Donald Trump tried to sidestep giving a policy position on health care, and walked straight off of a rhetorical cliff.

During the presidential debate Tuesday night, Trump struggled to answer a question about his healthcare plan, accidentally revealing that he didn’t have one at all.

After his particularly lackluster response criticizing Obamacare but giving no alternatives, ABC moderate Linsey Davis asked Trump outright if he knew what he was talking about. “Yes or no, you still do not have a plan?” she said.

I have concepts of a plan,” Trump replied. “I’m not president right now.”

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    You keep using passive voice. When you say “it’s meant to be used that way”, what do you mean? Who meant it to be used that way? The people who created it? They didn’t intend this. The people who modified it over time? That’s more than one distinct group. Or are you saying the design of the system itself incentivizes that use? Because I don’t think I agree with that either.

    Also as an aside: Depending on what you mean by “blame”, inanimate objects may be eligible imo. They can’t be culpable, but they can share causal blame.

    (I also feel compelled to mention that civil asset forfeiture frequently assigns guilt to inanimate objects, but I think we can agree that that legal practice is batshit insane.)

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      17 days ago

      Yes. I used general language because you’re getting all bent out of shape, missing the forest for the trees.

      If we’re at the critiquing grammar stage, I guess there’s no further point. If you genuinely don’t know who and what I mean, that’s your problem.

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        17 days ago

        This isn’t a grammar issue, this is a “you’re being vague” issue. I’m simply asking for clarity. If you cannot provide that, you don’t understand enough about your own position for me to care.