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[–] MushuChupacabra 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The brain worms always win.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One man that should use horse dewormer

[–] Viking_Hippie 3 points 3 months ago

Nope. Not a horse.

[–] Grogon 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They gave the car with keys to a clown and now the wondering where all the clowns are crawling out of that friggin' car LOL

Top comedy if they would build a huge circus tent in front of the white house

[–] Viking_Hippie 14 points 3 months ago

"Vaccine skeptic" is such ass-covering horseshit! Just like calling climate change deniers "climate change skeptics".

Call him what he is: a science denier/grifter/worm brained idiot.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What's next? Flat earther as director of NASA? Oil baron as director of EPA?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Last time around he went with Scott Pruitt, the climate change denier and ally of the fossil fuel industry.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I am not from the US and I am ashamed of this shitshow. It's really sad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] Grogon 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They gonna dust off those iron lunges OMG this is so sad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Worse.

They're going to have to go to China to get the seals for those.

I mean it took a Chinese maker to get seals for one of the few remaining living people who needs an iron lung: https://www.wired.com/story/iron-lung-maker-community/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

This is how the worms win.