Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 24

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Paul2 said:
I'm a college professor, currently teaching. I agree with you in the main, but allow me a few modifications from my standpoint.

Not much formal instruction in critical thinking and logic happens in college: actual classes in critical thinking and logic may be offered but are usually not required. Informally, a lot of instruction in critical thinking and logic (probably more applied, less theoretical) goes on, but there is some instruction in which the opposite of critical thinking happens.

I think the stronger impact comes from general education classes and the general broadening of one's outlook. Students are trained in *beginning* to understand how limited and parochial their perspective can be.
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Might part of the reason also be that in writing term papers, theses, and the such, students are required to provide sources? President Trump makes crap up so badly that it is obvious there is no underlying evidence. Of course, my question about such an unsupported theory would relate to the current situation rather than the history of this trend.
 
Ladewig said:
Might part of the reason also be that in writing term papers, theses, and the such, students are required to provide sources? President Trump makes crap up so badly that it is obvious there is no underlying evidence. Of course, my question about such an unsupported theory would relate to the current situation rather than the history of this trend.
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Yes, and part of using sources is knowing whether the source is reliable, and *that* sure is an issue politically!
 
Belz... said:
Seems like he was always senile.

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Safe-Keeper said:
I think that's his inability to read, more than senility. There's also a clip where he's asked to read a document and he tries to weasel his way out of it with various excuses.
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That's not senility; that's just Trump **************** his way through something. He has a disability just like his niece says. He has all the earmarks of a reading comprehension problem. He does not process what he reads.

1) Problems sounding out words. (Yo Semite? He's notorious for misreading the teleprompter.)

2) Difficulty recognizing sounds and the letters that make up those sounds.

3)Poor spelling. (See his tweets)

4) Slow reading. (Watch the difference when he's reading vs. extemporaneous speaking.)

5) Problems reading out loud with correct expression. ( He speaks in monotone, lacks appropriate inflections)

6) Problems understanding what was just read. (This is why he speaks in a monotone and lacks correct inflections; he isn't processing what he's reading.
By the time he gets a few sentences in, he's forgotten what he's already read.)

My sister has this disability. I'm very well aware of it. My best friend is a retired reading specialist. She also believes Trump has a reading disability.
 
Stacyhs said:
That's not senility; that's just Trump **************** his way through something. He has a disability just like his niece says. He has all the earmarks of a reading comprehension problem. He does not process what he reads.

1) Problems sounding out words. (Yo Semite? He's notorious for misreading the teleprompter.)

2) Difficulty recognizing sounds and the letters that make up those sounds.

3)Poor spelling. (See his tweets)

4) Slow reading. (Watch the difference when he's reading vs. extemporaneous speaking.)

5) Problems reading out loud with correct expression. ( He speaks in monotone, lacks appropriate inflections)

6) Problems understanding what was just read. (This is why he speaks in a monotone and lacks correct inflections; he isn't processing what he's reading.
By the time he gets a few sentences in, he's forgotten what he's already read.)

My sister has this disability. I'm very well aware of it. My best friend is a retired reading specialist. She also believes Trump has a reading disability.
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On the rare occasion he does process something he reads (and likes), he often goes off teleprompter with something like "That's true", as if he's just read it for the first time and agrees with it.
 
Question: If a Covid vaccine was found to be effective and approved before November. Would that reverse Trump fortunes?

I would imagine that the vaccine would have to get to the market and enough people would be vaccinated to run the economy and reverse the recession before Nov 4.
 
Jerrymander said:
Question: If a Covid vaccine was found to be effective and approved before November. Would that reverse Trump fortunes?

I would imagine that the vaccine would have to get to the market and enough people would be vaccinated to run the economy and reverse the recession before Nov 4.
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I imagine that an announcement of "great, tremendous progress" will be made, whether or not it's true.
 
SezMe said:
The referent for "it" is the payroll tax cut proposed by Trump.

You shouldn't take it because this plays directly into one of the Republican wet dreams of privatizing Social Security. Social Security is funded by the payroll tax. If cut, Social Security will be in a world of financial hurt. Then, as soon as they can, the GOP will argue that, "See, this is just another government socialism experiment that doesn't work. To make it work, it needs to be privatized." If *that* succeeds then America, welcome to tens of millions of the elderly living on the street and dying.

This is the GOP trying to achieve what they can't directly and honestly. It should be emphatically rejected at every turn.
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The Common Dreams interpretation: Trump Just Admitted on Live Television He Will 'Terminate' Social Security and Medicare If Reelected in November
President Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon openly vowed to permanently "terminate" the funding mechanism for both Social Security and Medicare if reelected in November—an admission that was seized upon by defenders of the popular safety net programs who have been warning for months that the administration's threat to suspend the payroll tax in the name of economic relief during the Covid-19 pandemic was really a backdoor sabotage effort.

Announcing and then signing a series of legally dubious executive orders, including an effort to slash the emergency federal unemployment boost by $200 from the $600 previously implemented by Democrats, Trump touted his order for a payroll tax "holiday"—which experts noted would later have to be paid back—but said if he won in November that such a cut would become permanent.
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On a related note, decreasing unemployment from $600 to $200 pretty much destroys the GOP claim they offered to extend unemployment temporarily but the Democrats refused. Pelosi said the offer was for $200, the GOP claimed it was extending it at the present rate.

President Trump announces an EO providing an extra $400 per week in unemployment benefits
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Good! I stand corrected.




Belz... said:
Seems like he was always senile.

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Too bad no one asked him during the 2016 campaign which newspapers he read.
 
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A slash of $200 from the $600.

It's $400, but I suspect the author wanted you to end up thinking what you did. There was a compromise in principle on the $400 amount if other tweaks were made, but then the deal fell apart.
 
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Captain_Swoop said:
LARRY KUDLOW: The president felt he had to take action on an eviction moratorium.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But his executive order doesn't actually include an eviction moratorium.
KUDLOW: ... look, that's not entirely true.
STEPHANOPOULOS: It is true. I just read it.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1292488759502671883. (vid in link)

Kudlow might want to read the Trump memo.
At no time did he State to halt evictions, he stated he would Look into it.
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His staff never knows what Trump is going to do because Trump wobbles all over the place every day.
 
Jerrymander said:
Question: If a Covid vaccine was found to be effective and approved before November. Would that reverse Trump fortunes?

I would imagine that the vaccine would have to get to the market and enough people would be vaccinated to run the economy and reverse the recession before Nov 4.
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Not for me. It wouldn't change his incredibly inept handling of the crisis, his constant lying, and his overwhelmingly overall horrible presidency. A vaccine would be found not in spite of, not because, of him.
 
Delphic Oracle said:
A slash of $200 from the $600.

It's $400, but I suspect the author wanted you to end up thinking what you did. There was a compromise in principle on the $400 amount if other tweaks were made, but then the deal fell apart.
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You're right. I did get confused by the numbers. :blush:

President Trump announces an EO providing an extra $400 per week in unemployment benefits
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Good!
 
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