Trump claims picture ID is required to buy groceries
Source: The Hill
President Trump on Tuesday made the claim that a photo ID is required to buy groceries as part of his argument for introducing stricter voter ID laws.
You know if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card, he said. You need ID.
The president made the comment while speaking at a campaign rally in Florida in support of GOP Rep. Ron DeSantis gubernatorial bid. It came as he was pushing for stronger voter ID laws, pointing to other instances where an American would need to show identification.
Many on social media pointed out that picture IDs are not in fact required to buy groceries.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/399806-trump-falsely-claims-id-is-required-to-buy-groceries
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)FSogol
(45,488 posts)madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)DU members are all comedians!
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)with the other nine most wanted.
trixie2
(905 posts)Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)Jedi Guy
(3,193 posts)underpants
(182,826 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)dchill
(38,502 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)sandensea
(21,639 posts)His campaign handlers dragged the effete candidate to a grocery store in an effort to portray him as an "everyday" person.
Everything went well, until Bush got to the checkout stand. When he saw the clerk scanning his groceries through (including, as I recall, pork rinds), he was amazed that that's how it was done.
braddy
(3,585 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,085 posts)It's not "fake".
They may try to re-characterize his perception of the demo but all you have to do is look at the video, which was shown on the news and discussed in print who knows how many times back then.
braddy
(3,585 posts)demonstration of the new technology was given by Robert Graham, an executive with the NCR Corporation.
"Newsweek screened the same tape and reported: Bush acts curious and polite, but hardly amazed. Michael Duffy of Time magazine called the whole thing completely insignificant as a news event. It was prosaic, polite talk, and Bush is expert at that. If anything, he was bored. And Bob Graham of NCR, who demonstrated the scanner technology for President Bush, said, Its foolish to think the president doesnt know anything about grocery stores. He knew exactly what I was talking
about.
JenniferJuniper
(4,512 posts)And scanners were hardly new then. I was a supermarket cashier using them in 1982 and I'm pretty sure they weren't new then either.
braddy
(3,585 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,085 posts)The media knew that this was a demo and where it took place and if you had watched the clip I provided, they said where he was. But the point was that with the assertion that the tech had been out there AT a number of supermarkets already at that time, then it should not have come as a surprise to him regarding the shift from manual registers to scanner registers (and the stories at the time indicated - even in the snopes link, that he had been shown SEVERAL types of units).
But as a multi-generation millionaire, his family has "the help" to do the shopping.
I remember back in the early '70s in school being shown the "new" UPC codes and what they were going to be used for. It would be a couple decades before the registers would start appearing locally here in Philly.
braddy
(3,585 posts)reporter who started the myth wasn't even there.
From Snopes "Andrew Rosenthal of The New York Times hadnt even been present at the grocers convention. He based his article on a two-paragraph report filed by the lone pool newspaperman allowed to cover the event, Gregg McDonald of the Houston Chronicle, who merely wrote that Bush had a look of wonder on his face and didnt find the event significant enough to mention in his own story. Moreover, Bush had good reason to express wonder: He wasnt being shown then-standard scanner technology, but a new type of scanner that could weigh groceries and read mangled and torn bar codes."
BumRushDaShow
(129,085 posts)You can keep trying to justify this and it wasn't just that one tech that read "mangled bar codes" that he was shown.
braddy
(3,585 posts)voiceover is part of how the myth was created.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Narratives need particular directions to work, even if they are inconsequential to the over-arching point as they allow us the pretense of our innocence as we justify the particular directions our narratives consistently take.
BumRushDaShow
(129,085 posts)It's a video of a photo op.
I am a big fan of Snopes but sometimes Snopes does some wild twisting and turning and equivocating - including accepting obvious garbage as "somewhat true" or "mostly false" (leaving it up in the air) or "true and false" and other such characterizations. You don't have to even listen to any "voice over" (there are other sources of the video without that) to see what is before your eyes.
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)Congrats Comrade!
Snellius
(6,881 posts)You can't take him too seriously. Until you realize he's like that at 3 in the morning when he's tweaking his tweets and begin to realize that he's always like that.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Snellius
(6,881 posts)If you know the signs. Wait until he starts scratching his arms to get rid of the bugs crawling under his skin. Counter indications: No weight loss though. Otherwise, all the personality traits.
idahoblue
(377 posts)He goes up on coke and down on Ambien.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)That stuff keeps you zonked for 6-8 hours, as in groggy and uncoordinated.
He claims he only sleeps 4 hours a night. Of course he might be lying.
But he does have a hisotry of using "diet pills". Many people who know him claim he does not drink or use drugs.
Prescriptions are usually not considered "drugs" in that context.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)But then again, I'm no Dr. I DID however stay at a Holiday Inn Express Last night tho.
videohead5
(2,177 posts)Last edited Tue Jul 31, 2018, 10:06 PM - Edit history (1)
Never been in a grocery store.
leftieNanner
(15,120 posts)You nailed it right there!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,026 posts)He obviously eats a lot of groceries but has never had to move his massive girth into a grocery store.
AdamGG
(1,292 posts)But, he's just a regular guy who loves to shovel coal and drive trucks.
yonder
(9,666 posts)I'm betting there's a whole host of everyday things most folks do without second thought that he has no experience with. Remember the kid mowing the WH lawn? tRump was far more clueless than that kid.
How about:
Shopping for anything.
Calling the doctor/mechanic/who else for an appointment.
Dealing with a health/car/home insurance company as a client.
Putting together a kite for his kid(s).
Being present (in the same room) for the birth of any of his kids.
Adjusting the chain on a bicycle.
Picking an apple off a tree. Then eating it.
Hell, this list could go on and on. I'm sure he's always had "people" to do things for him.
Oh, just remembered, from the Cohen tape: "Get me a coke, please!"
hunter
(38,317 posts)... especially as husband and wife.
Come to think of it, that would be a great SNL skit.
Who will survive?
yonder
(9,666 posts)Trump and IKEA wouldn't stand a chance. Melania, with a Slovenian mind trick or two, would win hands down.
GopherGal
(2,008 posts)I'm sure he eats only produce Melania grows in her garden.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Someone should ask him.
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)But I did have to show ID when I used my credit card--because I wrote "Please see ID" next to my signature.
Butterflylady
(3,544 posts)Even for groceries.
xor
(1,204 posts)I can't even remember of the last time I've seen anyone in front of me writing a check. What a silly thing to say... At the very least he should have said "to write a check".
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Hell, I don't even own any. And I am not in the minority on this one. About 70% of Americans write fewer than 3 checks a month.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)I think that's the extent of his "groceries."
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)Not unless he wants a Spit Mac.
bucolic_frolic
(43,177 posts)and thought it was him?
msongs
(67,413 posts)rurallib
(62,423 posts)you know - the home office
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)has never been in a store that sells groceries.
John Gruff
(58 posts)Theyre zombies.
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)Will be pulling out their drivers license at the shop and go tomorrow.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)ck4829
(35,077 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,518 posts)What a doofus.
Afromania
(2,769 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)Could this be something Trump is about to propose? Hmmm...
And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark the name of the beast or the number of its name.
-- Revelation 13:16-17
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)markses66
(94 posts)ck4829
(35,077 posts)blugbox
(951 posts)Is sewn on all its shirt cuffs...
djacq
(1,634 posts)1. Orange Clown most likely never shopped in a grocery store EVER in his life.
2. Orange Clown is a racist.
idahoblue
(377 posts)You can go years without showing an ID. I requested an ATM card for an account at a bank I rarely go into. I also cashed a check from a friend made out to me. As I left with ATM card in hand, I realized she never asked to see my ID. I just showed her a deposit slip with the account number on it.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)The groceries this man has bought in his lifetime you could put on a postage stamp! Doubt he even knows what a grocery store looks like on the outside much less on the inside.
apkhgp
(1,068 posts)Hats off to Alfonso Bedoya.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)To make food a privilege but we're not there - yet.
Botany
(70,516 posts)Signs and symptoms of late stage syphilis include:
difficulty coordinating muscle movements
paralysis
numbness
gradual blindness
dementia
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)in his entire life.
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)dflprincess
(28,079 posts)brush
(53,787 posts)don't have a picture ID sufficient for voting bought food for all these years?
Such an orange, lying pustule, imposter president.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)him when he gets stuff so incredibly wrong?
They should.
Spartacus101
(93 posts)...and sink low, and collect the big dough. The pattern is all over history...that's why so many tyrants stay in power, they surround themselves with sycophants who, in turn, benefit by keeping a crackpot in power for so long.
If they challenged Marcus Crassus the Orange, out the door they'd go.
One of the first thing strongmen do when they get power is fire anyone who disagrees with them.
God, I hope he doesn't take to singing, like Nero did...the guy shut his audiences up for hours with the Praetorian Guard at the doors so they couldn't leave. We have reports of women giving childbirth during his "performances" because of that, and people feigning heart attacks to get out.
Totally bananas.
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always."
-Mahatma Gandhi
underpants
(182,826 posts)Read a piece on Huff Po this morning - Trump wants more of these rallies before the midterm. He's just sure he can turn the tide himself.
SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)moondust
(19,991 posts)Inherit millions and you'll soon find out how much power that gives you: you can have anything you want without ever having to lift a finger to work or learn anything or develop any abilities. Even become President without knowing a damn thing! Just tell 'em you're rich and they'll think you must know stuff! Ain't Murca great?!!!
ck4829
(35,077 posts)TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)Cha
(297,295 posts)a MF doorknob.. so what does Russia do? Rigs him in with their Enablers to be MF potus.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)so out of touch with reality...sad
ck4829
(35,077 posts)Freethinker65
(10,023 posts)Then takes credit for stopping something that did not exist. His crowd would eat it up.
bcool
(219 posts)Could he have been referring to people buying groceries with a SNAP card? With the Repub obsession with people on welfare, maybe he was referring to that?
Of course, if thats the case, in his usual convoluted way of speaking he forgot to include that little detail.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Nope. Just takes punching into the keypad a four digit code, like a debit card.
Runningdawg
(4,517 posts)I think the Bible said something about that, called it the mark of the beast if I am correct. We should encourage all the cult members to burn their IDs just to be safe
Nitram
(22,813 posts)These people have never lifter a finger for a job as menial as buying food.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)The swelling looks too even to be from botox injections. No smile lines or chin droop at l. It looks inflated.
Plus, Billy Bob and Bubba on Trump's left don't look like they're being sufficiently entertained by the reality tv star.
zanana1
(6,122 posts)My Spaghetti O's are illegal!
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,488 posts)Ken Thomas and Jill Colvin
Associated Press
July 31, 2018, 9:22 PM TAMPA, FLA.
....
A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to questions about when the billionaire president last bought groceries or anything else himself. Photo IDs are required for certain purchases, such as alcohol, cigarettes or cold medicine.
....
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)I don't know what they check to get a star. My license says "not for federal identification". I probably couldn't by groceries in a red state with that if they really checked your license.
haele
(12,660 posts)Other than that, very few retail places ask for a picture I.D. for purchases under, say, $500 or $1,000...? And those are only if you're paying with check or credit card. Just to make sure you were the person on the credit card.
Recently, I had to show a picture I.D to buy or rent a car. Other than that, or when I shop on base, never.
Haele
ck4829
(35,077 posts)Deb
(3,742 posts)Such limited American experiences.
Tracer
(2,769 posts)... occasionally gets strict with checking IDs --- probably because they were caught accidentally selling to a minor.
So now, if I buy wine in the store, I have to go through the rigamarole of showing my licence --- even though I am OBVIOUSLY over 21.
The checkout people (who have known me for years) roll their eyes at having to do this every time.