Trump babbling incoherently about energy at fundraiser.

[Stonepounder]

This is a transcript of part of his speech:

“We have — clean coal exports have increased, 60 percent last year — clean coal, which is one of our big assets that we weren’t allowed to use for our miners. You remember Hillary with the coal, right, sitting with the miners at the table? Remember? That wasn’t so good for her. So the people of West Virginia and all over, you look at Wyoming, you look at so many different places where they just, Pennsylvania, where they loved what we did, and it’s clean coal and we have the most modern procedures. But it’s a tremendous form of energy in the sense that in a military way — think of it — coal is indestructible.”

“You can blow up a pipeline, you can blow up the windmills. You know, the windmills, boom, boom, boom [mimicking windmill sound] bing [mimes shooting large gun], that’s the end of that one. If the birds don’t kill it first. The birds could kill it first. They kill so many birds. You look underneath some of those windmills, it’s like a killing field, the birds. But you know, that’s what they were going to, they were going to windmills. And you know, don’t worry about — when the wind doesn’t blow, I said, ‘What happens when the wind doesn’t blow?’ ‘Well, then we have a problem.’

“Okay, good. They were putting them in areas where they didn’t have much wind, too. And it’s a subs — you need subsidy for windmills. You need subsidy. Who wants to have energy where you need subsidy? So, uh, the coal is doing great.”

I wasn't sure I believed this when I ran across it on Facebook, but I checked and the above was printed in WaPo, trying to decipher the indecipherable. Sure sounds like a person not in complete possession of his faculties. Full article at:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/08/20/allow-us-to-translate-trumps-odd-comments-on-coal-and-energy/?utm_term=.0413e8277eb7

[Demovictory9]

1. The birds could kill it first. They kill so many birds. You look underneath some of those windmills,

[dchill]

7. They kill so many birds.

Sigh. Stop making sense. Done deal!

[murielm99]

2. Subsidy?

Does he mean supplement? Wind energy would not provide all the energy needed, less than 100% of the energy needed?

Subsidy refers to something financial. He thinks about nothing but money, if he thinks at all.

WTF is wrong with him?

[Cha]

3. Oompa Loompa stage?

Link to tweet

[Demovictory9]

4. he's gonna get skin cancer from all that tanning

[DFW]

5. James Joyce: stream of consciousness

Trump: stream of incoherency

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Idiot.

[texasfiddler]

8. The easiest thing to blow up is a railroad track dumbass

[Vinca]

9. This transcript reminded me of my days working at a psychiatric hospital in the late 60's.

There was a patient named Joan who wandered the grounds babbling about "Commies" and Wankel engines. She'd corner anyone who would listen to her. Another old guy, Bishop, liked to wander around clutching his mathematical equations and sounding like Trump. Don isn't well and it doesn't take Sigmund Freud to realize that.

[Stonepounder]

10. Back in the 50's my father worked as a clinical psychologist

at the Columbus State Hospital. I remember many of the patients who could hold a much more rational and lucid conversation than tRump.