Honestly it's a little how my mom talks when she gets upset. Just a stream of things that are loosely connected but are all bobbing along on the same river of emotion.
It's how I get stuff like "You never call me you call your cousin he's cheating on his wife you know just because you broke up with your girlfriend doesn't mean you have to take it out on me". You can kind of see how there's a shared feeling or theme there but it's not articulated.
I'm going to guess that for someone who produces output like that, input of that type goes in easily. They're just vibing on the emotions.
It's one thing all the parodies like SNL miss. Every mockery of him makes more sense than his babble, because you need things to make some sense to be funny for more than 90 seconds.
"Covfefe" gives you what, two seconds of a joke? When you work it into something, that something ends up more coherent than actual Trump.
I never knew I had a brother but we obviously have the same mother.
"This is the guy I want to represent my interests in international negotiations."
– 40% of Americans
"Joe Biden is the incoherent one."
- Those same 40% of Americans
Biden is too old, and I wish we would have ran someone else to aim for 12 years. His administration has done a pretty decent job with what they've been given to work with. Honestly, we need to give them enough margin to be able to legislate without enormous concessions.
But when the alternative is gestures wildly that, this really shouldn't be an open question.
He just stumbles randomly from conservstive buzzword to Conservative buzzword without saying anything of substance. He's literally the perfect candidate for them.
If he wins the world is lost. His "leadership" is indicative of the same disease that's increasing everywhere. It's worrying and it's all coming from the "right" of the political spectrum. Wars are coming.
Nah, they want a king. Some of them at least.
Hell if isolationism is your goal maybe this would help /s
An internal combustion engine came up to me, big strong internal combustion engine, tears in his eyes, and said "Sir, I want to thank for all you've done for this country, from the bottom of my spark plugs."
Was it ‘Mater?
And even that old internal combustion engine managed to sputter less than Trump did.
An internal combustion engine came up to me, and puttered out a better speech than that.
Wtf is he even saying
He's writing his speeches for maximum SEO like a stable genius
What ever you need him to.
You know, you might be debanked. Good heavens! Debanked!!
"I hate electric cars too now vote for me you scum!"
They do believe the car thing. A relative of a friend told me she didn't want Biden to take away her Honda CRV because she liked it so much. She seemed to think it was a nearly done deal, Biden's coming to reclaim all fossil-fueled powered vehicles and make everyone buy electric cars. I didn't ask for details.
Of course, the Republicans are standing strong against this atrocity.
So this is the new "Obama's gonna take all your guns!!1!" trope.
Which of course he didn't. Either of the times the GOP leaders said he would. And they knew it. It was just to create hysteria among their base.
Yep, though the gun manufacturers, via the NRA, probably drive that one. They LOVE it when a Democrat is in office because they can say that and watch gun sales rise.
I'm convinced they also love shootings, or at least did, for similar reasons - I'm sure, for a while, gun owners worried this latest shooting might be the one that generates new restrictions on gun purchases, so out they went to buy. At this point I don't think they have anything to worry about; we as a country seem to have decided mass shootings are Just Great, so that little fear probably doesn't work as well any more.
Let's never forget the NRA's solution to school shootings, after Newtown, was literally, "More guns in schools."
Obama didn't increase firearm restrictions, but Trump did with the bump stock ban. Which, incidentally, is due to be overturned by the Supreme Court this year.
It wasn't for lack of trying though, because Obama did call for and back legislation to ban certain scary guns. Their attempts at the taking of guns simply failed the standard legislative process. Many of you probably weren't of voting age at the time, but this process of attempting to take the guns actually did happen during the Obama presidency.
Oh no!
ObamaBiden is coming for yourgunscars! Only our guy can save from this totally real danger!I know why politicians claim it, because taking away something that belongs to someone is an affront to them the way "regulations requiring manufacturers to adhere to climate friendlier standards" isn't, but it's such an annoying instant radicalization people make.
Finding out gas stoves cause a significant percentage of childhood asthma and some states proposing a subsequent ban on household gas in new builds only became "BIDEN WANTS TO MAKE YOUR GAS STOVE ILLEGAL". Subsidies for electric cars became "BIDEN BANNING GAS CARS" etc etc.
Just raw economics will win them over long run. EV will be price parity at some point not in the too distant future. In those sunny southern state, where solar + EV is just such a clear win, the rolling coal inbreds just can't not see it.
Depending on the generation of CR-V, I suppose - and without any hard math/stats despite how hard I've tried - I suspect the net impact of your relative driving it for the rest of its usable life vs buying a brand new EV to be significantly less, considering Lithium mining, curb weight, etc.
...... I'm not sure why you're telling me this. Also, it's not my relative.
A friendly reminder that half of all Americans have the literacy skill of a 12 year old or younger.
We should be precise. 7th grade reading skill is roughly where uou should be at 12 years old. A 7th grade reading level is literate, able to read and understand most words, and able to derive meaning.
Adult illiteracy is nothing to be ashamed of. More adults should seek help with their literacy skills, and people should not be made to feel stupid just because the educational and social support systems failed them in one way or another.
Celebrating ignorance is the real problem. Trump is not just illiterate, he's incoherent. His statements are gibberish, and his followers revel in the confusion and consternation he evokes in others.
His statements are gibberish,
This concerns me more than the rest. It's like Nostradamus: it invites one to draw conclusions from complete nonsense. And like the literary equivalent of a Rorschach test, the reader inevitably sees a piece of themself reflected on the page, and the experience is distinct yet repeatable by everybody.
In my highschool journalism class, we were taught to write to the level of our readers, and that the average reading level for adults in the US is 6th grade. I think 3rd grade is the target now.
I agree that celebrating ignorance is the problem.
I work in tech and the number of people who outright refuse to even listen to a very high level technical explanation, or follow instructions poorly with the excuse that they "don't know tech" is very high IMO. I can usually see when people disconnect from a very very basic discussion about an issue. If it's more complicated than "I'm working on it" then they don't want to hear it.
I usually refer to this as "willful ignorance", aka, people who are otherwise smart, and capable of learning, who actively put in the effort to not learn anything new. Usually, willful ignorance is more effort than simply listening and trying to understand.
A lot of the people you're referring to seem to not only be willfully ignorant themselves, but also desire to celebrate people who are willfully ignorant and celebrate people who are blatantly ignorant.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against anyone who doesn't know something, or people who don't want or need all the details; I certainly don't have anything against persons that don't have the ability to understand. But if you can't even entertain the summary of something, you're the problem.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it think.
All the talk about Biden being mentally unifit coming out of the Trump camp has to be pure projection. Trump is what, only 4 years younger? He's had some gaffes just as bad imo
They're both mentally unfit IMHO. One is a bit demented, the other is lucky that his dementia happens to help cover a pile of seething shit.
That’s a rough 4 years. But Biden takes care of himself…Trump, well…doesn’t.
Always has been
Fucking astounding. He's the frontrunner for the GOP.
"They're not sending their best people"
Whoa. I didn’t realize he was only projecting when he said:
They’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. . . . They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.
Clearly the ramblings of someone who should be president. /s
Clearly somehow some people don’t hear it as ramblings, but as someone who speaks like them and should be president again.
See? He tells it like it is! And what it is is that the debanking is trying to separate you from your country and that smell of toast we all keep smelling but no one else smells! Where is that ringing noise coming from???
Trump was a LLM hallucinating all along
GPT4 speaks more coherently.
GPT-2 is more coherent than that. Hell, a Markov chain would produce more coherent output than Trump.
Both confidently wrong
That explains pretty much everything. Like in a way that is kinda creepy.
Any other person saying this would be wheeled back into the old people's home.
Which is exactly who he's talking to, which is exactly the type of person that has the time to get out and vote when the time comes without really thinking about anything else.
Unfortunately, that old folks home would be the US Senate.
Belongs in c/aneurysmposting
I mean, no cognitive decline there...
That's classic trump, honestly. It's incoherent and insane, but not any different from the last decade.
He has gone downhill. Not since 2016--he was about as bad then as he is now. But if you look at his interviews from the early 90s, it was clear he could at least string three words together and make some kind of sense.
Here's an interview with him by Barbra Walters from 1990:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TwVCuPJrMw
Skip ahead to the three minute mark. He uses some of the same phrases that he does today, like "people need to understand the press is incredibly unfair in this country". It was clear back then that he was a scumbag, and Walters does not let him get away with his bullshit, but he can articulate a properly structured sentence.
Pretty stable genius talk if you ask me ! /s
What? That's like the best definition of "wokism" I've ever seen!
A brilliant speech. The best speech. One that should be carved in stone and immortalised like that of a Roman emperor’s.
Don’t know about you, but I’m despairing.
Dis-pairing like, breaking up with your partner?
Over a Trump speech?!?!
Sounds like someone is taking this a bit hard.
Generals that fought in WW1 came up to him, got on their knees and cried saying it was the most brave thing that they've ever seen in their lives.
Tears in their eyes
He's going to build a statue of himself like Bender's giant one. This speech will be carved into one of the legs.
Sounds like my dad; " Your Firefox things doesn't work" while Libreoffice on his PC couldn't print.
"Actually it's because HP's printer software is shit"
"What? That printer was $300. It's great! And it worked fine before you added these stupid Firefoxes"
The printer randomly reconnects with a new MAC over USB (god knows how), registering as a new device. The WLAN interface died years ago and suddenly popped up again.
But no, the printer is good, Firefox is at fault. 🙄
Even after using it for over a decade my dad still calls it FoxFire 🤦♂️
I’m with your Dad …..
It interesting he got this play from Nigel Farage in the UK. The global coordinated Right is a real concern.
If we are going to have GPT as the PoUS, can it at least be GPT-4 and not GPT-2?
and i bet anything they fucking cheered
Reminds me of that late 70s smash hit:
🎵Debank my fire! Electric cars are my only desire!🎵
And funny it was from the car doors
Debank electric cars! Remove their rights today!
I think I got his message, right? It was kinda hard to parse and process
He's talking about investment funds that cut out fossil fuels from their portfolio and focus on green energy. You can probably find one in your retirement account if you want to allocate a certain percentage to it. I think they were trying to put a stop to it when he was still in office.
Yes I think he's conflating/confusing
-deplatforming
-divesting
-financial institutions choosing not to do business with some people/orgs
But it really is incomprehensible.
Sounds like somebody is getting debanked...
Can I get his ketamine dealer’s details?
Man, my Lemmy experience has been so much better after I added 'Trump' as filter keyword the Voyager app so I never see posts about that idiot again. And yet, here we are :-(
Aye. That guy overstimulated my brain by saying insane things every other day, every week straight for YEARS. Was in quite the stimuli-dump when he quit being front and center.
Reminds me of that scene from The Office where Michael is trying to best Oscar and makes an inspiring speech about nonsense and everyone starts to cheer.
Do you have a source that doesn't have a fuck load of cuts and edits?
Skip to 40s. The quote is only about 20 seconds long; it runs to 1:03.
No.
Maybe instead of an minimum age, american presidents shoud have a minimum iq, but at this point a basic ability to speak and decent common sense would be too much to much to ask
Unfortunately IQ is a terrible test for that and we have to rely on people to make that decision. They've got a fetish for antiintellectualism though.
powerbank
Is there a link to this clip? I tried to see it but couldn't find it...
From MSNBC
Weird. I watched the live stream (well, a recording of it) and at about 2:25:00:00 ish, he talks about there being an imminent terrorist attack unless he's president. It will come from the south border bevaue "they" let unwanted people through like mental patients, criminals, etc.
I don't and can't understand how this dude is the front runner again. AGAIN?!
JFC.
I can’t wait to vote against this cretin.
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Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️, @tribelaw
On Jan 17 Trump told a New Hampshire audience: "We're going to place strong protections to stop banks and regulators from trying to debank you from your—you know, your political beliefs, what they do. They want to debank you, and we're going to debank—think of this. They want to take away your rights. They want to take away your country. The things they're doing. All electric cars."
It is projection.
...through a kaleidoscope.
I also convert all my cash into gold and bury it in my backyard.
/s
I hate when people debank me...
I have the feeling a debate between two certain octogenarians wouldn't be the most intellectually stimulating show.
We should just hand them rapiers and let them get on with it.
Sounds about as coherent as Biden. Fuck 'em both.
Found the fascist. I’d take a stutter over this rambling bullshit.
I'd take both stuttering and rambling over a treasonous, vain, rapist, corrupt, racist, manipulative, wannabe-dictator.
I mean seriously, people wanna talk about speech patterns over any of that shit?
Yeah well until we have ranked choice voting this is what you get to pick from. And the choice really does matter.
Don't settle for RCV, it's a watered down option that allows party politics to continue largely unabated. If you want to argue for an alternative to FPTP that really forces them to earn your vote, talk about approval voting or Condorcet.
He was great in all those Naked Gun movies
I will pay you to find a single example of incoherence that comes anywhere near this.
