He said exactly what he feels:
If there is no heaven, what reason do I have to be good?
He literally just told us he does not have an innate sense of morality. He is only as good as he is because he is scared of hell.
He literally just told us he does not have an innate sense of morality. He is only as good as he is because he is scared of hell.
and he's really not good at all.
Didn't he also say he wasn't Christian recently? Or can I just not understand him when he talks. It was when he was telling Christian voters in south Florida if they voted for him they would fix it so they would never need to vote again.
this is LITERALLY what happens when you spam the middle predict key on your phone
[starting words] of the day before I get off work at a time ofc there is a lot of people in the world and I think it's a good idea to get a new one
Ok, let me try. I'll start with the first phrase:
Gboard: Religion is such a great thing to do with it but I don't think it will be a good day for you guys to come over and watch the first episode of the office does Jim and I are you doing today I left the house today and the next day or so I can get the room for the next day or so I can get the room for the next....awwwww
I never talk about the office lol
Here's with Kubo keyboard: Religion is such a great thing that I think it is a good thing that I think it is a good thing that... Boo
religion is such a great thing that was so much ❤️ i am good and i am good and i am good
SwiftKey:
Religion is a departing storm in the distance of the world of the world and the world of the world is to be a lamp in the darkness of the world and the world of the world is to be a lamp in the darkness of the world and the world of the world is to be a lamp in the darkness of the world and....
That's a smash up of two comments I've made on Lemmy, basically. SwiftKey must have app based prediction or something. I said this two things exactly once.
Mine started off more coherent then Trump
Religion is such a good thing and it’s so hard for people who don’t have the right or ability for the things that are necessary for their lives and the people that do not need to have that right and the things they they want want want want want want want want want want want want want
Religion is such a cool its a mix of both sides are the Hamas attacked first by war am able to get to the Hamas attacked first by war am able to get to the Hamas.......
That was a ride.
So . . . Trump is AI? Hmmmmmm. Yyyyesss I could see that.
Although the source article gives the quote verbatim so. That actually came out of his mouth, if anyone was wondering, which - at this point they really shouldn't be.
He has concepts of religion.
But not of morality.
Deep thinker, that one
He's weaving dude, just like that fantastic hair hat he wears. It'll just like weave together. They say it's fantastic...
It's when you read Trump's ramblings, do you realize "Holy fuck. What the hell did I read? Did I stroke out?"
I think I just had a stroke.
Wait til you hear his favorite Bible verse
When you have to give a book report on a book you never read.
At least he was coherently bullshitting there?
5 years ago
This dude makes steve harvey seem intelligent.
yo what did steve do to deserve that :C
He basically said the same thing, but somehow in a more succinct and elegant fashion by comparison? Which is reeeeaaaallllyy stretching when it comes to what Steve said, because it was absolutely idiotic.
More like 35% of the vote. With the BS Electoral College, that's all you need.
35% is of eligible voters, not of the vote. Trump got 47% of the vote in 2020.
It's very important to remind people that our vote is important and demanded by all the news outlets and the various political leaders. But it is ultimately ignored and replaced by a group of unelected electors who can actually vote for whoever they want. If we really did vote, then the result from our election would be a president. Instead the official vote is from these randos and CNN will need our vote to compare the "electoral" vote (not ours, but the actual vote from the randos) vs the "public" vote, which is just an option from us with which to compare against. You can do that with the dog vote and the kids from 3rd grade vote.
Word. Salad.
Jenkins! Bring my finest bondulance, I think I'm having a stronk.
Stronks.
Ask AI to translate that and see what it comes up with. LOL
ChatGPT 4o:
Trump’s statement seems to convey a rambling attempt at explaining the moral influence of religion. He’s essentially saying that religion motivates people to be good because of the belief in an afterlife (heaven). Without that belief, he suggests, people might wonder why they should behave well at all. He struggles to articulate the idea clearly, repeatedly circling back to the notion that the promise of heaven is a reason to be good.
In simpler terms, he seems to be saying: Religion gives people a reason to strive for goodness because it offers the reward of heaven. Without that, people might question why they should bother being good.
o1-preview (the fancy dancy reasoning one):
Certainly! In this statement, Donald Trump is emphasizing the importance of religion in promoting moral behavior. He suggests that religion gives people a reason to be good because it introduces the concept of heaven as a reward for good deeds. Without the belief in heaven or an afterlife, he implies that people might question the purpose of being good and could potentially disregard moral standards. Essentially, he's arguing that religion and the promise of heaven motivate individuals to behave ethically.
Ah, that makes sense!
It's so hilariously ironic that he talks of these things like he has any virtue. Jesus would bitch slap him if the two ever met.
That's NYT's schtick!
The last two lines are the part he believes
He doesn't open the Bible because he never learned how to open a book.
I think the limo has arrived at the next refuge of a scoundrel.
That’s some over 9000 level 4D chess, goodness me
Playing chess with a pigeon. You say "Checkmate" and the pigeon just keeps peaking at your pieces.
Don't play chess with a pigeon. No matter how well you play it's just going to shit all over the board and strut around like it won.
The one-eyed leads all those blinds.
Oh thank God. You didn't use any verbiage to describe his existential threat to democracy..
I thought it was pretty obvious
I think he was having a stroke
Funny thing is I'd be surprised if trump didn't support it himself
He didn't before Kamala started telling everyone how conservative she is now...
She's better than Biden, absolutely better to trump...
But she's still more conservative than most of the Dem voter base
Republicans use polls of Republican voters, they dont give two shits what Dems want. But Dem politicians keep fucking looking at polls of all voters, and using that to drive policy.
The result is no candidate really represents Dem voters, just the small (but very vocal) conservative wing of the Dem party. One tried to tell me Reagan was further left economically than Obama earlier today, and I think they really believed it.
They're just completely disengaged from other Dem voters, they think because neoliberals politicians still have a stranglehold on party leadership it means they're the majority.
Worst case of running a progressive candidate is they pull another PUMA like in 08 where they tried to get the Republican elected to spite Obama when he beat Hillary...
Their republican votes were completely inconsequential.
That was almost a good impersonation of Trump. Keep at it, I know you can do it!
Most of the dem voter base that you know. To paraphrase Nate Silver recently, the liberal very online voter thinks that their constituency is a lot larger than it is.
I guarantee you that the union steel worker in Bethlehem, PA and the school teacher mother of 4 in Georgia are and have been a sizable part of the base.
I guarantee you that the union steel worker in Bethlehem, PA and the school teacher mother of 4 in Georgia are and have been a sizable part of the base.
Not even. "your not as big as you think you are" goes both ways. United Steel is 1.2 million people. globally (US, Canada and Caribbean, apparently?) even assuming they're all US citizens... that's point-three of a percentage. And how many in the United Steelworks Union even work at the plant that's not a hotbutton issue solely because it's in PA?
the Nippon deal that politicians are trying to block... it's good for the US, it's good for the local economy. And the solution to the "oh but they might treat the union unfairly" isn't to fuck over the deal that's almost certainly going to cause those union jobs to dry up anyway... but rather to strengthen the unions. (what a thought, amiright?)
and oh yeah, by the way, of those 1.2 million, how much you wanna bet some of those union guys are... you know... progressive? or at least, progressive on some things (like strengthening unions. labor rights. Workplace safety protections.)
What I do know is the union reps I deal with are flaming progressives, and their member base is rather somewhat diverse. some are conservatives, some are progressive, most don't talk about it. (not steel. totally different industry, mind.)
ultimately, I suspect it comes down on the specific issues. Healthcare, police reform, immigration; are all things that the base is definitely more progressive than the politicians in Washington. maybe also israel/gaza and climate change
Nate Silver
Lol
The guy who kept saying Hillary would win despite polling, fucked up covid and argued against medical experts, got laid off from his own company and called Biden a "walking corpse"?
The one literally bankrolled by the same guy bankrolling JD Vance?
https://www.vox.com/politics/372217/nate-silver-2024-polls-trump-harris
Why are you listening to him? Did you see that takedown article from today and walk away from it thinking he was the good guy?
I now coincidences are a thing, but that's a little spooky...
If not, you should read that, here's a good quote from it:
Accordingly, the uproar over the current forecast, from people who want Harris to win, has been quite pronounced. “Who bought #NateSilver and how much did he go for?” actress Bette Midler posted on X. Baseless conspiracy theories have been hatched that Silver’s recently announced gig as an adviser to the online prediction market Polymarket is spurring him to do the bidding of right-wing billionaires and skew his analysis against Harris. (Silver has strongly denied those claims. “Peter Thiel isn’t paying me any more than he’s paying someone who works for Facebook or Lyft,” he recently posted on X.)
Among the more data-literate, the main critique of Silver’s model lately has been that it’s unfairly punishing Harris for not getting a big polling bounce after the Democratic convention. (Nominees typically get a bounce then and lose some of that advantage later on, but this is an unusual cycle and perhaps Harris got her “bounce” earlier, when she entered the race.) On September 7, Silver wrote that if the “convention bounce” setting was turned off, the model would show something extremely close to a pure 50-50 contest; he has also said that this effect will dwindle the further we get from the convention.
