200 points

Because he’s deaf and can’t read. He got a hurricane briefing once and tried to correct the drawing with his personal hopes and dreams. That was the last time they gave him a hurricane brief.

People who support this dude are weird for not seeing he’s not fit for office. He should step down and let someone younger go, like Biden did. He has way too much ego to admit he lost an election, nevermind stepping down, but it would be the play

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51 points

Him being unfit for office has little to do with his age, to be clear.

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18 points

Doesn’t it? Nobody is 100% at 80 years old. Also they won’t have to live with their decisions.

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38 points

Dude’s been unfit for office for decades.

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Donald, 100%, what would that even look like? Sexually assault twice as many women? Bankrupt twice as many company’s?

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8 points

Yeah but like, on the list of things that should disqualify him his age is somewhere in the 200s.

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6 points

Sure, but he was unfit way before

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5 points

Nikki Haley was (hopefully) right, that the first party to replace their old white guy would win

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It 100% has to do with his age of you consider the chances of dementia in a 30—60 year old candidate, and then in him, a candidate with full-blown dementia.

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1 point

Completely missing my point.

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39 points

That’s exactly why they like him, he’s not an “insider”

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13 points

He’s been in politics to long for him to make that claim anymore.

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5 points

He’s also making elected officials dance while he doesn’t even hold office. If that’s not an insider, then what is?

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5 points

Logic is not the best approach to changing these people’s minds unfortunately.

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2 points

I don’t care why anyone likes him. Any combination of words that justifies or normalizes anything to do with TFG are neither worth the time to write nor read.

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Add this to the list

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2 points

Oh cool, another unenforced law.

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7 points

Pepridge Farm remembers this. He used a Sharpie, and wanted to detonate a nuclear bomb on American soil.

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Well I don’t think that’s the real problem here - if you could nuke a hurricane out of existence, it would be a feasible option. The area of effect of a nuke is a lot smaller than media has led us to believe, and if you detonate it at the right height there’s not much fallout. It’s a totally reasonable option… If it worked

The problem is, it wouldn’t work. For any competent president, this was just a bit of brainstorming. It’s creative out of the box thinking, I bet previous presidents have asked the same thing

And that’s the problem. The conversation should’ve gone “can we nuke the hurricane? Have we looked into that?” “Yes Mr President, we’ve looked into it and it just doesn’t math out”. And then they continue on with disaster preparations like a sane person

The problem is: why did we even hear about this? Even the most harsh critics couldn’t make brainstorming look bad, throwing out any idea that pops into your head is the point.

But he had a creative idea, and where most people would feel a moment of disappointment and move on, or maybe even task people to reevaluate the option, he bragged about it in public. He turned “the science doesn’t work” into “they wouldn’t let me”

And honestly, it’s probably one of the best ideas he’s ever had…“if sunlight kills the virus, can we use that?”, “if bleach kills the virus, could we inject bleach?” - it shows like understanding of biology, but a president doesn’t need to know biology. They just need to hear “this wouldn’t work” from someone who understands the science, and move on

But the damaged little snowflake he is, he doesn’t let go of the weirdest of ideas, because they made him feel smart for a moment and he’s deeply insecure. He brags about his brainstorming sessions, which is weird, and then he presents his ideas in public as “they wouldn’t let me” instead of “this was a neat idea, but unfortunately it wouldn’t work”

And that’s far more disturbing. Having a creative idea is good, having it turn out to be impractical is fine, but holding onto it and pitching it to the public is deeply worrying

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-82 points

Oh god… The weird thing is so fucking cringe.

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60 points

Weird take

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45 points

I agree. Trump, the weird thing, is fucking cringe.

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How are he and his cult fan club not weird?

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13 points

fan club cult*

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I’m not American. The fact that you guys have Trump as one of your two options just shows how absolutely shit the people and the country is.

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You are only further highlighting that it is somehow surprisingly effective.

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14 points

No u

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6 points

Please elaborate your point of view.

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You’d think he’d remember given he blocked aid to Puerto Rico after Maria – a Category 5 hurricane.

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68 points

He just remembers throwing paper towels at the people from that country of Puerto Rico

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17 points

Well perhaps the president of Puerto Rico ought to have done something about that.

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He also flew to the Panama City Beach area after Hurricane Michael in 2018 (Category 5, I was working there at the time) and Trump only wanted to hang out with the GOP Mayor charged with felonies charges for misuse and stealing hurricane relief funds. (Lynn Haven). She just finished court cases… 1 month prison

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4 points

That’s not true! He threw some paper towels at people too. Or was that a different hurricane?

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1 point

The was maria in Puerto Rico

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72 points

What? How can you forget after the whole sharpie thing? That was kind of hilarious. Just draw an arrow on map and redirect Milton towards some immigrants or something buddy. Your succubus hag seems to think weather control is possible and you think highly of your own abilities - give it a try!

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19 points

He wasn’t aiming the hurricane, he was trying to make himself retroactively correct because he didn’t know the states names.

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The best part about the “they control the weather” theory is that they are posting an old military patent on social media. What’s funny about it is that, American patent law being what it is, even if it was real it would prove nothing. I could file a patent for a working dragon; that doesn’t mean I have access to a fucking dragon. It just means I have ownership of any dragons that work like the patent I submitted. A patent is only to show ownership of an idea and nothing more.

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With military patents, it basically has to reach the “there is absolutely not a snowball’s chance in hell this will work and you’re only going to use this to con people” level to be denied a patent, and even then…

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3 points

Interesting pickle: admit he was wrong or state the climate is changing for the worse…

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6 points

Neither! Deny the existence of hurricanes.

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5 points

Deny the existence of Florida

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52 points

D E M E N T I A

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31 points

Idk, maybe we’re sleeping on him just being stupid.

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16 points

Lil bit of both I imagine. Probably a lotta bit of both.

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7 points

We’ve always known he’s stupid, but he probably has dementia too.

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2 points

Having heard the man talk, it really does sound like cognitive decline, especially compared to older recordings of him.

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5 points

L Y I N G

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44 points

But he has heard of nuking hurricanes.

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I mean it makes sense. We need to teach a lesson to those hurricanes.

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10 points

We don’t want to look weak in front of the other weather emergencies.

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3 points

The ocean isn’t sending its best.

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2 points

If there’s one thing you wanna look strong in front of, it’s nuclear fallout.

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10 points

Gotta nuke something.

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7 points

We have some perfect nukes just sitting around that cost hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars. It would be a waste not to use them.

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3 points

That’s why I support nuking the whales.

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