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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump elegantly and coherently explains his "some form of punishment" gaffe.
Wednesday morning, Trump was on MSNBC's Morning Joe and the show's hosts asked him how he planned to frame his various controversial positions, including the abortion/punishment answer, now that he's the presumptive Republican nominee. His response, which you can see in the video above, is one of the most garbled sacks of nonsense verbiage that has been emitted in the history of human civilization:
WILLIE GEIST: What about what you told Chris Matthews a few weeks ago, which is that women who get abortions should be punished? Do you still believe that to be true?
TRUMP: No, he was asking me a theoretical, or just a question in theory, and I talked about it only from that standpoint. Of course not. And that was done, he said, you know, I guess it was theoretically, but he was asking a rhetorical question, and I gave an answer. And by the way, people thought from an academic standpoint, and, asked rhetorically, people said that answer was an unbelievable academic answer! But of course not, and I said that afterwards.
At no point in this rambling, incoherent response was Donald Trump even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone who clicked the video above is now dumber for having listened to it.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/05/04/trump_defends_abortion_gaffe_with_academic_word_salad.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top
WILLIE GEIST: What about what you told Chris Matthews a few weeks ago, which is that women who get abortions should be punished? Do you still believe that to be true?
TRUMP: No, he was asking me a theoretical, or just a question in theory, and I talked about it only from that standpoint. Of course not. And that was done, he said, you know, I guess it was theoretically, but he was asking a rhetorical question, and I gave an answer. And by the way, people thought from an academic standpoint, and, asked rhetorically, people said that answer was an unbelievable academic answer! But of course not, and I said that afterwards.
At no point in this rambling, incoherent response was Donald Trump even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone who clicked the video above is now dumber for having listened to it.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/05/04/trump_defends_abortion_gaffe_with_academic_word_salad.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top
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Trump elegantly and coherently explains his "some form of punishment" gaffe. (Original Post)
Nye Bevan
May 2016
OP
His answer was terrifically great. Rhetorically theoretically terrific.
The_Casual_Observer
May 2016
#3
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)1. Trump, raising word salad to an art form.
Word Salad: a confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases, specifically (in psychiatry) as a form of speech indicative of advanced schizophrenia.
There is something wrong with that man.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)2. There is no acceptable explanation for his words.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)3. His answer was terrifically great. Rhetorically theoretically terrific.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)4. Well said
Well spoken.
spanone
(135,802 posts)5. he's full of acres of shit.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)6. Trump has no excuse for the piece of shit Trump is. Nt
Journeyman
(15,028 posts)7. "And he wants to be our latex salesman" . . .
h/t to Seinfeld.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)8. Lol..people vote for this shit?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)9. Feeling bad about this triple-decker shit sandwich you've made GOP?
That's unfortunate. Wolf it down, now.
Jim__
(14,072 posts)10. "... people said that answer was an unbelievable academic answer!"
And Trump took that as support for his answer.
herding cats
(19,558 posts)11. Imagine what a Trump/Palin ticket would be like?
It would make Charlie Sheen at his peak "winning!" stage seem coherent.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)12. What?
thucythucy
(8,043 posts)13. It's like he's been taking lessons from Sarah Palin!
My head hurts after reading that gibberish.
Johonny
(20,827 posts)14. He's got the best words.
Someday he'll use them.