It really was

Have a look at this at 4:20 until about 5.00. Now these guys are all complete clowns proposing flat tax and what not, but listen to the woman here that is supposed to be a "democratic strategist", left wing right? She is proposing a tax cut and she gets asked by the host "how are they then going to pay for their trillion dollar plans". And she is caught completely off guard here stuttering "uuh you know how they are going to pay for it" and then she mentions infrastructure. But infrastructure costs money, it doesnt bring in money in itself.

That is sooo funny how this idiot that is supposed to be on the left proposes a tax cut on Fox and didnt expect to have to answer for the extremely obvious question of how will we then pay for govt programs. Soooo corrupt these dirty people.

So she didn't want to say "raise taxes on the wealthy"? That's not really corruption.

The real idiocy was when the Fox News guy smugly says "there's not enough money in the United States to pay for everything they're proposing".

Well to me the fox guys are so far off i dont take them seriously and dont really listen when they talk. Thats why im talking about the democratic strategist. She is taken totally off guard in that encounter, she thought she didnt need to answer for the tax cuts when she was at fox because thats what they like to hear. Paying for tax cuts by building infrastructure, what a good idea. This indicates to me that there is money behind this, if she had a real answer for the tax cuts she would just say it, but there is no good answer to this question because cutting taxes is nonsense. The debt is huge and people need social programs.

If it hasn't been mentioned already I would point out that the reason there is confusion about Trump's "second thoughts" comment about tariffs and other things is almost certainly because people don't realize that he wasn't aware that "second thoughts" is a figure of speech meaning an inclination to reverse the original action or thought. He took it literally and thought that it meant another newer thought.

Have you gone on record yet for having voted for Trump?

Of the field of Dems, who you think Trump is better than as a candidate for POTUS?

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So you think Trump can point out Greenland on a blank map of the world, but you don’t think he’s aware of what it means to have second thoughts about something?

Only AFTER his comment and even more so after his second comment "I have second thoughts about everything". Do you really think he meant that he doubts all of his decisions rather than that he continues to think about stuff?

I’m not aware of the specific quote to which you are referring. Do you have a link?

Regardless, Trump says all kinds of crap when he senses that he has said something wrong or he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I’m not sure why you’d put much stock in one particular portion of his ramblings.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...e-war-n1046181


This seems completely weird and out of character unless you accept my theory.

@David Sklansky, ya boy Trump is getting quoted by BagHolderQuotes. LMFAO at defending this innumerate clown on any level:

It amazes me that people are thinking that I was defending Trump. I'm claiming he didn't know what "having second thoughts" meant.

My theory is that Trump literally has no idea what he says. If you put a gun to his head one second after finishing a sentence he'd have no clue what he had just said. He wouldn't have better than a random shot at getting it right in a multiple choice question. And he's quite capable of saying "second thoughts" meaning one thing in one sentence and meaning something else by it in the next. His mind is so addled that there is nothing too simple or obvious for "Does Trump know this?" to not require epistimological analysis.

So, yeah, DS, you are defending him by supposing that he's even capable of "knowing" something that's wrong.

Take this situation for example:



Sure, Trump is experiencing the humiliation here. He has feelings and reactions. He's wilting. But does he *know* why he's wilting anymore than a dehydrated flower knows why it's wilting?

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I do think you can detect a glimmer of *knowing* what's happening here.

All I said is that I am pretty sure that Trump was asked a question which he would have answered differently if he knew what the words meant. And since 95% of people would have known what those words meant, it means that I was saying "Trump probably does not know the definition of a phrase that 95% of people know and if so it is the simplest explanation for the discrepancy." The more complex explanation is that he did know what the words meant but he didn't realize the implication of his answer. I submit that the second expl;anation is more complimentary since 30% of people, rather than 5%, are that stupid.

Either way, it's more like the <1% explanation that he just has no idea what combination of words are falling out of his face explanation.

I think he does know more or less where Greenland is now, but I think that's a recent discovery. He'll probably forget soon enough though.

I don't vote.


What's the definition of "better"?


Whatever that definition is, he isn't better than Yang.

you get some idea of how bad collective hysteria (not sure of the right term) can get when one of the better, more balanced posters can say this without any irony (If I missed the irony then very well played)

Clearly his words are not random and he would do a fair bit better than randomly in the multiple choice test.

There I've somehow 'defended' trump by saying he has some responsibility for the crap he says. That can be added to my previous defense of 'probably not as bad as hitler'

It's a picture, not a story.

Angles, lack of movement, lack of depth and partial or incomplete facial expressions can all make pictures very deceptive. Add to that either the tendency to invent a narrative or interpret the picture from a given narrative, and you have a potential recipe for disaster.

Sometimes it is by honest mistake, sometimes it is artistically taken advantage of and at other times it is actively exploited. Find a picture as someone holds their hand to their chest, blow it up as "major candidate has heart condition, fit to lead?". Post a picture of your ex in a hoodie, accuse her of theft and watch people rain down the hate.

Are you a Trumpkin? Did they send out an email instructing you guys to use the word "narrative" a lot?

lol wilting donny. wonder if he crushed any bones in her hand trying to pull her away.

Fair play to Macron for playing Trump as the fool that he is during this G7 Summit. It was a treat to watch unfold.

Trump's body language during the joint press conference they just held was A+ entertainment. Would watch again.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49471093

For the record, I realize that’s what you’re saying. I’m curious if that at all changes your assessment of his mental acuity/ intelligence relative to the rest of the population?