• ApeNo1@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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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    I tried dipping my electromagnet in water and Trump was right! It lost it’s magnetism!

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    3 months ago

    Most of Trump’s sentences resemble the Monte Carlo generated texts of oldie times. Remember the ones where it seemed like someone having an aneurysm is talking? Those ones.

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    If you’re gonna post paywalls, at least quote the good parts. Y’all think we can afford to pay for news in this economy?!

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    3 months ago

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

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    Please stop writing headlines that start with “Trump, 79,” that don’t end with. Well. You know.

    • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
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      Those headlines you’re thinking of don’t start “Trump, 79”. They start, “President Donald John Trump, 79.”

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        Unf, stop. It makes me feel things as I read that out in my head, then let down and blocked like the cat just jumped on the bed and threw up right near the end.

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          “I think for the past decade, we can all agree that I’ve been one of the biggest critics of President Trump. There have been times when he’s done things that I thought were worthy of praise, for example, when he negotiated the release of the remaining Israeli hostages in their conflict with Palestine. But nothing he’s done in his entire political career is as praiseworthy as what he did earlier today. He demonstrated today that he could put the needs of the American people first, and for that, I think we should all thank him.”

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    It kinda just sounded like he was saying most people don’t know all the actual things magnets are used for.

    Poorly worded, sure. That’s my takeaway

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      Just commented, China’s curtailing or completely blocking rare earth exports. Somebody told Trump how vital those minerals are to industry. Trump thinks American can spin our own rare earth mining (?) in 2-years, but acknowledges Xi is holding the cards so he’s begging and threatening him over exports.

      All Trump can really parse is, “Magnets vital, China screwing us.” He’s trying to spit out his understanding of the importance of magnets. Of course he’s the smartest guy in the room, “Nobody knows what magnets are (how vital they are across industries).”

      It’s a dementia addled clusterfuck, but at least this time I can see where he’s going and why. Also explains his otherwise nonsensical rant to the Navy on replacing aircraft and ordnance lifters with steam power. I was wrong on his reasoning, now I see it. But fuck me, no one should have to take weeks to decode his dementia.

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      The water and magnets comment was about electromagnets, too. He was completely wrong about the reliability of elevators on aircraft carriers, but he wasn’t saying permanent magnets can’t get wet.

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          No you can’t, they’ll multiply. And if you feed them after midnight, they get voiced by Frank Welker instead of Howie Mandel.

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      “President Xi was willing to do the railroad things—that’s magnets,” he said. “Now, nobody knows what a magnet is. If you don’t have a magnet, you don’t have a car. You don’t make a computer, you don’t make, er, televisions and radios and all the other things—you don’t make anything."

      That’s exactly what it is. Could’ve been stated a little more clearly but this is a completely coherent statement. The man does a dozen deplorable things a day, are we really that starved for headlines that this is what we’re reporting on?

      Almost convinced that his administration is paying for these articles so people will look at them and complaints about the Epstein files as equally valid.

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          Is there a specific reason why, or just… Trump bad?

          Again, don’t get me wrong, Trump bad, but we gotta have standards.

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            Because it has to be deciphered like a secret code to be understood.

            We’ve gotten normalized to how he rambles and meanders around subjects but his speech is far from coherent, imo.

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              It does not have to be “deciphered”. C’mon, now. It might seem kinda strange when it’s written out, but this is a completely normal sentence to say. The only way I can see this being misconstrued in good faith is maybe if English wasn’t someone’s first language, but if literally anyone besides Trump said this it wouldn’t even raise an eyebrow, let alone be headline worthy.