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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 53 points 14 hours ago

You all know about the antivaxx stuff.

Do you also know that:

• He's anti-fluoride.
• He trades in 5G conspiracy theories.
• He claims that cell phones give you cancer and that he has had dozens of clients with grapefruit-sized tumors behind their ears.
• He also claims that wifi can give you cancer.
• He is (of course) anti-GMO.
• He says mass shootings are caused by psychiatric medication.
• He claims herbicides are the cause of transgender people. With the same "turning the frickin' frogs gay" logic as Alex Jones.
• He claims that not only was COVID made in a lab, but that it was made specifically to not kill Chinese people and Ashkenazi Jews.

So yeah, he's going to be great as HHS secretary.

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 43 points 14 hours ago

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.

  • Turkish Proverb
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 31 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

BUT THE DEMOCRATS LEARNED A LESSON RIGHT????

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago

Just like they did with Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, Jill Stein the last couple of times...

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works -5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Do you know what everyone who didn't vote would have been a vote for Harris? Harris preformed similarly or better than Biden in the swing states, Trump just got even more votes than 2020 Biden.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Do you know what everyone who didn’t vote would have been a vote for Harris?

The idea that they would be Trump voters instead would not improve my moral judgment of abstainers.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I wasn't suggesting it should. Your comment seems to imply that if more people voted Trump wouldn't have won. I'm asking how you can possibly know who those people would have voted for, particularly in the only states that actually matter in the presidential race, the swing states.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

"Thanks everyone who didn't vote for Harris" better for you?

I assumed that people would understand that "abstainers" was here to emphasize that those who abstained from voting also brought fascism to America, as compared to Trump voters, who we all already know are guilty for bringing fascism to America, but apparently that's too complex to parse.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works -4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Only the people who voted for Trump are responsible for Trump winning.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

And everyone who stood aside and said "This is fine, I'm not going to do anything to stop it."

Inaction is not absolution, as much as some people wish it was.

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm on the verge of announcing Gatorade is actually what plants crave.

it's got electrolytes.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

We don't need crops anyway, I mean who is going to pick all the food when we deport all the ones who do?

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

This is just straight up dangerous

[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I'm on the verge of not caring. This isn't surprising news. So what? Was the apocalypse averted?