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tanyev

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9. Coming soon, the Donald J. Trump and Bill O'Reilly science textbook: Killing Science

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:27 AM

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Nobody knows what magnets are.

Tide goes in, tide goes out...you can't explain that.

Because everybody hates the smartypants scientists that use all those big words.

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Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are." [View all] tblue37 Nov 11 OP

If he had a normal life where mom sticks magnets on the refrigerator Emile Nov 11 #1

Don't they teach about magnets in magnet schools? tblue37 Wednesday #2

lol.. Coldwater Wednesday #5

Fucking magnets how so they work? (Some of you may get the reference) fujiyamasan Wednesday #3

Tides. tblue37 Wednesday #11

Tides go in, tides go out... nobody knows why... it must be God. Magic. (Or aliens.) QueerDuck Wednesday #15

And no pushback pfitz59 Wednesday #4

When he doesn't know something (which is often), he says "nobody knows" about that thing. Ocelot II Wednesday #6

"A lot of people didn't know Lincoln was a Republican" BeerBarrelPolka Wednesday #12

This. It's a tell for him. ms liberty Wednesday #13

Obviously. he has no clue. OAITW r.2.0 Wednesday #7

Stable Genius Coldwater Wednesday #8

Sheer brilliance here (and he has clearly since deteriorated!) fujiyamasan Wednesday #10

OMG - I just had a flashback to the psychiatric hospital I worked at in the late 1960's. Vinca Wednesday #14

Coming soon, the Donald J. Trump and Bill O'Reilly science textbook: Killing Science tanyev Wednesday #9