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[-] SelfProgrammed@lemmy.world 286 points 3 months ago

Now republicans want masks?!? Ha

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 52 points 3 months ago

There’s a certain irony there, no? 🤣

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 95 points 3 months ago

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

Tell everyone.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 88 points 3 months ago

This definitively was not in my 2024 Bingo card:

Republicans masking

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 73 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 71 points 3 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.

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 65 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] petrol_sniff_king 50 points 3 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.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

I think it's more indicative that he doesn't listen to or care about the opinions or feelings of anybody around him, which is a bad quality in a leader unless you want your country run by a despot. Mao never brushed his teeth and reportedly had breath that could raise the dead.

[-] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 34 points 3 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?

[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 32 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

It is dumb, and not the reason anyone should not vote for him. That said, someone who foreign leaders don't want to be in a room with could present a problem.

I hope this article doesn't convince people, but instead they are convinced by the many, many others showing he is criminal and selfish. It is somewhat satisfying to have someone you really dislike have other undesirable qualities.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

Another way to think about it, at some point even at McDonald's you'd get fired for poor hygiene if you constantly showed up to work smelling awful. That standard should especially apply to a diplomatic role in government.

But yeah, this is bottom tier reason not to elect him.

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

This is the going low we’ve spent a decade arguing over. Well informed voters with strong morals are all either voting dem or holding out for the Dems to go left. This is us appealing to the common jackass who voted on vibes and thinks strength is more important than policy. The people who think strongman is a compliment. We aren’t even caring if they vote dem, we’re trying to kill their enthusiasm to vote for trump. Because appealing to Americans better nature didn’t work

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[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago

If elected, he represents you and your country internationally. This could have an impact on negotiations etc. Maybe not with leaders who prefer to sit on the other end of an insanely long table though.

[-] EnderWiggin@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

It's unfortunately how you win these days. Campaigns in the past tried to take the high road when Trump went low. That doesn't work. So this is what we get.

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[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 64 points 3 months ago

Ha ha ha he really is an orange turd.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 62 points 3 months ago
[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Oof. Thanks. I hate it.

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[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 54 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] whyalone@lemm.ee 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 28 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

That's just to pull the news away from the disastrous debate. Or so I think.

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[-] Fester@lemm.ee 46 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Zier@fedia.io 44 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 40 points 3 months ago

Loomer is into scat

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 3 months ago

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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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 30 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago

His diaper is actually always empty. All of Donald Trump's shit flies out of his mouth as sound waves.

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

If only they could smell his personality...

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[-] xangadix@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] Bosht@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

I'm sure he'll get a lawsuit on his desk within the week. No way Trump is going to let an ego hit like that slide.

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 19 points 3 months ago

This is the Irish Star reporting on what Mirror US said about what happened on a TV show.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 13 points 3 months ago

Welcome to tabloid news.

Please check your facts at the door.

[-] beliquititious 14 points 3 months ago

This feels like an onion story

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[-] drjcha@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Trump is old. Often older people smell because of cellular dysfunction and bodily dysfunction. I dislike Trump, but this seems like just bullying the old. Are there any really old people who smell exquisete? Liberals should do better than Republicans and not engage in this sort of vile debasement.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Over half the people I work with are fairly old, most of them above 60. None of them stink. Being old doesn't necessarily mean you smell bad. Having bad hygiene however...

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"they go low we go high" never worked. You have to be willing to punch bullies. Don't forget it was heels that killed the DeSantis campaign - shoes which should be 100% fine.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

bullying trump for being old is cool

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[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

I know it smells crazy in there when he passes by.

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