Insane Clown President

"gUys He's obViouSly reFeReNcing tHe iCp mEme, because we all know this dude is deep into Internet country¡"-someone's serious take on this when they're confronted with it.

I'd rather have violent j & shaggy 2 dope in the white house tbh

He'd be hated amongst the jugs. They don't play to that fiddle.

Muthafuckin miracles

Just being real for a second, I think those guys are decent folks and anti right wing lunacy.

Those headlines you're thinking of don't start "Trump, 79". They start, "President Donald John Trump, 79."

They started doing it this year to clickbait people into thinking he died

why they play with my feelings like that 😭

... they should instead all end with ", thank you for your attention to this matter."

We (meaning you, because I'm not american) will accept one of the two latter too.

Logic says, your country is full of idiots.

Yeah, we went through this already, George Bush the Second made you guys look very stupid

tbf, he really is the perfect representation of a large subsection of the US population, rich, middle/working class, poor....

he's dumb as shit and acquired everything because of his name (wasting most of that fortune/legacy to boot).

I agree. The middle of the bell curve is woefully inadequate. Those dingalings.

The country was founded by literal enslavers. It's always been dumb AF.

Exactly right....

You know those old cartoons that were totally not politically correct showing a bad stereotype of a Mexican, with a sombrero and a poncho, sleeping off a tequila bender under the shade of a cactus?

Well, the orange pedophile is EXACTLY the American version of that: confidently ignorant, morbidly obese, with undeserved resources, zero education, zero manners, zero culture.

We all know those stereotypes are supposed to be rude jokes barely based on any reality... I mean, there are cacti in Mexico and I am sure more than one Mexican has had a Tequila bender, but there is never the expectation you'll go to Mexico and actually see that.

And now, Muricans proved theirs not only exists, it is what they look up to apparently.

That is like France choosing this guy as their next President

It's as English as this is

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.

Good thing we fired all those scientists.

The thing with old people talking gibberish is that you never know if they are on drugs, or didn't have enough drugs.

It's called American

In 2020 I began my studies at Uni. Our music business lecturer always had nice ppts prepared for the class and most of the time he either had couple of fidget spinner memes or "fucking magnets, how do they work" memes. Brings back memories.

They just do.

Advisors are telling him how important rare earths are and their importance in magnets. Since China has curtailed (if not halted?) exports, the rest of the world's industries are in rather deep shit.

This is where all the mumble-fucking about magnets is coming from. Trump's trying to say they're not important, they suck, we don't need them, in order to head off supply issues. Same reason he was telling our Navy that we should replace the magnetic plane and ordnance lifters and go back to steam power. No shit.

He also seems to think America can spin up our own rare earth supply, but acknowledges he basically begging and threatening Xi in the meantime.

Anyway, today's rant finally tied it all together for me.

None of that is correct though.

Permanent magnets attract/repel because of aligned current loops in the material. It's an electrodynamic effect that's not related to Pauli Exclusion.

On the other hand… ”why do things fall down?” Now THERE’S a rabbit hole.

There’s a wonderful video fragment where a journalist asks Richard Feynman, the Great Explainer, why magnets attract or repel each other. It goes on a tangent about how a minimum baseline of knowledge is required for any answer to the question “why”, to basically end with “it’s electromagnetism”.

Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in.

Holy shit something just clicked for me!

"Ice is slippery, because water expands when it freezes" -->so when compressed it...

Granted it's not really something I thought of on that level being from the equator.

This video was the first thing that popped into my head after reading the headline. I wonder if he saw it once and just internalised "nobody understands it".

Yeah, that's the narcissistic personality disorder talking.

Imagine the disconnect between thinking he's the smartest person in the world and the cold, hard fact that just about everyone in the world knows a lot more than he does. Maybe that explains some of the endless rage. Well, that and being fat, ugly and having a small penis (none of which would be all that significant to a well-adjusted person).

Fucking magnets, how do they work? And I don't wanna talk to a scientist Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed.

I know what one is, but I don't know how they work.

I just watched the Magic School Bus (Rides Again) episode that explains magnets this past weekend.

Worth it, by the way. That series still has a way of making some things seems so simple.

i think having a juggalo president would be a step up from what we have now.

You fucking wish

Ah, a homestuck fan perhaps?

Maybe if you powdered the magnet first.

"And I don't wanna talk to a scientist. Motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed."

Im glad I wasn't the only one to be let down by the third word in that headline.

You forgot the pedophile part. It's now pretty much confirmed.

The only problem is that any answer can be followed up with “But why does x do/cause that?”, and any answer to that can in turn be followed by the same question.

People accept, the classical explanation, that mass attracts mass so gravity “makes sense”, but when it comes to magnets the explanation isn’t so natural-feeling so most want, or at least feel that there is, more of an explanation.

And when the only further explanation left is that it works that way because it does, people feel like the phenomena has gone unanswered.

I want to know what causes MAGAs, so that we can treat, or at least prevent them.

“President Xi was willing to do the railroad things—that’s magnets,” he said. “Now, nobody knows what a magnet is. If you don’t have a magnet, you don’t have a car. You don’t make a computer, you don’t make, er, televisions and radios and all the other things—you don’t make anything."

That's exactly what it is. Could've been stated a little more clearly but this is a completely coherent statement. The man does a dozen deplorable things a day, are we really that starved for headlines that this is what we're reporting on?

Almost convinced that his administration is paying for these articles so people will look at them and complaints about the Epstein files as equally valid.

Just commented, China's curtailing or completely blocking rare earth exports. Somebody told Trump how vital those minerals are to industry. Trump thinks American can spin our own rare earth mining (?) in 2-years, but acknowledges Xi is holding the cards so he's begging and threatening him over exports.

All Trump can really parse is, "Magnets vital, China screwing us." He's trying to spit out his understanding of the importance of magnets. Of course he's the smartest guy in the room, "Nobody knows what magnets are (how vital they are across industries)."

It's a dementia addled clusterfuck, but at least this time I can see where he's going and why. Also explains his otherwise nonsensical rant to the Navy on replacing aircraft and ordnance lifters with steam power. I was wrong on his reasoning, now I see it. But fuck me, no one should have to take weeks to decode his dementia.

The water and magnets comment was about electromagnets, too. He was completely wrong about the reliability of elevators on aircraft carriers, but he wasn't saying permanent magnets can't get wet.

they lie a thousand times a day and everyone believes them. We misquote one of them once and we're liars to never be trusted. Interesting how that works.

Trump,79, stood in front of servicepeople of the U.S. Navy and said, “You know, the new thing is magnets. So instead of using hydraulic that can be hit by lightning, and it’s fine. You take a little glass of water, you drop it on magnets. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”

It really does sound like he genuinely doesn't know what magnets are. What is water got to do with magnets?

He absolutely said nobody knows how magnets work. Sit down.

Did you just time travel here from 2016?

You presume to understand the speakers intention. The speaker is an illiterate trust fund baby child rapist. He literally does not know how magnets work and he believes he is the smartest person on the planet, therefore he thinks no one knows how they work. There is no depth to the logic.

The Commander in Chief is spewing senile word salad daily now, I think there is value in highlighting as much of it as possible. He is stupid people's idea of a smart person, and the more exposed he is as an actual idiot, the more people are exposed to his brain leaking out his ear, the more might have a chance of waking the fuck up.

I like him cause he says what he thinks

Except he directly said just that.

Generally I agree that often he'll make some flub and a bigger deal is made of it. Like with the 'Miracle Mile' vs. 'Maginficent Mile' thing, he said the wrong thing but that's the least of the problems with that story and a fairly mundane and understandable mistake to make.

This time the statement is exactly as said, though real world consequences for it are similarly low.

You're right! He said that the magnets are new thing and he personally doesn't know how they work. It's so much better, it almost makes perfect sense, very smart president, bigly smart.

The administration is exhausting us by giving us unimportant things to fight about, such as obvious hypocrisy. We get rabid and pour ourselves into making him look stupid and he doesn't care because it only cost him a few seconds of time, whereas his citizens spent millions of man-hours shouting at him. At the end of the day we're tired of fighting, and he's still writing executive orders to pillage our country. It's deliberate.

Every time you're tempted to say, "he's a hypocrite!" just scroll past it and save your energy for the fight that matters.

Dude, Trump quite literally described metal letters on the wall as "Entirely Bronze, carved, and entirely Brass" in the same fucking sentence.

No this is not just his weird way of talking, he's an addled old man that should have died 10 years ago.

I agree with your sentiment, but maybe we're way past people not believing that trump is a lunatic...