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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Thu May 11, 2017, 09:39 AM May 2017

Oy Vey

You know the catapult is quite important. So I said what is this? Sir, this is our digital catapult system. He said well, we’re going to this because we wanted to keep up with modern [technology]. I said you don’t use steam anymore for catapult? No sir. I said, "Ah, how is it working?" "Sir, not good. Not good. Doesn’t have the power. You know the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going and steam’s going all over the place, there’s planes thrown in the air."
It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said–and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said what system are you going to be–"Sir, we’re staying with digital." I said no you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.

-Donald J. Trump



More genius:



http://time.com/4775040/donald-trump-time-interview-being-president/
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Oy Vey (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 OP
Real? Satire? Source? Tommy_Carcetti May 2017 #1
Unfortunately real sharp_stick May 2017 #3
Looks real. Quote from Times article. mackdaddy May 2017 #4
Unbelievably idiotic sharp_stick May 2017 #2
WTF BumRushDaShow May 2017 #5
It has been a lovely meme and gif season this year. Cracklin Charlie May 2017 #7
It has! BumRushDaShow May 2017 #10
Thank you for posting this. I thought it must be satirical, from some humor website. Glorfindel May 2017 #6
Hey, this is a big advance. During the campaign he was Hortensis May 2017 #8
WTF? Wounded Bear May 2017 #9
Imagine having to live with someone like that radical noodle May 2017 #11

Glorfindel

(9,730 posts)
6. Thank you for posting this. I thought it must be satirical, from some humor website.
Thu May 11, 2017, 09:51 AM
May 2017

But it's quoted directly from an interview Drumpf had with "Time" magazine. There's also this:

"So I said to myself, I’m a believer in professionals, these people over there, whether it’s in Iraq or in Yemen or anywhere, Libya, they went to West Point, or wherever. Annapolis, they went to Air Force Academy. I said to the general, I said how good. … The lieutenants, the captains, their majors, their colonels, they’re professionals. They love doing it, they know every inch of the territory, right. I say why am I telling them? So I authorized the generals to do the fighting. You know."

The insane delirious ravings of a dangerous maniac who happens to be the President of the United States.

"Oy Vey," indeed.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. Hey, this is a big advance. During the campaign he was
Thu May 11, 2017, 10:10 AM
May 2017

sure they were all idiots and he was needed to step in and tell everyone what to do.

It doesn't sound like Rump even begins to differentiate between steam as power and digital as control. No advance there, though "digital" is probably meant to refer to some vague conception of "the other thing."


radical noodle

(8,000 posts)
11. Imagine having to live with someone like that
Thu May 11, 2017, 11:33 AM
May 2017

Poor Bannon. He must be perpetually confused by the things his father says.

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