Churchill, and thus it degenerated into a homogeneous drone and speaker after speaker read without feeling the words written for them by professional speech writers, which whilst retaining the form of the great orators' speeches did not reflect the same quality.
A second problem is that despite the glaring evidence of and the fact that Trump himself has told us of his Weltanschauung, people really do not seem to be getting the hang of America First.
However the biggest problem for highly educated halfwit lies in their unability to understand the rhetoric of speakers like Trump orVance relates to an earlier point about Norse or Druidic orators knowing their audience. The prose style most commonly associated with post - modernism is stream of consciousness, (think of James Joyce, Jack Keouac, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett ad William Faulkner,) is not usually associated with political speech; however Trump’s rambling, desultory method of oration is entirely stream of consciousness. Now, remember how earlier on I alluded to a cadre of individuals who are on paper very highly educated but in very real terms are in fact as thick as Melissa McCarthy's thighs and are possessed of methods of reasoning woolier than a sheep's arse? And how I said that political speech has degenerated into a talentless homogeneous mass from which few will deviate?
Well, here's the nub. Because Trump and Vance are not using the standard forms expected by the soi-disant literati (SDL), the said soi-disant , (but semi literate,) literati are unable to parse the highly tangential and often circumlocutory speeches politicians like Trump are making; it is outside the frames of reference to which the mainstream media consumers are accustomed and thus the comprehension skills are not as present as they may have been in an era when education was in fact about learning to deal with the real world rather than being indoctrinated with leftist ideology.
Now,
for the benefit of the SDL faction, do allow me to clarify a couple of
points here. If you are of the SDL faction you may have gleaned from
this that I believe Trump to be a good public speaker therefore you hate me; hating anyone who does not hate Trump is why youre a
member of the SDL faction, (TDS syndrome,) after all. It is at this point we arrive at the next part of the problem; the fact that he really isn't, by conventional standards, a good speaker but he knows his audience and he knows how to get his message aross to them in a way they understand.
It is true that
he needs to slow down, pontificate for a millisecond or two comma and
arrange his sentences in a less labyrinthic way. However what is also
undeniable is that we are suffering in the moment in our public
audiences the same malady that wordsmiths are experiencing with their
readerships; it is that we can transmit either the ugliest or the most
aesthetically pleasing pieces of prose and poetry but at the receiving
end the tuning circuit may have something of a substandard capacitor.
If you pay attention you will find out that Vance and Trump do not hate Europe incluing the UK. They are however becoming exasperated with us because our political classes have completely lost touch with the ordinary people. if Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Freirich Merz could just articulare their stream of consciousness as Trump does, they migh succeed bigly in appealing to voters in their constituencies.
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