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over 2 years ago....
“So I said, ‘Let me ask you a question, and [the guy who makes boats in South Carolina] said, ‘Nobody ever asked this question,’ and it must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT —very smart. He goes, I say, ‘What would happen if the boat sank from its weight? And you’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?’ By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately, do you notice that, a lot of sharks? I watched some guys justifying it today. ‘Well, they weren’t really that angry. They bit off the young lady’s leg because of the fact that they were, they were not hungry, but they misunderstood what who she was.’ These people are crazy. He said there’s no problem with sharks. ‘They just didn’t really understand a young woman swimming now.’ It really got decimated and other people do a lot of shark attacks. So I said, so there’s a shark 10 yards away from the boat, 10 yards or here, do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking? Water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking. Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted, or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted? Because I will tell you, he didn’t know the answer. He said, ‘You know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.” I said, ‘I think it’s a good question.’ I think there’s a lot of electric current coming through that water. But you know what I’d do if there was a shark or you get electrocuted, I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark. So we’re going to end that.”
I have read a lot of Trump crap over the years but I must have missed this one. It's.. terrifying. Entirely deranged.
It's even dumber than his uncle teaching at MIT, although that's the classic one for me. That one he was more "coherent", but it's not "Do you know who my dad is?" because dad's rich or connected. It's "my relative is smart so I am too." Pehaps the absolute stupidest appeal to authority fallacy ever tried.
yep. and they love him. they ignore all reality, because they're racists/sexists/fascists and don't mind burning everything else down so they can shit on everything from the economy to the functioning of government.
thanks conservatives, you fucking pogues
The "having nuclear" one is my 'classic' Trump text, maybe it's the same one you mean? He also mentions his uncle there. Wait, let me find it.
It's so hard to believe he actually spoke these words out loud.
But another one that sticks with me is what he said when he was asked about the nuclear triad during Republican debate. He so obviously has no idea what the fuck he's talking about, and people still voted for him. That moment alone should have sunk his campaign.
Question: "What’s your priority among our nuclear triad?"
Trump's answer:
HE HAD NO FUCKING CLUE WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. So they asked him again, giving him the benefit of the doubt?:
"Of the three legs of the triad, though, do you have a priority?
And Trump responded with:
How, please tell me how this did not sink his candidacy? How is it possible people still voted for him? It's absolutely terrifying to me, honestly.