Please Dear God Let This Election End

Who knows how many important things get lost in the blizzard of bullshit that streams out of Trump's mouth on a minute-by-minute basis, but one of the more remarkable things everybody seems to have missed is that right after he dropped his whole "they're eating your pets!" line at the debate, he immediately followed it up with:

 

Everyone's completely ignored it because of course it got swallowed up by the whole eating pets thing, but "I saw it on tv!" is LITERALLY what the go-to punchline for "my insane dad/grandpa is addicted to watching Fox News all day" has been for almost 30 years; suggesting that anyone would possibly say that is a shortcut to making it understood that this person is a fucking lunatic who should immediately be put out to pasture. I know we've all gotten immune to "this would've ended anyone else's campaign immediately" with Trump, but this is a curiously specific reverse-Shibboleth that has been, as far as I can tell, completely ignored.