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Trump’s rush to get Scott Adams cancer drug sparks debate about access (www.mercurynews.com)

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Trump's intervention on behalf of the 'Dilbert' creator and MAGA supporter sparked a range of reactions online.

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[-] TomMasz@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

It's sad to hear that Scott Adams is still alive.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago

Fuck cancer, but maybe fuck this particular cancer less than usual.

[-] JaymesRS@piefed.world 31 points 1 day ago

I hadn’t heard that cancer had a Scott Adams.

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago

I thought he was cancer

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 27 points 1 day ago

It you're a Trump supporter, you get your cancer treatment fast!

Nauseating...

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 37 points 1 day ago

Worse, if you are a trump supporter, with a large platform, or a lot of money. Trump sure as hell ain't pulling strings for the people that attend his rallys. Hell didn't biden call the family of the firefighter that took the bullet meant for trump, before trump did, and didn't trump basically spend 10 seconds talking about the guy and made a really tasteless joke during his comment on him.

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

If you're a specific kind of Trump supporter. You think he would do the same for some poor schmuck from rural Alabama?

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago

Schmucks from Alabama have nothing to offer Trump. Scott Adams offers Trump free publicity. Trump never does anything if it doesn't benefit him.

[-] rayyy@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago

he revealed that he was inundated by offers of help from Donald Trump Jr., Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mehmet Oz

They will certainly offer Adams some herbal tea to get rid of his cancer.

[-] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Nah, they know it's a grift and use actual medicine for themselves. The grift is only for the masses.

[-] EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of the queer homophobic POS Roy Cohn. Gets AIDS and gets access to meds that ACTUP has been fighting for. And former lawyer to another NYC POS Trump

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Good grief, I forgot about this guy and how he so jumped the shark like 20 years ago, when he first came out as a creationist, FFS.

It only got worse from there, because of fucking course. If someone puts themselves out there as some kind of super edgy edgelord about one aspect of science, chances are they are just full of shit and awful in so many other ways, and for Adams, that was definitely true.

https://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/01/30/will-scott-adams-never-learn

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Wait, he's a creationist? He's also an edgy atheist

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

He's really bad at it, then.

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