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[–] [email protected] 173 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

"Emotional Word Vomit"

New band name?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 9 months ago (6 children)

"This is the guy I want to represent my interests in international negotiations."

– 40% of Americans

[–] [email protected] 67 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Joe Biden is the incoherent one."

  • Those same 40% of Americans
[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago

He just stumbles randomly from conservstive buzzword to Conservative buzzword without saying anything of substance. He's literally the perfect candidate for them.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

40% of Americans think he’s smart.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The word Think is a bit generous tbf

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Was it ‘Mater?

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago

He's writing his speeches for maximum SEO like a stable genius

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago

What ever you need him to.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

You know, you might be debanked. Good heavens! Debanked!!

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 9 months ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (15 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

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."

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A friendly reminder that half of all Americans have the literacy skill of a 12 year old or younger.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (20 children)

Biden isn't a good person by any means but we're literally comparing the next Hitler to Bill Clinton.

Clinton got a blowjob and got impeached. Trump fucked a hooker and no one gave a single fuck.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Elon Musk is just sitting there listening to this word salad, clenching his asshole as tight as he can, realizing he decided to gang up with the assholes who hate electric cars.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

I don't know, Musk has gotten to the point that he might actually match with the MAGAts against his own company and then fire half the staff for not defending the factory against him.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fucking astounding. He's the frontrunner for the GOP.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"They're not sending their best people"

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Clearly the ramblings of someone who should be president. /s

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Clearly somehow some people don’t hear it as ramblings, but as someone who speaks like them and should be president again.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (3 children)

See. All I hear is the impending doom of a country that de-funded public education.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Trump was a LLM hallucinating all along

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Any other person saying this would be wheeled back into the old people's home.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago

Belongs in c/aneurysmposting

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I mean, no cognitive decline there...

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (5 children)

A brilliant speech. The best speech. One that should be carved in stone and immortalised like that of a Roman emperor’s.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Sounds like my dad; " Your Firefox things doesn't work" while Libreoffice on his PC couldn't print.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

It interesting he got this play from Nigel Farage in the UK. The global coordinated Right is a real concern.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (5 children)

If we are going to have GPT as the PoUS, can it at least be GPT-4 and not GPT-2?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

and i bet anything they fucking cheered

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of that late 70s smash hit:

🎵Debank my fire! Electric cars are my only desire!🎵

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Debank electric cars! Remove their rights today!

I think I got his message, right? It was kinda hard to parse and process

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sounds like somebody is getting debanked...

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