PRESSURED SPEECH

Anyone who spends any amount of time in Paltalk's political gladiatorial arena will no doubt have encountered one of the dimmest lights in the conservative chandelier, Brutelogic. Normally, Brute's contributions come in dribbles of gibberish text, liberally sprinkled with ellipses. A few examples:

Brutelogic: Livid.......keep the cam off......please
Brutelogic: Claus.......................thats a FLAT LIE
Brutelogic: slick willy?.........haha, he got impeached

As you can see, minimal information, least intelligible ideation, lots of dots. When Brute takes the mic, it actually closely mirrors his text. His speech is pressured, indicating some tension and distress. There is a marked flight of ideas, as he flits from the topic at hand to discursions on Michael Moore's weight or Ted Kennedy's drinking escapades. It feels like Brute is trying to plug the gaps with ideas literally plucked from a tornado of thought. Needless to say, there's no real meat to his arguments, as his speeches are just a hodgepodge of Fox News nonfacts and conservative bile.

So, naturally, we've all been curious as to what pathology might be at the root of all the frantic whirling. Hell, just look up "pressured speech" and "flight of ideas" in the DSM-IV and a half dozen suspects jump out at once. Just_April1975 and I were talking, and apparently, there are a chosen few who actually know what is going on with Brute. Just for fun, we started teasing him with the possible revelation of his guarded secret. What followed was a classic of repressive misdirection, but it belied a deeper anxiety:

Brutelogic: Claus, you dont have the intellect to even pick a winner pres......save it

Is that not astounding? Nominative, noun, verb, adjective, there's even an infinitive thrown in. That has got to be- can we get a judges ruling- yes, yes, it is, in fact, the most grammatically complete sentence ever produced by Brutelogic in all his years on Paltalk! Amazing, simply amazing. And to think, all we had to do to make Brute intelligible is threaten to reveal his dark secret. Who knew?

JC