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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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[-] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 89 points 2 weeks ago

Lights are on. No one’s home.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 weeks ago

plane is airborne. ain't nobody flying it

[-] CheapFrottage@lemmynsfw.com 30 points 2 weeks ago

Wheel’s turning, but the hamster’s dead

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 77 points 2 weeks ago

wind turbines are killing flying pigs

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago

But then who is making the frogs gay?

[-] cranakis@reddthat.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

China or the deep state. Flip a coin.

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[-] mister_flibble@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

Will buffalo wings be next?

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 65 points 2 weeks ago

Aaand Denmark the country with the highest degree of wind power in the world, is also the worlds biggest exporter of bacon.

[-] 1adam12@lemm.ee 76 points 2 weeks ago

They have to export it because they aren’t eating it.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago

Windmills, just blowing the bacon away... It's littering the north sea and the German countryside...

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago
[-] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

This might be my favorite joke in Futurama.

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

All those windmills, just sitting there, upsetting their digestion when they eat bacon. So tragic.

[-] skvlp@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks ago

It’s terrible. Everybody is saying it.

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[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 53 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[-] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You're supposed to eat 45 mins before you go out voting. Thats just politics

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, good advice. I still remember accidentally writing in burger king.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Then shit in the booth.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 14 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago

"Bacon, shark, windmill, Hannibal Lector, battery."

[-] raynethackery@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Is this your new password?

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 weeks ago

Correct, horse. ~(Battery~ ~staple.)~

[-] ContriteErudite@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[-] nifty@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

He has dementia, it should have been obvious at covfefe

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 2 weeks ago

Anyone can fat finger shit into an app.

The disturbing part was the Redhats sagely nodding along like it meant anything.

[-] eltrain123@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Didn’t the Kroger CEO just testify that they raised prices above inflation rates because they could, based on supply and demand?

By pointing out high food costs over the last few years, isn’t he saying that unchecked, free-market capitalism is causing the drastic rise in food prices and (he isn’t saying this part) that regulation is what will bring them back down? After all, if you can charge more for a product because of supply/demand, capitalism dictates that is the correct pricing strategy.

Is this an anti-democrat rant or an anti-capitalism rant?

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] Zess@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't this the party that purposefully left in place a very weird plan to exit Afghanistan, and then blamed that on Biden, too?

[-] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Trump is a moron.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago

If anything I eat more of it because of my air fryer..

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[-] iamjackflack@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[-] ngwoo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

He's clearly referring to the bacon dispensers in every public bathroom that only produce wind when you press the bacon button.

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[-] garpujol@discuss.online 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] takeda@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

No sharks? Electric cars are out of equations with Msuk check so he has to find other things

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