• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    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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      Him being unfit for office has little to do with his age, to be clear.

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

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            Well he’d be a billionaire leading the American empire, so imperialism, but more competent, kinda like Obama.

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              That “kinda” is bearing a load the size of the Earth. It’s a galaxy of presumptions rolled up into five letters. If it had a name, it would be “Atlas”.

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              • Trimp isn’t a billionaire
              • America isn’t an empire
              • Imperialism, yeah probably, fair enough
              • Trimp is not competent
              • If you compared Trimp to Obama directly he would cry and try to have you arrested
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                Trimp isn’t a billionaire

                He probably is, but in any case, he’d both the representative of capital and a member of the capitalist class.

                America isn’t an empire

                Sure, we just have 800 military bases across the world and unequal trade with so many poor countries by chance.

                Trimp is not competent

                No shit. But Trump at 100% would be a more competent evil.

                If you compared Trimp to Obama directly he would cry and try to have you arrested

                Of course. Trump wishes he could bomb >10 African and Middle Eastern countries, do a bloody coup in Honduras, send the national guard in to put down protests after police murdered another unarmed black person, bail out the banks that just halved black wealth, deport 3 million immigrants, and still be remembered fondly by libs.

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

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            Honestly I was worried Trump would nominate Haley, given the way CNN and MSNBC keep trying to paint her as the “reasonable, moderate republican”.

            We dodged a bullet when Trump’s campaign started shitting the bed, but Kamala keeps trying to run back to the cold, dead embrace of the Biden campaign that brought him to 37% approval rating.

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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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        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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    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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      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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      wipe tear from your eye

      I should give myself a cheat day and do the things internally that would allow me to be a trump supporter. I’m not sure what that is. I guess allow myself some racism, sexism, somehow christianity, selfishness, full confidence in any thought that goes through my head. I’m getting nauseous thinking about it.

      Edit: Like what about Christiany jives with this guy? I know it’s probably something you had to grow up with to understand. I did grow up in a Christian family though. Probably werent religious enough? Seriously, thinking about this stuff makes me so uncomfortable. Like you want to punch 10000 people immediately but know that’s impossible.

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        It’s not the Christianity people like, it is the racism. Christianity is just a cover up

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    His simple framework of “if it’s a bad thing, it’s 10x worse now vs the past so you need me in charge” that he has used forever (including 'American Carnage" in his acceptance speech) really fails when it comes to weather.

    First, no normal human is blaming the Biden admin for the strength of hurricanes these days.

    Second, if hurricanes are getting worse that implies climate change is real and we need a Democrat in charge to try to stop it.

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      First, no normal human is blaming the Biden admin for the strength of hurricanes these days.

      glances at Biden’s Senatorial record on climate change

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      I am. All those windmills built, and they can’t even put them to use to push back against the storm? I mean what was the point gahd

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        Windmills?

        It seems to me that you aren’t well-versed in adventures—they are giants; and if you’re afraid, get away from here and start praying while I go into fierce and unequal battle with them!

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          For you my fair lady, I shall defend your beauty and honor by confusingly threatening anyone who make a pass at you

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      On the inside of his head his speeches are concise and coherent. Unfortunately they get spaghettified as they travel across the interdimensional gap between Trump Land™ and the rest of the universe.

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    When was that video originally taken? Was this during his presidency? I remember him asking why we couldn’t nuke hurricanes but I don’t remember him saying he’s never heard of a category 5 hurricane lol.