What if your 73 year old uncle said this?

[louis c]

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]

1. Krispies. n/t

[Sanity Claws]

3. Maybe Crisspies is the generic version of the name product.

[marylandblue]

5. Maybe his uncle forgot how to spell.

[Sanity Claws]

6. So many possibilities!

[rzemanfl]

12. Expect a PM from the legal department at Kellogg's. n/t

[BamaRefugee]

41. Chris Crispees: New Jersey governor who also likes golden showers

[louis c]

11. corrected on edit. I never ate them

[rzemanfl]

14. Not even in marshmallow krispie squares? What country are you from? n/t

[sl8]

23. Sounds suspicious, Comrade. What was the starting lineup for the 1938 Chicago Cubs? Quickly! n/t

[tnlurker]

2. I am assuming the Trump hasn't been inside a grocery store in decades

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]

9. Can you tell me about what year you needed an ID to buy Cereal?

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]

37. Trump is planning to require ID, to prevent Grocer Fraud.

Can't have illegals buying Rice Krispies, now can we?

His statement was an accidental reveal of his plans.

[csziggy]

44. Maybe during the war when you used your food ration stamps?

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]

55. Years ago people often paid for groceries with paper checks.

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]

4. Not if my uncle was (as another DUer posted)

a cereal LIAR.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

13. "cereal LIAR"

Cute -

[malaise]

17. Here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211437539

[Yonnie3]

29. Here too.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11431506

[malaise]

33. And you were first

[brush]

15. Cereal liar. I like that.

[malaise]

34. Thank Yonnie3

Excellent

[customerserviceguy]

54. Too funny! n/t

[Arkansas Granny]

7. I would assume he was pulling my leg.

[nmgaucho]

8. Tweeties

[Jrsygrl96]

10. Joke?

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]

19. The apricot hellbeast said you need ID to buy cereal recently

Also said some tripe earlier in the fall about needing ID for groceries too. DU mockery insued.

Welcome to DU.

[Jrsygrl96]

24. Hehehe!

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]

25. laughter, behind powers back

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]

16. Eating Crispies is like running through the fog with your mouth open.

[irisblue]

18. It's possible to drop your wallet. No ID then.

Take him out for Sat b-fast, then check around the house, esp the bathroom.

[world wide wally]

20. Isn't this the second time trump said this?

[Rorey]

28. I feel like I heard that he said it before too.

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]

30. He said in August

"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]

50. Yes, and apparently none of his staff had the courage to correct him

so he STILL thinks it's true.

[CaptYossarian]

21. Doesn't this open the door for background checks at gun shows? There must be a parallel.

[The Genealogist]

22. Depends on if my hypothetical 73 year old uncle...

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]

26. Reminds me of someone.

[dragonlady]

31. An image of him with a genuine smile!

Quite rare.

[sandensea]

38. His pookie must have taken it

[The Genealogist]

46. He is eating his favorite food

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]

48. Or a Trump University degree!

Not the last time he benefited from some bullshit college.

[secondwind]

27. I thought this was a joke! Because of Trump's comments the other day.

[pazzyanne]

32. Is your uncle a tRump supporter?

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]

39. I have no uncles left. The story is an analogy

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

35. I'd tend to assume he's joking, assuming he ever had a sense of humor.

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]

36. Unfortunately, Rice Krispies can be weaponized.

[cannabis_flower]

40. Or

Does he not have a debit card or cash? Maybe he can't write a check without his ID?

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

42. Reminds me of the commercial where the kid calls grandma from his cellphone...

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]

43. I would hope that my uncle had a great sense of humor

and was kidding.

[oldlibdem]

47. On a serious note...

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]

49. Out of Touch

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]

51. I would guess it was a joke, since Trump said we needed voter

to buy cereal. He may watch Faux News and he actually believes what Trump says.

[Generic Brad]

52. I'd think he prefers paying by check

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]

56. There is no check option.

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]

57. Huh?

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]

58. I'm easy to troll, by the way

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]

53. something would be wrong

[joet67]

59. Trump doesn't know anything about how shopping works.

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