• BeefPiano@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    He also keeps quoting Nazis and promising retribution to his political enemies, but sure if magnets convince someone not to vote for him I’ll take it.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      ICP admitted they don’t know, and had no interest in learning because they’re happy considering stuff like magnets and basic genetics as “magic”

      trump doesn’t know, assumes he does, and claims he has intrinsic scientific knowledge because an uncle worked at MIT.

  • akilou@sh.itjust.works
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    “Think of it, magnets,” Trump said. “Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets. Why didn’t they use John Deere? Why didn’t they bring in the John Deere people? Do you like John Deere? I like John Deere.”

    Saved you a click

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    Usually there’s some sort of fantastical leap you can do from something reasonable to get to his level of insanity, but I don’t even see that here. Water has never had any effect on magnets, and I don’t know of any conspiracy theory that says it does.

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      9 months ago

      Pouring water on the electrical components of an electromagnet?

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        Maybe that’s what he meant. But he’s talking about a magnetic elevator for an aircraft carrier. I’m pretty sure it’s designed to work while wet.

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      9 months ago

      maybe he saw a gif of cooling magnets with liquid nitrogen to make them seem wet?

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    At a guess, he just remembers being mad at the Navy about something about magnets, but made up the why.

    I guess nobody told him that the ship that was supposedly having those issues with EMALS is not only built but on deployment now

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      I think youre correct, I found this from memorial day 2019:

      Trump, who has been critical of the Ford-class carriers’ new electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) system, said he prefers the steam-powered catapults found on the older Nimitz-class CVNs. He again called on the Navy to revert back to the old technology while speaking to naval forces in Japan over the Memorial Day weekend.

      Thanks for trying to figure out what the kook was talking about lol, I know hes nuts but he usually has SOMETHING in mind when hes rambling, I was curious what that was