US Politics

You are reading a single comment by @youClown and its replies. Click here to read the full conversation.

•

spindrift

“So there are some of the most brilliant people in Wall Street that
are saying that if President Trump doesn't win, you're going to have a
depression. I have to agree. I think that's true. Because I know how
bad these people are. You know, they like to say that they did this
and that. You saw the seven trillion that they said it was me for
seven trillion. It wasn't me. It was them. They said that I had
inflation. They took over 9% in inflation. No, no, I had 1% inflation.
I had actually no inflation because if you look at the categories, we
had just about no inflation. But I had a very minor-- I actually had a
positive inflation. It was a perfect number. Because you don't want
zero. I mean, I'm not going to give you a whole course on economics.
But you don't want zero. 1% 1.4% is great. You want a little bit
because you don't want to have deflation. Deflation is, in many ways,
even worse. I had a perfect number right around the 1% number. It was
perfect. And to show you, it stayed there for two years. And then he
did all of the different borrowings that he did. And then he did so
many things wrong. Every time he would do it, I'd say big mistake. And
don't forget they sell hats. And they sell stories. Trump was right
about everything. I happened right about a lot.”

https://x.com/jimstewartson/status/1821625116931059836

•

youClown in reply to @spindrift

The crazy thing is, if you read it as a paragraph it's fucking nuts, but if you watch the video and turn your brain off/don't try to logically process more than one sentence at a time, it sounds real convincing. And because he talks so slowly it kind of makes you forget what he said three sentences ago so you process his fingers circling around more than you do the fact that he's just said one, no, one point four, two in the span of ten seconds.

•

stevep in reply to @youClown

This. He is brilliant at this. It reminds me of Derren Brown getting money from losing tickets at the dog track. In the end you just give up and go with whatever he says.
•

chez_jay in reply to @youClown
I think I have said this before, but I find it fascinating as I think it is almost unfiltered stream of consciousness.

If you can get some context from elsewhere, it's fairly direct steps from one thought to another, but there are rarely any internal checks that most people consider essential (but carry out automatically):
- whether a branching idea should be considered at all
- prioritisation of ideas (or even ability to store more than one or two simple ideas in the 'foreground')
- considering whether an idea should be spoken at all, further processed or dropped
It's kind of like his brain is a single core CPU with very limited storage that can only be flushed to voice.

This makes it similar to output of a basic natural language generation algorithm, e.g. using a Markov chain.

About

Avatar for youClown @youClown started