• Funderpants @lemmy.ca
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    Put together an English sentence…

    My God, these people really do have a pocket reality they exist in.

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    What a lazy critique. “Look how dumb she sounds”, meanwhile Harris sounds like an educated normal woman. Like what even is this?

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      Dog whistling. Its not about actually wanting the candidate who elocutes the most effectively, its about telling their core audience “yeah we don’t think black people are capable of intelligence either, just like you”

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        Like people saying they wished Obama was “more articulate” 15 years ago. It’s nothing but racist sog whistles

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            But he was/is very articulate?

            Don’t forget his presidency came off the back of W. We were all sick of hearing gibberish from the president of the united states. Everyone was happy to have an articulate man in charge

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    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 so 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, this is horrible.

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      But he said “an English sentence”…not 27 quasi-English sentences and trains of thought put through a Vitamix and a wood chipper…

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        He’s recently tried to respond to criticism that he sounds like a demented loon by garbling some nonsense about how he weaves 9 topics together perfectly and English professors with tears in their eyes say he’s the bestest boy ever.

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      How about

      “I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things.”

      –Dumpsterfire Jumbledbrain Trump

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    Yeah. Sentences like these from Donald:

    She destroyed the city of San Francisco, it’s — and I own a big building there — it’s no > — I shouldn’t talk about this but that’s OK I don’t give a damn because this is what > > > I’m doing. I should say it’s the finest city in the world — sell and get the hell out of >there, right? But I can’t do that. I don’t care, you know? I lost billions of dollars, >billions of dollars. You know, somebody said, ‘What do you think you lost?’ I said, >‘Probably two, three billion. That’s OK, I don’t care.’ They say, ‘You think you’d do it >again?’ And that’s the least of it. Nobody. They always say, I don’t know if you know. >Lincoln was horribly treated. Uh, Jefferson was pretty horribly. Andrew Jackson they >say was the worst of all, that he was treated worse than any other president. I said, >‘Do that study again, because I think there’s nobody close to Trump.’ I even got shot! >And who the hell knows where that came from, right?

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        Oh man was that a weird as fuck speech even for Trump.

        You take a look at bacon and some of these products. Some people don’t eat bacon anymore. And we are going to get the energy prices down. When we get energy down — you know, this was caused by their horrible energy — wind, they want wind all over the place. But when it doesn’t blow, we have a little problem.

        He said that a few days ago. Dementia.

        https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-flunks-econ-101-bizarre-120000696.html

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      She destroyed the city of San Francisco, it’s — and I own a big building there — it’s no
      — I shouldn’t talk about this but that’s OK I don’t give a damn because this is what
      I’m doing. I should say it’s the finest city in the world — sell and get the hell out of
      there, right? But I can’t do that. I don’t care, you know? I lost billions of dollars,
      billions of dollars. You know, somebody said, ‘What do you think you lost?’ I said,
      ‘Probably two, three billion. That’s OK, I don’t care.’ They say, ‘You think you’d do it
      again?’ And that’s the least of it. Nobody. They always say, I don’t know if you know.
      Lincoln was horribly treated. Uh, Jefferson was pretty horribly. Andrew Jackson they
      say was the worst of all, that he was treated worse than any other president. I said,
      ‘Do that study again, because I think there’s nobody close to Trump.’ I even got shot!
      And who the hell knows where that came from, right?

      FixedFormatted This For You!

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    “I am endorsing Trump because we both work for Putin along with Roger Stone, Elon Musk and Paul Manafort and we all are screwed from Kompromat if we don’t do exactly what he tells us to”

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      I doubt the Kompromat is even an active concern for Trump. He just likes dictators and wants to be one.

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        It’s a concern for sure. With the exception of Musk, they are all tied to nefarious dealings with Deutsche Bank and Trump has been over the barrel for decades.

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            Yes indeed. He is a proxy for the destruction of democracy.

            He also spent the Superbowl in Rupert Murdoch’s suite and the World Cup in a suite with Jared Kushner, the Saudis, Ken Griffin and other nefarious heels.

            He had meetings and emails with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell before his death and her incarceration and I believe someone has the goods on him and is pulling his strings— hence his bizarre political and behavioral shift.

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    …did this mother fucker just take a shot at her for AAVE?

    Does Kamala even primarily speak AAVE? She was raised by her mom from India, she’d have picked up Indian English to start wouldn’t she have?

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    We also need someone that isn’t yellow and spews garbage all the time, euh, “like Harris”.

    I see a future trend here.

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      Don’t be shocked by the tone of his voice. He would rather provoke and get his team smoked. This is his weapon of choice. It’s gone beyond being a man… He should have walked without rhythm. He’ll never learn.

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    That has to be sarcasm that the right is too dumb to recognize, right? Poe’s Law has become a tautology.

    “I’m fucking making fun of you.” would not be any clearer.

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    Yeah put the actual sound bite up and see if you can understand half the things RFK says. I just want him to rest his voice and go on a private sub to visit the Titanic

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    Prune face doesn’t perform that well behind a podium himself. Plus he sounds like he’s dying of thirst in the Sahara at all times.

    Does anyone know what the deal with that is btw? Does he have throat cancer or something?