Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Following The Bouncing Ball

 When I got my Master’s in English and stopped reading literature, I got a job at a law firm and literally spent a year reading depositions. Most people don’t talk the way dialogue is written. It takes some getting used to, reading transcripts of what people actually say. I found transcripts were revealing. Like this:

"Senator J.D. Vance is your running mate," said Scott. "He's had a lot of controversy lately and I want to read you a few things that he has said in the past. He said the Democrats running the country are 'a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices they've made. And so they don't, they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.'" 
She went on, "Did you know that he had these views about people who do not have children before you picked him to be your running mate, and do you agree with him?"  
"No, this he is very family-oriented and he thinks families a great thing," said Trump. "That doesn't mean he thinks that if you don't have a family, it's not. I know people with families. I know people with great families and I know people with very troubled families. "And I also know people with no families that didn't meet the right person. Things happen, you go through life, you don't meet the right person, not just talking to families here and some of those people that don't have children ... he strongly believes in family, but I know people with great families." 
"My interpretation, you'll have to ask him actually, but my interpretation is he's strongly family-oriented, but that doesn't mean you don't have a family, there's something wrong with this," he continued. 
"One of the bedrock principles of American life is one person, one vote," said Scott. "Senator J.D. Vance has suggested that someone who has children should have more votes than a person who does not have children. I just want to be clear here. Is that the position of your campaign?"  
“Well no, but it's not something I've ever heard before," said Trump. "I can tell you this right now. You have illegal aliens coming into our country in many from prisons and many from mental institutions. And they want to give them votes. I don't think they should have votes."
That last is right up there with abortions in the 9th month and even after birth. Utter and complete bullshit. I mean the part where he isn’t disavowing Project 2025 because he’s never heard of it and doesn’t know what’s in it, and doesn’t agree with anything in it. Or anything Vance ever said that Trump doesn’t want to defend now.

The rest of it is just rambling gibberish. The man’s not safe with anything sharper than a rubber ball.
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