The Next President is...

[disgruntledemployee]

1 hour ago, brabus said:

So you heard it, but did not listen to it - there’s a difference. To address this single point you (and that article) have cherry picked out to try and use as some beacon of “mental faculty loss,” Trump was talking to the cadets about the importance of momentum - finding it, keeping it, and if you lose it, recognize that and pivot. He used an allegory of a businessman he knew who lost momentum, made poor decisions whilst doing so, didn’t recognize it early enough, and thus he basically tubed his life. It was long winded (as Trump can be) and could have been shortened with the same allegorical effect, but the valid message in the allegory is clear…unless one wants to be a politically-motivated hack and try to completely misrepresent it by cherry picking a couple words and talking about it without any context. 
 

Trump is a loud mouth and showman, we all know that, but along the lines of public speaking and mental faculties, this speech was 1000x better than Biden or Harris could have given. And that’s not so much a compliment to Trump as it is stating how incredibly bad the other options were…but I digress.

Maybe you should give the speeches. Or maybe stand next to him and say, "What the President meant was..."

[Lord Ratner]

1 hour ago, disgruntledemployee said:

Maybe you should give the speeches. Or maybe stand next to him and say, "What the President meant was..."

Wait so is your argument now that it's cognitive decline similar to Biden, or that he's just lying during a speech? If it's the latter pardon me for being bored by something that every politician from Thomas Jefferson to Trump has engaged in rather enthusiastically.

[disgruntledemployee]

18 minutes ago, Lord Ratner said:

Wait so is your argument now that it's cognitive decline similar to Biden, or that he's just lying during a speech? If it's the latter pardon me for being bored by something that every politician from Thomas Jefferson to Trump has engaged in rather enthusiastically.

You posted a thought-out explanation of what Trump was trying to convey.  Nice analysis, you put some thoughts into it.  Since you seem to good at this type of work, maybe you should stand next to him and do it live.  Get it?

And yes, I think there is noticeable cognitive decline too.

[disgruntledemployee]

Not surprised Trump/staff would do this.  All part of just saying shit because enough believe him regardless.  I can't wait for oval smack downs on chem trails, lizard people, and flat earth shit.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/trumps-image-dead-white-farmers-came-reuters-footage-congo-not-south-africa-2025-05-22/

 

[brabus]

12 hours ago, disgruntledemployee said:

Maybe you should give the speeches. Or maybe stand next to him and say, "What the President meant was..."

Not required, it was crystal clear what he was talking about for anyone who has the capacity to listen. 

[BFM this]

On 5/25/2025 at 9:54 AM, disgruntledemployee said:

Maybe you should give the speeches. Or maybe stand next to him and say, "What the President meant was..."

No-one has to.  It's obvious at this point.  If whatever media you choose is headlining something that rhymes with "fine people on both sides", it's 99% certainty that checking the surrounding two minutes or less of tape will yield the polar opposite of the narrative being peddled.

[lloyd christmas]

2 hours ago, BFM this said:

No-one has to.  It's obvious at this point.  If whatever media you choose is headlining something that rhymes with "fine people on both sides", it's 99% certainty that checking the surrounding two minutes or less of tape will yield the polar opposite of the narrative being peddled.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading/listening/watching content discussing the science of manipulating people’s brains to create “social mania”.  In the last 10-15 years there have been countless examples of the herd believing and amplifying whatever the new mania is overnight.  Some examples being the #metoo movement, BLM, systemic racism, Covid lockdowns, Nazi’s, trans, Biden’s cognitive ability, Russia Russia Russia, etc.  It really is fascinating to read how the media and politicians exploit the natural instincts in human beings to fear things and in turn negatively react to emotional stimulus.  It is pure propaganda and it is extremely effective. Dan Crenshaw (who I don’t care for) did a podcast with Arthur C Brooks about it.  I’ve linked it below.  It’s a fantastic listen and worth the hour and a half of your time.  Lionel Shriver has written extensively about this as well.  I’ve posted a link to one of her articles.

The problem is, there are real negative effects on our society and how we interact with each other.  Police officers have been killed due to policing hoaxes, 2 people were just shot and killed in DC by a guy shouting Free Palestine, Trump was nearly assassinated, etc.  The endless race hysteria has created “black fatigue” which hurts race relations.  At the very least, this mess puts people in boxes and those that believe the hysteria rarely, if ever admit they fell for the hoax.  “a social frenzy seldom subsides because its agitators announce they were addled, just as the masses of ordinary people caught up in the derangement seldom acknowledge having been led astray. Everyone simply moves on, only to become consumed by something else.”  - Lionel Shriver.  We see this time and time again with people on this very board.  People leave or never post again rather than admit they were wrong. Those that stay, often double or triple down on their opinions even when faced with the eventual historical truth.  
 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hold-these-truths-with-dan-crenshaw/id1498149200?i=1000634300667
 

https://unherd.com/2024/04/how-to-spot-the-next-mania/

 

Edited yesterday at 06:52 PM by lloyd christmas