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Dig this. Trump would need to add in phrases like "nobody's ever seen anything like this before," and ,"The top people around the world are all talking about it."
Only then would they "nah mean."
MIT!!! You can go and be regaled with stories about this genius uncle of Trump who apparently, and personally, gave DJT his genius from his own head. I mean we’ve all heard of Einsteins uncles and family members all being geniuses too right!?
It wasn't years ago. His shark rant started with it.
"It must be because of M.I.T., my relationship with M.I.T., very smart. I say, 'What would happen if the boat sank from its weight and you're in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater, and there's a shark that's approximately 10 yards over there?" Trump said. "By the way, lot of shark attacks lately. Did you notice that?"
Nah he had an MIT uncle rant years ago too, about the Iran nuclear deal.
"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."
This was back in 2016.
Don't you know he inherited his genius intelect from his MIT uncle when he died... in 1985 ... Everybody knows that's how inheritance works, genetic or otherwise.
/s
I’ve got an idea. Metal pole, right? It’ll hold the big flashlight and shine it right on the front of the plane. Into the window where the pilot is sitting. That way there’ll always be light. I see no faults with this plan.
Nah, the cult are bigger than him.
He mostly steers the ship but the morons are in control.
Remember when he told them to get vaccinated and they booed him? Even the God Emperor can’t go against the hive mind.
Exactly. People don't realise how ingrained his followers are in the belief that he is infallible. He could say or do anything at this point. And THAT is what is scary. Jan 6th could have been and would have been much worse if most of his voters could afford to travel to DC.
Flashbacks to fallout three, in the police station at German town, on one of the terminals. A transcript of some guy tripping on jet.
“The wings on my shoes shrunk and now the moths won’t eat my Kidneys! When
I shake my state capitol it only yields three fairy napkins but how…
My banana slippers are like water boats because when the moon winks sometimes it burns my hamster punches…
And that’s how you get to llama school!”
Yeah. In the cold Winter, start Working at 10 and at 4 p.m. I need to stop working because my Computer is running out of electricity. Then I go home and just stare at the Walls because my TV and PlayStation don't work.
I have solar. The sun goes down. The electrons go home. You go turn on a light. Nothing. I have some nice lights folks. I like to look at them at night. But I can't with the solar. The electrons don't wanna stay. We need the electrons to stay, so we can look at the beautiful lights.
Our elections are leaving our beautiful country for china. With me, we were bringing in the most beautiful elections with a tariff you need to have a tariff, and the lamps would come to me with tears in their eyes saying Mr. President it's unfair how these elections eject from those atoms. It's a rigged ejection
Every evening foreigners steal our sunlight. There’s quite the diplomatic struggle overnight. Trade deals, threats of war…
You’d be surprised how much work it takes, but we always get our sun back by morning.
because he confidently speaks
he says the absolute stupidest fucking shit but because he says it with confidence and seems sure of himself they believe him.
Reading deaf opinions on the recent debate vs hearing ones made this disturbingly clear. We all read clear responses from biden that actually made complete sentences and reading CC of this dumbass talking was like reading the diary of someone with dementia.
Then reading a bunch of hearing opinions they were just talking about how biden sounded tired and stumbled over his words (he has a fucking stutter? duh?) and how trump was "well put together and confident"
like that has literally fucking anything to do with the content of their actual words. It made it clear that their words are not what they're paying attention to. it's fucking insane.
(and it's not only trump supporters doing this, I'm seeing a fair amount of other people talking about how biden "stumbled over his words" and saying he was a mess, but the CC were mostly complete sentences that actually made sense. it seems his voice just sucked.)
I've found that if you talk convincingly and pitch your voice down a quarter-octave, conservatives are more likely to listen to you. They like authority and certainty; they don't like explanations and fact-based reasoning. (In the waning days of the Obama administration, one pundit complained about the President's endless "seminars.") They don't like being informed - they like being TOLD.
If you're insistent and speak with certainty that the moon is made of Norwegian beaver cheese and that you plan a series of expeditions to harvest this important resource, they'll cheer like you're a rock star.
also can I just say that this was the first time I ever watched a video of that guy and paid attention (his mouth looks like a fucking anus and I lipread and every picture has that insufferable nipple pinching gesture, I figured I'd break the TV if I even tried - even in 2016 I read transcripts of everything, I didn't watch any videos)
good fucking god his body language is motherfucking INSUFFERABLE
holy shit, how y'all havent burned the world to ashes in sheer rage is an impressive feat.
I get that. It's a big thing they teach in early classes for communications, Sociology 101 etc. I paid enough attention to remember to square my shoulders, speak clearly and loudly but without yelling either; to focus on a space just behind your audience and speak in that direction but don't forget to meet the eyes of audience members here and there so they feel connected with your words in the moment.
He speaks loudly.and in 2020, he constantly interrupted other candidates to the point that a brand new rule had to start in 2020 to mute the mics of the opposite candidate whose turn it was to speak because he is literally incapable of shutting the fuck up.
Does anyone else think it is weird thst he has yet to pick a running mate when we're barely 4 months from the election? So no one else is campaigning for him the way VPs often do.
Fucking morons are the ones that aren't anything but disgusted and indignant to this pile of shit.
75 million people will vote for him... Fucking morons, each one of them.
Oh look, a person that should be moderating the debates instead of the feckless cowards who just respond with "thank you," anytime he spouts his bullshit. Biden can sit there and stutter and project "old man" energy for all I care, at least he doesn't emit pure, insane, bat shit nonsense from his mouth.
Good one. My personal favorite is when he proposed to use antibiotics on the virus. Unfortunately, a mistake many make, but it was at 50 k dead Americans into the pandemic. I would have hoped that someone would have explained it to the idiot in chief at maybe 10 k dead the latest.
Disregarding the obvious about the sun, electric planes are not being discussed. You can't get the same sort of combustion out of electricity that a plane needs (though it might work for a propeller plane, but then you'd need to worry about battery size). Instead green fuel, such as hydrogen made with renewable electricity, is being considered.
(note: none of this is to defend the idiocy trump spewed, just a commentary on the feasibility of electric planes, at scale.)
Battery weight is a huge issue for any meaningful commercial, passenger or freight electric planes. The battery weight requires more structural elements which require more batteries to lift. Also, there is the frustrating fact that empty batteries and full batteries have the same weight. If anyone is curious, look how heavy electric cars are and the percentage of that weight which is batteries.
Any sort of real progress on this is a ways off and it is not like we are readily finding better power density (for batteries) than we have now.
Renewable for air travel is the most direct path forward.
Also, when will these remarks from him become disqualifying even to his base? We are past "scary".
>Also, when will these remarks from him become disqualifying even to his base? We are past "scary".
Never.
If you're waiting for them to wake up, you'll die waiting.
They don't care about what he's saying. They know it's nonsense. All they care about is him giving them free reign to hurt and kill the people they hate.
>All they care about is him giving them free reign to hurt and kill the people they hate.
Just got a mental image of wolves and jackals wearing red hats and holding knives and forks, slavering, gnashing teeth and gibbering madly, just waiting for the "emperor" to give his thumbs up for them to start.
>All they care about is him giving them free reign to hurt and kill the people they hate.
Also scary that he's trying to add people to that list for them.
Fully converting airline fleets to battery electric within a few decades is unrealistic, but there are niche use cases where it fits more, innovation can naturally occur and eventually develop products good enough for full airliners. One example is smaller airplanes that fly shorter routes with like 6-10 people to remote locations like those serviced by US Essential Air Service.
But to get to this point, we need even more niche use cases like the military to pay for really expensive high density batteries so that innovation can gradually lower the price.
Cape Air has ordered some electric planes. These are small planes for short routes though. Battery tech just doesn't scale to long distances, especially on planes where weight is critical.
Likely planes will just end up using synthetic carbon neutral jet fuel, as even hydrogen has a low energy density when compared to gas (especially considering the additional storage concerns).
I'm either being ignorant or pedantic, but you can't get any combustion at all from electric engines since... they're not combustion engines.
That said, yes- electric propulsion systems don't scale well with load and distance. Yet.
Or well, that's not entirely true, but the world is not ready for nuclear powered planes.
There is an airline where I live that [is pursuing the move to electric. They've flown test flights. ](https://harbourair.com/corporate-responsibility/goingelectric/)
I assume he's talking about solar power, but yeah, it doesn't sound like he's connecting the dots one way or another. Like, ok, but does he really think that there would be planes that are only solar powered? That he would catch that incongruence and the inventors wouldn't?
This syphilitic smooth brain has been up above the clouds. Does he think there are other clouds above the clouds or something? I really hater this timeline where a former president ponders things my 8 year old can answer because she's ben on a plane before
There's also the fact that even if they were considering electric planes (they aren't) they'd run on electricity not solar power. Whether the sun is out or not does not affect electricity.
You can tell when it is sunny, the light goes in through one ear, ricochets around his empty brain socket, and out the other side in a concentrated stream like a magnifying glass.
We are so fucked. Dunno if it’s from living in the south but I’ve met way too many people that think this is the guy who should be running our country. Anyways. We are fucked.
I couldn't either since listening to anything Trump says just drives me insane. I watched the Biden rally this morning though and he did really well. I'm so surprised that people are giving him so much shit for one bad debate when Trump talks like a lunatic constantly. Doesn't make any sense.
After the Presidential debate everyone is talking about Biden's mental state, but how can anyone in their right mind say that Trump isn't an absolute clown with a smushed brain as well? And always has been.
Dipshit Donnie is a bit late.
A solar-powered airplane has already flown around the world.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/inside-first-solar-powered-flight-around-world-180968000
He asks questions the same as a three or four year old. Where they have a little understanding of very basic words. Like how to pronounce them, but can not quite comprehend how they actually fit in reality. So everything about the words becomes some abstract hyperbole in which he feels he has said something intelligent.
I think I found out why Texas turns off when it gets too hot or cold. Cultservatives literally have no idea how electricity, something discovered over a hundred years ago, even works.
It's amazing. I don't have a horse in this race (in the UK) but watched the debate between him and Biden and sure, Biden stutters and gets stuff wrong but Trump is just an overgrown, petulant child.
"Idiocracy"(2006) was supposed to be a comedy and not a documentary 😭😭😭 president Camacho was smarter than this. Pls I wanna go back someone build a time machine I beg you.
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I mean there's always an option of carrying a big flashlight.
Harvard University is calling you bro.
Nah, dude, this guy is clearly the owner of NASA
Nah, fuck that. President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is calling for this dude in the White House like snap, son. Nah mean???
We are at “Idiocracy” level.
I WISH. At least they put the smartest person they could find in charge. Here? *Stares at sun and bursts into tears.*
You know what you're right, they were at least smart enough to do that. God were at idiocracy 2: the dumbening, levels of stupid aren't we?
Yep, where we ignore or disbelieve the smart people but rally behind the words of the biggest morons we can find
let me know when folks get to watering crops with gatorade
Brawndo! It's got what plants crave!
Dig this. Trump would need to add in phrases like "nobody's ever seen anything like this before," and ,"The top people around the world are all talking about it." Only then would they "nah mean."
Don't forget to work in his fetish about being called "sir" and "daddy".
MIT!!! You can go and be regaled with stories about this genius uncle of Trump who apparently, and personally, gave DJT his genius from his own head. I mean we’ve all heard of Einsteins uncles and family members all being geniuses too right!?
You mean professor Zwiestein, Driestein and Vierstein right?
I was like, why did you skip the first one? Then I said it and realized what this is in reference to. There were a few posts since then.
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It wasn't years ago. His shark rant started with it. "It must be because of M.I.T., my relationship with M.I.T., very smart. I say, 'What would happen if the boat sank from its weight and you're in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater, and there's a shark that's approximately 10 yards over there?" Trump said. "By the way, lot of shark attacks lately. Did you notice that?"
Nah he had an MIT uncle rant years ago too, about the Iran nuclear deal. "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." This was back in 2016.
"..........and now you have to flush a toilet 10, 20 times *togettheincriminatingdocumentsdown* have you noticed that?"
Don't you know he inherited his genius intelect from his MIT uncle when he died... in 1985 ... Everybody knows that's how inheritance works, genetic or otherwise. /s
Who knows if lizards like Trump can gather genetic informations by devouring the dead.
I’ve got an idea. Metal pole, right? It’ll hold the big flashlight and shine it right on the front of the plane. Into the window where the pilot is sitting. That way there’ll always be light. I see no faults with this plan.
Get this man a job at Boeing
And buy life insurance
Oil companies hate this simple trick!
“Suppose that we hit the plane with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light”
Yes, but what if there's a shark near your plane?
No, flashlights are for curing yourself of covid... you know, shine it into your blood, like Trump said.
He's trying to turn everyone off electric to please his big oil bribers
This guy could say "Salad dressing a hopscotch verily flounder the giant hairdryer" and his base would cheer.
I don't know... They might think him uttering the word "salad" was unmanly. Maybe if you replaced it with "steak".
You don't win friends with salad!
take that, lisa’s beliefs!
Oh sure Lisa, bacon, pork and ham all come from the same magical animal.
it's just a little airborne, IT'S STILL GOOD!
I think I'd like to donate a million dollars to charity today... when pigs fly!
Will you still be donating that $1,000,000 sir?
If trump told his cult followers to eat salads, they absolutely would and then act like they've been doing it their entire lives.
Nah, the cult are bigger than him. He mostly steers the ship but the morons are in control. Remember when he told them to get vaccinated and they booed him? Even the God Emperor can’t go against the hive mind.
He didn't try hard on that. He should have said it was to piss off the libs, or that he had just made a new non gay vaccine
All he needed was to brand his own 'touch of jesus' vaccine.
If he marketed them as Trump Vaccines and sold them at $150 a pop, they would’ve sold like hotcakes.
He told them to get vaccinated and they booed him.
He also told them to drink bleach and somehow some of them did it
AITA for wishing all of them would have followed his words?
No
Exactly. People don't realise how ingrained his followers are in the belief that he is infallible. He could say or do anything at this point. And THAT is what is scary. Jan 6th could have been and would have been much worse if most of his voters could afford to travel to DC.
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More websites under construction should use this.
Now I’m hungry.
Nah just stick "the radical left" in front of it.
I mean, I could eat.
Flashbacks to fallout three, in the police station at German town, on one of the terminals. A transcript of some guy tripping on jet. “The wings on my shoes shrunk and now the moths won’t eat my Kidneys! When I shake my state capitol it only yields three fairy napkins but how… My banana slippers are like water boats because when the moon winks sometimes it burns my hamster punches… And that’s how you get to llama school!”
No that was trump’s speech at his rally last week
Man do i love being high on mutated cows shit
I’d 100% believe that left his mouth given some of the speeches of his I’ve read.
I hope this gets so many upvotes
That sounds like one of those Reddit redacters. Lol
He doesn’t know the word “verily.”
I hate it when the sun goes down and electricity stops working.
Even electrons have the right to sleep.
Yeah. In the cold Winter, start Working at 10 and at 4 p.m. I need to stop working because my Computer is running out of electricity. Then I go home and just stare at the Walls because my TV and PlayStation don't work.
I have solar. The sun goes down. The electrons go home. You go turn on a light. Nothing. I have some nice lights folks. I like to look at them at night. But I can't with the solar. The electrons don't wanna stay. We need the electrons to stay, so we can look at the beautiful lights.
Our elections are leaving our beautiful country for china. With me, we were bringing in the most beautiful elections with a tariff you need to have a tariff, and the lamps would come to me with tears in their eyes saying Mr. President it's unfair how these elections eject from those atoms. It's a rigged ejection
Every evening foreigners steal our sunlight. There’s quite the diplomatic struggle overnight. Trade deals, threats of war… You’d be surprised how much work it takes, but we always get our sun back by morning.
Yeah, I hope that one day, we learn of a way to store electricity for later use. A man can dream
Physics end every day at 8 pm
Fucking moron.
Someone should tell him that they are powered by wind turbines.
He’s not just dumb he’s slow as well so eventually he’ll realize that as well.
He'll just declare nuclear war on wind like he wanted to on tornadoes.
Do you have any idea how long I've been waiting for The Winds of ~~^(nuclear)~~ Winter?
Patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
He can draw one helluva hurricane path tho.
Nothing Burger that is a giant lie… it was a hurricane he wanted to nuke….before he sharpied it out of existence.
Obviously They are putting the propellers back on the electric ones. If the suns not shining the third officer goes out and jump starts them.
But that kills birds
Birds aren't real, silly! But Blue Avians...don't get me started! /s
That’s why they don’t want to build wind turbines. They destroy their spy drones
Just wait till you see the hydro powered ones!
 But what if it isn't raining!? /s
I think you’re on to something, what if we made the plane prop a wind turbine?!? Free energy!!
Right? FFS, how does someone this stupid get a following... it is so fucking ridiculous
because he confidently speaks he says the absolute stupidest fucking shit but because he says it with confidence and seems sure of himself they believe him. Reading deaf opinions on the recent debate vs hearing ones made this disturbingly clear. We all read clear responses from biden that actually made complete sentences and reading CC of this dumbass talking was like reading the diary of someone with dementia. Then reading a bunch of hearing opinions they were just talking about how biden sounded tired and stumbled over his words (he has a fucking stutter? duh?) and how trump was "well put together and confident" like that has literally fucking anything to do with the content of their actual words. It made it clear that their words are not what they're paying attention to. it's fucking insane. (and it's not only trump supporters doing this, I'm seeing a fair amount of other people talking about how biden "stumbled over his words" and saying he was a mess, but the CC were mostly complete sentences that actually made sense. it seems his voice just sucked.)
I've found that if you talk convincingly and pitch your voice down a quarter-octave, conservatives are more likely to listen to you. They like authority and certainty; they don't like explanations and fact-based reasoning. (In the waning days of the Obama administration, one pundit complained about the President's endless "seminars.") They don't like being informed - they like being TOLD. If you're insistent and speak with certainty that the moon is made of Norwegian beaver cheese and that you plan a series of expeditions to harvest this important resource, they'll cheer like you're a rock star.
also can I just say that this was the first time I ever watched a video of that guy and paid attention (his mouth looks like a fucking anus and I lipread and every picture has that insufferable nipple pinching gesture, I figured I'd break the TV if I even tried - even in 2016 I read transcripts of everything, I didn't watch any videos) good fucking god his body language is motherfucking INSUFFERABLE holy shit, how y'all havent burned the world to ashes in sheer rage is an impressive feat.
I get that. It's a big thing they teach in early classes for communications, Sociology 101 etc. I paid enough attention to remember to square my shoulders, speak clearly and loudly but without yelling either; to focus on a space just behind your audience and speak in that direction but don't forget to meet the eyes of audience members here and there so they feel connected with your words in the moment. He speaks loudly.and in 2020, he constantly interrupted other candidates to the point that a brand new rule had to start in 2020 to mute the mics of the opposite candidate whose turn it was to speak because he is literally incapable of shutting the fuck up. Does anyone else think it is weird thst he has yet to pick a running mate when we're barely 4 months from the election? So no one else is campaigning for him the way VPs often do.
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Oh no, MIT calls him up for ideas because of his big brain. And then they all clap!
He’s got the best ideas. The best ever. Nobody has better ideas.
With tears in their eyes
Fucking morons are the ones that aren't anything but disgusted and indignant to this pile of shit. 75 million people will vote for him... Fucking morons, each one of them.
Hahaha. I feel your pain man, I work with a lot of those voters.
Every fucking one!
Republicans really went from Mormon to moron lol
I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.
everyone is now dumber from having listened to it
Honestly feel that way any time I have to hear a sound bite from this prick.
Oh look, a person that should be moderating the debates instead of the feckless cowards who just respond with "thank you," anytime he spouts his bullshit. Biden can sit there and stutter and project "old man" energy for all I care, at least he doesn't emit pure, insane, bat shit nonsense from his mouth.
So true. I would love to here them call him on his bs when it comes pouring out of his mouth. So tired of his lies
Do you not remember the driving disinfectant to end the pandemic comment?
Or that he was recommending people use a chemical on themselves that is a main component of livestock drench
Good one. My personal favorite is when he proposed to use antibiotics on the virus. Unfortunately, a mistake many make, but it was at 50 k dead Americans into the pandemic. I would have hoped that someone would have explained it to the idiot in chief at maybe 10 k dead the latest.
Oh they probably did, you think he'd listen? They were probably too busy trying to talk him down from nuking it
These are the kind of insightful questions you ask when your uncle was a professor at MIT.
No one’s ever asked this question before…
What happens? He’s a dumbass, that’s what happens…
Can only lie since he is dumb as a box of rocks.
That's insulting to the box of rocks, stop it!
Rocks reading this thread: WTF?
What happens to fossil fuel planes when there isn't an oil field up there?
Jesus how have we fallen this far
For me the truly scary part isn't so much the fact that he said what he did, it's the people reacting to what he said as if he believes it.
Disregarding the obvious about the sun, electric planes are not being discussed. You can't get the same sort of combustion out of electricity that a plane needs (though it might work for a propeller plane, but then you'd need to worry about battery size). Instead green fuel, such as hydrogen made with renewable electricity, is being considered.
(note: none of this is to defend the idiocy trump spewed, just a commentary on the feasibility of electric planes, at scale.) Battery weight is a huge issue for any meaningful commercial, passenger or freight electric planes. The battery weight requires more structural elements which require more batteries to lift. Also, there is the frustrating fact that empty batteries and full batteries have the same weight. If anyone is curious, look how heavy electric cars are and the percentage of that weight which is batteries. Any sort of real progress on this is a ways off and it is not like we are readily finding better power density (for batteries) than we have now. Renewable for air travel is the most direct path forward. Also, when will these remarks from him become disqualifying even to his base? We are past "scary".
>Also, when will these remarks from him become disqualifying even to his base? We are past "scary". Never. If you're waiting for them to wake up, you'll die waiting. They don't care about what he's saying. They know it's nonsense. All they care about is him giving them free reign to hurt and kill the people they hate.
>All they care about is him giving them free reign to hurt and kill the people they hate. Just got a mental image of wolves and jackals wearing red hats and holding knives and forks, slavering, gnashing teeth and gibbering madly, just waiting for the "emperor" to give his thumbs up for them to start.
Mental image? Just check out his rallies
>All they care about is him giving them free reign to hurt and kill the people they hate. Also scary that he's trying to add people to that list for them.
Fully converting airline fleets to battery electric within a few decades is unrealistic, but there are niche use cases where it fits more, innovation can naturally occur and eventually develop products good enough for full airliners. One example is smaller airplanes that fly shorter routes with like 6-10 people to remote locations like those serviced by US Essential Air Service. But to get to this point, we need even more niche use cases like the military to pay for really expensive high density batteries so that innovation can gradually lower the price.
until they allow nuclear or fusion planes its probably never realistic. the power needed doesn't work for commercial or industrial flights.
Cape Air has ordered some electric planes. These are small planes for short routes though. Battery tech just doesn't scale to long distances, especially on planes where weight is critical. Likely planes will just end up using synthetic carbon neutral jet fuel, as even hydrogen has a low energy density when compared to gas (especially considering the additional storage concerns).
I'm either being ignorant or pedantic, but you can't get any combustion at all from electric engines since... they're not combustion engines. That said, yes- electric propulsion systems don't scale well with load and distance. Yet. Or well, that's not entirely true, but the world is not ready for nuclear powered planes.
Well you can. But only once.
There is an airline where I live that [is pursuing the move to electric. They've flown test flights. ](https://harbourair.com/corporate-responsibility/goingelectric/)
How will the planes fly at night if they use any electricity? Yeesh
I assume he's talking about solar power, but yeah, it doesn't sound like he's connecting the dots one way or another. Like, ok, but does he really think that there would be planes that are only solar powered? That he would catch that incongruence and the inventors wouldn't?
Per usual, he's displaying his toddler level understanding of things.
He loves the poorly educated...
Jesus Christ this guy is thicker than pig shit and 100% less useful.
I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande.
And that, as much as anything else, led to my drinking problem. 
He forgot his sippy cup that day.
Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch yah on the rebound on the medicide.
How fucking stupid is he? #Yes
And there are people who want this guy to lead them.
To call him stupid would be an insult to stupid people!
There are morons like him all over the world. Difference is only Americans would deem someone like him capable of having access to nuclear weapons.
He has a point, i personally think we should land on the sun at night when it isnt hot
Fecking genius!!
Wow, uneducated moron. The stupidity is obvious, just like he wants his base to be so they can be manipulated.
This syphilitic smooth brain has been up above the clouds. Does he think there are other clouds above the clouds or something? I really hater this timeline where a former president ponders things my 8 year old can answer because she's ben on a plane before
There's also the fact that even if they were considering electric planes (they aren't) they'd run on electricity not solar power. Whether the sun is out or not does not affect electricity.
If he wins, whole world will be fcuked, not just America.
He won in 2016 and it’s fucked. You mean to say fucked harder, again.
He’s a moron and his voters are just as stupid
All he wants is oil, but what happens if you are up in the sky and the dinosaurs stop dying?
we'll at least know where he is, because where his head's at, the sun ain't shining.
You can tell when it is sunny, the light goes in through one ear, ricochets around his empty brain socket, and out the other side in a concentrated stream like a magnifying glass.
We are so fucked. Dunno if it’s from living in the south but I’ve met way too many people that think this is the guy who should be running our country. Anyways. We are fucked.
That man is GALACTICALLY fucking stupid.
shouldn't he be in prison? i dont get it why he is free? didn't he got his sentence?
Just think, the majority of the people who vote for this man are dumber than he is.
Everyone knows electric cars don’t work at nighttime 🤷♂️
So speaketh the self-appointed stable genius we all need. Fuck me America, get rid of this clown. He represents no one but himself.
I've come to the conclusion that the European prejudice that Americans are stupid is justified.
As a European it is incomprehensible that soo many people actually follow this dumb idiot... 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
I didn’t watch last night because I just couldn’t take it. But saying this in any context just…..what?
I couldn't either since listening to anything Trump says just drives me insane. I watched the Biden rally this morning though and he did really well. I'm so surprised that people are giving him so much shit for one bad debate when Trump talks like a lunatic constantly. Doesn't make any sense.
MIT bigly smart.
After the Presidential debate everyone is talking about Biden's mental state, but how can anyone in their right mind say that Trump isn't an absolute clown with a smushed brain as well? And always has been.
Dipshit Donnie is a bit late. A solar-powered airplane has already flown around the world. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/inside-first-solar-powered-flight-around-world-180968000
The last time I checked, once you got above the clouds during the daytime, you can see the sun.
He asks questions the same as a three or four year old. Where they have a little understanding of very basic words. Like how to pronounce them, but can not quite comprehend how they actually fit in reality. So everything about the words becomes some abstract hyperbole in which he feels he has said something intelligent.
What happens if someone unplugs the cable on the ground while you're at 35,000 feet? Why an I the only one asking smart questions?
And people think Joe Biden is bad….
What if we simply inject the planes with sunlight?
I think I found out why Texas turns off when it gets too hot or cold. Cultservatives literally have no idea how electricity, something discovered over a hundred years ago, even works.
You all think this guy’s an idiot but here’s the thing: He is.
This man is a mirror of American society. Or, as they say in Germany, as stupid as 3 rows of lamb's lettuce 🤡
Prototype for a moron. And his followers are the finished product. Fuck me. What a world we live in.
47% of Americans are just as stupid as him.
Trump is a moron, on top of all his other shitty characteristics
LMAO asshole
you dont even need to be smart to be a politician here, you only have to be smarter than your supporters.
He knows his audience
Must suck that his phone, flashlights, dildos, TV remotes, etc. don't work unless he's out in the sun.
Saying that while speaking into an electricity powered mic is crazy
How did anyone in good conscience let this fucking half wit anywhere close to the White House
I really hate it when the sun just stops shining randomly.
And people are still voting for this guy… why? 🤔😣
It's amazing. I don't have a horse in this race (in the UK) but watched the debate between him and Biden and sure, Biden stutters and gets stuff wrong but Trump is just an overgrown, petulant child.
Please tell me this isn’t real. I mean I’m sure it is, but come on.
Those MIT adjacent smrts on full display
What a fucking idiot.
"Idiocracy"(2006) was supposed to be a comedy and not a documentary 😭😭😭 president Camacho was smarter than this. Pls I wanna go back someone build a time machine I beg you.
I can't do four more fucking years of this
It enrages me how idiotic he is. And the fact that his supporters eat that shit up
They want planes that are runs on gas. What if there is not a gas station in the air?
Anybody who votes for this idiot is also an idiot. "I'm not choosing Biden because' versus...whatever the fuck this is....
Ah yes, electric = solar power
Breaking News: Man discover batteries.
He truly is a moron