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jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 12, 2024 8:16 pm This is brutal. It’s a 1.5/4 star guided tour of the wormholes in his brain.

When the conversation finally got underway, Trump commented that Harris looked “beautiful” on the new cover of Time magazine.”She looks like the most beautiful actress ever to live,” the Republican told Musk.

“It was a drawing, and actually, she looked very much like a great first lady, Melania.

“She didn’t look like Kamala but, of course, she’s a beautiful woman, so we’ll leave it at that.”

For reasons that haven’t been explained, Trump spent most of the conversation talking with a noticeable lisp, even slurring his speech at times.

It was not the first time Trump exhibited difficulties with his speech. There were numerous supercuts of verbal miscues and slurred words compiled by late-night comedians during his time in the White House, but this was no transitory episode.

He spent the entire conversation with Musk speaking in a voice that sounded like Sylvester, the lisping cartoon cat of Looney Tunes fame.

The Independent texted his campaign’s press secretary to ask if he had recent dental work that would explain the lisp - no reply was recieved.

So when the morning shows kick off tomorrow, they won’t be talking about anything but Trump’s inability to pronounce his “s” sounds.

He wanted a reset, but didn’t get one.

The great genius of our time said during yesterday’s Trump call that he did not think the devastating nuclear bombing of Japan that brought the Second World War to a close was all that bad, telling the presidential candidate that both Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now “full cities again” and so the strikes were “not as scary as people think”.

“That’s great. That’s great,” Trump replied.

This was what Trump had to offer on the subject of climate change, incidentally: “The biggest threat is not global warming, where the ocean is going to rise one-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years.

“The biggest threat is nuclear warming.”

There was a great deal of mutual back-slapping on the call, with Elon telling Don at one point: “I think we’re at a fork in the road of destiny, of civilization, and I think we need to take the right path, and I think you’re the right path.”

In return, Trump praised Musk for his ability to fire people, one of the few things, beyond golf and KFC, that he appears to truly appreciate in life.

He commented, "You're the greatest cutter. I mean, I look at what you do. You walk in, you just say: 'You want to quit?' They go on strike - I won't mention the name of the company - but they go on strike. And
you say: 'That's okay, you're all gone.'"

Donald Trump heaped praise on the controversial leaders of Russia, China and North Korea calling them “top of their game” in his rambling interview with Elon Musk.

“Putin, Xi, Kim Jong-un are at the top of their game,” he said.

The former president claimed the dictators have a “different form of love” for their nations before regaling a wild apparent conversation he claims he once had with Putin.

“I got along with Putin very well, and he respected me. We would talk about Ukraine. It was the apple of his eye. But I told him don’t do it,” he claimed.

“I said to Vladimir Putin, ‘Don’t do it. You can’t do it, Vladimir. If you do it, it’s going to be a bad day. You cannot do it.’ And I told him what I’d do. And he said, ‘No way,’ and I said, ‘Way,’” Trump said.

KUTradition wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 8:55 am that time cover looks nothing like melania

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld was tuning in to the conversation and found it all very much to his liking, unsurprisingly.

“[T]he bigger story is that two of the most important world figures agree on the world,” he wrote on social media. “Whats that tell you? The most consequential technical genius perhaps ever and the most consequential political figure are talking about stuff on equal footing, and Trump knows everything Musk is talking about concerning energy, artificial intelligence and economic development.” Other politicians, he said, would “need a staff of ten doing packets of research for each topic.”

Which is right, since those politicians would seek both to be accurate and consistent. Trump doesn’t worry about that. His habit of agreeing with whoever is talking was very much on display during the conversation, meaning that, for example, he agreed with Musk that it would be great to have high-speed trains. Except that, as president, he spiked California’s effort to do just that. It wasn’t that he and Musk had similar, robust worldviews. It was that each simply agreed to agree. That was the point of the conversation.

“We can talk about tunnels and rockets and, electric cars. So many things. And now you’re into the AI, and that’s going to be another beauty out there,” Trump said at one point, sitting at a conference table underneath a portrait of himself at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. “So it’s — it’s an amazing thing you’ve done, Elon. It’s an amazing thing. And I congratulate you.”
All without a briefing book!

Over the course of the conversation, there were countless misrepresentations and dishonesties, the background noise of the Trumpian rhetorical space. But this — and the sort of hagiographic self-policing engaged in by people like Gutfeld — is why Trump both has a consistent base of support and why it never seems to get any bigger. There are rules and boundaries to the way in which the right approaches the world, and apostates rarely work their way inside that bubble. This is why the “weird” disparagement has gotten traction: To those outside the bubble, the verbiage and focal points and self-aggrandizement and victimhood are hard to understand.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 10:35 am Harris' proposal has an income cap to prevent abuses like this.

japhy wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 10:16 am What are trumpty dumpty's opinions on a topic? What direction is the wind of money blowing today?

trumpty loves electric cars and high speed trains, today.

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld was tuning in to the conversation and found it all very much to his liking, unsurprisingly.

“[T]he bigger story is that two of the most important world figures agree on the world,” he wrote on social media. “Whats that tell you? The most consequential technical genius perhaps ever and the most consequential political figure are talking about stuff on equal footing, and Trump knows everything Musk is talking about concerning energy, artificial intelligence and economic development.” Other politicians, he said, would “need a staff of ten doing packets of research for each topic.”

Which is right, since those politicians would seek both to be accurate and consistent. Trump doesn’t worry about that. His habit of agreeing with whoever is talking was very much on display during the conversation, meaning that, for example, he agreed with Musk that it would be great to have high-speed trains. Except that, as president, he spiked California’s effort to do just that. It wasn’t that he and Musk had similar, robust worldviews. It was that each simply agreed to agree. That was the point of the conversation.

“We can talk about tunnels and rockets and, electric cars. So many things. And now you’re into the AI, and that’s going to be another beauty out there,” Trump said at one point, sitting at a conference table underneath a portrait of himself at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. “So it’s — it’s an amazing thing you’ve done, Elon. It’s an amazing thing. And I congratulate you.”
All without a briefing book!

Over the course of the conversation, there were countless misrepresentations and dishonesties, the background noise of the Trumpian rhetorical space. But this — and the sort of hagiographic self-policing engaged in by people like Gutfeld — is why Trump both has a consistent base of support and why it never seems to get any bigger. There are rules and boundaries to the way in which the right approaches the world, and apostates rarely work their way inside that bubble. This is why the “weird” disparagement has gotten traction: To those outside the bubble, the verbiage and focal points and self-aggrandizement and victimhood are hard to understand.

One thing is for sure, I could use a tax cut. Cutting corporate taxes again would be a great sendoff to retirement for me. Or maybe we could start considering dividends as "tips" and eliminate taxes entirely on them. After all the corporation already paid taxes on the profits, why am I taxed a second time on the dividends that I get? NOT FAIR!

twocoach wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 3:01 pm

japhy wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2024 10:16 am What are trumpty dumpty's opinions on a topic? What direction is the wind of money blowing today?

trumpty loves electric cars and high speed trains, today.

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld was tuning in to the conversation and found it all very much to his liking, unsurprisingly.

“[T]he bigger story is that two of the most important world figures agree on the world,” he wrote on social media. “Whats that tell you? The most consequential technical genius perhaps ever and the most consequential political figure are talking about stuff on equal footing, and Trump knows everything Musk is talking about concerning energy, artificial intelligence and economic development.” Other politicians, he said, would “need a staff of ten doing packets of research for each topic.”

Which is right, since those politicians would seek both to be accurate and consistent. Trump doesn’t worry about that. His habit of agreeing with whoever is talking was very much on display during the conversation, meaning that, for example, he agreed with Musk that it would be great to have high-speed trains. Except that, as president, he spiked California’s effort to do just that. It wasn’t that he and Musk had similar, robust worldviews. It was that each simply agreed to agree. That was the point of the conversation.

“We can talk about tunnels and rockets and, electric cars. So many things. And now you’re into the AI, and that’s going to be another beauty out there,” Trump said at one point, sitting at a conference table underneath a portrait of himself at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. “So it’s — it’s an amazing thing you’ve done, Elon. It’s an amazing thing. And I congratulate you.”
All without a briefing book!

Over the course of the conversation, there were countless misrepresentations and dishonesties, the background noise of the Trumpian rhetorical space. But this — and the sort of hagiographic self-policing engaged in by people like Gutfeld — is why Trump both has a consistent base of support and why it never seems to get any bigger. There are rules and boundaries to the way in which the right approaches the world, and apostates rarely work their way inside that bubble. This is why the “weird” disparagement has gotten traction: To those outside the bubble, the verbiage and focal points and self-aggrandizement and victimhood are hard to understand.

One thing is for sure, I could use a tax cut. Cutting corporate taxes again would be a great sendoff to retirement for me. Or maybe we could start considering dividends as "tips" and eliminate taxes entirely on them. After all the corporation already paid taxes on the profits, why am I taxed a second time on the dividends that I get? NOT FAIR!

Maybe I can sell my car for $1 and ask that they include a $9,999 tip for how well I clean the car.