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schizoidman@lemm.ee to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Man Who Bragged About Having a Literal Brain Worm to Be Appointed Head of the US Health Department

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Man Who Bragged About Having a Literal Brain Worm to Be Appointed Head of the US Health Department

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schizoidman@lemm.ee to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago
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A political scion who has bragged about having a brain worm is slated to be the United States' next secretary of Health and Human Services.
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    This sub will see more activity for a while.

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      Might as well rename it US News

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        It’s Trump season again! USA is the cornucopia of absurd news for a few years, so buckle up and enjoy the ride.

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      We’ve got another four years of prime material. Like a milkshake this sub will be. It’ll drink it all up.

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    Just wait until Alex Jones gets appointed head of the FCC.

    I suppose I shouldn’t give them any ideas…

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    https://media1.tenor.com/m/_FZp7WJQIXgAAAAC/brain-slug.gif

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      Ahh, I see you’ve met our candidate for Surgeon General.

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    A healthy, educated population is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative ideologies.

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      or any capitalist ideologies, for that matter

      edit: now that I think about it, any authoritarian ideologies, even

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    I’m not sure why someone getting sick would disqualify them from the role.

    It’s his batshit crazy conspiracy theories about vaccines, among other things, that disqualify him.

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      It’s that he bragged about it.

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        I thought it all came out in some deposition. Where did he brag about it?

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      Something tells me one has to do with the other.

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      Tbh he probably got it from eating road kill?

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    That thar is what makes em an exapert

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    This is the equivalent of the Pope being put in charge of the Satanic Church.

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    «What’s the worst that could happen?» 😂

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    I could imagine a Flashgitz animation about this…

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