• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    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.”

    • WideEyedStupid@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      I have read a lot of Trump crap over the years but I must have missed this one. It’s… terrifying. Entirely deranged.

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      9 hours ago

      IDK man, I feel like he’s been incoherently rambling for way more longer. I still remember that time in 2016 when I decided to watch a trump rally just to see what right-winger could possibility like about it. 2h of nonsensical bullshit and bragging, not a single coherent point, my head still hurt. It really was the point I realised americans have an out of control under-education problem.

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        7 hours ago

        People keep saying he’s getting worse, and my inside reaction is always some flavor of “Do you even remember his first term?”

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        Under education isn’t the main problem here per se I don’t think. Anti intellectualism is. But more than anything, it’s the alternate reality the oligarchs crafted for the right wing’s sheep.

        So it’s more diseducation and under education, I think.

    • notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip
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      8 hours ago

      ‘Yeah I recognize her, that’s my wife!’

      -After he was shown a picture of the woman he raped in the 90’s, and referring to his wife whom he was married to in the 90’s.