Debating the memes

[GMDino]

Rather than tie up the other thread I'll start this one.

(07-18-2017, 09:18 AM)6andcounting Wrote: These isn't a concern troll meme. NBC posted this to their Twitter during the campaign.

But he did say that.  And not just because he has an incredibly small vocabulary and lack of exposure to anything beyond his own small world.  

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/10/10/donald_trump_seems_to_believe_hillary_clinton_literally_acid_washed_her.html

Quote:As my colleague Josh Voorhees described last month, Trump was apparently referring to news reports that Clinton had used a software tool called BleachBit—which deletes emails through a process that does not involve pouring chemicals on emails or an email server, but is a computer program—to delete the emails that her team considered private and that were stored on the same server as her state department work emails. As Laura Wagner also noted in Slate, Bleachbit is a free, open-source software program and thus using it is not a very expensive or complicated process (and also not very effective for somebody trying to permanently destroy evidence of crimes). Acid washing—a process for making jeans look cool if you are on an episode of Miami Vice—appears to be Trump’s shorthand for either bleaching or using BleachBit.

The second question is a bit more difficult to answer. The site Motherboardseems to think Trump was using a metaphor:

Quote:But the simplest answer is that Donald Trump was using a lexicon familiar to him to describe an unfamiliar process. A hotel owner understands the cleaning power of bleach. A Man in his 70s knows exactly what acid washing does to fabric and probably assumes it has the same effect on data. The fact that acid wash is again relevant in 2016 should be a separate and perhaps more alarming cause for concern.

After he repeatedly talked about “bleaching” or “acid washing” emails on the campaign trail, Factcheck.org reached out to his campaign to find out what he might have meant. “His campaign told us Trump didn’t literally mean that Clinton ‘acid washed’ her emails,” the site reported in a story on Sept. 8. “It said that he was using a play on words, referring to Clinton’s joke a year ago about ‘wiping’ her server with a cloth.”


Factcheck’s writers were skeptical, though, noting: “Sorry, we don’t get the play on words, which was not clear in any of Trump’s remarks.”


At least on one occasion, though, Trump definitely literally meant that she had used chemicals to destroy her emails. How do we know?
Because he said so.


In an August speech in Everett, Washington, Trump said this:

Quote:Thirty three thousand emails that she deleted. They’re gone. And not only deleted folks, she bleached—which somebody said they had never even heard of—in a very expensive fashion, used chemical so nobody will ever be able to see ‘em. Who does this?

Yes. “Used chemical so nobody will ever be able to see ‘em.” Here’s the video of him saying these things:





On Monday, to chants of “lock her up,” Trump repeated his claim about bleaching and seemed to again be describing a literal process of chemical bleach.