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I'm hardly the most persuasive person in the world, but I've always enjoyed writing persuasively and even speaking persuasively on the rare occasions I've overcome my shyness and spoken in a somewhat public forum. (i.e., high school public speaking class). Actually, if I remember correctly, my mock bill passed by one of the widest margins of any controversial piece of legislation in my public speaking class's student congress activity.

My question is do you enjoy persuasive speaking or writing? Do you think you're any good at it? How do you feel about the bombasticity and hyperbole so common in oratory--politicians' cheap appeals to our emotions and our wallets?

Well, I go by something called the Trump rule: if it's something Trump would say, then it's "truthful hyperbole" and not the lame equivocation that some despicable politicians dish out to the unwitting public. That being harshly said, I enjoy persuasive communication too. Hey, we need it if we're going to get Aspie Awareness going, right? We need to present our case, not like lawyers, but in a friendly and fun way and fundamentally market the heck out of it. Well, ultimately, it's gotta live up to our hype.

Grand speeches are nice and pep everyone up for a moment, but it's afterwards that things quickly plummet back to where they were and people go on muddling through the sludge. And it disgusts me.

Talk the talk, walk the walk.