People canā€™t stop cracking up over the former presidentā€™s bizarre, bumbling speech.

Speaking outside Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, Donald TrumpĀ left everyone confused when he attempted to explain the Battle of Gettysburg, praised (and invented a quote from) Confederate General Robert E. Lee, and generally had no idea what he was talking about.

When his off-the-cuff remarks hit late-night television on Monday, the hosts couldnā€™t hide their laughter.

ā€œYou have to hand it to this guy: On the weekend before his unprecedented criminal trial begins, he somehow manages to overshadow it with this broken-brained interpretation of what happened at Gettysburg during the Civil War,ā€ Jimmy Kimmel quipped.

  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I actually donā€™t think thatā€™s true, plenty of people dislike Biden. Earlier in the campaign it was all about how terrible our choices are. But the conversation has changed, and now if you donā€™t mention the ā€œheā€™s the best choiceā€ part, people will assume youā€™re part of the ā€œvote third-party-because-both-sides-are-the-sameā€ troll brigade thatā€™s flooded the internet lately, which clearly either doesnā€™t understand FPTP, or (more likely) does understand and wants Trump to win.

    that so many morons start to actually believe that other people see him as a good president.

    To be fair, heā€™s not a terrible president. Heā€™s managed to get some stuff done despite an obstructionist Congress. I wish he were farther to the left, and I wish he didnā€™t have the fairly awful history that comes to most career politicians. Also supporting the Israeli genocide is horrible, though given how fervently he would be attacked were he not to support them, itā€™s difficult. Politically he canā€™t really win (though of course ethically heā€™s absolutely doing the wrong thing).

    I donā€™t like him. But weā€™ve had far worse presidents.

    By the way, this ā€œreal worldā€/ā€œit has to be this wayā€ stuff is just a thing some places, itā€™s not a given for all human politics.

    No shit, but it absolutely applies to this conversation and this topic and the importance of this election. Context matters.

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      5 months ago

      Iā€™m on the internet a lot, especially around lemmy, and I have yet to find anyone who is suggesting it is a good idea to vote 3rd party. There is just a bunch of people that take any sign of someone not absolutely loving biden as ā€œBoth Sides BSā€. I think it must be all these drama queen biden cult followers that make it seem like there is this evil ā€œboth sidesā€ boogeymen running around, but thats just their reactions, not something thatā€™s actually happening. I donā€™t know why really, like is it just that people care about getting upvotes so they are all just trying to read the room and play along? Iā€™ve no idea. Itā€™s just so dumb that it requires so much pushing to get people to actually feel like they are safe to speak their mind on him.

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        5 months ago

        Iā€™m not sure how you havenā€™t seen it, but I canā€™t debate your subjective experience.

        I will say that I donā€™t think there is such a thing as ā€œBiden cult followers.ā€ This isnā€™t MAGA. There are just people who desperately donā€™t want to see another Trump presidency (for good reason)!

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          5 months ago

          I canā€™t say for sure, but the reason Iā€™ve not seen it is probably the same as the reason nobody seems to be able to link to examples of it.

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            5 months ago

            Well, you hadnā€™t asked for a link. This individual is the one Iā€™ve seen most recently, spending his time with the common troll tactic of pivoting and attacking insignificant parts of an argument to try to discredit the whole. Here he is advocating third party voting:

            https://lemmy.world/comment/9328828

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              Very interesting, thanks, thatā€™s a first for me around here. Itā€™s interesting to see someone actually do what so many people get blamed for.