“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?”

In land locked NEVADA.

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      The electric boats that Obama is making us use are dangerous because of the weight of the batteries, and this will cause all boaterists to be dead from shark attacks. Should be obvious to all Americans who know what’s going on.

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      I guess? Electric boats are heavier because of the batteries? 🤔 Hard to tell where he was going with this.

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      I’m guessing he was told to mention that lithium batteries can explode if water gets in as a talking point against EVs, and his brain went to boats and sharks.

      On a related note, I suspect all of his rants against using teleprompters (and his own lashing out at venues because his teleprompter was broken) is because his eyes have degraded to the point he can’t read them anymore. So these rants are him trying to hit his talking points from memory because he physically can’t follow a script any more.

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        Uplifting tangentially related note. Both the US and China (and soon a lot of other places) are already starting to produce sodium batteries (in actual products not just in labs) that sacrifice a bit of capacity for being way less volatile, require no or little rare earth metals and are less prone to discharging over time.

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          I’m for EVs, but solid state batteries are more promising for mobile applications. Sodium is a pretty big risk in water too.

          Sails or onboard generation (wind and solar) are also an interesting solution on these huge ships. But the main problem is producing goods unnecessarily far from consumers so save a few dollars (subsidized by the environment).

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          borderline illiterateness

          I’m sorry. But I have to. I’m sure you’re a very smart person, and you speak well, and that this is likely just a tiny little oversight in an otherwise fine and literate mind.

          But the irony of not knowing that it’s actually “illiteracy” and not “illiterateness” is just a little too funny not to at least poke a bit of fun at.

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      It’s about the cost overrun of the Gerald Ford class carriers electromagnetic launch catapults where he demanded the switch back to steam and the naval architects laughing at him. His grudge devolved into this abstract hypothetical concept of him sitting on the catapult capacitors and getting zapped when the aircraft carrier sinks because of all its weight.

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    In a wide-ranging speech to 6,900 Silver State voters two days before the primary election…

    “In a wide-ranging speech to 75,000 Silver State voters two days before the primary election…”

    – MAGA

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    “Yeah but what about when Joe Biden paused to save face because he accidentally started to sit down too early at that ceremony commemorating D-Day?!” - Trumpets

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    This speech should be sent to every phone in America via the Amber Alert system. The absolute batshit crazy speech that I heard should be listened to in full.

    You know Fawx News is going to cut the ever loving shit out of it, so you’ll get maybe 1 or 2 usable sentences.

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      If trump were tossed in a pool with starving sharks, they’d toss him back and demand real food.

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    Dementia will regularly cause the sufferer to go on rant disconnected from reality.

    The signs were there a decade ago…