Trump pushes envelope with comment on the ‘poisoning’ of U.S. ‘blood’
Trump pushes envelope with comment on the ‘poisoning’ of U.S. ‘blood’
There’s nothing new about Donald Trump attacking those seeking a better life in the United States. But “poisoning the blood of our country” is new.
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The specific quote:
“Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country.”
From the article:
Laura Barrón-López, White House correspondent for PBS, told viewers last night, “I checked with a historian, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and she said that language that he’s using ... echoes language used in Nazi propaganda by Adolf Hitler when Adolf Hitler actually said that Jewish people and migrants were ‘causing a blood poisoning’ of Germany.”
Additional site reporting the same (in an interview):
Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from…
…and we know they come from…
Ok, logically, at least one of these is guaranteed to be a lie.
If you think of a trump speech like a LLM talking, you realize that he frequently doesn't know where a sentence will go when he opens his mouth because he's just stringing words and concepts together in a freeform flashy propaganda wordsalad.
LLMs nowadays have more long range structure than a Trump speech. Trump is more like an attention-free Markov chain.
Markov chains occasionally produce something clever or unexpected though. For example King James Programming (a Markov chain generator fed with KJV, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and some of Eric S. Raymond's writings) sometimes wrote some amusing things. Later Why's Poignant Guide was added as an additional source, and still later started mixing in posts from a second generator fed the works of Lovecraft and Isabelle/HOL documentation.
Investigate the shell’s here documents and Python’s triple-quote construct to find out the Almighty unto perfection
they smote the city with the edge of the sword. 22:20 And one of his main motivations was the high cost of proprietary software houses.
I know not why I went thither unless to pray, or gibber out insane pleas and apologies to the calm white thing that lay within; but, whatever my reason, I attacked the half-frozen sod with a desperation partly mine and partly that of a bounded natural functor (BNF)—a well-behaved type constructor for which nested (co)recursion is supported.
2:4 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more like a controlled use of shared memory.
Using Lisp we restrict or limit not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us.
It even produced more coherent political notions than Trump:
But the right to bear arms—you don’t want to edit
All of those quotes are in the first 3 pages, out of 94.
...freeform
flashyfashy propaganda wordsaladFTFY
Goddamned autocorrect, it was supposed to say fashy
Trump saw that episode of The Office and decided to emulate Michael Scott's strategy for speaking.
Though he was more coherent-sounding back then, it's possible he was an inspiration for that character, like how he inspired the character of Biff Tannen from Back to the Future.
Hmm, looks like there is a connection!
Maybe he did read Mein Kampf after all?
Fucking fascist Nazi piece of shit.
He doesn't read
Likely got it from a new alt right friend he made in the last 8 years
Probably Steven Miller read it to him by his bed, late at night, after he was half-passed out from too many hamberders.
Let's play everyone's favorite game show - Trump or Hitler!
I....I don't like this game....
Pro tip: Trump is the one speaking English
Barely
The best English. Lots of people are saying it. Believe me.
Person, Frau, Mann, Kamera, Fernseher
I like how it ends though.