Senior leadership will still line up and vote for this guy because tech bros suck.
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Watch google swallowing Dump and spitting bones.
Google, like the other big tech companies, absolutely need to be broken up with antitrust. Not destroyed, just broken up to force the resulting smaller companies to be more competitive instead of relying on their size and market domination to exploit everyone from their consumers to their employees. Everyone would benefit from that including investors who would see more growth.
But Trump doesn't say that because their monopolistic position allows them to pull increasingly anticonsumer practices. He just wants to raze it to the ground because they don't block search results that hurt his endlessly fragile ego.
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In the rant, slammed by the Harris campaign as “unintelligible,”
Okay, that part got me.
They must have just needed to quote someone as saying it because it would seem like editorializing if they described it as “unintelligible,” even though it was.
How would that even work?
Destroy the Google HQ, data centers, and assassinate it's leadership?
I mean he could maybe direct a Republican Congress to legislatively fine and tax Alphabet into the ground, but there are definitely a large number of Congress that have money in Alphabet.
He can't even come up with coherent rants, how could he come up with a way to fight someone as big as Alphabet.
Alphabet is largely guided by the intelligence community.
This is consistent with Trump attacking the CIA and the deep state.
Well he can make it an executive action and basically kill everyone and blow everything up.
Also, he, nor anybody else who would pursue something this dumb realize how many things run on google's cloud, middleware, SaaS products, etc. His middle schooler mind thinks "google = google.com search," when Alphabet's business is so much bigger than that.
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Go shout at the wind for ruffling your toupe old man.
Wouldn't it be funny if anything Trump-related: His ~~Truth~~ Weird Social, the Republican Parties' Websites, Fox "News", the Trump Organisation, and whatever would suddenly get lost out of the Google database?
...no
Anyone who's invested in technology companies these days have seen their profits vanish thanks to Trump.
Between his comments on making Taiwan pay for protection from China which made chip stocks fall like Nvidia, and now this.
I can wait to see how Alphabet's stocks are gonna go this morning.
Running the campaign like a straight up mobster now
Always has
LOL
"stop showing results that don't say i'm awesome!!!"
i almost said "what a goddamn child," but that's way too insulting to actual children. at least children have a legit excuse for acting like themselves
He even admits it....
"When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different."
https://theweek.com/speedreads/575962/donald-trump-tells-biographer-hes-same-now-first-grade
'A broken clock' etc etc.
"Google, nobody called from Google. One of the things like doing a show like yours, your show, you know, you see it on Fox, but when you really see it is all over the place, they take clips of your show that you're doing right now with me and if I do a good job, they're gonna vote for me, they're gonna vote for me because it's not just on Fox, it's on Fox is a smaller part of it. You're on all over this, those little beautiful cell phones you're on, you're all over the place. You have a product, you have a great product. You have a great brand. So you have to get out, you have to get out, you have to do things like your show and other shows and Google has been very bad. They've been very irresponsible and I have a feeling that Google is gonna be close to shut down"
Can anyone help? I don't have a senile narcissist to English translator!
Even ChatGPT is confused
The text seems to convey a few disjointed points:
No Call from Google: It starts by mentioning that no one called from Google, but this point is unclear and not elaborated on.
Importance of Media Exposure: The speaker emphasizes that doing shows like the one being discussed is important because these shows are widely seen, not just on Fox but everywhere through clips shared on cell phones and other platforms.
Effect on Voting: The speaker believes that a good performance on the show will positively influence people to vote for them.
Reach of the Show: The speaker highlights that the show is not limited to Fox but is widely distributed and accessible, thus amplifying its impact.
Praise for the Show: The speaker compliments the show's product and brand, suggesting it has great reach and quality.
Need for Exposure: There's an emphasis on the need to be active and appear on various shows to maximize exposure.
Criticism of Google: The speaker criticizes Google for being irresponsible and suggests that the company might be close to shutting down, although this point is vague and unsubstantiated.
Overall, the rant is an unfocused mix of praising media exposure, expressing a belief in the power of TV appearances to influence voters, and criticizing Google.
To make things worse, I also asked it to Yodaify it
Called from Google, nobody did. Doing a show like yours, yes, on Fox you see it. But everywhere, really, it is. Clips of your show they take, with me right now, doing it you are. Do a good job, I must, for vote for me, they will. On Fox alone, it is not, smaller part Fox is. All over this, you are. On those little beautiful cell phones, you are. A great product, you have. A great brand, you have. Out you must get, out you must get. Things like your show, and other shows, do you must. Very bad Google has been, very irresponsible. Close to shutting down, Google is, a feeling I have.
Yeah ChatGPT didn’t seem to realize he’s praising/condemning google not Fox. He’s attempting to get google to roll over and lie for him like Facebook does
LOL at "a few disjointed points". Whatever else you might say about ChatGPT, its output is extraordinarily polite. Saying "a few disjointed points" is practically the equivalent of "what the fuck is this drivel you fed me?"
I know he's always been prone to kind of incoherent rambling, and quotes straight from his rallies are usually stream-of-consciousness walls of text like this. But it really seems like it's getting worse over time. Not sure if it's senility or drug addiction or stress or whatever else, but Trump really seems to be unraveling.
Dear God...
Old man yells at cloud for not paying protection money.
Google isn’t kissing my ass and making me look good by constantly placing only the good things about me at the top of search results and videos.
So Google sucks and I’m going to shut them down.
Does he really speak like that? 😳
Yes this is the direct quote the article refers to. He rambles nonsense, often self contradicting, and then people in the media try to fashion it into coherent points for him, leading to a fake impression of competency, misleading the public and voters. This is the man who had to have his national security briefings summarized into a few brief bullet points with pictures, and he was apparently still unable to read them.
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Is this your first exposure to Trump?
Crap, I hope they've been vaccinated at least.
Not in the news. But I am not American, I don't watch what Trump has to say (or rather, I barely watch news for years).
Years ago I used to hear him talk while he was president and it was really cringe but this transcript from the first reply just seems a bit surreal. Insane, rather.
Edit: I was curious enough to go visit the article URL and take a look at the video but there doesn't seem to be a video of the Fox clip they write about (or ublock/etc hide it). Maybe it's for the best... 😁
His speeches caused serious headaches for translators the world over. How exactly do you translate his incoherent ramblings into another language?
It's for the best. Listening to him makes you lose iq points. If he talks about anything you know about it is also likely to make you angry.
All I could find was a jabba the hutt translator:
"Google, nobody called tuta google. Wompa of doe things like doing do show like yours, do show, u know, u stuka it on fox, but whao u really stuka it sa all over doe pa, they take clips of do show da u're doing right ateema gee je um if mee do do good job, they're gonna vote che je, they're gonna vote che je because soong nopa just on fox, soong on fox sa do smaller part of it. U're on all over this, those little beautiful cell phones u're on, u're all over doe pa. U have do product, u have do grancha product. U have do grancha brand. So u have tah pushee, u have tah pushee, u have tah do things like do show um other shows um google has been ree goola. They've been ree irresponsible um mee have do feeling da google sa gonna be close tah shut down"
Wow, I don't know what it is, but that actually made it a bit easier.
"I want all the attention. I want everyone to have to look at me all the time on their phones. Give me that attention. Gimme! Gimme! Attention is like a McDonald's burger with fries. I want all the attention. Google, make that happen, make people watch me on their phones. Or I'm going to shut you down."
I'll take a stab at it.
I do these shows and everyone wants to see it. It goes viral and everyone looks it up on Google to watch on their phones. But Google is doing something to block it, so if I win I'm going to shut them down.
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Ahh, he's rattling the CEOs who haven’t paid fealty yet.
What is Racketeering, again?
In the case of Google, not only have they not paid tribute, they vowed to actively suppress Trump/Republicans after the 2016 elections.
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Haven't you been paying attention? The SCOTUS says bribes are legal if they are called "gratuities". No wonder Trump wants to exempt tips from taxes, it's how he intends to get paid by his main clients, Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Shhhh no one stop him let him keep talking 🍿