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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 162 points 2 weeks ago

The stupid part is not that he said this

The stupid part is that a good percentage of a large powerful country like the United States allows and accepts a political leader like this to speak for them.

Turnip isn't the idiot

Everyone else is for listening to him and keeping him in a position of power

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Except the majority doesn't want this moron. Yes, though, I do agree with your sentiment generally

[-] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

The fact that anything more than a vanishingly-small minority wants him is an absolute catastrophe and an incredibly damning indictment of American society in and of itself. Trump's nonsensical babbling is literally beyond "schizophrenic homeless dude on the street corner with a 'the end is nigh' sign"-level gibberish.

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[-] Geobloke@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago

Buckle up, here in Australia, every couple of years a political party has the bright idea of damming water in Australia's tropical north and pumping it across 1000km of desert to Australia's farmland regions

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[-] rabber@lemmy.ca 80 points 2 weeks ago

For someone in BC, hearing America talk about our water like this is kind of terrifying

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 67 points 2 weeks ago

trump isn’t America. He doesn’t speak for most of us.

[-] crab@lemm.ee 87 points 2 weeks ago

That will be believable if he doesn't win. The fact that it's cloee is absolutely nuts to an outsider.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago

It’s only close because of our broken electoral process that gives land more influence than citizens. He didn’t even win the popular vote for his first term.

[-] elbucho@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure how that's supposed to ease the anxiety of Canadians.

[-] UristMcHolland@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe they should build a wall to keep the Americans out

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[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

The fact that it's close shows that there is a problem with our voting populace.

Rarely do more than 40% of eligible voters turn out for an election. On top of that, the Electoral College - our representative voting body - can cause the popular vote to be overturned in favor of the representative vote - Al Gore in 2000, Trump in 2016 are examples. Relative to this, in order to win, Democrats have to be polling at 6 to 9% above the Republicans to be a real contender.

The day a Republican loses via Electoral College but wins the popular vote is the day this will change. Frankly, though, it's almost impossible for that to happen due to the way the EC distributes votes to the less populated states.

Fuck our rigged system and fuck this orange baboon.

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[-] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Close in swing states. Just means our election system is broken.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 12 points 2 weeks ago

They wouldn't be swing states if everyone could/did vote. Look at the typical voting percentage, it's very sad.

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[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yep. Never once has Trump exceeded >=50% of votes or even approval rating.

Don't you just love our slave era Electoral College...?

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks ago

He still got 63 million votes in 2016 (46.1%) and 74 million in 2020 (46.8%). More people voted for trump even after that disaster of a presidency.

Even though he never got over 50%, 74 million is still way too much for anyone to be comfortable with. It clearly indicates that something is wrong with many Americans.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

It clearly indicates that something is wrong with many Americans.

Sadly I think it indicates systemic failures and Americans are the effect and much less the cause.

What I mean is that a combination of:

  • Electoral college & Money in Politics
  • Diminishing education standards (e.g., critical-thinking skills, civics, US History)
  • "News" media-entertainment that legally spreads disinformation (combined with foreign operatives).

... All culminates in a society that is very easily duped. I talk to Trump supporters all the time and while sure many are simply greedy psychopaths... Many are also just "nice, but kinda dumb" in that they have no capacity to parse fact from fiction and so are easily-grifted targets for lies and choir-preaching (sometimes quite literally from Sunday church).

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[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 75 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This dipshit is the most accurate representative conservatives could come up with. He's been re-affirmed as their most accurate representative time and time again over the last decade.

This moron is who conservatives are, and they are proud of it. Remember this when you talk to conservatives in your daily life. They are as profoundly unintelligent as they are evil.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 weeks ago

Conservatives like him because he's racist.

That's it. It doesn't matter.to them if he doesn't know how rain works. They don't care if he couldn't tell you how hurricanes travel.

All they care about is that he hates immigrants.

That's it.

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[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 weeks ago

I'm starting to think this Trump guy isn't very intelligent.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine the intelligence of the people who believe in him. Then realize that's a large portion of the voting population.

Last step: cry.

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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago

That he even has a good chance in hell of winning shows how far gone this country is.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago

He is damn lucky he's rich, because a poor person this stupid would have been dead a long time ago.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

The depths of his stupidity and the continual display of his complete lack of knowledge or curiosity about how anything works or ever could work makes me so irritated with his immovable, enabling moronic "base".

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 weeks ago

We really need to mark if Trump memes are real or made up. I hadn't heard that he said this, but I can totally believe it. I just don't have time to fact check every meme to know if I should be laughing or terrified that there's a potential or former leader who believes stuff like this.

Granted, both options are valid with Trump.

[-] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

Here you go. Skip to roughly 1:30 mark for this quote.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, he's making a metaphor.

OK it takes a day to open the dams and for water to travel.

Wait, the faucet is as big as that wall? He's talking about an actual faucet.

I'm out.

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[-] Gork@lemm.ee 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So you're telling me:

There's a giant pipe that runs all the way from Canada to Los Angeles, with a massive valve that takes a day to turn. Its current configuration is set to dump all of that water into the Pacific. To solve the water crisis we merely need to spend a day to turn this massive valve, the size of that building behind you, the other way so that the water goes to Los Angeles instead?

Truly very stable genius stuff here.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hes talking about the mile wide Columbia river, which meanders through Canada, Washington and Northern Oregon. It's basically on the border of Washington and Oregon. At no point does it even get close to touching California, much less LA, which is in southern California.

To do this would be one the most gigantic and intense infrastructure projects our country has ever undertaken, which would take decade's at an unimaginable cost. Not to mention the drastic shift in the ecosystem of 3 states as that river is "drained" south instead of to the ocean.

He lists this as "a big valve you just turn." Absolute moron.

[-] 24_at_the_withers@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

He's got to be the most extreme example of Dunning-Kruger effect out there.

Thinks he's a certified genius, meanwhile all his handlers have to break down concepts for him in such simplistic terms, he ends up literally thinking injecting bleach or putting powerful UV light inside the body are the solutions to COVID, or raking a forest is an actual solution to preventing widespread wildfires.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

He lists this as “a big valve you just turn.”

Even stupider than that he calls it a fucking faucet. Facepalm

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

“And Canada will pay for it!”

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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

spoken by an essentially very large sewer

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

whenever he talks nonsense like this I think it's because someone on his staff tried to explain something as they would to a toddler and he was barely listening so he repeats 5% of the words that grabbed his attention and mad libs the rest.

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[-] Soup@lemmy.cafe 22 points 2 weeks ago

He’s a child playing pretend. Take this quote and imagine it’s from a 10 year old kid that then goes on to explain how their favorite superhero can breathe in space.

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[-] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 weeks ago

So I guess he saw a picture of the decoration in the Laurentians and thought it was an actual one?

[-] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 18 points 2 weeks ago

How is he so fucking stupid?!

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 17 points 2 weeks ago

Is it just me being bad in English or did you other also weren't able to understand what the fuck he tried to say there?

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

See? Even this cow has a better grasp of the English language than trump. "Cows_are_underrated" don't think I didn't see through your pro-bovine propaganda.

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder if he's thinking about that diversion in Chicago that connects the great lakes to the Mississippi and thinks all rivers work that way.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Most of Trump's brain is a neuron firing based on a thing he saw long ago that might be related to the topic in some way. The rest of the conversation is backfill to connect those dots to whatever the main topic is.

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[-] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

I honestly can't tell when things like this are actual quotes from him or just people making fun of him. It's absurd that he has so much power.

[-] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

It's an actual quote. The portion used here starts at about the 1:30 mark.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 12 points 2 weeks ago

The Faucet.

Coming Fall 2026.

Directed by Roland Emmerich.

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[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 weeks ago

The water will go, bing bing! bong bong bong! bing bing! down to Los Angeles.

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[-] StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know how people can hear him say shit like this and respect his opinion on anything

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[-] nifty@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Seems like all the competent people went to finance and justifying war think tanks, and we are left with these type of clowns for politics

[-] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure if I'd prefer the clowns or the intelligent warmongers.

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