and we’re sitting down
Massive collective cringe.
Daily Kos sweetly transcribed the incoherent jabber, but for the full effect it’s necessary to watch him jabbering. It’s as if he’s been wound up like a clock and has to make a noise until he winds down. His only concern is to keep saying words, so he does keep saying words, without any meaning or connection to each other at all.
Question: If you win in November, can you commit to prioritizing legislation to make child care affordable?
And if so, what specific piece of legislation will you advance?
Trump’s Answer:
Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down, you know, I was somebody, we had Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka was so impactful on that issue, it’s a very important issue, but I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that because the child care is child care, it’s something you have to have it.
And so on. Daily Kos punctuated it as if it were a series of sentences but I de-corrected the excerpt back to the punctuation-free sustained babble it really was.
And yet RFK seems to think Trump is more coherent than Harris!? See my comment (it’s #9) on yesterday’s Uh, Jefferson post if you don’t beleive me.
So if the US taxes other countries that send consumer goods here, to the tune of trillions of dollars, what does that do to the price of foreign products? It looks like he’s trying to forward the idea that he will force other countries to pay US child care costs. Even with a generous translation it make no sense. US consumers then pay this tax indirectly and end up paying more taxes, so what, the federal government can then pay for child care? Aren’t the Republicans against these sort of nanny state social programs?
I know it was simply an evasion with campaign hype followup, but it looks like dementia. It makes me wonder how he’s being propped up behind the scenes. It has to be becoming more obvious, even to his supporters, that it’s time (or past time) for Trump to be put out to pasture.
THEY FUCKING APPLAUDED
Mike @3, I’m sure that’s simply a Pavlovian response to “MAGA” by his supporters.
Can’t wait till Sarah Cooper gets a hold of that. (If you don’t know her work, here’s a sample.)
About that clapping in the audience:
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/09/stupidest-rich-people-odonnell-mocks
Yeah, Donnie, about as impactful as her husband was in bringing peace to the Middle-East.
twiliter#2: It struck me that was saying that he had so many other HYUUGE sums of money to think about that Child Care was not only not a priority, but was something to be ignored altogether.
What a Maroon @ 5 – thanks for the reminder of Sarah Cooper, I hadn’t watched her lately. “I’m not gettin near the shark.”