Trump is setting the table for a loss. He will never admit defeat to a black, Asian womanâ¦. So if he doesnât win, it will be because it was stolen.
I see him as unprepared to answer a very difficult question coming from out of the blue trying to not say anything wrong that he might regret later.
I've heard some snippets from this event and he was generally doing rather well.
We'll see who is what come Tuesday.
Not that it matters ... Harris could do worse than Biden did and she wouldn't lose a single vote. Her support is unshakeable.
ð A question about child-care is a very difficult question? By Trumpâs standards⦠maybe so. You do know that there will be a lot of questions asked during the debate? That doesnât bode well for Trump.
Maybe he gets lucky and they donât ask any difficult ones that night.
JD Vance was asked pretty much the same question about the costs of child care and he scraped together a more coherent response. It still suckedâeffectively JD suggested the grandparents could help out a bit more. That was an echo of GHW Bush's 1992 campaign response to concerns about the rising costs of health care, where Bush envisioned "a thousand points of light" created by neighbors helping neighbors.
JD IIRC did go on to talk about building up a network of volunteers and making it easier for people who wanted to work in child care earn certification in the field but he ran away from the basic problem of the issue: how do you get child care costs down?
Trump just babbled. You have to effectively READ TEA LEAVES to understand his words but apparently Trump believes that massive and widespread imposition of tariffs on goods and materials brought into the US will magically reduce our deficit, boost our economic growth and SOMEHOW REALLY MAJICKLY distribute that fictional tariff revenue into non-existent government programs to pay for child care.
JD gave the traditional Republican responseâvolunteerism and free market forces will handle child care costs.
Trump fantasized and hallucinated. Lousy AI chatbots could have come up with a better response.
Iâve said this in the past but Trump is like the kid in high school trying to answer a question on a verbal quiz who hasnât studied for it and just throws any bullsh*t at the wall to see if any of it will stick.
"Well let's compare, Donald.
Our education - you lose, Donald
Our political experience - you lose, Donald
Public opinion - you lose, Donald.
Thirty four felony charges - you lose, Donald.
So, you're a loser, Donald. Everyone is saying it."
How an unprepared yet astute candidate should reply would be first, not comment on something they don't have an answer for.
Of course this is politics, and all politicians respond to all questions...so the next best course is to talk a "bit" around it....like he may have attempted....but not ramble and get caught in lies like we will have no deficits in a short period of time....
JD Vance was asked pretty much the same question about the costs of child care and he scraped together a more coherent response. It still sucked—effectively JD suggested the grandparents could help out a bit more. That was an echo of GHW Bush's 1992 campaign response to concerns about the rising costs of health care, where Bush envisioned "a thousand points of light" created by neighbors helping neighbors.
JD IIRC did go on to talk about building up a network of volunteers and making it easier for people who wanted to work in child care earn certification in the field but he ran away from the basic problem of the issue: how do you get child care costs down?
Trump just babbled. You have to effectively READ TEA LEAVES to understand his words but apparently Trump believes that massive and widespread imposition of tariffs on goods and materials brought into the US will magically reduce our deficit, boost our economic growth and SOMEHOW REALLY MAJICKLY distribute that fictional tariff revenue into non-existent government programs to pay for child care.
JD gave the traditional Republican response—volunteerism and free market forces will handle child care costs.
Trump fantasized and hallucinated. Lousy AI chatbots could have come up with a better response.
I see him as unprepared to answer a very difficult question coming from out of the blue trying to not say anything wrong that he might regret later.
I've heard some snippets from this event and he was generally doing rather well.
We'll see who is what come Tuesday.
Not that it matters ... Harris could do worse than Biden did and she wouldn't lose a single vote. Her support is unshakeable.
How an unprepared yet astute candidate should reply would be first, not comment on something they don't have an answer for.
Of course this is politics, and all politicians respond to all questions...so the next best course is to talk a "bit" around it....like he may have attempted....but not ramble and get caught in lies like we will have no deficits in a short period of time....
Matter of fact. The dumber Trump sounds... the better Kurt likes it.
There is nothing about Trump's comments that makes him sound smarter or dumber...because everything he says is sound bite. Trump operates solely on a superficial level, without the cognition or consideration to create solutions out of multiple ideas.
He says what he wants others to hear, not because he believes anything... solely because he wants you to buy what he's selling. Yesterday, it was that he understood economics. If you listen to the other 3 Q&A exchanges before the childcare one, the last one makes a bit more sense. Not because he answered the question, but because he was simply spewing the same lines he had been using for an hour. He can't flex or shift...he's not that smart. By the last question (which is getting all of the play now), you could have asked him why Barron didn't go to Penn or if he'd seen Melania since the RNC, and the answer would have included tariffs and "numbers like nobody has ever seen".
His "nuclear warming" answer was particularly amusing. He talks about his uncle (who died in 1985) like he was a mentor providing young Donnie with a roadmap for the power of nuclear weapons... when you know he probably hated the guy. MIT engineer... how boring. Young Donnie was focused on Studio 54 and being a socialite.
