Originally published at: Watch 6th grader speak the truth to Fox News's Brian Kilmeade about schools reopening | Boing Boing
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That kid’s smirk is priceless
While it is true that Trump did say he wanted schools to re-open, he also had no plan beyond “re- open the schools” and therefore absolutely wouldn’t have been able to do it safely.
Wanting something to be done is easy. Making sure it’s done right is a totally different thing.
Not surprising, because it was a child who pointed out the foolishness of the crowd in The Emperor’s New Clothes. Kids are excellent bs detectors.
Kilmeade is finally getting close to an interview subject who’s an even intellectual match for him. Keep trying, Bri-Bri!
There’s a world of difference between saying you want children back in school, and doing the work so that children can safely return to school (safe for them, the teachers, and all of the other adults involved).
Lets look at a good example of Trumps (non)plan for re-opening schools. Rose garden ceremony that was a super-spreader event and led to thousands of people getting sick.
Nice (non)job trump.
kilmeade: REALLY? HUH? THATS WHAT YOU THINK? what a punk
This is what it looks like when a grown man wants desperately to punch a child that pwned him on the internet, but he can’t because internet
There’s no need to insult those kids like that.
In the U.S., isn’t “I want” one of the first pronoun/verb combinations a baby learns to say?
Killmeade’s internal monologue: You little son of a biscuit. You know what we agreed you’d say.
But he clearly said he was anti-Covid and pro-everything-going-back-to-normal! What more could you stupid libs ask of the man???
(right wingers): “His liberal parents coached him what to say”
(everyone else): “He knows what he’s talking about”
Yeah, great, but edict alone wasn’t cutting it and the kids know this.
One Republican fear is their knowledge of how liberal the next few generations are. Their base is dying from old age, and they are failing to convince many under the age of 65 that Republicanism is moral.
This is some reboot of “Are you smarter than a 5th grader”.
That was a mistake by the producers and someone will be punished. They almost certainly (attempt to) filter for political affiliation. (It would be funny to see the vetting process for a child: “so… do you think tyranny is a bad thing?”)
What struck me is how quickly his “speaking respectfully to an equal” voice turned into a whiny “how could you do this to your parents” voice once the kid spoke.