• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    I can’t understand how stupid someone needs to be to listen to this drivel and think “Wow, this guy is a leader! Not just any leader either, the only leader for me!”.

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      The crazy thing is that you don’t need to cherry pick quotes or take them out of context to make him look like an idiot.

      Listen to pretty much any interview or speech and he says something that is clearly idiotic, evil, or a blatant lie. Most likely all three… Repeatedly.

      I get that Fox News is a hell of a drug, but just hearing this dipshit speak should shatter the illusion. The unwavering support is mind boggling.

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        Everything about him is like that. They claim he’s strong and full of vitality too. All you have to do is watch him walking, or drinking water, and you can clearly see that he’s a weakling.

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        Its not him directly. Most of them have only seen him through multiple filters. They are worshipping their golden calf at this point.

        “And if I were to die now, they would say it was so my spirit could lead them.”
        -Paul Atreides

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      At least the hardcore Christians seem to see him more as a vessel or tool. God’s tool doesn’t have to be perfect and in typical Bible reverse 4D backwards logic, being imperfect even shows how much of a chosen one he is. I forgot the name, but there’s actually a precedent in the Bible itself.

      So they acknowledge that he is the antithesis to anything they claim to believe in, but they also think that he somehow will bring God’s will or something.

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        He fits every description of the antichrist given in the Bible. They’ve warned about the antichrist for 2000 years, and then when he finally shows up they worship him. It’s wack, yo!

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        being imperfect even shows how much of a chosen one he is

        Is this like the fact that there being no evidence for the lord proves she’s real, and were we to discover a babel fish she would vanish in a puff of logic?

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      You see, leaders don’t like need to know the specific how to. They like need to know the business, you know. Art of the deal!

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          The weirdest brainworm is he advocates for Christian values in government when he isn’t even a Christian. Apparently it’s just “American” to him.

          It hurts that he’s a real human being and he always votes.

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    Maybe the result of US education system

    CHRISTIAN 4TH GRADE SCHOOL TEXTBOOK TRIES TO EXPLAIN ELECTRICITY

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    There’s something I don’t get about the world when someone like Trump isn’t a universal laughing stock.

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        he is starting to sounds more and more like mashing the autocorrect prediction button. Which has always reminded me of how my great grandma spoke before she went non-verbal due to her dementia

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec9P3C1OXqE

    The dumb thing is, I can kinda understand what the speech writer wanted to say and autoprompted to him. But his fried mind couldn’t understand it and because he’s so vain he won’t wear glasses even though he needs them so he can’t even read the autoprompter half the time.

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      God, I can’t make it through the whole thing. Listening to him blathering on and on causes me actual physical discomfort.

      I sincerely don’t get how anyone listens to his rambling tripe and is like, “This guy totally gets it!”

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          During Trump and the Pandemic, all the behaviors and statements from everyone, exposing the sheer amount of stupidity around us, was a little you much for me tbh. I felt safer in this world, before knowing that stupid rules.

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        “Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own national bird at the windmills until they reached their limit and shut down.”

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    How does a mind that has no thread at all still spew words?

    Edit: right, autoprompt, makes sense.

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    ‘You know we have a world, right?’ is what got me. I could barely finish reading past that point.

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      Media isn’t reporting his obvious dementia. They call the nonsense he spouts “rambling speeches.”

      Some other recent examples:

      “We can’t have an election in the middle of a political season. We just had Super Tuesday. And we had a Tuesday after Tuesday already.”

      "Gang boong. This is me. I hear bing.”

      " I could tell you about aircraft carriers, where they use electric catapults. They couldn’t go to the steam, which works better for about 1/100th the price, you know? The electric catapult, you know that story? I could tell you about the elevators on a tremendous carrier, the Gerald Ford, and they decided not to use hydraulic like the John Deere tractor, they decided to use magnets, ‘we’re gonna use magnets!’ to lift up the elevators with seven planes.”

      https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/john-gartner-trump-cognitive-decline

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        Lmao that’s hilarious. Do you have the video of him saying the I hear bing one?

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        That was significantly more hinged than the meme. He probably set a record for the pace of lies or misleading statements, but he had a coherent message: windmills not made in US, manufacturing them releases fumes, they kill birds, having them nearby decreases home values, etc

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          Other than “manufacturing them releases fumes”, I don’t see how any of these forms a coherent message.

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            Also, wind turbines (I assume that is what he meant, unless he has a problem with using wind to turn grain into flour) not being made here is a bunk argument anyway.

            First off…General Electric.

            Second off, the reason why there are so many manufactures in China is because China is investing and deploying wind at a crazy rate. The only thing Trump did with wind was break it.

            They can really be manufactured just about anywhere, right? What’s happening is business (and jobs!) are being created to meet a demand. Not the other way around.

            That kind of demand can only really come from the stroke of a pen. Particularly his (or rather, the presidents) pen (after passing house and Senate, of course).

            You know what’s cool about domestic manufactured and implementation of wind energy? Energy independence.

            Also I’d bet dollars to donuts that GHG per KW, cradle to grave, for a wind turbine, are orders of magnitude lower than a coal or natural gas plant. And I’d wager the same for bird deaths and home values. Basically all of these are objectively better with wind.

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        Well, I mean - that’s a pretty misleading figure, tbh. It’s true that around that percentage of Americans as a whole voted for him, but “Americans as a whole” includes a whole bunch of people who are not eligible to vote. Like, people under 18. Or people who have felonies and cannot exercise their voting rights. The eligible voting population in 2020 (according to the US census bureau) was 231.6 million. As Trump received 74,223,975 votes in 2020, that represents about 32% of the population. Of course, 231.6 million people didn’t vote in 2020. Only about 168.3 million were registered to vote, and only about 154.6 million actually voted. So if you look at the percentage of people who were willing to vote who preferred Donald Trump, that’s a staggering 48%. What’s depressing is that if you tally up the people who didn’t vote (either because they weren’t registered to vote, or they were registered and decided not to), you get about 77 million voters - more people than actually voted for Trump, or about 33% of the total eligible voting population.

        So what’s probably most accurate is to say that America is roughly divided into thirds: those who think Donald Trump is swell, those who don’t, and those who couldn’t give a shit either way.

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          It’s not a misleading figure as the original commenter said 40% of the population, not 40% of eligible voters

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            “Population” could also mean “Eligible voting population”, not just “total population”. Both contexts work.

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    If one doesn’t understand something, there has never been a time when there were more readily available resources to explain it. If you don’t have time or want to put the effort in to understand it, it is perfectly reasonable to just accept the consensus opinion of people who are experts in that subject. We all have to do that to some extent. The world is too complex to understand everything. Still, this is just incoherent. Not even wrong.