just gonna leave this here with y’all…
don’t f*ck with Robert the Doll.
do NOT take his picture without his explicit permission!
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During an energy and tech summit in Pennsylvania, Trump took a detour from his remarks, telling attendees, “I have to brag, just for a second.” He told a story about his uncle, a noted scientist who taught for decades at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“My uncle was at MIT, one of the great professors,” Trump said. “51 years, whatever. Longest-serving professor in the history of MIT. Three degrees in nuclear, chemical and math. That’s a smart man.”
“Kaczynski was one of his students,” he continued, apparently referring to the domestic terrorist and mathematician Theodore ‘Ted’ Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber.
“Do you know who Kaczynski was? There’s very little difference between a madman and a genius,” Trump added.
The president then told a nearly impossible-to-believe anecdote about a conversation he claims he had with his uncle: “I said, ‘What kind of a student was he, Uncle John?’ Dr John Trump. He said, ‘What kind of a student? ‘Man,’ he said, ‘seriously good … He’d go around correcting everybody.’ But it didn’t work out too well for him.”
John Trump died in 1985, a decade before Kaczynski was linked to the Unabomber attacks. The alleged conversation would had to have occurred years before the public knew Kaczynski was responsible for the bombings, which killed three people and injured 23 others between 1978 and 1995.
Furthermore, Kaczynski didn’t attend MIT. He studied at Harvard and the University of Michigan and later took on an assistant professor role at the University of California at Berkeley.
Well uncle Ted wasn’t a fan of computers… What the fuck is going on?
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Trump being Trump on a day ending with -y.
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Dementia-related confabulation.
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I don’t think this is dementia per se, but rather Drumpf telling a tall tale he’s oft repeated, without really understanding that, now that he is the president of the United States his every utterance will be fact checked in real time and bullshit called immediately.
Every family has a tall tale or myth they like to repeat (ours is that we have an ancestor that came over on one of the Mayflower voyages), and everyone, especially in their youth, has told a tall tale to make themselves seem more impressive to their audience. A tale that was plausible, but unverifiable in the moment, and just forgettable enough that no one would bother to look into it later.
This is one of his, and would be harmless if he were a private citizen BSing with a group of friends.
What’s pathetic to me is, he’s the president of the United fucking States, and had an objectively eventful life before that. He should have some actually impressive and true stories to tell, yet he repeats this one, which isn’t even impressive.
I mean, really? Your uncle taught the Unibomber? That’s the “brush with fame” story you’re going with?
What a sad, broken man you are.
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Yeah. I have better brushes with fame than that and I have had an objectively uneventful life.
Fuckit, I’ve even personally met objectively more successful terrorists. It’s not remotely hard!
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TIL a new word.
And what a useful one!
Can’t believe I haven’t met this word before.
Thanks to you both.
There I was, thinking I was good at the wurds, like a fule…
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The syncretism was a form of resistance by enslaved Africans, who continued to worship the orixas, but under the mantle of the saints of the Catholic Church. For example, they could pay homage to Ọya as the deity was also Saint Barbara. Even today, both divine figures are entwined.
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Oh.
Wow.
Thanks for the amazing info.
Wonderfully, they also have a Saint Barbra!
Yeah, I know, one too many vowels…
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I learned the word when I began reading about vodou/vodoun/voodoo.
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Nil by mouth or lungs while watching, or you may do yrself a mischief!
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The New Anabelle.
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They say this like it’s a bad thing
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