He’s such an idiot, but we’ve seen this movie before. Remember when he was talking climate change with then Prince Charles? His supporters embrace this idiocy. I still can’t believe that such an idiot gets any support whatsoever. Years later, I’m still stunned.
Well, to be honest, I had never heard of CO2 pipelines before this, and I suspect there a few Dopers in the same boat. Did do my research and it is a valid question, but not something most politicians (excepting those where the pipelines/storage areas are at) would be heavily informed about (IMHO. YMMV). Not that Trump would ever remember any briefing on CO2 pipelines…
For those like me who have never heard of this issue, With The Expansion of CO2 Pipelines Come Safety Fears : Consider This from NPR : NPR gives a short written synopsis with links to verbal/radio reports.
Press on.
Yeah, that’s the sort of question where you say “I’m not current on that issue. I’ll investigate it and figure out what can be done”, unless you have to be the smartest guy in the room, in which case you just word salad your way through a response.
Do you think the issue under discussion is
A) Presidential candidates should know everything there is to know about CO2 pipelines, so Trump is slightly uninformed on the subject and should be studying harder.
B) Presidential candidates shouldn’t be LYING LIARS that blatantly and enthusiastically LIE to their potential constituents. If they don’t know about something they should say so.
It sounds like you think A is the issue, when it’s totally B.
I find the audience’s reaction curious. The party that denies global warming and embraces shit like ‘coal rolling’ is suddenly concerned about CO2 pipelines?
Ann, in a perfect political world you would be completely right, but no politician (especially one running for high office) ever wants to admit ignorance of anything. Other pols would have deflected, obscured, and side-stepped the question, but I do concur that Trump’s skills at not telling the truth would lead him to lie…but since we don’t know if he had a plan (or should I say if someone in his Adminstration did) I hesitate to call it a blatant lie…probably more of the ‘making things up in his head’ routine.
And saying trump should study harder…that gave me the best guffaw I’ve had all week.
‘Unlike sleepy Joe and his weak CO2 pipeline when I am restored to my rightfull place as precedent we will have CO1 pipe lines direct to you’re house, all the Co1 you could want.’ ~ TRDJT
They don’t give a shit about global warming per se; they just worry the pipelines will mess with their farm fields.
Those are what supply the airplanes to prepare them to make chemtrails that turn people gay or whatever.
I hear giant Jewish space lasers are quite effective in dealing with CO2 pipelines.
How has Trump pissed me off today? Well, it was yesterday, actually. But he added a layer of stink to cheese popcorn that I never noticed before. Yesterday I bought some cheese popcorn to have as a snack with an after work beer. (Life is good.)
When I poured some into a bowl and started snacking, I noticed that each one looked like a little Trump head. The only thing missing was a hundred or so little blue suits.
Fuck you, Trump, for damaging my cheese popcorn and beer experience. Fucking criminal.
But with that realization, you can crush him over and over again, and enjoy the taste!
No, silly. It’s being delivered to underground Perrier factories to make the sparkling water the Deep State-ers sip while they’re being rejuvenated with fetus stem cells.
I mean, have you ever seen a Perrier bottling plant? Didn’t think so.
And the high-speed USPS sorting machines. Pity they were dismantled.
Not all of them. We have forty of them in my plant alone.
I’ve always been more about pinching faces.
"I’m CRUSHING your head!"
Just had to say it.
When I hit bottom, I was crushing man’s skull like sparrow’s egg, between my thighs…
–Zangief in Wreck-It Ralph
I think it’s also appropriate that he follows this up by wondering if he were a Good Guy, who would take his place — implying that some mens’ skulls need crushing like sparrows’ eggs between someone’s thighs (and I can come up with half a dozen without even trying).