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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days 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.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The brain worms always win.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One man that should use horse dewormer

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Nope. Not a horse.

[–] Grogon@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

[–] ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago

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

[–] whithom@discuss.online 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Grogon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 days 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/

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

This is how the worms win.