Trump Serves Word Salad Answer on Funding for Childcare – Mainstream Media Ignores His Dysphasia Again

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Donald Trump serving up word salad at the Economic Club of New York, Sept. 5, 2024
Donald Trump serving up word salad at the Economic Club of New York, Sept. 5, 2024

Question from panelist Reshma Saujani, founder of the nonprofit Girls Who Code and its campaign to help mothers, Moms First: “If you win in November, can you commit to prioritizing legislation to make child care affordable? And if so, what specific piece of legislation will you advance?”

Answer from former President and current GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump: “Well, I would do that and we’re sitting down, you know, I was, somebody, we had Senator Marco Rubio and my daughter, Ivanka was sooo..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, the child care is, child care is ..couldn’t, you know, there’s something you’d have to have it in this country, you have to have it. uh 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 gonna 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 we’re talking about including child care…that it’s gonna take care. We’re gonna have. 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 the other things that are going on in our country. Because I have to stay with child care..I wanna 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..uhh..that I just told you about, we’re gonna be taking in trillions of dollars. And as much as child care..uhh..is talked about as being expensive, it’s relatively speaking not very expensive compared to the kinda of numbers we’ll be taking in. We’re gonna make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of it’s people…and then we’ll worry about the rest of the World. Let’s help other people. But we’re gonna take care of our country first, this is about America first, is 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.”

Here is Kamala Harris’ answer to a similar question:

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Trump Campaign Wastes Donations on Broadcasting Ads Targeted at Mar-a-Lago

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Newsweek: George Conway, a conservative attorney and critic of former President Donald Trump, is targeting the Republican nominee in his own neighborhood with a six-figure attack.

Conway’s Anti-Psychopath PAC launched a new ad campaign on Thursday that will highlight Trump’s “mental unfitness for office.” It will run for two weeks on Fox News, ESPN, and the Golf Channel around Bedminster and Mar-a-Lago.

The 60-second cable TV ad begins with Conway telling the viewer, “Donald Trump has never, ever been right in the head,” before showing a montage of the former president superimposed onto an image of Trump’s brain.

“Donald Trump wanted to make this election all about mental fitness,” George Conway said in a press release. “We’re good with that. Even before he began showing age-related cognitive decline, Trump had a long history of doing and saying bizarre things.”

Now the Trump campaign is responding by counterprogramming Conway’s ad and, like his Anti-Psychopath PAC ad, the pro-Trump ad will only be shown around Trump’s residence.
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Uncovered: MAGA Extremist Candidate for NC School Chief’s Treasonous Jan 6 Video

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ABC 11: Michele Morrow, the Republican nominee to run K-12 public education in North Carolina, filmed a video after attending the January 6 riot at the US Capitol urging then-President Donald Trump to put “the Constitution to the side” and use the military to stay in power. In a deleted Facebook livestream she filmed from her hotel room, Morrow called for mass arrests of anyone who helped certify the 2020 election.

Here’s part of what she said:

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Ron Versus Debby

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis prepares for the storm. (Pensito Illustration)

Today Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued Executive Order 24-176, placing 54 Florida counties under a state of emergency, including Hillsborough County, where I live. A tropical wave, named Invest 97L, could become Tropical Storm Debby over the next 36 to 48 hours and veer up Florida’s Gulf Coast.

Gov. Ron is grandstanding (again). He’s trying to deflect attention away from his latest embarrassing “Stop Woke” loss in federal court and the growing media focus on his cruel and cynical mini-Project 2025 experiments on the Free State of Florida.

As a native Floridian and veteran of numerous storms, it seems to me to be a bit premature to start pulling on the white high-heeled shrimp boots, but I think Ron’s afraid of getting caught unprepared for what looks to be a rather large, wet, but (hopefully) not awful storm.

And it’s easier to declare a nearly statewide state of emergency than it is to head off a double-digit rate hike by Citizens Property Insurance, the state’s insurer of last resort for over 1.2 million policies.

Thanks, Ron. I almost forgot about all the book banning and climate change–denying you are doing for five seconds.

Off to the liquor store for hurricane supplies …

Anti-Psychopath PAC has a Great New Ad Based on Trump’s NABJ Performance

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Florida Is Mad Scientist DeSantis’ Project 2025 Laboratory

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Gov. Ron DeSantis in his Tallahassee laboratory. (Pensito Illustration)

Over the past several years, Gov. Ron DeSantis and the stacked GOP Florida Legislature have been conducting an experiment with Floridians as their lab rats. The hypotheses and methodologies are straight out of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 playbook.

The Tallahassee Democrat (an ironic name for a newspaper in the capital of a rapidly reddening state) has a pretty good explanation on the topic here:

Project 2025 proposes a dramatic overhaul of the federal government, replacing thousands of civil employees with political hires, expanding the power of the president, abolishing the Department of Education, enacting a flurry of tax cuts, banning pornography and halting sales of the abortion pill.

For Floridians, the document’s themes and policies may sound familiar. After all, Gov. Ron DeSantis advanced many of the same ideas, pushed along by hard-right think tanks in his first six years as governor.

“You guys in Florida are living in the future,” said Nick Beauchamp, a political scientist at Northeastern University. He has written on Project 2025 and its proposals, powered by Heritage and a host of other conservative, billionaire-funded think tanks.

See also WNMF’s piece, “Florida Is the Laboratory for Project 2025.”

GOP’s Parental Litmus Test Is Absurd

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Are Senators Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham unmarried, childless cat ladies? (Pensito illustration)

The Republican Party’s newest litmus test — you must have children to have a stake in the future of America — is patently absurd. Kamala Harris is a stepmother, and that counts, JD Vance and Blake Masters.

For your edification and delight, we’ve assembled a totally non-comprehensive list of childless political figures (mostly Republican) who disprove the point:

  • Tiffany Trump, Donald’s fourth child by Marla Maples. Although childless, she is married to billionaire heir Michael Boulos. And, as of 2019, Tiffany had a kitten named Petals. She is a member of “Rich Kids of Instagram.”
  • George Washington, First President of the United States and stepfather to his wife Martha Washington’s two daughters
  • James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States
  • James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States
  • Ginni Thomas, MAGA extremist, sociopathic insurrectionist, helpmate of corrupt Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
  • Clarence Thomas, the most corrupt U.S. Supreme Court justice in living memory
  • Barry Goldwater, U.S. senator 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987; Republican Party’s nominee for president in 1964
  • Bob Dole, U.S. Rep. from Kansas for eight years, served 27 years in the U.S. Senate; Republican presidential nominee in 1996 and vice presidential nominee in 1976
  • Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator from North Carolina 2003 to 2009; a Republican, she served in five presidential administrations, including as U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Ronald Reagan from 1983 to 1987 and as U.S. Secretary of Labor under Reagan’s successor, George H. W. Bush, from 1989 until 1990; served as president of the American Red Cross 1991 to 1999; she sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2000
  • Condoleeza Rice, United States Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009
  • David Souter, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1990 to 2009
  • George Will, an American libertarian conservative writer and political commentator, who writes regular columns for The Washington Post and provides commentary for NewsNation

      • BTW, we think Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham are indeed cat ladies: