The Republican front-runner made another gaffe as he tried to explain away all his other ones.
The Republican front-runner made another gaffe as he tried to explain away all his other ones.
Donald Trump’s recent memory failures sure do look like some kind of cognitive decline. In the last few months, Trump has mixed up President Joe Biden with former President Barack Obama, slurred his words, bragged about his favorite type of violent death and that he calls corn “non-liquid gold,” insisted you need voter ID to buy bread, and confused his GOP competitor Nikki Haley for California Representative Nancy Pelosi, claiming that the former failed to act during January 6.
But during a campaign rally on Wednesday, Trump had a new excuse for all that, claiming all of his short circuits are actually just sarcastic jokes.
Everything is pretend to him. Even the importance of human life. If you think he cares about words, you're sorely mistaken.
We should stop excusing blatant malice as some kind of mistake. He cares about words as much as Hitler actually cared what the word Aryan meant. They recognize that the definitions of words are established by people, so they can make them mean whatever the fuck they want them to mean. They ... give ... no ... fucks. And I mean literally. None of the fucks. Not words, not human rights, not the sanctity of life, none of it. Only power.
edit: Oh, and they think you're fucking stupid for actually caring about dumb shit like "what words mean" when we can exercise power over that.
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Trump—who is just four years younger—has desperately been trying to reframe the narrative, accusing Biden of being “too incompetent” but “not too old.”
Trump certainly demonstrated his own competence in that speech, didn't he?
Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you're a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.
Someone was arguing on Reddit that Trump was a great public speaker back in 2020. This was while Trump was saying Biden is too old and can't talk. I took no stance and just quoted that entire speech.
I'm not going back to Reddit to find out exactly what he replied, but I remember it was unhinged and uncomplimentary towards both myself and my lineage. This dude was big mad, but at least he didn't try to defend that speech.
I love how this copy pasta has parenthesis in it. Like the whole thing isn't some sort of error riddled nested jumble of parentheticals.
Top level discussion: nuclear technology in global political. First level aside: my uncle is really smart. Second level aside: conservatives are judged to be stupid. Return to top level discussion of geopolitics. Return to the first level aside to complete the idea that the smart uncle taught him about nuclear technology. New first level aside on a specific prisoner trade. Second level aside on how women are smarter "now" than men. Return to the first level aside on how we lost out on the prisoner trade.
One could make the very technically true argument that gold can be melted, but I would laugh at that person. I would not laugh with mirth, I would laugh with disdain.
He allegedly does not drink and is allegedly quite the connoisseur of stimulants. Look up "Noel Casler on Donald Trump" for the details of the latter allegation.
And I still properly fit into the 32 inch waistline pants I keep buying, too. People can claim whatever they want about themselves. That doesn't make it true.
In this one, tiny, insignificant case, I'm going to give our asshole criminal buddy Trump the benefit of the doubt. This looks more like a transcription error and he really said, "that's Biden." The level of general evil insanity from Trump remains deeply troubling of course.
“But when I say that Obama is the president of our country bah bah bah, they go, ‘He doesn’t know that Spiden [sic], he doesn’t know.’ So it’s very hard to be sarcastic.”
Not a Qultists, but from that video, it's clear he was just saying "she will never be running for vice president" for the fourteenth time in 2 minutes.
I am no fan of Trumpelstiltskin, but the non-liquid gold thing seems like the kind of dumb joke I'd make. I think that one doesn't belong on the list of dementia symptoms, unlike the other things.
Members of the Democratic Party have to be nearly perfect specimens of humanity; members of the RepubliQan party only need to yell loudly and look "strong" to smooth brains. They are allowed to be as awful and as incompetent as the dregs of society; it doesn't matter at all.