Q: If you win in November, can you commit to prioritizing legislation to make child care affordable and if so, what specific piece of legislation would you advance?
A: Well, I would do that, and we're sitting down, you know I was, uh... somebody we had, uh... Senator Marco... Rubio and my daughter Ivanka was so, uh... 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, look, child care is child care. Couldn't, you know, there's something you have to have it, in this country, you have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I'm talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they're not used to, but they'll get used to it very quickly and it's not going to stop them from doing business with us, but they'll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country.
Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we're talking about including child care that it's going to take care-- we're going to have, I-- I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time. Coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country, because I have to stay with child care, I want to stay with child care, but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I'm talking about, including growth. But growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just, uh... that I just told you about.
We're going to be taking in trillions of dollars and as much as child care is talked about as being expensive it's, relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we'll be taking in. We're going to make this into... an... incredible country that can afford to take care of its people and then we'll worry about the rest of the world. Let's help other people, but we're going to take care of our country first. This is about America First. It's about... make America great again. We have to do it, because right now we're a failing nation. So, we'll take care of it. Thank you - very good question - thank you.
“ Coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country, because I have to stay with child care, I want to stay with child care, but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I'm talking about”
Its like mid thought his brain was screaming stay on subject, but his other brain was like fuck it lets talk about import tariffs instead.
I have to stay with childcare, I want to stay with childcare
Someone on another thread pointed out that this interjection makes it seem likely that he’s got someone in his ear trying to steer him back on track. And it makes total sense that his campaign managers would do that. If he did that during the debate, it would be considered cheating, I sincerely hope?
Nobody would do that during the debate. He just has a hearing aid. That he doesn't need but totally has all the rights in the universe to wear if he wants to. It is needed because of the gruesome after effect of his near assassination. That left no permanent injuries as he is a strong, very strong American...
Harris bleached her teeth and eats children for breakfast!!11
And if it’s not that, the alternative is that HE HIMSELF realized he was drifting and his attempt to veer back on course was so hamfisted and his mental multitasking so crippled that he had to shout his internal monologue outloud to act as a sort of forceful conversational rudder.
He couldn’t be thinking one thing (“STAY ON CHILDCARE”) and saying anything else so it just tumbled out as he tried to wrench his brain forcibly back to the task at hand (and failed, naturally).
The response you provided seems to lack clarity and focus, which can indicate several things about the person answering. Here are some possibilities:
Lack of Preparation or Knowledge: The speaker might not have a clear or well-prepared answer to the question, so they are relying on vague or unrelated statements to fill in gaps. This could be indicative of either not being familiar with the specific topic or being unable to articulate a detailed plan.
Deflection: Instead of directly answering the question about child care legislation, the speaker shifts to broader issues like economic growth, foreign trade, and deficit reduction. This can suggest an attempt to deflect from the original question, possibly because they do not have a concrete answer or policy to propose.
Overuse of Generalities: The speaker uses phrases like “we’re going to take care of it” or “we’ll make this into an incredible country” without providing specifics. This type of language is often used to sound reassuring without offering any actionable details, which can be seen as padding the answer with generalities to avoid giving a concrete response.
Stream-of-Consciousness Speaking Style: The answer includes a lot of fragmented thoughts and digressions. This could be a sign that the speaker is thinking out loud and struggling to organize their thoughts into a coherent argument, which leads to a meandering, unclear response.
Overall, the speaker seems to be avoiding a detailed answer, possibly because they lack specific knowledge on the subject or are trying to divert attention to broader issues that they are more comfortable discussing.
Goddamn brainless computer is better at calling out trump’s bs than 7/8ths of the journalists.
I can imagine, in a few years, instant fact checking like this. The computer can listen to these clowns in real time and debunk the lies as they spew forth.
The brainless computer isn't being paid to write specific things.
I would love to be optimistic about fact-checking AI in real time, but we could have been fact-checking everything already, just a little slower, and no one seems to be interested in doing that. For obvious reasons, of course
It took me a hot minute to realize that his response to the question was basically that there’ll be so much money rolling in from tariffs that the cost of childcare won’t matter. I hope everyone knows how dumb that is.
As I've said if he didn't spend his life openly and gleefully being a shit stain, or literally trying to pass legislation that is super harmful to people I love.
I'd feel sorry that no one likes him enough to have him committed to a nursing home due to his obvious physical and mental decline.
But he has and is.
So he can go fuck himself.
Also where the hell are the people pushing the Biden has dementia people because he talked a little slow and quietly...
I listened to a clip of his today on NPR. It wasn’t just stumbling through sentences, his words were slurred so bad I could picture the dribble of spit dropping from his mouth. They can try whatever they want to prop him up…I don’t think the dude has another 5 years on this Earth.
1000% I am a highly empathetic person and I have less than zero for this man. Maybe slightly more for his supporters. The abject misery he has caused have left people I love living in constant fear. Life has been hell since 2016. Fuck him into the sun, man.
They used to stick to the talking points. Usually the economy. "Child care is a big issue, but I'm confident with enough economic growth people will make the money they need to afford it. That's why I'm proposing the Economics of America Act..."
Or some shit like that, and they keep promoting their pet project every time anybody asks them literally any question.
It's not that hard. Republicans used to be really good at it. It is still evading the question, but in a way that pushes their agenda, and stays on the message they want to push.
If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with bullshit, and when that fails, just make shit up on the fly while accusing others of everything you’re guilty of.
The a guy is a clown never knew anything daddy paid his way through school. trumps is mentally challenged and the sad part is he doesn’t know it or he does but won’t accept it . He thinks he’s superior above everyone else when he’s a human form of feces the lowest form of shit I call him whale shit it just sinks to th bottom of the ocean in not capable of being able to learn anything about anything other than himself
In 2014 and 2015 his brain was functioning a bit better so he could bullshit more effectively. In 2024 his brain decay is so obvious that he can’t gish gallop his way out of questions or debates.
Trump forms sentences like a refrigerator magnet poetry kit with half the tiles missing
One of the few things I took from it is that he still believes that the tariffs he wants to impose (and has already imposed in his first term) are paid by foreign nations as opposed to American companies who import goods. Even discounting the cognitive decline he is not a smart man.
I don't know how the fucking moron managed to not end up in a cardboard box in a back alley with his complete lack of business sense.
How my store works: Cost of goods go up for whatever reason; that cost increase gets passed off to the customer as an increase in the price of the item. The only people who suffer are the American consumers who now have to pay higher prices for the same items.
When you/your family's rich enough, and enough safeguards are put in place (I mean, do you really think he's ever done his own investing, accounting, fucking anything?), it's literally impossible to not succeed.
So I speak trump fluently (I had a stroke last week). What he was saying is that he talked to Marco Rubio and Ivanka and we're going to stop fraud and bring money to america with the plan he talked about earlier I guess. Wait was the question about childcare and how he was going to help bring the cost down on that, and asked to cite a specific piece of legislation or policy? Well, we're going to stay with childcare because it's a thing that is needed and that will be taken care, obvy. He can't even be full of shit in an effective manner any more.
"I don't want to talk about childcare. The costs associated with childcare are insignificant compared to the amount of money I plan on bringing in through tariffs and cracking down on fraud."
Yesterday CNN ran a headline that was like “Kamala barely edges ahead of Trump in Michigan poll.” It was 49-43.
This dumbass strongman (/s) can’t cheat to win while in power successfully and needs all the fucking help he can get AND Harris still can maintain a sizable lead.
During the debate when he talks like that, I just want Kamala to look at him, squinting at him like, "What the hell are you talking about?" And when he's finished talking, shake her head with eyes wide and go, "Okaaaaay . . . "
It's like trying to win a game of chess against a pigeon in the park, but the pigeon knocks over the pieces, shits on the board, and then struts around like it has won.
The pessimist bone in my body would like to remind you that the (corporate) media in this country is so slanted against progressivism that Kamala will still be fighting an uphill battle.
As to Donnie’s mental state, Kim Jong-un put it nicely. The man’s a “mentally-deranged dotard,” and he’s posting his L’s.
There was a point in his speeches long ago where sometimes it would help to watch him. Like the text would make very little sense, but if you watched him say it instead of reading what he said it would make more sense. But now this just doesn't make any sense.
I think here he was trying to get at using tariffs to pay for it? He was talking about foreign somethings paying something they weren't used to but would get used to? Maybe?
Yeah, the MOST charitable interpretation I could parse from his word salad non-answer was he thinks he will bring in trillions of dollars in revenue from tariffs, which will eliminate the deficit and just leave so much money left over that he can magnanimously wave his hand and give everyone free child care.
Honestly, if anyone believe this to be even 1% true or possible, they have no business voting.
And the person who asked the question tried so hard to ask him to name a specific program or legislation. Oh well. Reporters: 0 - Trump 497,472,829
He really believes tariffs are paid for entirely by the country on which tariffs are placed. So he's going to tariff any of them that offend him for free money.
He’s saying he wants to force the rest of the world to give us more money to fix problems he’s only made worse. Yeah, throw other people’s money at it and devalue our global standing, dead simple solution to helping the poors.
Ok, playing devils advocate for a second here. Let's assume that he does, in fact, impose tariffs, and that countries do, in fact, continue to do business with the US, and that the costs are not, in fact, passed along to the consumers, and that this does, in fact, bring in trillions of dollars in surplus.
Even if we believe all of that to be true, the GOP will still stand in the way of any kind of help for families that are struggling financially, because "socialism". So those trillions of dollars in surplus will go toward... tax breaks for the disgustingly rich, I guess? Anything else would be "socialism" and "encouraging laziness".
He's seems to be stating that he's going to put an import tax on all products and services entering the US. Which will make so much money. That he could easily afford to pay for everybody's childcare.
Which is total bollocks. First of all Americans would be the ones paying the import taxes and other countries would inevitably retaliate and put the same amount in $ terms on imports from the US. Harming US exports. With the EU usually targeting those taxes for maximum impact e.g. a few years ago the US put say $65 million of taxes on EU imports. Wisconsin was a major swing state, which could go to George W. so $65 million of import taxes was put on Harley-Davidson motorcycles which are made in Wisconsin. Roughly doubling the EU price of a Harley. Killing their market.
But really the speech is a rambling disjointed mix up of ideas. With him being unable to stay on topic.
Yeah. This is a room full of rich people that cheat on their taxes and every other fucking thing. They are clapping because they want that absolute fucking idiot as the chief executive so they can get away with more cheating. Simple as that. They are clapping for themselves.
Way worse. I'm surprised he didn't say, "No one knows more about childcare than I do," or "No one realized how hard childcare is, but I've thought about it and I have the solution." I guess these lines have fallen out of his repertory.
Jesus the tweet makes him sound coherent compared to what he actually said in that video. And the audience applauded that rambling nonsense?? Fuck I’m so exhausted.
"Mr. Trump, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
The mindless lemmings in the audience just begin clapping when he says “make America great again”. What the hell. That was a mindless ramble of incoherent bullshit, followed by a stupid fascist catchphrase… and people cheer for it?
Never have a clue.
Infrastructure bill promise always 2 weeks away.
Healthcare promise always next week.
Dude biggest accomplishment is tax cut for the billionaires and 3 scotus.
And a bunch of executives to kick down at low income people
Meanwhile, Fox is bringing on a linguistics expert to explain how Kamala's misuse of an intransitive preposition after a split infinitive makes her unfit to lead.
It’s your standard call and respond. It’s why he’s so popular with the Christians. Much like a Sunday Service, they aren’t actually listening to what is being said. They are just waiting for the cues to show they are listening. As long as the buzzwords are said, their brains will fill in the rest and now the speaker is “saying what they’re thinking.”
Literally morons leading the idiots. Delusions feeding delusions.
So he "commits" to taxing other countries to the tune of trillion$, just like he committed to having Mexico pay to build a wall and releasing his tax returns.
No actual policy other than, "We're going to have YUGE income from other countries cause I say so and it will be more than enough to pay for everything anybody wants."
I can't believe nobody ever had the common sense before to increase our tax base by simply taxing other countries! When you're a superpower, they let you do it.
His plan is cutting wasteful spending and fraud, taxing imports...that's what I got. And even if possible, he would never apply those supposed "trillions of dollars" to making child care affordable.
All he had to do was say "I'd work with Congress to get the Child Care for Working Families Act passed, and find ways to expand the Child Care Development Block Grant. That way we can reduce the cost of child care for working families and encourage more people to work in the field of child care for things like pre-K."
It's just politics Donald. Doesn't mean you have to actually do the things you say.
More concerning are the 43% who have seen everything Trump has done over the past 10 years, heard every vomit of nonsense out of his mouth during this campaign, and are still dead-set on voting for him.
Even more concerning is that the swing states are a statistical tie and could go either way, so this is really a 50/50 election, despite all logic screaming that Trump shouldn't even be eligible to run.
I can’t vote for Kamala though. She plans on heavily taxing those making $100+ million; a figure I’ll never be able to obtain. So I have to protect that wealthy class with all my might because they too will one day trickle that $100+ million down to me!
More concerning are the 43% who have seen everything Trump has done over the past 10 years, heard every vomit of nonsense out of his mouth during this campaign, and are still dead-set on voting for him.
If Trump was onstage and John Cena theatrically snuck up from offstage and decked him with a folding-chair, and while standing over Trump's drooling, unconscious body; shouted that True Americans must acknowledge that he was now the legal and legit GOP presidential candidate... Well I think the rank and file registered republicans would immediately petition to have the ticket changed.
That makes two of us. Necessarily any solution to the problem is going to cause millions of people to scream bloody murder. Even accepting that, inventing and implementing a clean and effective solution to this would be a historic feat.
I’ve said this on other posts, but the truth is that most Trump voters never hear any of his rambling, his vitriol, his self-contradiction.
They hear “news people” tell them Dems are radical baby killers who will take their guns and invite violent brown people to take their jobs.
At a hotel breakfast last weekend with a huge TV, a Fox host was trying to explain that the Israeli hostage release occurred because … Putin put pressure on Hamas? Somehow? She didn’t seem to understand either, but the message was Putin is a good guy. And Biden had nothing to do with it.
At least Vance offered something. Not a policy. Just said have your family help out. Which isn’t a real world option for most. But it was a complete sentence. So there’s that.
That's because as terrible as Vance is he still has a "normal" working brain, those of us with a working brain have a need to make sense when we talk.
Trump isn't "handicapped" by that he could cover 5 different topics in one sentence and no one bats an eye because that's how he talks, he ground down the press so much that they just accept whatever "answer" he gives them even though word salads aren't answers.
That's because journalists have lost the ability to be journalists and instead are just trying to capture the "right" sound clip and write the best click bait headline.
If journalism wasn't driven by money and engagement farming the same as influencers are, we would be a lot more informed. However, corporations have done a great job of convincing more people to be worried about the latest tiktok trend or score of a football game than to be worried about policies from people who are literally trying to make our everyday lives worse.
I can confirm, after three decades in TV news, (behind the scenes) I can count the actual journalists I've worked with on two hands and two feet. However, in the spokesmodel category I've worked with hundreds.
He's weaving, guys! He's totally doing it! It's not at all just unhinged ramblings, it's a big beautiful thing, like the big beautiful buildings and golf courses and universities and steaks.
"No, I think that's very personal. I'm sure they wouldn't want me mentioning names. You know the fake news would be all over them asking some bad bad things about me because nobody I think ever has been treated as unfairly as me."
I could go on guessing what he'd say but it's exhausting.
That's very 2018 though. Too many complete sentences for 2024. Nowadays it'd be more like "No, I think, that's a very personal... you know, they don't like it, they don't like it if you mention names these days. You can say a name, and they... the fake news comes up with all these mean things, very mean to say about me. They're very mean to me, because they can't... I think it's important, very important that we have teachers. Very important."
They want Trump to win, because controversy and chaos gets people watching the news and reading news articles. “they” are multibillion-dollar companies owned by billionaires, and said owners believe they stand to benefit more from a Trump presidency than from a Harris one. And to hell with everyone else.
No successful New York Businessman would enter any contract with this ConMan. Not sure why they want him at their club, other than he'll cut taxes to the top 1%.
He kept going for a while and eventually decided he's just gonna bring in trillions of dollars by taxing other countries. Seriously, that's what he came up with.
As far as I understood, China will pay for the child care, and Trump and his billionaire buddies will pocket the cash and wait for it to trickle down. I guess.
I think he’s talking about tariffs with that maybe since that’s one of his policies but I’m not really sure how that taxes other countries exactly, other than making Americans pay more for foreign products. And then he says childcare isn’t expensive compared to that doesn’t make any sense.
According to my local news' FB page, yes. He's polling extremely well. I don't have cable, so I follow them for weather updates as I live in a Hurricane zone. The Red Pill is super strong with these MAGA hats.
Biden was never this bad. And I've had knee-slapping, eye-watering belly-laughs at his worst challenges with language.
Trumps "speech" is what you'd expect from Sara Palin If she smoked heroin mixed with heavy plastics every afternoon.
Biden knew the subjects cold but would struggle to get the words out. Trump is like the 10 year old being asked by the teacher to describe a book he didn't read.
Biden also had a speech impediment he had to overcome, but at least you could parse what he said. I have no idea what Trump is saying here because he has no answer for anything and is clearly making shit up on the spot, just like the 10 year old in your example.
What the heck does Rubio have to do with anything?! Before I feel like you could kind of see Trumps idiot brain jumping around to different topics but now it’s so much worse.
forced birther says forced birther things. they want to take away contraception, abortion rights, abortion drugs, and the ability to get an abortion even after rape or incest.
but after birth, they don't care.
if you see their stances on childcare, healthcare, or school lunch, or protecting kids from getting shot in the head at school --- it's obvious, they're not about life. they only want to see women give birth, repeatedly, that's it, and pay the hospital out of pocket for those births.
See, the fact that he says shit like this and then MAGA nuts turn around and claim that Kamala “can’t put a coherent sentence together” is just mind-boggling. They’ve probably never even heard her speak, but because Tucker Carlson or some other right-winger with a platform says she’s incoherent they just believe it, and don’t even realize the fact that they believe it so easily is due to implicit bias and their own fucking racism.
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This is not a functional use of language.
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