Once again, I’m gobsmacked that anyone, even Trump, can say this or hear this with a straight face, let alone believe it. They want this for everyone in the world? Not 50%, not 10%, which would still be stupid as heck, but everyone?!? Even themselves?
I mean, aside from the obvious insanity of it, how would they even pay for it?
It seems we do about 310 million major surgeries per year, in the entire world. So this would cost on the order of 25 times the entire annual budget for surgeries, in the entire world. And that’s assuming a transition surgery only costs what an average surgery costs. I suspect they’re actually quite a bit more expensive than average.
This kind of quote mining used to be the hallmark of the conspiracy theory crowd. They’d do the same thing, find a bunch of quotes that could be manipulated to say one thing, but really meant something different. Every time I tired to track one down, it was either completely made up, or so manipulated as to fundamentally alter the meaning.
So it’s not surprising that a GOP that has been entirely taken over by CTists is doing the same thing. It’s built into their world view.
“I’m gonna do it whether the women like it or not”
“They call it groceries. Bacon, lettuce, tomat— ohhh, everything is so much higher than it ever was.” (“They call it” is one of Trump’s tells that he has no idea what the word means)
“I’ve been up here probably 4 or 5 times already. You got me working Wisconsin. I mean, what the hell do I need this for?”
“One of my people came in and said sir, you know the word garbage is the hottest thing right now. The hottest thing out there. Sir, would you like to drive a garbage truck?”