Following Tuesday night’s resounding victory for Democrats across the country, Donald Trump came up with a long to-do list Wednesday morning that he thinks is the solution to what ails Republicans. And bizarrely, during his postelection meltdown, he claimed that Americans need ID to buy groceries.

  • TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    You’re correct. It’s super annoying when articles take quotes out of context to create a narrative. You get into a debate with someone else, reference the article, then look dumb when they point out that’s not what was actually implied.

    Here’s his exact quote:

    “All we want is voter ID, you go to a grocery store, you have to give ID, you go to a gas station, you give ID, but for voting, they want no voter ID. It’s only for one reason, and it’s because they cheat. We would pass that in 15 minutes,” Trump ranted, seeming to slur his words at times. “If you don’t get it, you’ll never pass that. You’ll never talk about mail-in ballots. Mail-in ballots make it automatically corrupt.”

    It’s pretty clear he’s talking about having to use your ID when required at grocery stores and gas stations, i.e. to buy tobacco and alcohol.

    Yes you can interpret it as him saying that he’s going to require an id to buy groceries and gas but that requires a ton of mental gymnastics. Trump doesn’t need fake narratives to sound like a fascist, there’s plenty of actual examples to pick from, but this ain’t it. The fact that he’s trying to get rid of mail in voting is already insane enough

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      13 hours ago

      Exactly this. The point he’s seemingly making is a terrible point, but (effectively) misquoting him doesn’t help in any way, it just gives them an easy echo-chamber-reinforced defense: they point out mischaracterizations as examples of “derangement” and shut down rather than engaging with the subject.

      His narrative is wrong and his point is stupid: that should be enough; no need to stretch it for a clickbait headline. But here we are…