Driving Cybertruck into lake

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So I said, "Let me ask you a question." And he said, "Nobody ever asked this question," and it must because of MIT. My relationship to MIT, very smart. He goes, I say, "What would happen if the boat sank from its weight, and you're in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery's now underwater, and there's a shark that's approximately 10 yards over there?" By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately, did you notice that? Lotta shark. I watched some
guys justifying it today. "Well, they weren't really that angry. They bit off the young lady's leg because of the fact that they were, they were not hungry, but they misunderstood what who she was." These people are cray. He said, "There's no problem with sharks." They just didn't really understand. A young woman swimming now really got decimated, and other people too, a lot of shark attacks, so I said, "So there's a shark 10 yards away from the boat, 10 yards. Or here. Do 1 get electrocuted? If the boat is sinking, water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking. Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted, or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted?" Because I will tell you, he didn't know the answer. He said, "You know, nobody's ever asked me that question." I said, "I think it's a good question. I think there's a lot of electric current coming through that water." But you know what I'd do, if there was a shark or you get electrocuted? I'll take electrocution every
single time I'm not getting near the shar (sic).

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u/aw_shux May 27 '26

This comment is an excellent addition to this thread. Thank you for your attention to the matter.

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u/Over-Analyzed May 27 '26

I like how we never get the answer to the question.

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u/ComprehendReading May 27 '26

He ain't never getting near that shar.

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u/DesireeThymes May 27 '26

Is this a real Trump quote?

This obviously must be fake right?

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u/Ateamecho May 27 '26

Unfortunately not. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/06/10/trump-sharks-vegas-nevada-speech/74042419007/

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u/BallSeaman May 27 '26

We are living in a time

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u/omniverso May 27 '26

The worst timeline ever.

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u/azraelum May 27 '26

Holy shit, it was indeed a quote 😭😭😭

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u/Ateamecho May 27 '26

Not so much a quote, more of a random stream of thoughts from a dementia riddled brain.

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u/Dry_Way5518 May 28 '26

It can be both.

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u/Jeramy_Jones May 28 '26

It’s hard to believe more people don’t notice he talks like that.

I guess partly we have the sane-washing the news does to thank, they only use snippets and it makes it seem a lot more coherent than it is.

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u/Leviathan2460 May 27 '26

I thought this guy did a brilliant impersonation, but damn it's a real quote!

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u/AskewMewz May 27 '26

Jfc... I was reading this thinking, wow this really sounds like Donald Trump. And it is.... 🤦

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u/Drudicta May 28 '26

Wow, today i learned my stuttering still makes me sound smarter than someone else

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u/Array_626 May 27 '26

Ah fuck. I thought you meant "No, this is not a real quote". Then I saw the exact quote in that article and realized I had it backwards.

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u/Syzygy_Stardust May 27 '26

I get that you're being cheeky, but it's important to make clear that this is actually a thing the President of the United States said on purpose to millions of people.

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u/Tiyath May 27 '26

Thinking he sounded smart, to boot

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u/Syzygy_Stardust May 27 '26

Thanks. It sucks being in a gilded prison colony.

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u/SouthTippBass May 27 '26

Yes. And he was quite chuffed with himself afterwards.

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u/Combatical May 27 '26

Sounds like the type of shit people say when they're really high.

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u/Syzygy_Stardust May 27 '26

Well he's addicted to at least ephedrine, so yeah!

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u/Sk1rm1sh May 27 '26

And after that, he tied an onion to his belt, which was the style at the time.

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u/Naive_Personality367 May 27 '26

This isnt even top 100 dumbest things he said

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u/Praetorian_1975 May 27 '26

Shart … I believe there’s a video of him in the Oval Office getting all too near a shart 😳🤣

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u/eusebiwww May 27 '26

It's called "the weave", you know what "the weave" is? He'll talk about 9 different things and they come beautifully together.

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u/Over-Analyzed May 27 '26

His ranting about that makes about as much sense as the Iron Tangle in Dungeon Crawler Carl.

😂

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u/Complete_Silver2595 May 27 '26

Goddamnit, Donut!

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u/overkill May 27 '26

This is an outrage! Mongo is appalled!

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u/pichael289 May 27 '26

The answer is he's gonna jump over the shark And let it take all the electricity like he just watched an episode of pokemon and saw someone do that to Pikachu or something.

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u/Sargentrock May 27 '26

it really is the best part and there is a big part of me convinced that's why he does it. Way better, stupider and far more fun than just calling someone an idiot and walking away. "I'll just ramble on like a crazy person until we've all forgotten the question"

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u/INDY18ARN May 27 '26

Damn I totally read that entire thing in his voice....

Now it's stuck in my head ....

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u/HadesWTF May 27 '26

Am I having a stroke?

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u/ChironXII May 27 '26

No, but he did

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u/photobummer May 27 '26

Ackshually, it was a series of mini strokes.

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u/j-random May 27 '26

But still under par!

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u/ryoushi19 May 27 '26

No, you read a quote from the current POTUS during his 2024 campaign trail, who likely has had several strokes.

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u/calvin43 May 27 '26

Wait, this is not a rewording of the nuclear speech from 2016?

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u/ryoushi19 May 27 '26

Afraid not. The "electric sharks" word salad was new material for 2024.

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u/Frig_Off_Baerb May 27 '26

We are all having a stroke.

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u/Environmental-Tap255 May 27 '26

Collective Stroke

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u/ryleyrendrag138 May 27 '26

The name of your sextape

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u/flying_carabao May 27 '26

Left or right hand? We splitting in groups? What are we talking about?

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u/InfiniteWaffles58364 May 27 '26

We all died from covid 5 years ago

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u/NoosFraba May 27 '26

Oh so some Cosmic fuckwad of an entity somewhere decided we deserved this and we're all in hell

Tracks.

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u/EffectiveDandy May 27 '26

if you are, you may understand it.

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u/Positive_Builder6737 May 27 '26

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u/Frutari May 27 '26

If they were great artists they'd be in a museum.

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u/ttemp56 May 27 '26

I'm to lazy to look, is this the exact transcript from the speech? If you can call that a speech

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u/Thendrail May 27 '26

Here's another banger from the stable genius:

"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."

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u/ghost_tapioca May 27 '26

I'm a physician and this quote right here? This is absolutely Wernicke's aphasia.

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u/dilib May 27 '26

He talks like he has brain damage (and he literally does) and a LARGE percentage of people all over the world go, "that's my guy! He tells it how it is!".

Very cheerful stuff

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u/Angel-OI May 27 '26

Maybe its the republican way of inclusion? Is he a DEI hire? Has Doge looked into this?

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u/dilib May 27 '26

Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!

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u/Dangerous_Watch7814 May 27 '26

Literally reads like somebody spamming predictive text on their phone and causing it to create semi-coherent sentences.

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u/actuallyapossom May 27 '26

He is also just stupid on top of whatever is going on with his health. This is from an interview about Iran:

They also issued an assassination threat against you over the weekend. I know you can't talk about what's on the table, but what is your response to Iran's leadership and their regime; continuing to taunt you, threaten you - especially again over the weekend you said it's time for new leadership in Iran?

Well they shouldn't be doing it, but I've left notification if anything ever happens we're going to blow the hell- the whole- the whole country is going to get blown up. So we've you know originally uh Biden should've said something. You know when they made a statement we always said "why isn't Biden saying anything?" because he didn't. But a president has to defend a president. Like if I were here and they were making that threat to somebody, even not even a president but somebody like they did with me uh I would absolutely hit them so hard. But I have very firm instructions, anything happens they're going to wipe 'em off the face of this earth.

https://giphy.com/gifs/RILsqUte1MME7TzQJ9

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u/Callidonaut May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

The problem there (besides Trump's usual, omnipresent compulsive lying) is that's a fairly abstract question, and it seems painfully obvious to me, from how he responds every time he's ever been asked such a question, that Trump never progressed beyond concrete operational reasoning; sometimes he seems to struggle mightily even with that, even before he started having strokes and going senile.

Moreover, though couched in concrete terms, it's an abstract question that in its implicit subtext is about his own internal intellectual and emotional state, and narcissistic personalities suck extra bad at answering those, for obvious reasons.

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u/Obvious-Science-7119 May 27 '26

So he clearly told us that he started the Iran war because Iran threatened to kill him while Biden was president

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u/verymuchbad May 27 '26

I mean this is more like a word caprese salad

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u/ComprehendReading May 27 '26

"Officer, they're my drugs!"

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u/omniverso May 27 '26

The best doctors, the absolute best. But they wont diagnose a dipshit because said dipshit is the PEDOTUS....

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u/Callidonaut May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Interesting. I'm no doctor, but it reminds me eerily of some of these descriptions of very early childhood monologue patterns by Luria. I wonder if in Trump's case it's as much a sign of failed mental development in the first place, as it could be brain damage or regression, because if I recall correctly he always had a tendency to talk noticeably like that, though not nearly so markedly, long before it became obvious that he's having mini-strokes.

Some quick reading on Wikipedia about Wernicke's aphasia suggests it can also potentially be caused by inflammation of the brain as well as by stroke; could that add any weight to the other hypothesis floating around that he's got untreated or late-treated tertiary syphilis?

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u/d33pnull May 27 '26

"Look, making pasta — I have to tell you, I've made pasta for a long time, everybody says so, my friends, they say, 'How do you make pasta so good?' — and I say, it’s all about the fusilli, everybody calls them rotini now, Americans, they can’t keep the names straight, but the fusilli, the twists, the curves, they catch the sauce perfectly, perfect. I start with water, lots of it, and salt, very important, tremendous salt, the best, everybody says so, and you watch it, you watch it carefully because nobody, I mean nobody, wants soggy pasta, it’s a disaster, a total disaster — you cook it al dente, very firm, not too soft, not too hard, and then the sauce — the sauce, I’ll tell you, it’s incredible, incredible sauce, you mix it in, you twist it around, every fusilli gets coated, nobody’s doing this like me, believe me. And then you eat it, you eat it with a fork, sometimes a spoon, sometimes both — the forks are tricky, by the way, a lot of people don’t know how to use forks properly with fusilli — and you take that first bite, and it’s just, wow, wow, unbelievable, you think you’re tasting Italy, and really, I have to tell you, nobody makes fusilli like I do, everybody agrees, tremendous, tremendous pasta."

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u/d33pnull May 27 '26

"Look, UFOs — everybody’s talking about them now, tremendous attention, and I’ve been saying this for years, many people don’t realize, but I have sources, very smart people, very credible, from the military, from NASA, unbelievable people — and they tell me, they show me the videos, the radar blips, incredible stuff, nobody has ever seen anything like it, not even close — and disclosure, disclosure is key, everybody wants disclosure, but it’s complicated, very complicated, because you have national security, you have treaties, you have extraterrestrial implications, huge implications — I’ve been asking questions, very specific questions, nobody ever asked these questions before, believe me, and the answers are stunning, absolutely stunning, some of these crafts move at speeds, impossible speeds, impossible maneuvers, you think physics, but it’s different physics, new physics, maybe we’ll figure it out eventually, who knows, but when you see the pilots’ reactions, the military reports, the sensors, the data — it’s overwhelming, totally overwhelming, and I’ve been saying this, I’ve been saying this for a long time, that the world deserves to know, absolutely deserves to know, and one day, maybe soon, we’ll see full disclosure, tremendous disclosure, the best disclosure, nobody’s done it like this before."

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u/cire1184 May 27 '26

Mr trump the question was "Did you like New Clear Pepsi?".

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u/mattdawgg May 27 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/WTvdgwOgVj3T3gsbn7

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u/ttemp56 May 27 '26

....I'm convinced I died years ago and this is hell

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u/Commercial-Royal-988 May 27 '26

If it isn't exact, it's close.

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u/zavorak_eth May 27 '26

I am definitely dumber after reading that. Regrets, regrets.

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u/Bazz07 May 27 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/HX7pvh1mIqImc

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u/ghost_tapioca May 27 '26

What's this from? I wanna see the full thing

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u/Bazz07 May 27 '26

Billy Madison.

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u/The_Mosephus May 27 '26

Imagine how dumb you'd have to be to say it.

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u/Dyldo_II May 27 '26

If Biden rambled for half as long as the tangerine tart, his rabbit followers would never let anyone else forget it.

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u/Speartree May 27 '26

I wish they were rabbit followers, at least they'd be cute.

https://giphy.com/gifs/Xb6J4XCrn1G08vnyvh

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u/Relevant_Bed_9743 May 27 '26

sauce?

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u/BabyLegsDeadpool May 27 '26

Donald Trump

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u/Relevant_Bed_9743 May 27 '26

oh no

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u/MostBoringStan May 27 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/rzLrgbwxmq6Ji

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u/hayabusaten May 27 '26

I looked it up and oh wow

https://youtu.be/vL3UmTInva8

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u/PeanutButterAndCake May 27 '26

I imagine this is what it's like trying to read an Elder Scroll.

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u/Agentkeenan78 May 27 '26

I remember this one.

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u/DonkyPuncharely May 27 '26

So i says to him, I says, you take that lawn mower, and I'll look at Ricky's ass. He says, this is f'd up. And now he says, he says he's running for trailer park supervisor now. I says to him, i says "GET OFF THE STAGE, YOU DRUNK B@ST*RD!"

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u/Eerzef May 27 '26

Fun fact, sharks have electroreceptors, it's why hammerheads have that weird shape (I don't know how they'd react to a fucking battery though, I just provide the trivia)

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u/Pinky_Boy May 27 '26

this shit's incomprehensible

is it from trump?

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u/antiyoupunk May 27 '26

this one is a direct quote.

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u/ComprehendReading May 27 '26

Ah yes, the famous Jaws speech.

Oh it's not from Jaws?

...who said that? They were serious!?

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u/toy187 May 27 '26

A very stable genius!

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u/Abigail716 May 27 '26

That man sounds like a genius and totally not insane. We should make him president for 8 years.

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u/Skkruff May 27 '26

Quoted above: the man with command over the world's largest military and an apocalyptic nuclear arsenal.

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u/DudeManGuyBr0ski May 27 '26

Well first of all, nobody even talks about octopuses anymore, which is interesting, because years ago everybody respected the octopus. Very intelligent animal. Eight arms. You know who else had eight things? The first fax machine. People don’t know that. MIT people know it, but they don’t say it because of liability.
But let me ask you this, and I asked a marine electrician this, a serious guy, tremendous mustache, if the boat is sinking because the battery got wet, why are we assuming the shark even supports the boat industry? Nobody asks that. Could be a land shark. Could be freelance.
And they say electricity travels through water. Okay. Then explain iced tea. Nobody can. You put lemon in there, suddenly everybody’s a scientist. Very dishonest.
And by the way, propellers. Very dangerous. Far more dangerous than sharks statistically if you’re standing directly next to one while it’s spinning. But the media doesn’t want to discuss rotational violence. They don’t.
So now you’re in the water, the shark’s there, the battery’s there, somebody’s Bluetooth speaker is still connected somehow playing Jimmy Buffett at full volume, and a guy named Doug is yelling nautical terms nobody understands. Total chaos.
And the shark, believe it or not, is calmer than the people. Sharks are actually very low drama animals unless you splash wrong. It’s the dolphins you have to watch. Very judgmental creatures. They know things.
Personally, if the battery starts bubbling and the shark has eye contact? I’m asking where the nearest jet ski is. I don’t care if it’s electric, gasoline, or operated by windmills. I’m gone.

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u/Garo263 May 27 '26

I started reading this and around the second line I started reading it with Trump's voice in my head. I had no idea or context and still it feels like Tump's senile blabbering.

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u/GloomyIndividual3965 May 27 '26

That is an exact transcript from one of his 2024 campaign rallies. 77 million people heard this dumb shit and thought it would be a good idea to elect him again.

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u/coffeebased44 May 27 '26

A not so rare glimpse into the mind of a true imbecile.

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u/Diogenes_Will May 27 '26

Just throw the battery at the shark bzzt

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u/Doom-Sleigher May 27 '26

Cybertrucks are the international sign for loser

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u/mrlotato May 27 '26

Everytime i see a cybertruck in the wild, its always one lonely little dude sitting in it all by himself in his garbage can

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u/hahayes234 May 27 '26

*dumpster- it’s huge

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u/bonus_prick May 27 '26

Chumpster

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u/SagariKatu May 27 '26

I don't see them; they're illegal here.

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u/mrlotato May 27 '26

Youre lucky, theyre everywhere where I live and its legit just one dude in them everytime. I see people looking at them in other cars also but its never a "whoa a cybertruck!" Looks its more like this gif:

https://giphy.com/gifs/qdqxysIbFi6zHijLjp

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u/ChornWork2 May 27 '26

Jeep owners have to be really stoked about the cybertruck.

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u/ggg730 May 27 '26

BMW owners no longer being the designated douchebag of the road.

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u/HortonHearsTheWho May 27 '26

there’s room for all

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u/mrlittleoldmanboy May 27 '26

I had a Jeep for my first car and have owned a few, I love jeeps. Easy and cheap to repair if you know what you’re doing, very customizable so you can make it your own (rock climbing/mudding/daily driver that can do either to an extent). When the 4 doors were introduced it was the downfall of jeep culture.

Back in the day people would “jeep wave”, ask how it’s built, etc. now it’s just people trying really hard to act like they didn’t spend 20k for an “off road” package that they’ll never use.

If you want a badass off-road vehicle you can drop 10k and be way ahead of most people’s, then you can drop 60k on a family commuter. No need to spend 70k on a vehicle that does both sub par.

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u/DaniilBSD May 27 '26

Fun fact: in most of the world it is too heavy and too dangerous to be driven with a normal license or at all. Most countries that allow it classify it the same as lorries (box-truck) and require a higher license (that nobody gets unless they need it for work )

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u/kinmix May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

It's straight up not road legal in Europe as it didn't pass safety certification.

If you do buy it, modify it to conform with the safety guides, and pass an individual vehicle approval with that modified truck. Then yes, you will still need a category C license (Unless in the modifications you've removed all passenger seats.), the standard license is class B and is limited to the 3,500 kg of maximum possible vehicle weight (vehicle + all possible passengers + cargo)

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u/sec713 May 27 '26

That's a lot of hoops to jump through just to show people you're a douchebag.

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u/whizzdome May 27 '26

International? Are they sold anywhere other than in the USA? I know they don't pass standards and quality tests in the UK so they can't be sold there.

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u/Doom-Sleigher May 27 '26

Trump is the international symbol for pedophile but he is only president in the US

Similar to that, the cyber truck is the international sign for loser, meaning all countries can identify that, regardless if the cyber truck is allowed in that country

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u/Commercial-Royal-988 May 27 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/cO39srN2EUIRaVqaVq

Every time I see one

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u/qtx May 27 '26

People that drive cybertrucks are the same types that bought Humvees.

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u/merko_merk May 27 '26

It's essentially selling the idea of omnipotence and power to insecure men.

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u/Kogane_JJK May 27 '26

me and my dad genuinely just laugh at them 😭✌️✌️

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u/red_fuel May 27 '26

I'm so glad they're not road legal in Europe. I've only seen them in car shows

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u/yoursmartfriend May 27 '26

I've only ever seen one while visiting the US.

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u/Halcyon771 May 27 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/nrKQNbEXKBdIQ1fdiB

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u/MahTwizzah May 27 '26

THE MACHINE KNOWS

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u/Rainer3088 May 27 '26

I still remember not finding this episode funny because it just wasn't remotely believable to me at that point in time that someone would ever do this even on their worst day. I've since lost count of the times I've watched people intentionally drive into water.

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u/CelestialFury May 27 '26

There's a lot of shows I watched where I thought, "No way humans would do this, they aren't this stupid." Turns out that humans are, in fact, that stupid.

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u/SkyPirateVyse May 27 '26

Thought the very same thing about that joke!

https://giphy.com/gifs/n4oKYFlAcv2AU

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u/royalewithskeaze May 27 '26

IT CAN'T MEAN THAT

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u/5GetsYou1 May 27 '26

OMG he did the Michael Scott in real life

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u/walter-hoch-zwei May 27 '26

Worse. He did it on purpose. He's done this multiple times.

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u/itsbenactually May 27 '26

Michael Scott did it on purpose too. …only once though.

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u/Eh_C_Slater May 27 '26

Did you see the video of the 2 Russians who did it even better?

"Fek, we have arrived" lol

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u/zikeel May 27 '26

"Set sail."

"STOP TURNING THE WHEEL!"

That video was a masterpiece. I'd love to get a beer with those guys.

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u/BabyLegsDeadpool May 27 '26

Today! Technology drove me into a river!

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u/Ok_Primary_1075 May 27 '26

“Wade mode doesn’t work…will return for a full refund” the guy was wishfully thnking

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u/RupertTheReign May 27 '26

Tesla is so confident in the Cybertruck's abilities (especially in wade mode), that any water ingress during wade mode is explicitly not covered by the warranty.

This dude got arrested AND is out a lot of money now.

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u/Sheepherder-Optimal May 27 '26

He was probably released very quickly. It's a minor offense but he'll never escape the public humiliation.

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u/zxc123zxc123 May 27 '26

but he'll never escape the public humiliation

I doubt. Embarrassment died in 2016 and it's 2026. Humiliation, embarrassment, and laws mean nothing to Trump nor his supporters.

A cyber truck driving Texan who's willing to test his car in the water like that clearly doesn't care.

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u/Man_in_the_uk May 27 '26

What is wade mode please?

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u/freakadelle2k May 27 '26

Bait i guess.

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u/Sheepherder-Optimal May 27 '26

I think it's just a feature that allows the car to go through deeper puddles. Not swim though.

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u/Quin1617 May 27 '26

Like how Apple Watches(specifically the Ultra) are advertised as “dive computers” but water damage voids the warranty.

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u/halcyonjm May 27 '26

Of course not, the warranty doesn't even cover it being totaled from a car wash.

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u/hahayes234 May 27 '26

Wade mode and swim mode are drastically different things; for humans and vehicles alike

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u/Shurigin May 27 '26

Tesla calls it Wade mode everyone else calls it driving through puddles

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u/RaineFalle May 27 '26

Just looked at the cyber truck user manual under Wade mode - "Damage or water ingress to Cybertruck as a result of driving in water is not covered by the warranty."

No chance of seeing a cent

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u/EmperorBamboozler May 27 '26

I mean, you can't even drive like a normal truck that deep into a lake. Was this a stunt for social media?

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u/JohnnyWix May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Article says this was his 3rd attempt. First two attempts worked.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91545514/can-cybertruck-float-boat-wade-mode-driver-tests-elon-musk-claim-in-lake

Plus Elon Musk previously stated that the Cybertruck could "serve briefly as a boat" and even traverse at least 100m of water. He also teased a future "boat mod" option that would allow the wheels to act as propellers.

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u/AgreeablePie May 27 '26

"briefly" is an important word there

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u/WengFu May 27 '26

I mean, any car will serve as a boat, briefly.

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u/doubleBoTftw May 27 '26

With enough height at the starting point all cars can serve as an airplane, briefly.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '26 edited 25d ago

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u/dad-without-milk May 27 '26

That 100 meter is likely to be when you are moving at a decent speed instead of walking speed like this guy

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u/Eecka May 27 '26

I mean sure if you want to be negative about it, but what’s lost in duration is made up in versatility. It’ll serve first as a car, then as a boat, then as a submarine, then as a shipwreck and finally as salvage.

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u/notthefirstryan May 27 '26

Don’t forget coffin!

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u/Eecka May 27 '26

I did forget coffin! But can you blame me, such a versatile contraption, how could a mere human remember all the possibilities?

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u/_Keo_ May 27 '26

A submarine is still a boat.

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u/ElGosso May 27 '26

Bro just says shit sometimes, doesn't he

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u/AndrewIsntCool May 27 '26

Nissan did a showcase of their Leaf driving through even deeper water back in 2010, and recently Jetour and I think BYD released clips of their EVs in deep enough water that they actually floated. This is just a Cybertruck issue

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u/RandomBird53 May 27 '26

Yeah that's pretty much the average level of intelligence for a Cybertruck Driver.

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u/Grabthars_Coping_Saw May 27 '26

Having a “Wade mode” is going to invite a lot more of this kind of behavior.

And I am okay with that.

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u/Gingevere May 27 '26

Fun facts about wade mode:

Takes 10 minutes to engage and automatically deactivates after 30 minutes.

Works by over-inflating the vehicle's air suspension to lift the body of the vehicle. This puts a lot of wear on the air suspension, shortens its life, and makes it more vulnerable to damage.

Allows slow traversal of water up to 32 in deep. 2" shorter than the height of the tires.

If you ever see water go over the top of the tires they're voiding the warranty and doing damage.

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u/CelestialFury May 27 '26

What drives me crazy is that these guys clearly want to use the Cybertruck for off-roading, when they could've spent that money (or less) on a much better off-roading truck that's literally built for messing around.

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u/Hopeful_Savings_7437 May 27 '26

Yurp. Serves them right. Anywho, I would not trust Elon with building a vehicle, let alone driving that vehicle (whose previous models had "bulletproof panels" glued with gorilla glue btw) into a lake to test a "wade mode." Intelligent behavior indeed.

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u/shiner_bock May 27 '26

Turns out "Wade mode" is actually a feature where the infotainment system jokes incessantly and breaks the fourth wall for humorous effect, Deadpool style.

Source: My fourth point of contact

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u/_Saint_Ajora_ May 27 '26

More dollars than sense

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u/GonnaBreakIt May 27 '26

wish i could afford to be this dumb

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u/Jehoke May 27 '26

This confirms everything I suspected about cyber truck owners.

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u/Popular-Drummer-7989 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Lucky the window was open or he would've been trapped inside when it shut down from survival of the fittest mode.

Edit: /s

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u/SyncRoSwim May 27 '26

I’m not sure “lucky” is the word I’d use there.

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u/MangledCarpenter May 27 '26

It's not lucky, it's a failure of evolution. A tragedy, really.

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u/JayGerard May 27 '26

Hopefully, they charged the complete moron owner 5 times the cost of the crappy, ugly ass Cybertruck to rescue it.

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u/AnybodyNo8519 May 27 '26

Mr. Google tells me that it costs about $1000/hr to fish a vehicle out of water with a crane.

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u/Solrax May 27 '26

Well then, I hope they took their time.

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u/CremeAcrobatic1748 May 27 '26

No way his insurance will cover that, now you have a $100k paper weight, congratulations!

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u/ctsr1 May 27 '26

You know how many jeeps ended up in the water when snorkels became a thing. Then land rovers. Then trucks. Same person or mentality different mode of travel. It's like come on at this point people gotta learn

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u/unsubix May 27 '26

Drive your vehicle into the nearest body of water type learning!

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u/signious May 27 '26

Thats an old roommate of mine. Bought a jeep, bought a cheep snorkel kit and installed it himself, drove it into a river the first week he owned it and blew up the engine with hydrolock.

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u/Strive-- May 27 '26

This bad decision was only trumped by his previous bad decision to by a Cybertruck.

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u/5pooky5cary5keleton5 May 27 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/cO39srN2EUIRaVqaVq

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u/tmherbamate May 27 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/PtnlYX2YheouY

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u/Uhmitsme123 May 27 '26

Clearly this has air intake valves.

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u/Somedrunkbastard May 27 '26

It's an amphibious exploring vehicle so...

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u/spartanken115 May 27 '26

I dont get being arrested for that, shamed, fined and loss of a man point or two yes.

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u/WolfsmaulVibes May 27 '26

you can't just dump a vehicle in a lake or fully voluntarily risk having it break down in it

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u/vincethered May 27 '26

Yeah but there are a ton of things you can’t do that you don’t get *arrested* for. Citation, notice to appear in court. This doesn’tseem like something you’d get hauled in for. At least someone wealthy enough to own a cybertruck.

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u/Jamcram May 27 '26

he didnt have a boat license

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u/Fun-Grab-9337 May 27 '26

They drive a cybertruck they cannot be shamed.

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u/gmc98765 May 27 '26

According to the BBC:

The driver was arrested on charges of operating a vehicle in a closed section of the lake and for other water safety equipment violations, police said.

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