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[–] 147 points 4 months ago (55 children)

is that... did he... did he really say that?

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  • [–] 278 points 4 months ago (44 children)

    Per Newsweek article

    "Think of it, magnets," Trump said. "Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that's the end of the magnets. Why didn't they use John Deere? Why didn't they bring in the John Deere people? Do you like John Deere? I like John Deere."

    Incoherent rambling like usual

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  • [–] 157 points 4 months ago (37 children)

    How. How is he THIS fucking stupid? How did someone THIS fucking stupid become president twice?

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  • [–] 116 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Many people are just as stupid as him.

    Our society prioritizes trash like nft startups instead of education

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  • [–] 49 points 4 months ago

    Many don't really get to hear him unfiltered. Around T1 I was watching Fox and they at best had a text snippet of something he said. Never extra text around the snippet and certainly not the audio. Still many do go and see him live.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Many are, but many Trump supporters started out smarter than him but they've dumbed themselves down to his level in order to continue their support, I guess.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    i think his supporters are stupider than he is, he has said how dumb republicans are on many occasion, but this almost never clicks with the voters, because these voters are likely never following up with his policies anyways.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Because even before he was a senile old man, he was already a child raping con artist?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Are we just glossing over the fact he bankrupted a CASINO? The one business where the business model boils down to people give you money?

    There's many more examples of stupidity, but bankrupting a casino is god-teir stupid

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    My grandfather was 104 when he died and until he was about 95 and had a stroke he was still perfectly capable of tinkering around with his car and it still worked at the end of it. "Old" isn't an excuse, anyway we have documented evidence that he has been been a gormless idiot his whole life.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (14 children)

    Just look how stupid the average person is. Half of the people are more stupid. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The last few years have taught me that the difference between stupid and not stupid is oceans wider than I thought.

    I turns out stupid people are closer to what I thought the intelligence of an animal was.

    These people literally don’t think. They basically pattern match and that’s it. There’s no deeper reasoning. There’s no capacity for nuance, no understanding or extension of empathy. They can barely read. If you string the gibberish from an AI they’ll blindly trust that it’s correct above all evidence.

    Meanwhile we’re seeing all these nuanced multi step problem solving behaviours from birds and all animals and even bumblebees…

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I read something from someone on the internet who claimed to work with bear-proof garbage cans and apparently it’s harder than one might expect. There’s some overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest people.

    I’m sure the bears are more motivated, but still…

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago* (9 children)

    I think you mean then median person. ☝️🤓

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Can't speak for anyone else, but I was taught that mean, median, and mode are three different types of average.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Oh crap. Translating average to my language yields the same word as mean. But you're right.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Because mean means average. I wouldn’t consider the median or the mode to be an average. Not sure what that commenter means by different “types of average”.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Under a normal distribution/bell curve mean and median are the same.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    If you actually look at the pattern, you will see it used everywhere. He is using the same words all the time.

    It's a kind of rambling that people recognize now, and you could have a stranger guess that it was Donald Trump who said this just from the semantics of the words.

    At this point I know (roughly) what he is going to say before he says it. :)

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    He was talking about electromagnets at sea ships... Because the sea-water would short them.

    But then, it's almost as stupid as the short version.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    When ever you think something sounds too stupid even for trump. No you didn't.

    His stupidity is his defining characteristic among his voters. For the wealthy and powerful, he's an easily manipulable rube. For the poor saps he says the same stupid things they think and say. He's just like them, so relatable!

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    It sounds shocking until you remember Americans are dumb as shit. I have to keep reminding myself of this to make any sense of the absolute dystopian nightmare that somehow they support.

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