This is the text from part of Trump’s speech at a recent rally in Reno, NV.  First we’ll have the full text then I’ll add a commentary.  Please sit before you read this.  Some shit is just so weird that I couldn’t make it up.  This would be on that list.

• We’re going to end the mandate on electric one day. They want to make all boats too. I went to a boat company in South Carolina, the boat. I said, “How is it?” He said, “It’s a problem, sir. They want us to make all electric boats.” These are boats that are from 16 to 35 or so feet, fishing boats, leisure boats, beautiful company in South Carolina, beautiful.  The guy’s been doing it for 50 years. He sells hundreds of boats every couple of months. I mean, really fantastic guy. And they use the Mercury engines and different engines in the back, no problem. They want to take that out. They want to make it all electric. He said, “The problem is the boat is so heavy it can’t float.” I said, “That sounds like a problem.” He said, “Also, it can’t go fast because of the weight. And they want to now have a fifty-mile or a seventy-mile radius. You have to go out 70 miles before you can really start the boat up and you go out at two knots.” That’s essentially almost like two miles an hour.  Say, “How long does it take you to get out there?” “Many hours, and then you’re allowed to go around for 10 minutes, but you have to come back because the batteries only last for a very short period of time.” So I said, “Let me ask you a question.” And he said, “Nobody ever asked this question, and it must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT,” very smart. 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 underwater, and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?” By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately. Do you notice that? A lot of 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 not hungry, but they misunderstood who she was.” These people are crazy. He said, “There’s no problem with sharks. They just didn’t really understand a young woman swimming now who 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 I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking, and 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, “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 shark. So we going to end that. We’re going to end it for boats. We’re going to end it for trucks.

Have a headache yet?  Let’s break this down and look at what’s real and what’s well, are the words “Trump” and “lie” synonymous?

• We’re going to end the mandate on electric one day. They want to make all boats too.
  – There is no mandate to make electric boatsI went to a boat company in South Carolina, the boat.
  – Maybe he really did, but this so called conversation suggests he didn’t and that everything is made up.I said, “How is it?” He said, “It’s a problem, sir. They want us to make all electric boats.” These are boats that are from 16 to 35 or so feet, fishing boats, leisure boats, beautiful company in South Carolina, beautiful.  The guy’s been doing it for 50 years. He sells hundreds of boats every couple of months.
  – It would have to be a pretty big company to make this number of boats.

  I mean, really fantastic guy. And they use the Mercury engines and different engines in the back, no problem. They want to take that out. They want to make it all electric. He said, “The problem is the boat is so heavy it can’t float.”
  – I won’t get into physics and the science behind displacement, but clearly we know that a boat can be made to handle the weight of an electric motor.  Aircraft carriers can handle the weight of a nuclear reactor, four thousand or so crew, lots of planes, and more.

  I said, “That sounds like a problem.” He said, “Also, it can’t go fast because of the weight.
  – Just wrong.  My electric car has a top speed of 132mph.  A boat can be electric and go fast.

  And they want to now have a fifty-mile or a seventy-mile radius. You have to go out 70 miles before you can really start the boat up and you go out at two knots.”
  – What?

  That’s essentially almost like two miles an hour.  Say, “How long does it take you to get out there?” “Many hours, and then you’re allowed to go around for 10 minutes, but you have to come back because the batteries only last for a very short period of time.”
  – My electric car, in summer, has a range of about 250 miles.  Batteries can handle long distances.

  So I said, “Let me ask you a question.”
  – The conversation would have had to have taken place for this to be true.

  And he said, “Nobody ever asked this question, and it must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT,” very smart.
  – Wouldn’t someone say they have never been asked a question after being asked it, not before?
  – Trump has no relationship with MIT.  His uncle did teach there.  Not the same.
  – “very smart”?  This whole speech suggests otherwise.

  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 underwater, and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?” By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately. Do you notice that? A lot of 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 not hungry, but they misunderstood who she was.” These people are crazy. He said, “There’s no problem with sharks. They just didn’t really understand a young woman swimming now who 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 I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking, and 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?”
  – first he says the boat sank, then he says the boat’s sinking.  We’ll leave his bizarre fascination with sharks for another time.  We already covered that a properly designed boat won’t sink from the weight of the batteries.
  – There really aren’t a lot of shark attacks.  Driving a car is far more dangerous.  Crossing the street is more dangerous.  And let’s not talk about the deaths and mayhem from guns.

  Because I will tell you he didn’t know the answer. He said, “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 shark. So we going to end that. We’re going to end it for boats. We’re going to end it for trucks.
  – I’m pretty sure that no one anywhere was ever asked about this fictional nonsense.

We all have questions about Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities, especially after his incredibly poor debate performance.  Trump’s are clearly worse.  He shows it over and over and over again.  It’s become so normalized that we expect and accept it.  We can’t.  We will not convince the cult followers of Trump to abandon him.  That said, if we don’t convince somewhere around 100,000 undecided voters in Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin about the lies and danger of Trump then we’ll have him as the next president.

The risks and costs are too high.  I’d rather have a senile president than one who will end our democracy.  I’ll be writing about the plan for that to happen soon.  It’s called “Project 2025“.

Now is the time to be the pebble.