well, I watched it

Just hoping that as the night went on (and on and on) he'd get more and more incoherent.

Instead, they apparently got him on a higher dose of uppers, got him out there on time, and played the teleprompter so fast that he couldn't ramble too much or the speech would run out on him.

Of course, it was still CrazyTown. Incomplete sentences and mangled words as he tried desperately to keep up. DH referred to it as an old late-night used car commercial from the one person in town everybody knew not to buy from. His core followers will still swallow every word. But in the midst of all the bizarre lies, I think they'll still run up against some hard truths.

You can't reduce a price below 100%, of course; that would be free. Not just a lie, but a stupid lie. But he slid in there that to even get the discount, you have to sign up with TrumpRx. Assuming that lasts even as long as any other Trump business, how much do you think that'll cost and how often will the price for the policy be raised? Is this going to be another 'First deny all claims, then contest the appeals, and see who gives up? That would be the people who can't afford lawyers. You know - his base. For as long as it lasts, he's going to rob them blind.

And with the new Big Bollixed Bill, we're getting a giant cut in taxes. We'll see yuge refunds this spring. Except that we won't. This spring, we're paying 2025 taxes under the old rates. How many of his base are going to spend big, expecting the yuge refund? The yuge refund isn't coming until after the midterms. This reminds me of the last time, when he decided that everybody's paycheck would withhold less taxes. At the end of the year, a lot of people found out that they still owed the money; it just hadn't been withheld for them. So instead of a refund, they had an unexpected bill. His administration had the gall to say "Well, you shouldn't have been withholding that much anyway. You're welcome."

And the whole "Who are you going to believe, me or your lying wallet?" won't fly all the way to next November. People who live paycheck to paycheck notice what things cost. And whether they still have a paycheck.

People remember this shit.