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.
I was just pretending to be an idiot
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.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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.
I heard that particular copypasta was notoriously difficult for translators to translate into other languages due to how completely incoherent it was.
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.
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Only to the “facts should matter” crowd. Other audiences come up with their own interpretations, regardless. :-|
Yeah, but those others would believe him if he claimed that Biden was a platypus.
No they wouldn’t, which doesn’t matter bc they’d actually go along with it regardless, thus making no functional difference whatsoever.
They do what they are told, no matter how nonsensical it may seem, even to themselves.
A narcissist is never wrong. NEVER. Their fragile self-image can’t stand up to the reality of making mistakes like the rest of us.
Ah yes, the time-honored defense of “…it’s just a prank bro!”
and that he calls corn “non-liquid gold,”
Isn’t “non-liquid gold” just… gold?
