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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 335 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

This is standard procedure for him. Something gives him an idea, he assumes that it is pure genius and he immediately runs with it without even thinking it through or at least educating himself on the subject first to see if it is actually a good idea or not.

This is him just moments before he famously suggested on a national press conference that shining UV light or injecting disinfectant into people's bodies could be a treatment to COVID:

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 120 points 1 day ago

Been commenting about this for YEARS! Could never find that part of the video and here you have a pic!

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it was just him, it wouldn't be that bad. Kinda like Bush Jr. The problem is that he surrounds himself with yes-men. I'm sure you've seen meetings with him and his orbit. He says something, stupid as hell, and his cult claps, stands, cheers and/or laughs like it's worthy of a Nobel. It's seriously deranged behavior. It's a cult. Except he's just grandpa sundowner everyone agrees with to get in his good graces, or a child spouting nonsense while the parents just go "that's nice dear" absent-mindedly. He's so easy to fluff.

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I feel we also devalue Bush jr. for the way he chose to speak to people. I feel you could call Bush a smart man, even politically savy, while still talking like a layman. However, Trump is genuinely dumb like his speech implies, and people just roll with it.

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is standard procedure for him. Something gives him an idea

so donvict watches public television. huh. the very same public television he wants to cut funding to...

and for entertainment purposes, not just to find 'biased' news reports to whine about in an overnight all-caps twitter tantrum.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He probably just didn't know how to change the channel back to Newsmax.

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[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He didn't announce it reopening, he said he wanted it to be reopened. Shit headline.

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[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 14 points 1 day ago

When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals

I don't know, SOAD radicalized me when I was a teenager and I would say that this is bullshit from a criminological point of view.

[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 135 points 1 day ago (5 children)

He wasn't watching PBS... so someone else told him to do it after watching it. Probably same person trying to find more reasons to defund PBS.

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 40 points 1 day ago

Ikr, him watching pbs would be a good onion though

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

See, I don't know. He's been posting about cutting funding, so I could see him turning it on expecting to see a bunch of queers making out with ostriches or whatever the fuck he thinks goes on at PBS but instead got an idea. Which is kind of sweet, if you think about it. That's so PBS, they can't help but educate even if the viewer is a fascist penis wrinkle.

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He really is a profoundly stupid man. Everyone who supports him should be ashamed of themselves.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

His supporters have been so crippled by centuries of inbreeding they see him as their genius messiah, literally.

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

Is he reopening Jurassic Park? 🤭

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Has he been there? Like it's fuckin old. And small. Like really small. I don't know if he can legally do that either. Since it's a state park.

[–] IMongoose@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Idk, it looked pretty big in the documentary The Rock. Maybe they still have some nerve gas there too.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well yes but it has a cool sounding name

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Simple solution.

Rename another prison alcatraz and tell Trump it's up and running.

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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Stop letting this man watch television.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Let him watch all the television he wants. Stop letting him interact with people and things.

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[–] LuckyPierre@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Aren't films like this always showing somewhere?

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Please get this man addicted to Star Trek: The Next Generation.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (5 children)

He would deport Geordi, Whorf and Data for not being white. And probably O'Brian for being Irish.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago

Ha ha irish being white! Whats next, italians? Ha ha ho ho

[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whorf

I think I think i read that fanfic back in the 90s.... co-starring Long-Luc Dickhard and Chestly Crushher?

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I propose a movie about dinosaurs released in San Diego.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or the movie about "the bus that couldn't stop"

[–] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago

The last thing that America needs is another jail. They have more jails and inmates than any other country on the planet. Also it would cost much more to refurbish Alcatraz than it would to build a new jail. The orange rapist is an idiot.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Sundowning…

The same PBS he wants to cut ahahaha

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Wasn't that place at least as famous for successful escapes as it was for being a tough and scary place of punishment? If you're whole bag is turning back the clock to a time you thought was tougher, more punitive and therefore somehow more effective at deterrence and your decisions are more cultural than rational; shouldn't you pick somewhere not famous specifically for failing at it's entire purpose of existence?

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