9mo ago

Trump bizarrely claims people have stopped eating bacon because of wind power

www.independent.co.uk

The potential future president had also told the crowd, "You know they say you gotta vote with your stomach, I don't know if you've heard it but it's a little bit true," before launching into some questionable food inflation numbers.
"Food has gone up at levels that nobody's ever seen before," he declared, following up his claim with some unsupported numbers. "We've never seen anything like it – 50, 60, 70 percent."
The online response to Trump's odd claims has been relentless, with one X/Twitter user writing, "Operation let him talk is going exceedingly well."

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Lights are on. No one’s home.
- plane is airborne. ain't nobody flying it
  
  Wheel’s turning, but the hamster’s dead
  
  That's because the pilot was drunk and harassing the passengers in the back. Maybe I misunderstood that post...
- And yet people are peeking through the window and wanting more from the magnificent one.

wind turbines are killing flying pigs
- But then who is making the frogs gay?
  
  Big Water
  
  China or the deep state. Flip a coin.
- Will buffalo wings be next?
  
  Will buffalo wings be next?
  First they came for the bacon
  And I did not speak out
  Because I was not eating bacon at the time
  Then they came for the buffalo wings
  And I did not speak out
  Because I can take them or leave them
  Then they came for the cheesesteak
  And there was no one left
  To speak out for the cheesesteak
- I guess it wasn't bacon I hate for breakfast yesterday.
  
  I guess it wasn't bacon I hate for breakfast yesterday.
  Why do you hate bacon, are you a windmill?

Aaand Denmark the country with the highest degree of wind power in the world, is also the worlds biggest exporter of bacon.
- They have to export it because they aren’t eating it.
  
  Windmills, just blowing the bacon away... It's littering the north sea and the German countryside...
  
  All those windmills, just sitting there, upsetting their digestion when they eat bacon. So tragic.
  
  I live in Denmark, and this statement is false.
  
  DUMPF REDEEMED
- Ahh well see here, this checks out you see.
  Trump said eat. We export the most bacon, but nobody talks about whether or not we eat much of the stuff.
- Ohh so you mean they stopped eating bacon and sent it all out of Denmark?
  Hmmm.
- As opposed to Denmark the periodontist?

Vote with my stomach? Okay, it's on the left side of my body. Guess I'm voting left.
- What

I have never in my life heard anyone say you should vote with your stomach. Like I don’t even know where to start. What a crock of shit, it’s almost an art.
- You're supposed to eat 45 mins before you go out voting. Thats just politics
  
  Yeah, good advice. I still remember accidentally writing in burger king.
  
  Then shit in the booth.
- Now who can argue with that? I think we're all indebted to Gabby Trump for clearly stating what needed to be said. I'm particulary glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age.
  
  REBBIT!

"Bacon, shark, windmill, Hannibal Lector, battery."
- Is this your new password?
  
  Correct, horse. _(Battery _staple.)

- iowa has pork????

In case anyone was curious what he actually said, I've transcribed the provided snippet of what can be generously called his "speech":
"You know they say you're gonna vote with your stomach - I don't know if you've heard it but it's a little bit true. And groceries food has gone up at levels that nobody's ever seen before we've never seen anything like it fifty sixty seventy percent. you'd take a look at bacon and some of these products and some people don't eat bacon anymore. And uh- we're going to get the energy prices down when we get energy energy down you know this was caused by their horrible energy ... wind, they want wind all over the place, but when it doesn't blow we have a little problem. This was caused by energy this was really caused by energy and also their unbelievable spending their spending is out of... out of wealth, actually, they're taking our wealth away, but it was caused by energy and what they've done is they've started cutting way back [...] "
It seems pretty clear to me that he's... talking. I think he was saying that high energy prices have caused the price of groceries to go up, and that high energy prices are the result of the biden admin "spending [us] out of wealth" (whatever that means). So, you know, not literally saying wind power caused people to stop eating bacon, but that uh... wait... no that is what he's saying. Spending on wind power is directly causing the price of bacon to go up. I'm not... just. Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck.
- My eyes began to involuntarily glaze over as I read the transcript, and I barely made it through three sentences. I am not sure how a person could actively engage with this drool for hours.
  
  I honestly wonder if donald didn't stumble into NLP or related areas (the hypnosis thing, the NLP thing, and related systems tend to be popular with people looking to sell a load of bullshit to others - just look at NXIVM and that woman that helped to run it and her background) and pick up a kind of cadence that people fall for - it has a hypnotic type of flow even if it is batshit insane stuff and outright lying he does throughout.
  I'm actually surprised someone has not dug into it to see if donnie has been into NLP/hypnosis.

He has dementia, it should have been obvious at covfefe
- The funny part is that could have edited or deleted that and moved in. His ego required him to double down and make a reference about how some insiders understand the reference.
- Anyone can fat finger shit into an app.
  The disturbing part was the Redhats sagely nodding along like it meant anything.

- It's hilarious because he's trying to repeat the narrative that ultimately allowed Hitler to rise to power and yet he and his handlers are such absolute retards they can't even do that right.

For me, the weirdest claim was at the RNC convention when they brought a bunch of grieving veterans families on stage and claimed the media was ignoring soldier's deaths under Biden...
As if Trump wasn't directly responsible for an incredible spike in service member deaths, a clear reversal from the Obama Era annual declines. SOURCE
- Don't forget Trump thinks dead soldiers are losers and doesn't understand why people volunteer for the military. He also gave Putin and his allies a list of spies that resulted in many of their exposures and deaths.
- Isn't this the party that purposefully left in place a very weird plan to exit Afghanistan, and then blamed that on Biden, too?

It's true. I was only ever eating bacon to keep the flying pig population in check, but now I don't have to because the wind turbines will do the job.

truly a retiree that understands an economy like my cat understands written english.

Fkn Big Wind and their anti-pork agenda. Thank God for Trump, bringing the real issues to the forefront of discussion (big /s)

His brain is clearly broken, but that's not necessarily just because of his age. He's always been weird AF.
Unfortunately, his target demo have a lot of broken brains, too.

Trump is a moron.

If anything I eat more of it because of my air fryer..
- How have i never considered this?
  
  I'm warning you, it's delicious.
  I put it in for 12-15 minutes at 400°C and flip them all every 3 minutes.
  To easily clean up all that fat, I put in a couple of paper towels at the bottom once it cooled down a bit to absorb it all. Then it's easy to scoop out and put in the trash.

I’m sorry but I still buy bacon on sale at like 5-6 per lb. Bacon prices is literally one of those things that has hardly changed over the last few years (dare I say almost 5-8 years or more) atleast around here.
I don’t have any hard evidence but I want to say that’s been the case even when that doofus was president.

He's clearly referring to the bacon dispensers in every public bathroom that only produce wind when you press the bacon button.
- The ones he thinks Tim Walz replaced with tampon dispensers

Humorous, but not exactly what he said. However, it was the ramblings of an insane man so who the hell knows where his mind was at. Jibbajabbamasterlocks
- Actually no one really knows what he said, he started saying that many people no longer eat bacon. Then out of nowhere for a second talked about wind turbines that they dint always produce power, then returned back to food and inflation.
  With that if you would want to summarize the thought he was trying to say what would you arrive at? Of course other explanation is just gibberish, but that isn't much better.
  
  No sharks? Electric cars are out of equations with Msuk check so he has to find other things
  
  This sounds like you want to start a fight. We are on the same side. Stop.

I stopped eating bacon because it's $6 at Aldi, but the section over I can get breakfast sausage links for $2.

I'm gonna go to the wind turbine just outside of town and eat a bunch of bacon, that'll show em.

I was watching a doc on vat-grown fish. I know other things are coming online for other meats. Hopefully it's not too far off.
I just have no idea what all these dumbphucks that tie so much of their cardboard cutout version of a male "identity" to things like performatively eating bacon or rolling coal in their diesel small d energy competency vehicles are going to do with themselves when nearly everything is vat-grown, most of our energy is not from burning carbon, and so on.
I seriously don't know what they are going to do. Buy more guns? Lobby dumbasses like donnie to "bring coal jobs back" and gomers like DeSantis to ban vat grown meat in their state?
- once we get synthetic lab grown meat, we're probably home free, the entire agriculture industry consumes SO many resources just growing and managing live stock that it's actually insane. 70-80% of the water consumption of the colorado river is agriculture.
  
  Chopping down the Amazon rainforest to make space for cows

Let's give him the extremely stupid benefit of the doubt and say he's correct.
Who the hell is he to dictate what people eat?
If people decide to stop eating bacon because of wind power, that's their right.
Freaking weirdo.

It's because all the flying pigs are being chained to the ground so that their flapping wings can generate electricity that gets sold to China. Or something.

I stopped eating bacon because ‘foodies’ overdid that shit for more than a decade. That and ‘Wagyu burgers’ you can’t fit on your mouth. Dumb shit just comes to pass but this dumbshit’s too dumb to get it. Fucking shitgibbon hamberdler…
- You stopped eating bacon because other people "overdid" it?
  
  Yeah. Didn’t realize overdoing something was a Morty’s Mindblower, but yes. In the hospitality industry when you have to provide for the ‘foodies’ who frequently overdo things unimaginative food gets boring quick. Or, ‘over done’ if you will. I know it’s difficult to believe that other people can affect you but here we are. One mind blown…

I stopped eating bacon because I ran out. 🤔

I don't know about anyone else here but I stopped eating bacon specifically and only because we use wind power in America.
Like that was the only mitigating favor. THE ONLY ONE!

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