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Had to look it up. The full quote is great, even mentions his uncle at MIT.
Now they'll say all these stories are terrible. Well, these stories have, you know, you heard my story in the boat with the shark, right? I got killed on that. They thought I was rambling. I'm not rambling. We can't get the boat to float. The battery is so heavy. So then I start talking about asking questions. You know, I have an, I had an uncle who was a great professor at MIT for many years, long, I think the longest tenure ever. Very smart, had three different degrees and you know, so I have an aptitude for things. You know, there is such a thing as an aptitude. I said, well, what would happen if this boat is so heavy and started to sink and you're on the top of the boat. Do you get electrocuted or not? In other words, the boat is going down and you're on the top, will the electric currents flow through the water and wipe you out? And let's say there's a shark about 10 yards over there. Would I have to immediately abandon or could I ride the electric down and he said, sir, nobody's ever asked us that question. But sir, I don't know. I said, well, I want to know because I guarantee you one thing, I don't care what happens. I'm staying with the electric, I'm not getting over with it. So I tell that story. And the fake news they go, he told this crazy story with electric. It's actually not crazy. It's sort of a smart story, right? Sort of like, you know, it's like the snake, it's a smart when you, you figure what you're leaving in, right? You're bringing it in the, you know, the snake, right? The snake and the snake. I tell that and they do the same thing
Edit: I don’t even think this is the full quote, he wasn’t rambling though.
Edit 2: Grabbed it from here https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1804592040791122259
He thinks that because "batteries are heavy" that it's impossible to build an electric boat.
Is he not aware that aircraft carriers exist?
They make diesel electric subs that run on battery only when they are under water. Since like WW1
Yes, but diesel floats on water, so it lifts the battery. Checkmate, you peepeehead
Submarines famously sink. Double secret checkmate!!!
They also famously surface. Triple stamp checkmate!!!!
Allegedly. Have you ever seen one surface? It's probably invisible wires from heaven.
Bro, I've seen 'em do that 'N Sync! This I Promise You, there were No Strings Attached—just guys working all over the Briggs. I must have caught them Justin time, cuz they quickly started to dive again and I was all like, "Bye Bye Bye!"
Snake sharks even, absolutely brilliant
Since the fucking Boer War. It was old technology by the time WWI started.
It's a reference to a previous speech in which he attempted to create an imaginary dilemma of having to choose between being electrocuted or eaten by a shark. That's the "clever question", because the boat salesman had never heard anyone ask that question.
The boat salesman was probably just being polite, because it's a stupid question. It's not a dilemma or even a contradiction. He's just making a sort of false equivalence and hoping that people are afraid of sharks so he can sell them his opinion on electric boats. In the same speech he also spent considerable time talking about how people ought to be afraid of sharks.
The addition of a snake and the credibility of his late uncle is a wonderful development of the story. He's probably going to add more stuff to it until he touches some topic that people actually care about..
I really wish i could get away with this shit at my job. Like, "...and then my uncle, who was the victim of a radical abortion, someone once told me that, and the left has no idea, no idea, most people do..." and then my colleagues just applaud and I get a promotion.
There was something about his stories being completely made up every time he starts with someone calling him "sir".
I'm pretty sure aircraft carriers are nuclear powered.
They're pointing out that aircraft carriers are heavy as fuck and float just fine.
No electric, though. If it had electric, it would be too heavy. And if there was a shark 10 feet away? Not a chance.
You sound like a great MIT professor.
Fair enough.
I guess I assumed that people were thinking of electric-battery powered boats based on the discussion. But if its just a matter of weight, we all know that boats can be arbitrarily heavy and still float (as long as they are big enough to compensate for that weight).
... we all know that boats can be arbitrarily heavy and still float ...
I can point to one person who doesn't know.
How do you think nuclear power works?
You're completely right. But it is incredibly fucking hilarious to me that, out of context, your question to an assumed layperson is that they should know how nuclear power (a very complex subject that I (a power plant operator who worked at a nuclear power plant in various contracting capacities for about ten years) cannot fully explain) works.
Idk, it's like overhearing from a table over in a restaurant "how do you think brain surgery works?" How the fuck should anybody without intense familiarity with such a niche subject know that?
But yes, you are absolutely right. All you have to do is google "do nuclear subs have batteries" lmao. We all could have that level of knowledge with two seconds of "work".
Nice use of nested parentheses.
Maybe he should consider a career in lisp programming
Thanks. It was initially a series of commas, but I thought nested parentheses was significantly clearer, so I switched right before submitting lol.
golf clap
Worth noting that Nuke subs have batteries but Carriers do not use batteries for auxiliary power. They have 2 independent plants (Enterprise had more, but that's decommissioned now), and use diesel generators as a backup. That's not to say there's no batteries on a carrier, but not like a ship-wide battery system. But obviously that has nothing to do with "how heavy" batteries are, so I guess this is all beside the point.
No-no-no, this sucker’s electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 jigawatts of electricity I need.
ONE POINT TWENTY ONE JIGAWATTS??!!
What the heck is a jigawatt??
I'm fairly sure he doesn't know that in WWII, the US used some ships made of concrete.
he wasn’t rambling though
Good lord, what could he possibly sound like when he is rambling.
Lol
If there’s still ramblin’ in the rambler let him go!
-sorry, felt like quoting a band. Rip Jeff
You'll never tame him darling and you know!
I the Republicans said it best, "why would they run a candidate that is so very old and in clear cognitive decline‽”...
Is there a source for this? I tried to look it up but just kept getting links about him reading a poem called The Snake and using it to compare to immigrants or some shit. I'm guessing that poem is what he's talking about here? Was the quote you and the post gave from one of his stupid rallies in the past 48 hours?
Also, fucking ludicrous that his dipshit followers will simultaneously question the extremely credible Democrats' credentials' credibility and pine on and on about personal responsibility, all while their guy takes personal credit for his uncle's education and career as if his uncle's accomplishments have anything to do with Donald Trump, convicted criminal and fraudster. It's painfully obvious that it's intended as a dog whistle but is actually just a racist, eugenics-driven regular fucking whistle that everybody can hear, interrupting everything in every crowd, forcing everybody to say "what the fuck, why is that guy blowing that very obviously normal whistle and then getting butthurt when everybody looks and points and asks why he keeps on blowing that obviously normal whistle and disrupting everything around him with it? Did he think that it was for secret signaling like he's doing something covertly? Is he, in fact, a stupid person, blissfully unaware of how stupid he is, yet somehow getting away with convincing his stupid fans that he is smart, exclusively because of the confident fervor in which he is claiming that he is not a stupid person and is instead some sort of stable genius? Is the answer to that question 'yes'?" And the answer to that question is yes.
He would be hilarious if he hadn't somehow swindled like 80 million people into doing things that put all of us in danger.
- Just convincing them to wear ear bandages?
Fucking hilarious.
- Buy a specific brand of beer specifically to destroy it, illustrating that they don't actually know how boycotts work?
Pretty damn funny.
- Wear his ugly hats?
Kinda funny, except that all red hats are kinda ruined now, but funnier if you aren't a Caps fan who now laments the Rock The Red thing.
- Disregard masks during a deadly pandemic;
- incite xenophobic, racist violence;
- dismantle regulations that protect the planet and therefore all of humanity in exchange for money;
- storm the Capitol with the intent to murder democratically elected politicians and/or engage in a coup?
Markedly less funny and, dare I say, bad.
I got off track and perhaps foolishly have decided to not delete all of that. I could've instead used this time looking harder for a source, but then I wouldn't have made you push air out of your nose slightly more forcefully than you otherwise would have. And that's slightly more important to me than verifying that the stupid thing that the stupid man supposedly said was in fact what he stupidly said. But I still kinda wanna know where you got the longer quote from so I can still verify that he stupidly said that stupid thing stupidly like some sort of stupid.
Yeah I saw the snake poem stuff too. That isn’t it. I ended up finding it on the future presidents twitter
Thanks <3
It's almost exactly as I had imagined.
Fucking Christ, that might be the most incomprehensible thing I've ever read and then watched! It is marginally better than if I wrote a script that just grabbed random words out of the dictionary and place them together like it was a sentence. I'm talking something super basic like get a file that has every word, tell the script to import it as an array, and just start grabbing random words no other logic. He speaks like Lorem ipsum, but with English words.
bing ding ding ding boom psheen pfoom
~tfg explaining missile technology
I think I'm gonna have to meditate on this for a bit.
I tell that and they do the same thing.
He always brings up his uncle. He has some eugenics-based idea that because his uncle was really smart, he is really smart.
https://www.youtube.com/live/kOotP_Ys92k?si=Ddv-PhJhQGMJgVd2
3:17:29 if you want a YouTube link
That video is comedic gold.
I still think his babbling makes about as much sense as some kids I’ve met at preschool but in context this actually makes some semblance of sense. Am I safer with the boat or the shark?
I think, anyway… I’m deep into happy hour after a mentally taxing work day, on next to no sleep. So there’s that..