• papalonian@lemmy.world
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    2 天前

    “President Xi was willing to do the railroad things—that’s magnets,” he said. “Now, nobody knows what a magnet is. If you don’t have a magnet, you don’t have a car. You don’t make a computer, you don’t make, er, televisions and radios and all the other things—you don’t make anything."

    That’s exactly what it is. Could’ve been stated a little more clearly but this is a completely coherent statement. The man does a dozen deplorable things a day, are we really that starved for headlines that this is what we’re reporting on?

    Almost convinced that his administration is paying for these articles so people will look at them and complaints about the Epstein files as equally valid.

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        Is there a specific reason why, or just… Trump bad?

        Again, don’t get me wrong, Trump bad, but we gotta have standards.

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          Because it has to be deciphered like a secret code to be understood.

          We’ve gotten normalized to how he rambles and meanders around subjects but his speech is far from coherent, imo.

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            It does not have to be “deciphered”. C’mon, now. It might seem kinda strange when it’s written out, but this is a completely normal sentence to say. The only way I can see this being misconstrued in good faith is maybe if English wasn’t someone’s first language, but if literally anyone besides Trump said this it wouldn’t even raise an eyebrow, let alone be headline worthy.