Trump's Incoherence On Flaming Display

But it's not a story the MSM is interested in

September 6-9. 2024

By Marc Cooper

The Republican candidate for president is every bit or more diminished and certainly more addled than Joe Biden during his debate disaster. But Trump’s strikingly evident decline into constant incoherence does not seem of much interest to a mainstream media, scared shitless it might be accused of bias if it just told the most evident truths. It’s a nauseating indictment of the beltway press corps including the cowardly editors hiding behind their desks and their little ethical rule books from the journo police at the Poynter Institute. (For those not in the industry, Poynter is a “journalism education” non profit that trains reporters how to be perfectly obedient frictionless cogs in the American Information Machine always adhering to a Girl Scout “code of ethics” that basically mutes reporters from telling you what they actually see and hear and conclude. They used to sponsor a brilliant media critic, Jim Romenesko, but he disappeared about a decade ago).

Now some actual FACTS:

Speaking to a room literally full of rich white people at the NY Economic Club this week (these are not economists just a rich people club), Trump was asked about the high price of child care and his plans if any to deal with it. His answer was 100% incoherent. I am reproducing it in full as transcribed officially not from the media. Will it be anywhere in the NYT or WaPo that Trump is in evident and marked mental decline every bit as serious as Biden? Or worse, in some ways. Biden is terribly slowed down but his thought process seems to be at least OK. Trump evidences NO clear thinking ever. This transcribed answer about child care is only the most recent example -------->.

"Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down, and I was, somebody, we had Sen. 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, look, child care is child care. 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."

"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 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.”

You want this guy near the nuclear codes?
As that was his final question, he got a standing ovation from the moneyed mummies in the room who had already been sated by his earlier promise to cut more taxes on their bloated and obscene wealth.

To be fair... Trump in his convoluted incoherent and irrational mode is trying to say we are going to rake in so much money by imposing tariffs on foreign imports, the govt is going to have so much money, that taking care of child care will be easy.

The underlying concept which he could have summarized as neatly as the one graph above, should alarm us more than his scrambled way of "explaining" it. Tariffs, a tax on goods, is paid by the consumer, not the exporter. Put a 50% tariff on a Chinese EV or TV and the consumer, the American buyer, pays that extra 50%. Tariffs are disincentives to export to the US, they DO NOT create revenue for the govt. And they cost consumers more. Which means that Trump does not understand the damage that one of his top campaign promises would wreak. He is an imbecile, a declining one. And that makes him as dangerous as he is appalling and pathetic.

For those of you pure souls out there getting ready to vote for Putin dinner mate Jill Stein or fallen professor Cornel West, you better god damn think twice. You too, despite your leftist protestations, can end up properly branded as Trump collaborators. Even if he winds up putting you in jail, idiots. +++

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