Not rational when most Democrats did applaud.
I’ll ignore the personal attack and ask you once again:
Going by what would make me happy at that moment I should have spent at least a hundred dollars on candy, soda, chocolate and Tasty Kakes. I did not do that because-
I cannot afford it.
I don’t have space for it.
I would be unable to carry that much junk food home.
etc
This question is totally invalid and meaningless.
ETA-
I just got back from the mini mart. They did not have Black Cherry Wishniak or chocolate milk.
You are participating in a political stunt that uses a sick child as a prop. Shame on you.
Your question is nonsensical. The people influenced will be those seeing Trump with a child prop and conclude he is helping cure cancer. The stunt does real harm and you should stop participating in it.
The kid was clearly grateful for the applause. (What? Do you really think the few democrats that did not applaud influenced his big moment?)
I think this silly talking point continues because Republicans have to grasp at straws regarding this and other justifications for what Trump is doing or did.
https://www.oncology-central.com/what-do-trumps-nih-restrictions-mean-for-cancer-research/
Now, don’t you see that then it would be cruel to ask the poor kid to tell us what he would think by considering what Trump is doing to many others with cancer? I would call that cruel, but then that is what most Republicans are doing by continuing to push this Trump stunt.
No, it’s not. We both know the Dems not standing had ZERO influence whatsoever on Trump. So in that regard, it was an empty gesture.
However that moment clearly meant a lot to that young boy, and moments like that for a child whose life may be truncated are priceless. I’m sure his family will replay that recording for a long time, especially when he needs a pick-me-up. He deserved to see the entire chamber standing and applauding.
There’s more than one person in the USA, and FAR more than one person in the world.
Maybe the audience [wait for it] wasn’t Donald J. Trump.
ETA: if you need a group to hear you out and to react as the victims of demagogues always react, maybe we’re not your audience (?).
As DavidNRockies said this certainly niot just about the opinions of Trump and that young boy. Standing and applauding would have been seen by how many people? How many of those people would be Americans who vote? Trump’s stunt was for those people. At least some Democrats saw that and refused to be seen suppporting it.
Again, your question is invalid and totally meaningless.
Moderating:
This is an insult to everyone on the board who doesn’t agree with you. Don’t engage in these kinds of passive aggressive attacks.
This is responding with a personal attack. Stop now.
To all posting in this thread, do so respectfully and without lobbing insults, whether explicit or implied. Everyone take a breath and dial it back.
I checked again and I was correct, the few Democrats (and there were people surrounding the kid, that were on the Republican side who also did not applaud) that did not applaud did not make a change regarding how glad the kid was then.
What is clear to me too: the efforts to make this stunt of trump to make the kid not be glad because “democrats were “mean” to him”, according to Trump and others, failed too.
What a silly talking point.
Which is why you seem to be concerned about the lesser of the two actions, right?
This, to me, is the crux of the issue. Maybe not standing was a bad call–but it’s an incredibly trivial bad call, compared to canceling funding for cancer research. It’s crucial that we stay focused on the big issues and not be distracted by trivialities. And no, “they’re both bad” is not an appropriate response: it feeds a false narrative and continues to distract from the big issue.
The issue for me is that the child’s parents or guardians allowed him to be in that room. This was clearly the wrong thing to do, and any suffering the child experienced was down to the people who allowed the stunt. The people who behaved appropriately by having some fucking decorum are not in the wrong, even if a child’s feelings were hurt (which we don’t actually know).
Also, 13 is not 5.
One big (ok, actually nothing from the republicans) message from the Republicans that tried to make a mountain about the mole hill of the OP: The Republicans can’t even gesture in support of Trump when they are confronted with what trump is doing, when deporting (with no medicines too) American kids with cancer.
I guess if the kids do survive the cancer and grow up, they will always wonder why the Republicans did not actively protest what Trump is really doing to American kids with cancer.