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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat if your 73 year old uncle said this?
My Analogy: My uncle, who lives alone next to a grocery store calls me, and I live 15 miles away. He says to me, "Louis, can you pick up some cereal for me? You know I like Rice Krispies." My response, "Uncle Jack, you live right next door to the grocery store. Just go in and buy some. Do you need some money?" He says, "No. I have the cash and I would buy them if I could, but I misplaced my ID and you know, they can't sell me cereal without my picture ID."
Would you think your uncle was experiencing some aging problems, like Dementia?
I sure would.
rzemanfl
(29,568 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,852 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,852 posts)rzemanfl
(29,568 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,487 posts)louis c
(8,652 posts)rzemanfl
(29,568 posts)sl8
(13,881 posts)tnlurker
(1,020 posts)I also think he is mentally unbalanced with possible Dementia. But on this issue I think he is just ignorant on how a grocery store works, kind of like Daddy Bush when he saw a scanner in a grocery store for the first time in the 80's.
louis c
(8,652 posts)I don't care when he went to a grocery store. No one ever needed an ID to purchase food. You may need an ID to pay by check or credit card, but that has nothing to do with a grocery store.
Trump's losing his mind, and that's all there is to it.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Can't have illegals buying Rice Krispies, now can we?
His statement was an accidental reveal of his plans.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)But then a 73 year old would not remember that!
My family still has ration stamps left over from WWII - they were from my mother's parents who used them while Mom was a Navy Nurse. If Dad's family didn't save the unused ones, or used them all up.
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)Merchants would then ask to see a form of ID, usually a driver's license. It's been so long since Trump entered a store and bought anything, he's not aware that debit cards tied to checking accounts are widely used today and that users input PIN numbers as a layer of security. He's just waaaaay out of date and utterly clueless.
malaise
(269,157 posts)a cereal LIAR.
Laf.La.Dem.
(2,944 posts)Cute -
malaise
(269,157 posts)Yonnie3
(17,483 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)brush
(53,847 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Excellent
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,528 posts)nmgaucho
(527 posts)Jrsygrl96
(110 posts)This is just a joke, right? I certainly hope so, because if it isn't, we are in way worse shape than I thought.
irisblue
(33,023 posts)Also said some tripe earlier in the fall about needing ID for groceries too. DU mockery insued.
Welcome to DU.
Yeah. Everyday is a terrifying adventure with that orange greedy, soulless antichrist. I guess all we can do is make jokes and let our sarcastic freak flags fly in order to survive!
irisblue
(33,023 posts)Eventually leads to ridicule in public to powers face, laughter may slow the anger that leads to change it.
Example I'm tossing out is Nicolae Ceaușescu , Romanian dictator/autocrat, overthrown & executed in 89. Andrei Codrescu, Romanian author, came to the US, wrote & on NPR, spoke aboout the use of humor in his overthrow.
Nothing happens in an historical/social pod only, just a lot of things finally join together.
shraby
(21,946 posts)irisblue
(33,023 posts)Take him out for Sat b-fast, then check around the house, esp the bathroom.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts)That would mean that he wasn't corrected the first time, or he didn't listen.
("There's toilet paper on your shoe, sir." )
Rorey
(8,445 posts)"You know, if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card, you need ID. You go out and you want to buy anything, you need ID and you need your picture."
tclambert
(11,087 posts)so he STILL thinks it's true.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Customarily buys his own cereal or if he is a bloated fat cat elitist who has covfefe boys who buy his cereal for him.
sandensea
(21,664 posts)dragonlady
(3,577 posts)Quite rare.
sandensea
(21,664 posts)The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Figures that he is smiling like the Cheshire cat. Of course his smile is like that of an unscrupulous used car dealer who just sold a lemon to some poor slob.
sandensea
(21,664 posts)Not the last time he benefited from some bullshit college.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)Sounds like he may be drinking the trumpy Kool-Aid. He may believe what tRump said about needing an ID to buy a box of cereal.
louis c
(8,652 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)Do offer to help him look for his ID.
Depending on how much you are willing to engage him, ask him if he ever needed his ID to buy groceries before. Unless he is far gone in dementia (in which case he needs a lot more help than this) do not let him believe such crap.
Sneederbunk
(14,300 posts)cannabis_flower
(3,765 posts)Does he not have a debit card or cash? Maybe he can't write a check without his ID?
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)for another can of pop. As you see her w a cane slowly going by the bedroom doorway. Classic.
Priceless. The Clapper at the end....memories of when commercials weren't all drugs.
TNNurse
(6,929 posts)and was kidding.
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oldlibdem
(330 posts)Drummpf is so out of touch with the common man he doesn't understand the first concept of grocery shopping. Now, on a less serious note, how would you like to be the staffer tasked with getting him his Big mac? Oh, the possibilities...
erpowers
(9,350 posts)I think Trump's talk of needing an ID to buy cereal/groceries is a sign that he is out of touch. Clearly, he does not buy his own groceries.
doc03
(35,364 posts)to buy cereal. He may watch Faux News and he actually believes what Trump says.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)If he lives in an area where customers pass a lot of bad checks, the local merchants might want to verify the address information on his check matches his ID. Or he might have recently opened a new checking account and only had counter checks.
louis c
(8,652 posts)In my analogy, it says cash. When the fucking moron-in-chief makes the grocery store analogy, there is no check option. Every asshole knows that you may need an ID for a credit card or a check.
If the moron-in-chief said, "you need a picture ID to cash a check or pay a bill by credit card and I think you should need a picture ID to vote, which is a sacred right" I would agree with you.
But to say you need an ID to by groceries and the SHS says he meant alcohol, that shoots your theory right out of the water.
Please stop trying to make excuses for him. He's fucking nuts. Period
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Making excuses for Trump? I've considered him nuts since the 1990's. I was only pointing out how things that do happen in the real world could factor into the imaginary situation you presented. Your original post also said nothing about check policy - so you have just moved the goalposts.
I was not trolling you. I work with checks all day, so my mind goes to payment systems, merchant relationships and customer complaints immediately. When there is a lot of check fraud in an area, some small businesses do ask to see IDs and abruptly change their check acceptance policies. If I automatically disregarded every complaint, no matter how seemingly absurd it sounded, I would not have a job.
If you want to tell an expert he does not know what he is talking about, that is your prerogative.
louis c
(8,652 posts)Even on this anti-Trump forum, I would be insulted if anyone here hated this guy more than I do.
I know you need an ID, sometimes, to verify checks and credit cards. Trump didn't say that, so let's not make excuses for his moronic statements where none exists. His statement said nothing about checks and Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn't even come up with that excuse. I need to show my health care card every time I go to the hospital, but that's also not what Trump said.
You need an ID to buy Cereal. He wasn't talking about the small number of people who buy cereal by check. He was talking about everyone who buys cereal in any way they pay for it, even cash. We certainly couldn't have an election system in which only a few people need an ID and others don't.
In my analogy about my imaginary uncle, a normal person would just come to the conclusion that he's suffering from Dementia or early onset Alzheimer's. That's the point of this post.
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)joet67
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