(Bart gives a book report in front of his class.)
Bart: Well, as Mrs. Krabappel already mentioned, the name of the book that I read was Treasure Island. It's about these pirates, (Looks at the illustrated cover of the book.) pirates with patches over their eyes, (Looks at cover.) and shiny gold teeth, (Looks at cover.) and green birds on their shoulders. Did I mention this book was written (Looks at cover.) by a guy named Robert Louis Stevenson? (Looks at cover.) And published by the good people at McGraw-Hill. So, in conclusion, on the Simpson scale of one to ten--ten being the highest, one being the lowest and five being average--I give this book a nine. (Clears throat) Any questions?
What I always loved about that scene is that when she asks for the name of the pirate and he runs through some in his head, it does include the right answer (such is the cultural influence of Treasure Island) but he gets unlucky in the one he picks.
That's Trump his entire life, Trump expects to charm everyone and skate through conversations with zero situational awareness. Trump's interview after his first 100 days is a great example of this. John Dickerson relays a metaphor from W, that "the reason the Oval Office is round, is that there are no corners to hide in." Trump gets completely lost in the intellectual powerhouse that was George W Bush and immediately begins to describe the physical features of the room. Dickerson explains to Trump that we intention was everything comes back to the president and Trump shrugs everything off. It's only comparable to if you'd stripped every redeemable quality from Michael Scott.
Dickerson basically says, "it's not true, why would you say something that you know isn't true?"
And Trump does the I can raise my hand at the waste motion, says goodbye and sits down at his desk...to stare at one sheet of paper. Then acts surprised Dickerson hasn't left. It's so comically over the top
to be fair, Trump openly asked Russia for support and assistance undermining the election
at that point the DOJ should open an investigation w the FBI. if
I like Anne Hathaway but if she publicly requested help from China to get he elected president, then she should be investigated.
God fucking dammit that is the thickest thing I've ever seen. He''s the only person alive that doesn't need to be lying down for a George Bush quote to go over their head. How the world didn't blow up in those four years I do not know.
Not really though. Like I'm sure America is a bit fucky at the mo, but he didn't really manage to take the rest of the world down with him like we all thought he might.
Trump gets completely lost in the intellectual powerhouse that was George W Bush
If there is a single person who exemplifies the dumbass hick in the smug imagination, it is former President George W. Bush. He's got the accent. He can't talk right. He seems stupefied by simple concepts, and his politics are all gee-whiz Texas ignorance. He is the ur-hick. He is the enemy.
He got all the way to White House, and he's still being taken for a ride by the scheming rightwing oligarchs around him — just like those poor rubes in Kansas. If only George knew Dick Cheney wasn't acting in his own best interests!
It is worth considering that Bush is the son of a president, a patrician born in Connecticut and educated at Andover and Harvard and Yale.
It is worth considering that he does not come from a family known for producing poor minds.
It is worth considering that beginning with his 1994 gubernatorial debate against Ann Richards, and at every juncture thereafter, opponents have been defeated after days of media outlets openly speculating whether George was up to the mental challenge of a one-on-one debate.
"Throughout his short political career," ABC's Katy Textor wrote on the eve of the 2000 debates against Al Gore, "Bush has benefited from low expectations of his debating abilities. The fact that he skipped no less than three GOP primary debates, and the fact that he was reluctant to agree to the Commission on Presidential Debates proposal, has done little to contradict the impression of a candidate uncomfortable with this unavoidable fact of campaign life."
"Done little to contradict." ....
On November 6, 2000, during his final pre-election stump speech, Bush explained his history of political triumph thusly: "They misunderesimated me."
What an idiot. American liberals made fun of him for that one for years.
It is worth considering that he didn't misspeak.
He did, however, deliberately cultivate the confusion. He understood the smug style. He wagered that many liberals, eager to see their opponents as intellectually deficient, would buy into the act and thereby miss the more pernicious fact of his moral deficits.
He wagered correctly. Smug liberals said George was too stupid to get elected, too stupid to get reelected, too stupid to pass laws or appoint judges or weather a political fight. Liberals misunderestimated George W. Bush all eight years of his presidency.
George W. Bush is not a dumbass hick. In eight years, all the sick Daily Show burns in the world did not appreciably undermine his agenda.
Trump is/was like this except instead of laughing I just felt angry, embarrassed, horrified, depressed and a myriad of other terrible emotions while the moron continued make what seemed like a bad movie a dark reality.
Everytime I think humanity can't be that stupid, someone posts another thing Trump did that is so real and so stupid... I lose a little more hope we may actually survive the next 100 years.
Trump is like those e-mail scams that have intentional spelling errors and leaps of logic to funnel out people that are too smart to fall for it.
People who believe in anything he says are literally the dumbest of the dumb, or so delusional that they bend over backwards to justify every word out of his mouth.
Except none of the mistakes were intentional, and none of the leaps done ironically. He is just as much a bumbling moron as those who sing his praises.
I used to think things would get worse until some serious shit went down and then people would get their act together. Like WWII. Sure, that was terrible but humanity made giant leaps forward technologically after that, quality of life improved, nations moved together, a lot of the political extremism actually died down. I thought we "need" a global tragedy. It would suck but turn out good in the end.
Then covid happened and I finally lost all faith in humanity.
Yes. This cult that got into our mainstream... well the republican'ts and the covid seem like deadly viruses. Both attacking people, killing people, and these two viruses seem to feed off each other.
Everytime I think humanity can't be that stupid, someone posts another thing Trump did that is so real and so stupid
The list really was bottomless. You could do a "mind-bogglingly stupid thing Trump said"-a-day calendar, with just the really good ones, no duds, and still have plenty left over.
I mean, jesus christ - the sharpie on a hurricane map to settle a feud with the national weather service? four seasons total landscaping? the list just goes on and on.
"So, I’m going to ask Bill a question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposing when we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful."
Donald Trump: 29:46 A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposedly we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting, right? And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful. Steve, please.
seems about the same but there does seem to be some discrepancies at first glance.
So as someone who has worked in transcription for years and specifically transcribed for Rev in the past, most services do usually transcribe in "clean verbatim" which means that verbal tics, ums and ahs, repetition and false starts are often cleaned up by the person who watches/listens to the audio and types it out. That, and different transcribers hearing slightly different things (for example, "supposedly" vs "suppose when") can account for these differences. This is not transcribed through voice recognition software, there's a lot of human error that can go into it.
That’s your problem not mine, most everything he said was misquoted and taken out of context by bias reporters because people would rather run with that than taking the time to read, but you already know this.
My little brother did a book report on Night if the Living Dummy and it was literally just the synopsis on the back lmao. He was young enough that the teacher wasn't too mad or anything, just explained that in the future that could get him in trouble
He looks like he's strolling through an art gallery but has no grasp of what makes the art compelling and doesn't want to attract attention to this so he stops to pretend to appreciate it.
Even in my most unprepared moments I would have had better sense than to suggest, to the entire nation, that a possible solution to the looming public health crisis is to inject bleach or insert U.V disinfectant lamps into your body.
On the contrary. Maybe he managed 'bleach' in the time he was staring at the sign, but if he could read in a normal speed he wouldn't have had to confabulate something about what the light symbol.might mean.
We call this word vomit. When a student has no clue what they are doing so they write down a stream of consciousness answer if any and all material they can remember, in hopes that the teacher will see key phrases and a long answer and think “this kid gets it” and give them full credit
I legitimately think it's that he looked at that and thought he was smarter than everyone and had just realized you could combine those things INSIDE of you to cure covid.
After press conference he whispers to himself: “still got it Donny, still got it. They didn’t even see you comin with that. Keepin it stable, stable genius.”
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u/russellzerotohero 16d ago
This is actually so funny it’s hard to believe it’s real. He’s like a sitcom character