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Trump bizarrely claims people have stopped eating bacon because of wind power (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The potential future president had also told the crowd, "You know they say you gotta vote with your stomach, I don't know if you've heard it but it's a little bit true," before launching into some questionable food inflation numbers.

"Food has gone up at levels that nobody's ever seen before," he declared, following up his claim with some unsupported numbers. "We've never seen anything like it – 50, 60, 70 percent."

The online response to Trump's odd claims has been relentless, with one X/Twitter user writing, "Operation let him talk is going exceedingly well."

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

In case anyone was curious what he actually said, I've transcribed the provided snippet of what can be generously called his "speech":

"You know they say you're gonna vote with your stomach - I don't know if you've heard it but it's a little bit true. And groceries food has gone up at levels that nobody's ever seen before we've never seen anything like it fifty sixty seventy percent. you'd take a look at bacon and some of these products and some people don't eat bacon anymore. And uh- we're going to get the energy prices down when we get energy energy down you know this was caused by their horrible energy ... wind, they want wind all over the place, but when it doesn't blow we have a little problem. This was caused by energy this was really caused by energy and also their unbelievable spending their spending is out of... out of wealth, actually, they're taking our wealth away, but it was caused by energy and what they've done is they've started cutting way back [...] "

It seems pretty clear to me that he's... talking. I think he was saying that high energy prices have caused the price of groceries to go up, and that high energy prices are the result of the biden admin "spending [us] out of wealth" (whatever that means). So, you know, not literally saying wind power caused people to stop eating bacon, but that uh... wait... no that is what he's saying. Spending on wind power is directly causing the price of bacon to go up. I'm not... just. Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My eyes began to involuntarily glaze over as I read the transcript, and I barely made it through three sentences. I am not sure how a person could actively engage with this drool for hours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I honestly wonder if donald didn't stumble into NLP or related areas (the hypnosis thing, the NLP thing, and related systems tend to be popular with people looking to sell a load of bullshit to others - just look at NXIVM and that woman that helped to run it and her background) and pick up a kind of cadence that people fall for - it has a hypnotic type of flow even if it is batshit insane stuff and outright lying he does throughout.

I'm actually surprised someone has not dug into it to see if donnie has been into NLP/hypnosis.