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He didn't really say nobody knows what a magnet is in a literal sense, I think it was just his weird way of talking. When criticing trump lets be a little careful since its important to get it right otherwise noone will believe our other critics.
they lie a thousand times a day and everyone believes them. We misquote one of them once and we're liars to never be trusted. Interesting how that works.
A fair point but thats the world we live in. When our opponents abandon truth we have to cherish it more so that we are trusted
That is the world you live in because people like you make it that way by thinking that the us is a land where trust is worth anything politically.
It really does sound like he genuinely doesn't know what magnets are. What is water got to do with magnets?
Guess there is a reason why they do those dementia tests so often...
I guess if they're electromagnets water could do some damage, but not to the magnet itself.
I'll have to introduce the US navy to concept of waterproofing
He absolutely said nobody knows how magnets work. Sit down.
Well yes, but he meant that he really likes underaged girls.
Dominance and degredation are always in the subtext with Mango Mussolini.
Did you just time travel here from 2016?
You presume to understand the speakers intention. The speaker is an illiterate trust fund baby child rapist. He literally does not know how magnets work and he believes he is the smartest person on the planet, therefore he thinks no one knows how they work. There is no depth to the logic.
LOL what planet have you been living on, and can I get a ride there?
The Commander in Chief is spewing senile word salad daily now, I think there is value in highlighting as much of it as possible. He is stupid people's idea of a smart person, and the more exposed he is as an actual idiot, the more people are exposed to his brain leaking out his ear, the more might have a chance of waking the fuck up.
Except he directly said just that.
Generally I agree that often he'll make some flub and a bigger deal is made of it. Like with the 'Miracle Mile' vs. 'Maginficent Mile' thing, he said the wrong thing but that's the least of the problems with that story and a fairly mundane and understandable mistake to make.
This time the statement is exactly as said, though real world consequences for it are similarly low.
You're right! He said that the magnets are new thing and he personally doesn't know how they work. It's so much better, it almost makes perfect sense, very smart president, bigly smart.
No, he very literally said "nobody knows what a magnet is"
I like him cause he says what he thinks
So Satan is pretty famous for saying what he thinks, you a big fan of Satan?
Who isn’t? Satan is the good guy in the Bible.
Pretty sure he's the bad guy, I think if you're going for a broader interpretation then it's more accurate to say that God is also the bad guy.
Dude, Trump quite literally described metal letters on the wall as "Entirely Bronze, carved, and entirely Brass" in the same fucking sentence.
No this is not just his weird way of talking, he's an addled old man that should have died 10 years ago.
The administration is exhausting us by giving us unimportant things to fight about, such as obvious hypocrisy. We get rabid and pour ourselves into making him look stupid and he doesn't care because it only cost him a few seconds of time, whereas his citizens spent millions of man-hours shouting at him. At the end of the day we're tired of fighting, and he's still writing executive orders to pillage our country. It's deliberate.
Every time you're tempted to say, "he's a hypocrite!" just scroll past it and save your energy for the fight that matters.