Do you take the things Trump says seriously?If Yes, well I have quite a few more questions for you.If No (the typical MAGA response), then can you please explain how you square your belief that someone whose words are not to be taken seriously can be fit for the most serious job on earth?
Bonus question: if you don't take his words seriously then on what basis do you form any judgement about him?
Is there a politician whose words you do take seriously?
Do you take the things Trump says seriously?
then can you please explain how you square your belief that someone whose words are not to be taken seriously can be fit for the most serious job on earth?
Bonus question: if you don't take his words seriously then on what basis do you form any judgement about him?
Is there a politician whose words you do take seriously?
Do you take the things Trump says seriously?
Pretty much every single oneAll it means is that when they say something we assume they are being serious.
No. Hyperbole is a thing.
if you don't take his words seriously then on what basis do you form any judgement about him?His actions.
I know no serious person that takes a Kamala word salad seriously.
Do you take the things Trump says seriously?Not particularly.then can you please explain how you square your belief that someone whose words are not to be taken seriously can be fit for the most serious job on earth?Fools are less dangerous than cunning enemies.
So when a presidential candidate makes a claim in front of the entire nation alleging that a very specific group of people in a very specific place within the country are engaging in a very specific and heinous act (like eating the neighborhood's pets)... Is that hyperbole?
When a presidential candidate expresses that he believes his political opposition to be "the enemy from within" and that we should use the military against them, is this hyperbole?
When a presidential candidate says he's going to impose an across the board 20% tariff on all imported goods (something he would have the authority to do unilaterally), is that hyperbole?
What actions does a presidential candidate engage in (other than using words) that tells you what they plan to do if (re)elected?
Pretty much every single one
That aside... So if Kamala said she planned to order the military to the streets to confiscate everyone's guns you would brush that off right? I mean, she's not serious so there's no reason to take what she says seriously... right?
Do you take the things Trump says seriously?If Yes, well I have quite a few more questions for you.If No (the typical MAGA response), then can you please explain how you square your belief that someone whose words are not to be taken seriously can be fit for the most serious job on earth?
There are reports that it was true.
When a presidential candidate expresses that he believes his political opposition to be "the enemy from within" and that we should use the military against them, is this hyperbole?Probably
When a presidential candidate says he's going to impose an across the board 20% tariff on all imported goods (something he would have the authority to do unilaterally), is that hyperbole?Now this is definitely hyperbole. Negotiating tactic 101
It’s about what he has already done. Economy was great under Trump until COVID, which was out of his control. If he says he can make the economy work again, I’m inclined to believe him because he has shown how to do it.
You can't have it both ways. If he's serious
Have to disagree with you there. Obama, Bush, both Clintons, Cruz, Ramaswamy, Vance, Kamala, Walz, and most other politicians you can name have very clearly dodged questions, stretched the truth, and changed their positions to be what people want to hear.
You’re treating this like it’s strictly one or the other.
He frequently uses hyperbole, yes, but he’s made plenty of serious remarks as well. This is where you have to look at what he said in context, including the context of how he pitches himself.
Again, do you find Kamala's words "mostly serious?"
Meanwhile, because Kamala Harris is taken seriously everything she says gets put under a microscope and held to an insane double standard.
Right, because that's how a serious presidential candidate get's their information, from the internet.
Then he's unserious.
You can't have it both ways. If he's serious, then we would take him seriously. By calling it a negotiating tactic you're saying that he's obviously not really going to do it, at which point it has no negotiating power.
This is a tired excuse by MAGA to just ignore what this man actually says and insert whatever virtue in him you decide to make up. But this particular example is even worse because the president has unilateral authority to impose tariffs so there's nothing to negotiate. At best, you can claim he's using these as a threat to push lawmakers into concessions, in which case you're literally arguing that he's threatening to take a wrecking ball to the economy if he doesn't get what he wants.
The economy being great isn't an action so this answer has nothing to do with this thread.
But to address it anyway, Trump didn't make the economy great. It had already been growing for the prior 7 years and when Trump came into office nothing changed, all we did was continue the same trajectory we were already on.
In fact we gained more jobs in the last three years under Obama than the first three years under Trump, so one could even argued things slowed down.
But what's really egregious here is to talk about how great things things were in the first three years but to just exclude the last one because it's inconvenient to your narrative. Again, you can’t have it both ways. Either we exclude Covid or we don’t. If we don’t, then his last year counts. If we do, then you don’t get to pretend Covid ended at noon on January 20th 2021 and everything that occurred as a result of the damage it caused is all Biden’s fault.
Taking someone's words seriously =/= believing everything they say uncritically, nor does it mean believing that they will do/accomplish everything they say they will do/accomplish. All it means is that when they say something we assume they are being serious. This is basic English.
