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[EarlG]

Former President Trump Holds Rally in Las Vegas (quote starts at 42:05)

Is Donald Trump okay?

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Priceless!

[1WorldHope]

2. No. He's not okay.

[Marcus IM]

6. Neither is America.

The fast spreading brain worms have taken root.

[Jakes Progress]

86. Neiher are the pople who vote for him.

He does these stupid things and gets rich. They do the stupid thing (think tfg is okay) and the country goes to hell.

Trump isn't the problem. It's the nasty people who vote for him. There are a lot of people who are as demented and selfish and stupid as trump. But no one is voting for them for president.

[True Dough]

3. Even a shark

would be discerning enough not to chomp that floating pile of garbage!

[leftieNanner]

4. I salute you!

For being able to transcribe that gobbledegook.

[Probatim]

14. I'd have hidden all sharp instruments, any cords/cables/ropes/shoestrings, alcohol,

flammable liquids, and heavy equipment before I started that translation. And I'd have asked friends and family to keep those away from me for several weeks.

[leftieNanner]

17. Which would leave you one option

[Pinback]

27. Electrocution by boat.

[Prairie Gates]

46. ROFL

[Think. Again.]

53. 🏆

[Probatim]

56. Further proof we're funnier, nicer, more educated, and better looking than our conservative counterparts.

[TBF]

5. One bite of Donald and that shark is going to wish

he was electrocuted instead

[malaise]

25. You win the thread

😂

[underpants]

33. You'll get a kick out of this

Marine experts respond to Trump's electric boat remarks

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19025978

Regarding whether he would prefer to be in a boat with the above candidate or in the water with a shark, Dr. Shiffman replied "I choose the shark. Every time." Dr. Thaler concurs.

[intrepidity]

7. There's a reason nobody ever asked that question

...and it's not what he thinks.

Idiot.

[vanlassie]

82. BUT he has that "connection to MIT."

[PatSeg]

8. Of course, the guy at the boat company called him "Sir"!

So why was Trump going to a "boat company"? He doesn't seem like a boat guy. Oh wait, maybe he made the whole thing up!

[BobTheSubgenius]

16. Everyone calls him "sir."

Even the top generals. Even the tippy-top generals.

[PatSeg]

18. Yeah, in his dreams!

Or maybe in his dreams it's "Your majesty".

[lastlib]

36. In his dreams, it's "Mein Feuhrer."

(Or maybe "Dear Leader". Or "Your Holiness".........)

[PatSeg]

50. Yep, an all powerful entity

Who can do whatever he wants and vanquish all his enemies without question. He loves revenge almost as much as he loves money.

[Dave Bowman]

91. I presume that a Dung beetle feels the same way.

[PatSeg]

92. Hey now!

Dung beetles serve a very useful purpose and are much better looking. As far as I know, they don't hold a grudge either!

[Dave Bowman]

93. Ah, yes that's so true.

[PatSeg]

94. Actually, I did a search

And dung beetles are rather fascinating. Can't say that about whats-his-face.

[niyad]

85. Yikes!!! I had forgotten "tippy-top" generals.

[VMA131Marine]

99. That's Trump's tell

That he made the whole thing up

[Red State Prisoner]

35. That's it!

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It's not the incoherent rambling of an individual with deteriorating cognitive abilities(though there are plenty of examples that sure seem to indicate it's an issue), it's that he makes shit up on the fly without having any real knowledge of the "issue" at hand. It's all of these anecdotal bullshit stories of him wowing the experts with his intuitive understanding of all things. He starts off with a made-up story of some un-named business or person struggling with the "tyranny" of government mandates, or, if we're being honest, long-term goals. He then asks a question of such profundity, that these individuals, companies, and/or experts are left speechless by his absolute brilliance. Finally, the story closes with them either praising his inexplicable knowledge of a highly technical or scientific topic, or standing astounded by his brilliant, never-before-thought-of question. It's a cut and paste formula that he tries to fill with whatever boogie man he wants to focus on at that moment.

[PatSeg]

61. Yes, you're right

And we've seen him do it so many times that it is predictable. He doesn't have the vocabulary, expertise, or creativity to keep doing this over and over again. Meanwhile, no one challenges him.

He reminds me of a young child making up a story on the fly. If you don't interrupt them, they go to truly unbelievable places with their lie, often unable to stop themselves.

[littlemissmartypants]

107. Like the little girl who

When caught with her mom's lipstick all over her face says...

It's her "yip tick" and she got it at Home Depot.

Same energy just not clever or cute.

[PatSeg]

113. Oh, she is adorable!

[brush]

67. I can't agree. Never, ever, ever, ever use brilliant in the same sentence with trump.

Felon, convict, criminal, crook, rapist...all and more derogatory terms are ok, but brilliant — never.

[central scrutinizer]

77. He loves the sound of his own voice.

Doesn’t matter if it’s just word salad, as long as he is bellowing it drowns out everyone else. Unless you are praising him, he doesn’t care to hear what you say.

[hibbing]

38. With tears in his eyes...n/t

[PatSeg]

62. Yes, of course!

I almost went back to add "with tears in his eyes"! I'm surprised Trump left that out.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

41. traitortrump was trying to find a boat owner, again ...

( Children's book compiled by the staff of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whose_Boat_Is_This_Boat%3F

[PatSeg]

63. Oh my god, I'd forgotten that!

That was brilliant!

[Prairie Gates]

47. If it ain't a Sir Story, he ain't tellin' it

[PatSeg]

66. It cracks me up every time he says it

He must think he is a great storyteller, but he is actually an unintentional comedian, a parody of himself.

[Tommy Carcetti]

9. Someone needs to do an animated enactment of this story.

It would be priceless.

[Wild blueberry]

10. One of your best, EarlG

And that's saying something.
Thank you!

[mwb970]

11. None of my friends talk this way.

I feel sorry for the poor saps broiling in the heat so they can listen to gibberish.

[Deuxcents]

15. I don't feel one bit sorry for any of them.

[niyad]

87. Not one iota of symoathy do I have for these cultists Actually, I am annoyed

that none of them had a terminal case of heat exhaustion.

And yes, I am a nasty-tempered, unsympathetic, unfotgiving BITCH. Why do you ask?

[BumRushDaShow]

12. OMG

[Initech]

13. Where's Walter Sobchak when you need him?

[chouchou]

19. There's an easy solution.

Buy a lot of cheap meat. Train the sharks to pull the boat out to 70 miles. Give the sharks 1/2 of the meat, when you get out there.
Bribe the sharks, with the other 1/2 of the meat, to pull you back to shore.

[FirstLight]

39. I wish we still had DUzy's !!!

Of course with Donnie, they'd never get the second half, if we're lucky, they'd eat him!

[chouchou]

49. Or, knowing Donnie, he'd eat the other 1/2 the meat and strand everybody out there. :)

[FirstLight]

52. ...

[Hekate]

20. Lunatic

[Uncle Joe]

21. It sounds like *rump has realized that he's the Marlin

in the "Old Man and the Sea" with the sharks coming after his ass.

He's speaking code to his upper echelon Republican supporters not to abandon him; aka "rats abandoning a sinking ship."

In short, *rump is a fearful, wounded animal.

That's my two cents of analysis anyway.

Thanks for the thread EarlG.

[Qutzupalotl]

22. Whenever I get my leg bitten off by a shark,

my first instinct is always to ask, “Do you know who I AM?!”

[speak easy]

79. And the shark says to Trump

' Im sorry Sir; My mistake, I'm a man eating shark.

[SpankMe]

23. C'mon heart disease!

You have less than 5 months to do your magic.

[GopherGal]

68. I guess that's our best hope,

since the time-traveling vigilante assassins seem to be off in another timeline pursuing baby Hitler.
Or maybe Roy Cohn if they're trying to get a timeline two-fer.

[niyad]

88. We do not need heart disease. We need a terminal cardiac event. NOW!!!

[FakeNoose]

95. A stroke would do nicely also

[niyad]

97. Yes, that also. Either, or. . anything that would get him GONE!!!

[Kid Berwyn]

24. Shark Shock!

It's like the 3-Body Problem when one of the bodies has no brain and not much else, apart from lard.

[underpants]

31. Would the shark not be electrocuted too?

Are they immune from electricity?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

43. Nobody has ever asked that question before!!!!

[Think. Again.]

55. Sir, it's such an incredible question, sir!

[Kid Berwyn]

59. They feed off electricity.

You know, someone has asked that question...



In a macho mako kind of way.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Geomagnetic-Orientation-in-Sharks-Diagram-of-the-induced-electric-current-in-the-head_fig8_254707733

[ECL213]

60. No.

See Jaws 2 for reference.

[underpants]

73. I saw someone post that earlier

I’d forgotten about that movie. It was bad but not as bad as Jaws 3 in 3D.

[ECL213]

75. darn, late to the game again...

Yeah, 3 was horrible. I think the shark was trying to get revenge on Brody's son at a Marine Park or some such nonsense. I only saw it once in the theater as a kid.

[Hiawatha Pete]

26. Kick & Rec

[littlemissmartypants]

28. Brings new meaning to the words...

Jumped the shark.

[Tactical Peek]

104. "Sir, you have jumped me."

[Ray Bruns]

29. Did the sharks have freaking laser beams attached to their heads?

https://m.

[underpants]

30. Did he ask this mythical person TWO questions he'd never been asked before?

Or is the part in the middle him totally blanking out?


So I said, 'Let me ask you a question.'
And he said, 'Nobody ever asked this question.' And it must because of MIT, my relationship to MIT. Very smart.

Later

And 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.'

[niyad]

32. My head hurts.

[Ford_Prefect]

34. Adjusting his meds is not going to fix this. Several qualified observers have said he's going over the edge as we watch

Seriously, someone is going to demand that he be evaluated for competency to stand trial, never mind be candidate. Can you imagine the blowback and hoop-la among the faithful and the yet to be indicted when a judge requires such an evaluation?

His family members ought to be doing this but I don't see how any of them are able, functional themselves, or interested in confronting him. That leaves the coterie of fanatics, manipulators, "lawyers", and hangers-on who orbit the Orange Menace.

Meanwhile the entire RW Co-ordinated Campaign is rushing down the Autocracy Road as fast as they can, taking the true believers, the GOP national, state and local campaigns, and the MSM with them.

IMO it will take another major medical issue to intervene in this. He's already showing serious signs of serious fatigue and long term stress. No one knows what his real health is, although many have speculated. Which kind of makes who he picks for Vice another issue altogether.

[Woodwizard]

54. Read transcrips of him while in office.

They are just as unintelligible, he just cant make a cohesive sentence nothing new. His fans just come for the show and griping they are not listening in depth.

[Ford_Prefect]

71. His current condition is much worse. This is far beyond where he was while in office.

It is anything but gradual at this point.

I was a caregiver for my Mother and my Mother-in-Law who both went this way. He's sliding into a serious decline of function, not merely the word-salad shit he pushed out 4 years ago. For anyone who's cared for someone going through this kind of cognitive decline the evidence practically screams at you.

The only reason he's not in care right now is that the people propping him up can't say NO to him. They have too much invested in him being a radical chaos agent to recognize how dangerous this is for him, and everyone else.

As horrible a creature as he is, he is also genuinely leaving this world, and heading farther out of orbit.

[Woodwizard]

76. From your lips to Gods ears!

[captain queeg]

101. I remember years ago I read a transcript of an interview he'd done

The point of the article that posted the full interview was that the media always cherry picks a few sentences and reports something that kind of sorta made sense. But if you read the entire interview it was gibberish.

[FirstLight]

37. We need a meme to go viral about man v. bear and electrocution v shark!

I'll take electrocution for $500, Bob!

Geez, as Bugs Bunny said... "What a Maroon!"

[Upthevibe]

40. Good Lord......

[niyad]

42. Quite apart from the insanity of the battery vs shark nonsense, how bloody

likely is it that a company sells HUNDREDS of these expensive boats every couple of months?

[Justice matters.]

51. Convicted felon 34&52-to-go short-circuited brain made it all up...

And his (let's hope "only" about sixty million voters this time) believe he's a know-all genius, includint greedy MSM.

[heckles65]

44. This boat builder...

does he have a name??

[Think. Again.]

57. John Barron.

[NoMoreRepugs]

45. Imagine how stupid one has to be if that sounds presidential?

[mountain grammy]

48. Madman

[brush]

58. More moronic crap. A boat being too heavy that it sinks? WTF?

Aircraft carriers are way heavier than any boat and they float just fine.

This MFer was once president and is that ignorant.

[smb]

100. The Boat Wouldn't Have That Problem If It Wasn't Loaded Down With Trump's Fat Ass nt

[colorado_ufo]

64. I seem to remember Stormy Daniels saying that she spent time watching television with him during "Shark Week."

He was fascinated by them, and seemed a little frightened.

Dogs and sharks.

[CrispyQ]

65. Damn. I hadn't seen any of that before the MIT reference.

If he's a babbling idiot now what will he be in another 4.5 months?

[regnaD kciN]

69. Can't you see them circlin', Donnie...?

…Can’t you see them swimmin’ around?
You got fins to the left, fins to the right,
And you’re the bigly felon in town.

[JoseBalow]

70. Sharks, wow. Jump in the water, me'boys.

[ffr]

72. I'm beginning to love TSF. He needs to keep this up.

To show the QOP what pathetic fucking losers they are for going down, trailer hitch and all, to the bottom of the ocean.

Let this mark the end of the republican cabal and the end to minority rule!

Americans just need to come out in November to make it official.

[maxsolomon]

74. He never went to a boat manufacturer.

He's a lying huckster but that's what his marks want to hear.

[muriel_volestrangler]

78. This is far worse than the "choose your death: shark or battery" crap

I mean, that was profoundly stupid, but everyone can see it's meaningless nonsense - someone who likes the sound of his own voice and thinks others do too (sadly true with the crowd he gets). But this "go out 70 miles and you go at 2 knots" bullshit? He was trying to get people to believe that.

"I said 'how long does it take?'" Well, durrr, it would take 35 hours to get out there, if they're nautical miles, and if it were remotely true. "Many". For fuck's sake, this is Baldrick-level stuff:

But that shows what the "relationship to MIT" is worth. Fuck all. Just like his relationship to the truth is fuck all.

[ShazzieB]

80. I was wondering wtf this meant...

...they use the mercury engines and different engines in the back...

I read that, and thought what the hell is a mercury engine? With, Trump, you never know, but I thought he might be talking about some kind of imaginary technology that he had pulled out of the murky recesses of his posterior. So I decided to Google before commenting, and I found out that Mercury is actually the name of a company that makes outboard motors for boats: https://www.mercurymarine.com/us/en

It's just a small thing, but it cracks me up. It's like every random word or snippet of info that he hears gets churned up and becomes an ingredient in the word salad that comes tumbling out of his mouth.

[onethatcares]

81. and one day me boys

the sharks are gonna be driving trucks up hill. don't ever let sharks drive up hill me boys.

Ya know that if your uncle said something like that at the table you'd be calling the guys in the white coats.

Just to show I care I wrote pRicksnott an email and asked him how he felt about electric boats and sharks...I'm still waiting for an answer

Afterall,,, the v p has to be on the same page

[oldsoftie]

83. So has anyone verified that he actually spoke to anyone at a "boat company"?

I get tired of hearing these stories and no one seems to follow up to FIND the people.

[littlemissmartypants]

108. He's a pathologically compulsive liar. Trying to verify anything he says is a wild goose chase

At worst and a colossal waste of time at best. I think that's why many in the media don't even bother trying to fact check him.

It's exhausting just watching him much less trying to listen to him and try to make sense of it all.

I've heard his type of language behavior described as "full of form but void of content."

[oldsoftie]

111. But lies like this SHOULD be exposed. He cant go anywhere secretly.

He has secret service protection & an entourage. When was he last in SC? It should be easy. leaving it alone makes people think it happened. He needs to be exposed EVERY time.

[Owens]

84. He's terrifed of the ocean

Why would he go to a boat manufacturer/seller if he fears boats and the ocean? This story he tells is BS. Surprised he didn't say the guy had tears in his eyes......

[Johonny]

89. Wait until he finds out boats can use wind power

[AdamGG]

105. Yeah, but worse than sharks or electrocution is

wind cancer.

[YoshidaYui]

90. feckin insane

totally absolutely insane.

[VGNonly]

96. But yachts can run on

horse pills, windex and UV light!!!

[EarthFirst]

98. ...and there are folks who believe he's the smartest man in the room.

Including himself.

FFS.

[PurgedVoter]

102. Look up "Electric Boat Motor" on Amazon

Seriously, if you fish, the odds are good you are familiar with the boat motors that can let you tool around on a lake for hours powered by a charged up car battery. At full speed you can empty a good battery in a couple of hours, but if you use more controlled speeds, you can pretty much use it to drive a small boat around all day.

For that matter you can google solar powered yachts and get some pretty cool results. If I had the money and if my wife hadn't seen any of the North Sea fishing videos, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ybvVgAAfFUQ I would love to live on one of these. https://silent-yachts.com/

[Blue Owl]

103. Tell us more, sir! Tell us more!!!

[Skittles]

106. I can't even

[littlemissmartypants]

109. Thanks for this, EarlG. Can we please bring back the DUzys?

It would be fun if they had their own place where they could be regularly collected and celebrated.

Pretty please with a cherry on top?

[JoseBalow]

110. AI is fun!

"Donald Trump being attacked by sharks while getting an electric shock"

[panfluteman]

112. This Crazy Story, and Trump's Rants about the Windmills, Are All Designed to Do One Thing:

Attack clean, renewable energy and keep the fossil fuel companies / polluters / climate wreckers in power.

[DownriverDem]

114. I call them

luddites. They are like the folks who didn't want cars and wanted to keep their horses.