• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    What everyone glosses over and completely never see.

    Is that this idiot represents the entire country.

    If you have an idiot for a leader.

    Logic says, your country is full of idiots.

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      Logic says, your country is full of idiots.

      Yeah, we went through this already, George Bush the Second made you guys look very stupid

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        It was less obvious because the world was less connected and not everyone had a high quality video camera in their pocket.

        The media could also be relied upon to edit in a favourable manner. That’s still the case today, but he can’t get away from the fact that every time he shows up, people film him, because he’s always going to say something stupid. The idea that he might manage to have a normal day and not say something insanely dumb, is just inconceivable.

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          did you live through the Bush presidency, or are you making assumptions based on the times? Because the media tore Bush to absolute shreds and painted him as a gigantic idiot.

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              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictionalized_portrayals_of_George_W._Bush

              Bush was the target of satire for most of his presidency. Most fictional depictions of the President in popular media tend to emphasize his drawl and tendency to use incorrect grammar and malapropisms in speeches, as well as his sometimes awkward hand and facial gestures. Bush is often depicted in caricatures with a large nose and ears, and small eyes, giving him a somewhat chimpanzee-like appearance. This is exemplified in a Fruit of the Loom shirt design in which he is compared to the children’s book character Curious George. He is also sometimes drawn in political cartoons as being short in stature.

              Most fictionalized portrayals of George W. Bush have been perceived as negative.

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      tbf, he really is the perfect representation of a large subsection of the US population, rich, middle/working class, poor…

      he’s dumb as shit and acquired everything because of his name (wasting most of that fortune/legacy to boot).

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      Exactly right…

      You know those old cartoons that were totally not politically correct showing a bad stereotype of a Mexican, with a sombrero and a poncho, sleeping off a tequila bender under the shade of a cactus?

      Well, the orange pedophile is EXACTLY the American version of that: confidently ignorant, morbidly obese, with undeserved resources, zero education, zero manners, zero culture.

      We all know those stereotypes are supposed to be rude jokes barely based on any reality… I mean, there are cacti in Mexico and I am sure more than one Mexican has had a Tequila bender, but there is never the expectation you’ll go to Mexico and actually see that.

      And now, Muricans proved theirs not only exists, it is what they look up to apparently.

      That is like France choosing this guy as their next President

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    I mean, in the same way that no one knows for certain what matter really is.

    But that really doesn’t matter. Release the Epstein files, provide healthcare for the US, and stop imprisoning my friends and neighbors

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    “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.”

    Is that even English?

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      It’s as English as this is

      Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.

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        I generally get more coherent sentences out of just repeatedly tapping my keyboard on my phone and letting auto correct just make things up…

        The thing about Trump is the point of the world cup method of the world cup method of the game for the purposes of the world cup method of the world cup method of the world cup method of the league of the league of the league of the year and the company is a good idea for a while and I don’t think so but I don’t think.

        Yeah, maybe not. But honestly it’s close.

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        I can never get over the fact that this is real. I have seen this quote so often - and I’ve seen the video of him actually saying the words!- but still it seems surreal to me. The “Look, having nuclear”-quote. One for the history books, for sure.

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        “I say, what would happen if the boat sank from its weight, and you’re in the boat, and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater. And there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there, …By the way, lot of shark attacks lately, I watched some guys justifying it today. ‘Well, they weren’t really that angry. They bit off the young lady’s leg because of the fact that they were, they were not hungry, but they misunderstood who she was. He said ‘there’s no problem with sharks, they just didn’t really understand a young woman’s swimming. She really got decimated and other people too, a lot of shark attacks. So I said, there’s a shark 10 yards away from the boat, do I get electrocuted? If the boat is sinking, water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking, do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted? Or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted?Because I will tell you he didn’t know the answer. He said, ‘you know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.’ I said I think it’s a good question. I think there’s a lot of electric current coming to that water. But you know what I’d do? If there was a shark or you get electrocuted, I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark.

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      The thing with old people talking gibberish is that you never know if they are on drugs, or didn’t have enough drugs.

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      In 2020 I began my studies at Uni. Our music business lecturer always had nice ppts prepared for the class and most of the time he either had couple of fidget spinner memes or “fucking magnets, how do they work” memes. Brings back memories.

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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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    What is this guys obsession with magnets?
    “Magnets don’t work when wet” “Nobody knows what magnets are”
    Does this obsession stem from the fact that he repels every decent person?

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      Advisors are telling him how important rare earths are and their importance in magnets. Since China has curtailed (if not halted?) exports, the rest of the world’s industries are in rather deep shit.

      This is where all the mumble-fucking about magnets is coming from. Trump’s trying to say they’re not important, they suck, we don’t need them, in order to head off supply issues. Same reason he was telling our Navy that we should replace the magnetic plane and ordnance lifters and go back to steam power. No shit.

      He also seems to think America can spin up our own rare earth supply, but acknowledges he basically begging and threatening Xi in the meantime.

      Anyway, today’s rant finally tied it all together for me.

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        To be fair america could, rare earths aren’t actually that rare. The main thing is that mining them is the environmental equivelent of pouring fuel everywhere and setting the place on fire. That stops most countries which is why China has the market so cornered but with how the US feels about the concept of breathable air these days they could totally secure a domestic supply.

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          You could mine them in environmentally sound ways it’s just that doing so would be expensive and China doesn’t care so they just go with open cast mines, and render the environment uninhabitable.

          But you could dig a mining shaft and do it that way but as I said that’s expensive and dangerous, which needs even more money to mitigate the danger.

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        Thank you, never thought about it that way.
        I thought it’s just part of his general weirdness or a symptom of his dementia when in reality it’s his hubris making him think he can talk the US out of rare earths usage.

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      This video was the first thing that popped into my head after reading the headline. I wonder if he saw it once and just internalised “nobody understands it”.

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      Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.

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    I read another comment that makes sense. When he says nobody knows he truly believes if he doesn’t know it then no one does.

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