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[–] [email protected] 295 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now republicans want masks?!? Ha

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There’s a certain irony there, no? 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 154 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Laura Loomer loves that shit.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I knew a girl in college that had lost her sense of smell. This was 20 years before covid, so that wouldn’t have been the cause. Maybe this loomer person has no sense of smell.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We know she has no sense of taste.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (4 children)

She'll debase herself as much as needed to continue the grift. Conservative beliefs are the MLM of politics.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Bound to be olfactory damage related to cosmetic surgery in that area

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Or excessive cocaine use.

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This definitively was not in my 2024 Bingo card:

Republicans masking

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't care whether this is true. Spread it!

Tell everyone.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

If we have to create stories so that the American media actually has to pay attention to the suffering of people at Trump's rallies, then that’s what we're going to do

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

Even if it weren't true, is just an "alternative fact" that would clearly be "directionally true"

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago

tbf he looks it. if there's anyone who looks exactly like BO would, it's him. with his disgusting color, shape, texture, everything.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

> Kinzinger described Trump's scent as an odd mix of armpits, ketchup, makeup, and butt

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ha ha ha he really is an orange turd.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oof. Thanks. I hate it.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe that's why people leave his rallies in droves. The breeze starts blowing the wrong way, and the crowds get his diaper+BO stank right in their faces.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are we to believe that this is the reason Miller, Vance, and Loomer all wear skin masks? Seems convenient.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (3 children)

He smells as putrid on the outside as he does on the inside. This is what evil smells like.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

And laura loomer brags she had sexual things done to him… imagine that

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (7 children)

She wants to be famous, so she'll deal with it.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Skadda bim scribbly do dee da da

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

A lot of other things he emits, e.g. "Truth" "Social" posts, leave people gagging, too.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kimmel then posed the burning question: "What did it smell like specifically? " To which Kinzinger described Trump's scent as an odd mix of armpits, ketchup, makeup, and butt, reports the Mirror US.

I hate to imagine being trapped in a room with someone like that.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (32 children)

This sort of story is dumb. Is that really the reason you wouldn't vote for someone? There must be more compelling points. So who is this for?

I think it's just circle-jerky "the team I hate also smells icky" stuff, like when Alex Jones said Obama and Hillary literally smelled like sulfur.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago

Okay, but think about the person who would vote for him because he's powerful, won't succumb to that prissy woke-ism, etc.

Like it or not, but people vote on vibes all the time, and thinking he's a cool guy who will drain the swamp (by cutting welfare and social programs) is better for him than being kind of a smelly loser. It undercuts the strongman narrative that Republicans are selling.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (15 children)

It is a valid line of inquiry if you consider that not taking care of basic personal hygiene is a symptom of mental incompetence. We do not want to elect a mentally incompetent leader. By all visible evidence, the man has working arms and hands that should presumably be able to reach to wash himself. So if he goes around smelling like a toilet dumpster then something is mentally wrong there.

Of course there have been numerous other indications of such issues beyond the reports of stench.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago

I mean I get what you're saying but... If someone can't manage their own personal hygiene, especially with all the resources in the world, how in hell can they manage a country?

[–] Peruvian_Skies 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Indirectly, it's a strong indictment of Trump's mental health. A politician's strongest weapon (and a conman's, which he also is) is their image, and Trump knows it. If he's letting himself go to the extent that his odor deserves note, then you can be assured that he's let go of everything else that he considers less important than his image (i.e. everything else that exists) at least as much as he's let go of his hygiene, probably more.

The Donald J. Trump that debated Biden was a bad choice for a set of reasons that did not include becoming incapable of caring for the most important thing in his life. The current DJT has added that reason to the list.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (15 children)

I mean if the felonies didn't change your mind... Maybe the smell will? XD

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[–] blockheadjt 32 points 2 months ago

If a person cannot accept the reality of hygeine and cannot take criticism, they are unfit to lead.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Compounded, I'm sure, by an often full diaper. Must be quite the bouquet.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If only they could smell his personality...

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just in everyone; we will now refer to the fascist buffoons as 'stinky and the couch fucker

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