He also keeps quoting Nazis and promising retribution to his political enemies, but sure if magnets convince someone not to vote for him I’ll take it.
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The story here isn't that Trump doesn't understand magnets, it's that he was transparently told to say something by a donor associated with John Deere and he fucked it up because he didn't understand it.
Yeah the best part is that he jumped from elevator magnets and how they stop working when they get wet, to something about they should have stuck with John Deere. His cognitive decline is very real and accelerating quickly, and likely being fed by all his legal issues and knowing that there is a very good possibility that if he can't get himself into the white house he'll never be a free man again.
It will be interesting if they use his deteriorated mental state as a defence when he is found guilty in any of these criminal cases trying to get him a lesser sentence.
I said it years ago, after it became clear that punishment for Jan 6th was going to be slow. Trump won. He shat all over our democracy and its people, pillaged the country as much as he could. And by the time any real consequences reach him, he will be too far mentally gone as to be meaningless.
It will still mean something to him as long as he is mentally aware enough to have any sense of self, as the narcissist is strong in him. Once his cognitive decline rids him of that sense of self he'll just be a confused angry old man, but he won't have that drive to be a Dictator and rule anymore.
It would actually be kind of interesting if he declined in such a way that with that sense of "self" disappearing, if he would actually feel any remorse for being a piece of shit to anyone and everyone around him before it all just slips away.
He's going for the juggalo vote now?
ICP admitted they don't know, and had no interest in learning because they're happy considering stuff like magnets and basic genetics as "magic"
trump doesn't know, assumes he does, and claims he has intrinsic scientific knowledge because an uncle worked at MIT.
This is probably the only time it'll be remotely relevant so I'm gonna shoehorn in this 49 minute video of a man debunking the ICP song miracles verse by verse. It's truly one of the videos of all time
It is definitely one of the videos
of all time
I absolutely love that someone put in this kind of effort for this. This speaks to me.
Thank you for sharing.
Actually the specific reason cited for not talking to scientists is that "y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed"
But you have to admit, his knowledge about nukes is astounding!
And hurricane trajectories!
Also, geography!
At least ICP had enough humility to admit they didn’t know how magnets work.
America has the best magnets. Beautiful magnets. Beautiful American magnets.
Everyone knows lying Joe Biden is weak on magnets. Not me. Everyone who works on magnets knows that you want Trump for strong magnets.
When I was president, magnets were never stronger. I cracked down on the border, windmills, and we had the greatest magnets the world has ever seen.
Gravity to magnet: "Let's see you try that across the entire galaxy."
At this point, he's the old drunk guy at the end of the bar.
Even ICP thinks he's a fucking idiot.
Usually there’s some sort of fantastical leap you can do from something reasonable to get to his level of insanity, but I don’t even see that here. Water has never had any effect on magnets, and I don’t know of any conspiracy theory that says it does.
Pouring water on the electrical components of an electromagnet?
Maybe that’s what he meant. But he’s talking about a magnetic elevator for an aircraft carrier. I’m pretty sure it’s designed to work while wet.
Yeah, I was just taking the challenge of trying to rationalize it.
maybe he saw a gif of cooling magnets with liquid nitrogen to make them seem wet?
At a guess, he just remembers being mad at the Navy about something about magnets, but made up the why.
I guess nobody told him that the ship that was supposedly having those issues with EMALS is not only built but on deployment now
I think youre correct, I found this from memorial day 2019:
Trump, who has been critical of the Ford-class carriers’ new electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) system, said he prefers the steam-powered catapults found on the older Nimitz-class CVNs. He again called on the Navy to revert back to the old technology while speaking to naval forces in Japan over the Memorial Day weekend.
Thanks for trying to figure out what the kook was talking about lol, I know hes nuts but he usually has SOMETHING in mind when hes rambling, I was curious what that was
See, those magnets could get wet, water-wise. /s
Absolutely convinced the jugglos highjacked the republican party. All the way down to Trumps orange facepaint, this whole thing has juggalos written all over it.