• ApeNo1@lemmy.world
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    From the article

    The “polarizing” president was in conversation with Fox News about the economy when he veered off track…

    Dad reporter confirmed. He even snuck in an “off track” before talking about trains.

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    Magnets are a really useful thing, particularly in compasses, which allow you to find your way to Epstien Island.

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    If you’re gonna post paywalls, at least quote the good parts. Y’all think we can afford to pay for news in this economy?!

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    Most of Trump’s sentences resemble the Monte Carlo generated texts of oldie times. Remember the ones where it seemed like someone having an aneurysm is talking? Those ones.

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    Ignorant and racist.

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen a group of voters vote in someone so much like themselves.

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    I tried dipping my electromagnet in water and Trump was right! It lost it’s magnetism!

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    He didn’t really say nobody knows what a magnet is in a literal sense, I think it was just his weird way of talking. When criticing trump lets be a little careful since its important to get it right otherwise noone will believe our other critics.

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      The Commander in Chief is spewing senile word salad daily now, I think there is value in highlighting as much of it as possible. He is stupid people’s idea of a smart person, and the more exposed he is as an actual idiot, the more people are exposed to his brain leaking out his ear, the more might have a chance of waking the fuck up.

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      Except he directly said just that.

      Generally I agree that often he’ll make some flub and a bigger deal is made of it. Like with the ‘Miracle Mile’ vs. ‘Maginficent Mile’ thing, he said the wrong thing but that’s the least of the problems with that story and a fairly mundane and understandable mistake to make.

      This time the statement is exactly as said, though real world consequences for it are similarly low.

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      You’re right! He said that the magnets are new thing and he personally doesn’t know how they work. It’s so much better, it almost makes perfect sense, very smart president, bigly smart.

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      noone will believe our other critics

      LOL what planet have you been living on, and can I get a ride there?

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            Pretty sure he’s the bad guy, I think if you’re going for a broader interpretation then it’s more accurate to say that God is also the bad guy.

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      they lie a thousand times a day and everyone believes them. We misquote one of them once and we’re liars to never be trusted. Interesting how that works.

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        A fair point but thats the world we live in. When our opponents abandon truth we have to cherish it more so that we are trusted

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          We also have to refuse to accept that there’s an impossible rule for us (that they impose), and no rule for them.

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          That is the world you live in because people like you make it that way by thinking that the us is a land where trust is worth anything politically.

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      The administration is exhausting us by giving us unimportant things to fight about, such as obvious hypocrisy. We get rabid and pour ourselves into making him look stupid and he doesn’t care because it only cost him a few seconds of time, whereas his citizens spent millions of man-hours shouting at him. At the end of the day we’re tired of fighting, and he’s still writing executive orders to pillage our country. It’s deliberate.

      Every time you’re tempted to say, “he’s a hypocrite!” just scroll past it and save your energy for the fight that matters.

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      I agree with your sentiment, but maybe we’re way past people not believing that trump is a lunatic…

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      Trump,79, stood in front of servicepeople of the U.S. Navy and said, “You know, the new thing is magnets. So instead of using hydraulic that can be hit by lightning, and it’s fine. You take a little glass of water, you drop it on magnets. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”

      It really does sound like he genuinely doesn’t know what magnets are. What is water got to do with magnets?

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      You presume to understand the speakers intention. The speaker is an illiterate trust fund baby child rapist. He literally does not know how magnets work and he believes he is the smartest person on the planet, therefore he thinks no one knows how they work. There is no depth to the logic.

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      Dude, Trump quite literally described metal letters on the wall as “Entirely Bronze, carved, and entirely Brass” in the same fucking sentence.

      No this is not just his weird way of talking, he’s an addled old man that should have died 10 years ago.

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    We can’t be starting headlines like that without considering the emotional roller coaster involved.

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    It kinda just sounded like he was saying most people don’t know all the actual things magnets are used for.

    Poorly worded, sure. That’s my takeaway

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      The water and magnets comment was about electromagnets, too. He was completely wrong about the reliability of elevators on aircraft carriers, but he wasn’t saying permanent magnets can’t get wet.

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      Just commented, China’s curtailing or completely blocking rare earth exports. Somebody told Trump how vital those minerals are to industry. Trump thinks American can spin our own rare earth mining (?) in 2-years, but acknowledges Xi is holding the cards so he’s begging and threatening him over exports.

      All Trump can really parse is, “Magnets vital, China screwing us.” He’s trying to spit out his understanding of the importance of magnets. Of course he’s the smartest guy in the room, “Nobody knows what magnets are (how vital they are across industries).”

      It’s a dementia addled clusterfuck, but at least this time I can see where he’s going and why. Also explains his otherwise nonsensical rant to the Navy on replacing aircraft and ordnance lifters with steam power. I was wrong on his reasoning, now I see it. But fuck me, no one should have to take weeks to decode his dementia.

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      “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.