Well, if you wanna get blitzed before the 3rd question, take a shot after every incomplete sentence. If you wanna still be sober at the end, take a shot after the complete sentence.
Heya, your alt text isn't helpful to people who can't see the picture. If you're posting a screenshot of text, please either manually transcribe it (at least the most important parts) or, where possible, copy paste from the source.
The child, you know what a child is? Many people are saying that they need care, and we've got to look at that very closely, closer than anyone has ever thought possible. The care will be there, I'm told. No one thought it was possible, but we're going to care for the childs
He usually gets at least half a sentence in before going off the rails.
In anything like a normal (like pre-2016) version of this country, there would be nonstop coverage of the GOP nominee losing his faculties and his VP nominee being woefully unqualified.
Trump: "We're going to reinstitute slavery. It'll be just like that woman on the syrup bottle. You know, Canada is trying to cut off our syrup supplies. It's because of the Maples. I used to be married to a Maple.
NYT: "Trump Unveils Bold New Plan to Widen Access to Childcare."
My mother, who had terrible and crippling dementia, would ramble on exactly like this and then finish with a "thank you" to indicate that she was done.
That's literally his point, when he got to it. Whatever child care plan you want, a billion dollar plan, a 50 billion dollar plan, it'll be easy-peasy because we are going to have the WHOLE HOARD OF SMAUG to play with, so don't sweat the details.
Hey, @npr.org or @cnn.com or even @nytimes.com you maybe want to cover this incoherent jumbling mess of garbage word salad spoken by one of the two current presidential candidates?
So…not to be a downer…but that girl did contemplate suicide after this. I used to quote this until someone told me that…I guess this is me paying it forward. Peace.
If only the press would breathlessly report on Trump's gaffes and senility at even a fraction of the frequency they covered Biden's. Alas, they've all been captured by nutjobs, or bought by the Russians.
And I’m so glad they did give him hell because if they hadn’t he’d still be losing to trump. People who fought to keep Biden as the candidate still haven’t eaten enough crow and it’s dangerous.
It was a mistake, we’re lucky we avoided it, let’s not do it again.
1) Why can’t grandma watch the little brats?
2) Childcare workers are over-credentialed - Why can’t any rando off the street care for your kids? Like it’s hard.
Caitlin Upton bombed responding to a question at the Miss Teen USA pageant in 2007. She was mercilessly ridiculed for it for years afterwards, and the memory of that terrible moment in her life was recently revived by Trump's running mate.
Trump should be treated with similar kindness and charity.
Can’t find the video now, but one of the Late Shows did this at a Trump rally. The Trumpists just 180’d from “It shows he’s a senile old fool!” to “Well, these are complicated issues and you can’t expect him to get into the details every time.”
In the ellipsis portion, he mentioned his beautiful "tariffs" and how we'll have trillions of dollars from those to take care of, well, most everything!
I’m glad the Harris campaign has been transcribing Trump’s *actual words* because so much of the media has paraphrased him for years and people don’t understand how he really talks
Ah, the rhetorical "bob & weave" rather than his normal "nonsensical weave." You can tell the difference because he only veered off on 2 topics rather than his usual 23.
That's not true. Not a single Kennedy took RFK Jr.'s keys from him. Instead, they let him keep his keys, urged him to drive far away as they opened the gate to the fence, before they shut and locked it behind him, effectively ridding themselves of any responsibility for him.
With all the crap the press gave Dubya Bush
about "the question ... is 'Are children learning'",
you'd think they'd be willing to challenge Trump on this.
This response isn't half as coherent as the responses President Biden gave in the first debate, yet I don't hear the media clamoring about Trumps mental acuity.
Anyone else would have been dissected by every pundit on television asking if they’re having a stroke or were they drunk or on drugs, are the mentally able to even do this job with answers like that. But the fact it’s Trump it’s like well look at him he has shoes on and walked across the stage well
NYT headline from this will probably be: Trump forcefully defends the right to affordable child care
Then the article will quote him saying "you have to have it" and that he has teams of people working on it.
I mean - setting aside the whole “genuine threat to democracy” thing - if my candidate were cognitively incompetent vs. a functional person on the other side, I would still probably vote Dem because I would trust I’d agree w/ the candidate’s staffers. That said, I can still mock 45 voters for this.
Not to accidentally give Trump credit for a coherent idea, but isn't the point of Trump's tariffs to stop (or significantly slow) the importation of goods? How does he simultaneously expect them to raise a gajillion totally untapped dollars?
Did he at least remember to make the distended protruding butthole shape with his mouth while he was saying this? We'll know he's really in trouble if he starts forgetting that part of his brand.
yeah, it's definitely not normal. Normal would be immediately changing the topic to something putatively more pressing and answering -that-, coherently if superficially.
This is the incoherence of someone unable to generate and hold and communicate a single thought or idea. People who offer answers like this aren’t mentally fit to hold any job where critical thought is required (i.e., 90% of jobs).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeVLALu2wTc 1h38m
There's missing stuff in the dots but comes down to: don't have any actual childcare related answer, waffle about doing huuuge numbers taxing foreigners (via tariffs), it's going be incredible, MAGA, thank you.
Reminds me of the Python sketch where Carl French claims his movie stars Marylin Monroe
Carl, we are all a little mystified by your claim that your new film stars Marilyn Monroe...
It does, yes.
...who died over ten years ago.
That's correct.
I've clearly been underestimating him this whole time, not realizing that he was making sophisticated symbolic political commentary by engaging in a recitation of Vogon poetry.
So Harris raising the corporate tax rate to 28% (not even fully restoring Trump’s slashing of the 35% rate) that means American companies will move overseas but Trump raising taxes on *foreign* companies to “levels that they're not used to”, they’ll be cool with that and it’s business as usual? ’K.
Harris: “Mr President (to lull him in a false sense of security and tickle his ego), you talk a lot about tariffs. Could you talk us through how they work? I don’t know if I completely understand (To make him think he’s smarter)?
"... because I have to stay with childcare. I want to stay with childcare..."
That's fear. That's him talking to himself, repeating the coaching that he needs to stay on topic. He can't stop himself from saying the instructions out loud. He's weird.
You know, it's not just that there's no coherent thought, the syntax is getting increasingly weird.
The other day he said "childs" for "children" (in the context of "teachers just give children sex change surgeries in the classroom and then send them home," to be clear)
One part of - He can't see too good, two parts of - He's been trying to "stick to the message" instructions, but he can't help himself and meanders from the teleprompter in the middle of the sentence and even in the middle of the word ;)
It's absolutely -not- how he always was. Maybe he was already slanting demented by 2016. But look at his interviews in the 80's and 90's. He's still a fucking shallow creep, but he's perfectly lucid, at least within the narrow range he can grok (no empathy of course)
Why does anyone think Trump can do anything on the economic front? Just because the price of bread went up, that means electing him to siphon off government money from any place he can get it will put us in a better economic position?? "Tariffs are free money! Man Woman Childcare" 🙄
Maybe 2 of those sentences were coherent? The MAGA bit because he's said it so much he's a doll with a pull string and could blurt it out. The rest - what the actual f*ck.
You can see that they've been hammering in to him "stay on topic" but all he's doing is just mentioning the topic to remind himself what it is and then rambling on about something completely different.
Dead giveaway: "Because I have to stay with child care" as he rambles on about nonsense.
No. Please stop that. People need to stop trying to translate his rambling nonsense and make him give an intelligible answer. Until he does, simply state the obvious that "you are rambling and not answering the question".
He needs to be covered this way all the time. People need to see how incompetent and incoherent he really is and they need to quit trying to sum up this nonsense.
They should have said: "Shut up and answer the question. Do you want child care to be affordable for all US citizens? Yes or no." If he continues to dance around the question, then escourt him off stage unless he ANSWERS THE QUESTION.
If the debate mods had any courage, they'd just ask him "how do tariffs work? Explain what you think a tariff is. We're not moving on until you tell us what you think a tariff is and does." But they won't.
Our poor brains are forced into involuntary audio pareidolia* when the self-preservation response kicks in. OMG WHAT WAS THAT MAKE IT WORDS MAKE IT WORDS
It's actually way worse this way. "it's not going to stop them from doing business with us but they'll have substantial tax." What? Who? The children? What the hell.
They should have included the part where he rambled about how childcare is cheap (is it?) and we could just take the money from somewhere else (unspecified). And yet, somehow, this is better than Vance's weird ramble about how the solution is just to trick people into watching your kids for free
I imagine he's talking about paying for childcare by imposing massive tarrifs on imports, because he STILLsL does not grasp that tarrifs are essentially taxes imposed on *US* businesses and consumers, not foreign nations.
He kinda did but then seemed to swerve into the GOP canard that if we become fully isolationist and stop spending money abroad (eg drop out of NATO) then we will have money for everything (but we need to pay off the ENTIRE national debt first, how long could that take? Be patient, parents)
Sounds a lot like, 'If we stop sending all this money on the EU, there will be hundreds of billions of pounds for the NHS!' (This is not how it worked out.)
He wants to stay with child care, but everyone keeps trying to explain that elder care is what it is called when you are that old and suffering from dementia... 😉
The worst part of that “answer” - the part that scares me the most, by far - is the round of applause he gets at the end. Wtf are they cheering? Evidently, it’s the simple repetition of his MAGA slogan. It’s mindless cult ritual masquerading as politics.
Slightly more coherent but far more sleazy if you listen to the whole thing. Basically oh we're going to take care of the U.S. and fuck everyone else we'll be fine by ourselves and don't you worry your pretty little head about anything. Typical Republican delusional bullshit.
✔️Zero actual sustainable plans
✔️No accountability
✔️Grandstanding instead of answering the ?
✔️Individualism>>>community
✔️Money>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yep. and his painful robotic reading of the teleprompter talking points - then he straightens up with relief so he can begin anew regurgitating his stupid sound bites.
The MC applauded enthusiastically, and thanked "the president" for being there. The epitome of The Emperor's New Clothes.
This reminds me of the mostly incoherent email that was received through a state agency public information portal some 15 years ago.
The sender was mentally ill. I worried when I was able to discern a pattern (code, really) to decipher his messages. I think TFG took lessons from him.
This is like what interpreters do for powerful and dangerous world leaders to make them sound smarter and better spoken than they actually are. That’s not technically the job, but it IS what happens.
That’s also explicitly not the job of journalists, and the only reason it happens is advertising $.
As someone who has studied and practiced simultaneous oral translation, I guarantee you have neither the time nor the mental capacity to do anything other than translate into the other language *in real time* what someone else is saying. You don’t change it. You don’t add to it. You translate it.
I’ll allow that this may be what you’re doing. However I’m not the origin point for my comment with which you’re taking issue. It was demonstrated to me by a report (news program?) on exactly the thing I’m referencing, which shook me out of my previous naive assumption of the purity of translation.
This begs the question of whether these are interpreters in the professional sense of the word or if they are actually spokespeople in the target language who don’t truly interpret verbatim in real time but deliver texts honed in advance?
Given how much WaPo and NYT act above their readers and condescend when the hoi polloi have the temerity to question their objectivity or editorial decisions, this shit is enraging.
It's the answer a middle school student gives when they have to give a class presentation and they stayed up all night playing Animal Crossing instead of preparing
Honestly, that’s unfair to 5th grade me who talked a lot about that “one time that Edgar Allan Poe had to go the hospital” during a report on Edgar Allan Poe. Sure, I didn’t read the biography and made it up, but it was a complete thought.
that was about how well i did when i had to do an extemporaneous speech that ended up being about why i would want to go to mars (i definitely wouldn’t) in my high school speech class.
what, do i look like someone who can think and talk simultaneously? no, & i wouldn’t want to be president either.
“So A Tale of Two Cities is many things. For one thing, it is a tale. For another, it is about two cities, which is interesting because some books are only tales about one city. Also the book is by *looks at book cover* Charles Dickens.
« Have you ever been to a city?! What’s that all about? You know, when the people come to me they say-they shake my hand and they tremble and they tell me they crossed cities to come shake my hand. »
This is me in eighth grade giving a class speech about hate crimes legislation, which I'd completely forgotten to research or write, until my teacher asked me to sit down
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Make Political Leaders Eloquent Again.
I think he meant yes, but I'm not sure.
Just let SNL do all the skits using his mouthfarts as a verbatim script.
Donald tRump is a Fking moron, as he privately confided to friends back in 2017.
The former POTUS: Have you really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Republicans: Wow his brain is so big!
In anything like a normal (like pre-2016) version of this country, there would be nonstop coverage of the GOP nominee losing his faculties and his VP nominee being woefully unqualified.
NYT: "Trump Unveils Bold New Plan to Widen Access to Childcare."
I guess this is what you get when a pathological liar rapidly loses whatever marbles he had left.
We will FORCE other countries (China) to GIVE US TRILLIONS (!) OF DOLLARS by TAXING THEM WITH TARIFFS. ..,
Factcheck: FALSE. Trump says he "will take care of it." That constitutes a plan even if you don't think it's good enough.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1831748114367283575
https://newrepublic.com/post/185655/trump-incoherent-rant-affordable-childcare-question
Never thought about it.
We'll take care of it, though.
Don't you worry about it.
https://wapo.st/3z9n1Lu
Not one coherent thought,
not one complete sentence.
It was a mistake, we’re lucky we avoided it, let’s not do it again.
1) Why can’t grandma watch the little brats?
2) Childcare workers are over-credentialed - Why can’t any rando off the street care for your kids? Like it’s hard.
https://youtu.be/Gcmgn4W2Yyk?si=IUlATlwwyaLP7p4j
Trump should be treated with similar kindness and charity.
Fact is, I'd forgotten all about Caitlin Upton until J.D. Vance revived the memory recently.
She deserves to not be defined by one bad moment from her life. (She's a MAGA these days. But still.)
But Trump does this shit ALL THE TIME and only people who already dislike him call him on it.
about "the question ... is 'Are children learning'",
you'd think they'd be willing to challenge Trump on this.
We should all be able to do that!
actual brain damage
That answered nothing.
Then the article will quote him saying "you have to have it" and that he has teams of people working on it.
This doesn't make sense in -any- context.
Trump still believes tariffs are going to solve all our problems, and Putin is rolling on the floor laughing about it.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4672207/user-clip-george-bush-tribal-sovereignty-2004
There's missing stuff in the dots but comes down to: don't have any actual childcare related answer, waffle about doing huuuge numbers taxing foreigners (via tariffs), it's going be incredible, MAGA, thank you.
Kamala needs one prepped but values it - not him!
Carl, we are all a little mystified by your claim that your new film stars Marilyn Monroe...
It does, yes.
...who died over ten years ago.
That's correct.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8JrG5sL/
That's fear. That's him talking to himself, repeating the coaching that he needs to stay on topic. He can't stop himself from saying the instructions out loud. He's weird.
The other day he said "childs" for "children" (in the context of "teachers just give children sex change surgeries in the classroom and then send them home," to be clear)
It's absolutely -not- how he always was. Maybe he was already slanting demented by 2016. But look at his interviews in the 80's and 90's. He's still a fucking shallow creep, but he's perfectly lucid, at least within the narrow range he can grok (no empathy of course)
Dead giveaway: "Because I have to stay with child care" as he rambles on about nonsense.
It's such soup.
He needs to be covered this way all the time. People need to see how incompetent and incoherent he really is and they need to quit trying to sum up this nonsense.
It’s all emotive stimulus, no content
Said with accordion hands.
*great phrase, BTW. Stealing!
tl/dr: He's an idiot
✔️No accountability
✔️Grandstanding instead of answering the ?
✔️Individualism>>>community
✔️Money>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The MC applauded enthusiastically, and thanked "the president" for being there. The epitome of The Emperor's New Clothes.
The sender was mentally ill. I worried when I was able to discern a pattern (code, really) to decipher his messages. I think TFG took lessons from him.
That’s also explicitly not the job of journalists, and the only reason it happens is advertising $.
what, do i look like someone who can think and talk simultaneously? no, & i wouldn’t want to be president either.
After four years in the W.H. and four years "out and about," he gets no do-overs. At this point all grades are final.
The Onion was, as usual, good at predicting the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwom49awRKg
That’s my report.”
And we're gonna make Smaller Government Childcare!
1h38m on childcare "taxing foreign nations at levels that they are not used to" = really into racism & having Mexico pay for the wall