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Had to look it up. The full quote is great, even mentions his uncle at MIT.

Now they’ll say all these stories are terrible. Well, these stories have, you know, you heard my story in the boat with the shark, right? I got killed on that. They thought I was rambling. I’m not rambling. We can’t get the boat to float. The battery is so heavy. So then I start talking about asking questions. You know, I have an, I had an uncle who was a great professor at MIT for many years, long, I think the longest tenure ever. Very smart, had three different degrees and you know, so I have an aptitude for things. You know, there is such a thing as an aptitude. I said, well, what would happen if this boat is so heavy and started to sink and you’re on the top of the boat. Do you get electrocuted or not? In other words, the boat is going down and you’re on the top, will the electric currents flow through the water and wipe you out? And let’s say there’s a shark about 10 yards over there. Would I have to immediately abandon or could I ride the electric down and he said, sir, nobody’s ever asked us that question. But sir, I don’t know. I said, well, I want to know because I guarantee you one thing, I don’t care what happens. I’m staying with the electric, I’m not getting over with it. So I tell that story. And the fake news they go, he told this crazy story with electric. It’s actually not crazy. It’s sort of a smart story, right? Sort of like, you know, it’s like the snake, it’s a smart when you, you figure what you’re leaving in, right? You’re bringing it in the, you know, the snake, right? The snake and the snake. I tell that and they do the same thing

Edit: I don’t even think this is the full quote, he wasn’t rambling though.

Edit 2: Grabbed it from here https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1804592040791122259

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He thinks that because “batteries are heavy” that it’s impossible to build an electric boat.

Is he not aware that aircraft carriers exist?

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71 points

They make diesel electric subs that run on battery only when they are under water. Since like WW1

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62 points

Yes, but diesel floats on water, so it lifts the battery. Checkmate, you peepeehead

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Since the fucking Boer War. It was old technology by the time WWI started.

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It’s a reference to a previous speech in which he attempted to create an imaginary dilemma of having to choose between being electrocuted or eaten by a shark. That’s the “clever question”, because the boat salesman had never heard anyone ask that question.

The boat salesman was probably just being polite, because it’s a stupid question. It’s not a dilemma or even a contradiction. He’s just making a sort of false equivalence and hoping that people are afraid of sharks so he can sell them his opinion on electric boats. In the same speech he also spent considerable time talking about how people ought to be afraid of sharks.

The addition of a snake and the credibility of his late uncle is a wonderful development of the story. He’s probably going to add more stuff to it until he touches some topic that people actually care about…

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I really wish i could get away with this shit at my job. Like, “…and then my uncle, who was the victim of a radical abortion, someone once told me that, and the left has no idea, no idea, most people do…” and then my colleagues just applaud and I get a promotion.

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There was something about his stories being completely made up every time he starts with someone calling him “sir”.

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I’m pretty sure aircraft carriers are nuclear powered.

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They’re pointing out that aircraft carriers are heavy as fuck and float just fine.

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7 points

How do you think nuclear power works?

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No-no-no, this sucker’s electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 jigawatts of electricity I need.

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I’m fairly sure he doesn’t know that in WWII, the US used some ships made of concrete.

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he wasn’t rambling though

Good lord, what could he possibly sound like when he is rambling.

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Lol

If there’s still ramblin’ in the rambler let him go!

-sorry, felt like quoting a band. Rip Jeff

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You’ll never tame him darling and you know!

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I the Republicans said it best, "why would they run a candidate that is so very old and in clear cognitive decline‽”…

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Is there a source for this? I tried to look it up but just kept getting links about him reading a poem called The Snake and using it to compare to immigrants or some shit. I’m guessing that poem is what he’s talking about here? Was the quote you and the post gave from one of his stupid rallies in the past 48 hours?

Also, fucking ludicrous that his dipshit followers will simultaneously question the extremely credible Democrats’ credentials’ credibility and pine on and on about personal responsibility, all while their guy takes personal credit for his uncle’s education and career as if his uncle’s accomplishments have anything to do with Donald Trump, convicted criminal and fraudster. It’s painfully obvious that it’s intended as a dog whistle but is actually just a racist, eugenics-driven regular fucking whistle that everybody can hear, interrupting everything in every crowd, forcing everybody to say “what the fuck, why is that guy blowing that very obviously normal whistle and then getting butthurt when everybody looks and points and asks why he keeps on blowing that obviously normal whistle and disrupting everything around him with it? Did he think that it was for secret signaling like he’s doing something covertly? Is he, in fact, a stupid person, blissfully unaware of how stupid he is, yet somehow getting away with convincing his stupid fans that he is smart, exclusively because of the confident fervor in which he is claiming that he is not a stupid person and is instead some sort of stable genius? Is the answer to that question ‘yes’?” And the answer to that question is yes.

He would be hilarious if he hadn’t somehow swindled like 80 million people into doing things that put all of us in danger.

  • Just convincing them to wear ear bandages?

Fucking hilarious.

  • Buy a specific brand of beer specifically to destroy it, illustrating that they don’t actually know how boycotts work?

Pretty damn funny.

  • Wear his ugly hats?

Kinda funny, except that all red hats are kinda ruined now, but funnier if you aren’t a Caps fan who now laments the Rock The Red thing.

  • Disregard masks during a deadly pandemic;
  • incite xenophobic, racist violence;
  • dismantle regulations that protect the planet and therefore all of humanity in exchange for money;
  • storm the Capitol with the intent to murder democratically elected politicians and/or engage in a coup?

Markedly less funny and, dare I say, bad.

I got off track and perhaps foolishly have decided to not delete all of that. I could’ve instead used this time looking harder for a source, but then I wouldn’t have made you push air out of your nose slightly more forcefully than you otherwise would have. And that’s slightly more important to me than verifying that the stupid thing that the stupid man supposedly said was in fact what he stupidly said. But I still kinda wanna know where you got the longer quote from so I can still verify that he stupidly said that stupid thing stupidly like some sort of stupid.

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Yeah I saw the snake poem stuff too. That isn’t it. I ended up finding it on the future presidents twitter

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1804592040791122259

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Thanks <3

It’s almost exactly as I had imagined.

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Fucking Christ, that might be the most incomprehensible thing I’ve ever read and then watched! It is marginally better than if I wrote a script that just grabbed random words out of the dictionary and place them together like it was a sentence. I’m talking something super basic like get a file that has every word, tell the script to import it as an array, and just start grabbing random words no other logic. He speaks like Lorem ipsum, but with English words.

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bing ding ding ding boom psheen pfoom

~tfg explaining missile technology

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I think I’m gonna have to meditate on this for a bit.

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I tell that and they do the same thing.

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He always brings up his uncle. He has some eugenics-based idea that because his uncle was really smart, he is really smart.

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That video is comedic gold.

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I still think his babbling makes about as much sense as some kids I’ve met at preschool but in context this actually makes some semblance of sense. Am I safer with the boat or the shark?

I think, anyway… I’m deep into happy hour after a mentally taxing work day, on next to no sleep. So there’s that…

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He sounds too old to be president. His brain has clearly turned to mush.

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That was my first thought, that he was having a stroke.

And seriously, he’s in the same realm as Joe. The same thing can happen to him if it hasn’t already.

We need an age cap. It’s too dangerous not to have one.

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16 points

Syphilis brain for sure

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Plot twist: this is from 2016!

(Okay, not really, but it may as well have been. He’s a demented sociopathic conman, his mental buffer is tiny and keeps getting smaller.)

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It’s starting to make sense how 19th century people could fall for literal snake oil salesman, but would never elect a clown like Trump. He couldn’t exist if he was only able to communicate through print.

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Been saying for years, since I first read a bland speech transcription, listening to and reading Trump are very different experiences.

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I don’t really think so. That’s what all his speeches have sounded like to me. If he stays on the teleprompter he can do OK, not good but not terrible either, but he rarely stays on the teleprompter. This is what it sounds like when he improvises. Still, some people listen to that schizophrenic-stream-of-consciousness and hear a great orator. That’s something I’ll never understand.

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It’s a different way of processing information. It’s a flow rather than discrete packets of information being decoded and given meaning. Interestingly, there are stong parallels with Ebonics. A lot of hip hop uses this. If you tried to transcribe many hip hop verses as prose, they would make no sense, but given the general context and the vibe and tone of what’s being said, you get the meaning.

It’s also similar to the kind of baby talk that you might give to a pet. Why do you always call your cat, whose given name is Bartholomew, “Dingly Wingly / Dinglebutt / Dingity dogg”? The specific, discrete, quantised definition of what you’re saying doesn’t make sense. But “doggo” conveys a very different meaning than “dog”. Animals have a limited grasp of English, but they understand tone and intent.

This also means that these forms of language / communication are rapidly evolving since they’re based on similar context and events and aren’t beholden to a strict list of defined meanings. The connotation of a word is far more meaningful than the definition.

Trump says, “I ride down the electric.” That’s a nonsense phrase. But what does the word “electric” feel like to a right winger? You can imagine a word cloud with “poorly constructed”, “scam”, “dangerous”, “overhyped”, “expensive”, and of course the ever popular “liberal” but also some things that are difficult to put into words. A sense that we are better than them because they spend a lot of money on sketchy tech but we believe in the tried and true old ways. A feeling that they think they’re so smart but we know the truth of the world. A house of cards propped up by technology and no soul, which will inevitably collapse at any minute. Trump conveys all this in a word, and his followers understand all this in a word, and they all do it without thinking. It’s shorthand. They communicate almost nonverbally. And if you’re not part of the in-group, you don’t have the context to understand the flow of the speech.

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Somehow, came upon Trumps speech from the RNC last night. Started reading random parts outloud. Ended up convinced all the Democrats have to do is run ads with all the incoherent crap he says.

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It’s really frustrating because he absolutely speaks worse than Biden as far as having a coherent statement, it’s just that he still has the capacity to speak loudly and quickly that people confuse it for still being mentally capable… Meanwhile Biden has a decent address to the nation regarding his decision not to run but he sounds like he’s whispering and because he’s always had a studder he stumbles a bit.

Again with Republicans it’s all about projecting strength so Biden appears “weak.”

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Just a 30 second clip of Trump rambling, with a 3 second “This ad brought to you by the Harris for President campaign”

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That’s all they’ve ever had to do.

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7 points

Someone has a high opinion of their fellow citizenry.

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