Donald Trump tried to sidestep giving a policy position on health care, and walked straight off of a rhetorical cliff.
During the presidential debate Tuesday night, Trump struggled to answer a question about his healthcare plan, accidentally revealing that he didn’t have one at all.
After his particularly lackluster response criticizing Obamacare but giving no alternatives, ABC moderate Linsey Davis asked Trump outright if he knew what he was talking about. “Yes or no, you still do not have a plan?” she said.
“I have concepts of a plan,” Trump replied. “I’m not president right now.”
Its like when you fail a dialogue check in disco elysium, except this guy was president and not a hungover party cop
Gee, if people had just realized he has no idea what he’s doing 8+ years ago we all would’ve been better off.
I distinctly remember that being a selling point of his first campaign.
He was advertised as a Washington outsider, who had no connections and would drain the swamp.
And now it’s vote for the senile felon.
“I’ll reveal my beautiful, beautiful healthcare plan for the millions and billions of Americans in two weeks… right after the crooked IRS finishes up my perfect audit.” ~tRump
It will be the best audit, like you’ve never seen before. Probably the best audit in the world.
The plan is no plan. tear it all down and let the peasants fend for themselves. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
Naw the system protects assholes like trump.
Tearing it all down would give us peasants too much power.
Just saying “The System” absolves the ones abusing it of blame
It does? Interesting.
Do go on. How does recognizing that the government/infrastructure and such exists, and referring to that absolve anyone of anything?
Also… it’s not being abused. It’s designed to function this way. Which is why those “abusers” won’t tear it down and start over.
How does recognizing that the government/infrastructure and such exists, and referring to that absolve anyone of anything?
Like I said, because you’re assigning the blame to The System instead of the people in it. Sometimes the system is set up in a way which harms people. Most of the time the people in the system are misusing it or ignoring protections that it stipulates to harm people. By always blaming The System only, you are ignoring the harm that these people in particular are causing and are misattributing the blame to other factors.
If the people are bad, the system will produce bad outcomes. It is easier to change the system than to change the people, but they still deserve blame.
A gun, knife, screwdriver isn’t to be blamed for murder or the coercion they enabled any more than the government and legal system is to be blamed for anything.
Machines, tools, things cannot be guilty of anything, even if they’re used in a crime.
People are guilty, the people who built it, and who maintain it, and yes, the people who use it. I’m not excusing anyone of anything.
I think you are, though, by failing to realize that whatever you want to call it, it’s fundamentally designed to protect the Haves from the Have-Nots.
Trump using the system to stay out of jail isn’t abuse. It’s meant to be used that way.
You keep using passive voice. When you say “it’s meant to be used that way”, what do you mean? Who meant it to be used that way? The people who created it? They didn’t intend this. The people who modified it over time? That’s more than one distinct group. Or are you saying the design of the system itself incentivizes that use? Because I don’t think I agree with that either.
Also as an aside: Depending on what you mean by “blame”, inanimate objects may be eligible imo. They can’t be culpable, but they can share causal blame.
(I also feel compelled to mention that civil asset forfeiture frequently assigns guilt to inanimate objects, but I think we can agree that that legal practice is batshit insane.)
Yes. I used general language because you’re getting all bent out of shape, missing the forest for the trees.
If we’re at the critiquing grammar stage, I guess there’s no further point. If you genuinely don’t know who and what I mean, that’s your problem.
Given that the MAGA talking point for the last few weeks has been “but KaMaLa DoEsNt HaVe AnY pOliCies!!!”, I legitimately expected that they would have at least prepped him on some kind of policy response. Alas, the floor was wiped with an orange mop.
He doesn’t need a plan. Half the voters don’t care if he has a plan. Plans are for Democrats.
Projection. They have no policies, ergo accuse the other side of having no policies.
Nah, there was never a plan. That’s the whole idea. Remember he was president. He tried to kill ACA without a replacement, always promising a replacement is coming before during and now after his 4 years.
He’s been saying he has a plan for almost a decade without ever providing anything.
I swear microplastics or lead have mentally disabled like 40% of the global adult population. Too many people remember nothing.
He’s been saying he has a plan for almost a decade without ever providing anything.
He said he was gonna build a wall that Mexico would pay for, but weeks after he lost in 2020 every dipshit was talking about the huge border again.
That one kills me. They elected a guy who promised to “Build the wall”. I had a neighbor who was in construction and was bragging about how much wall they were building.
Then Trump gets fired and they’re back to “our borders are wide open!” Wtf people? I thought you built a wall.
Imo that literally should be the only response to trump and his followers in any situation for any answer:
“Where is ya wall Donny? 4 years and no wall?”
An coworker at my previous job was parroting the border crisis about 6 months ago. I snarkingly mentioned the orange turd’s wall and then he hits back
“But Biden welded doors open in certain parts. So fighting age men from China and Middle East are just walking in”
I sat back and was kiiinda dumbfounded, didn’t look it up because he’s one of those “I ReAd BoTh SiDeS” people who claims they’re the most well informed. I immediately dismissed his statement when an even more blatant right-wing knob-slobber repeates the exact same “fighting age men” comment
Instead of forming an actual plan, his fat ass has been shuffling and waddling around golf courses and mumbling about windmills
I believe he’s actually playing putt-putt golf, the one with the windmills.
It’s taken him 8 years to form concepts. 🤣
For someone who lies all the time, you’d think he could come up with a better one than, “I forgot my homework, but I promise I did the outline!”
Wait for instructions from Moscow and go one by one. No plan needed.
Do you have the down payment to purchase this home?
We have the concept of a down payment.
I am going to print this out and hand it out to everyone I know
It’s nice to see that at least some people have finally figured that out.
It’s depressing it took this long, though.
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He just needs two more weeks, then we’ll have the most beautiful plan this country has ever seen.
Give me a raise first, then I’ll do my job ahhh reply
Had concepts of a plan for how to prepare for this debate
