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Kennedy said Trump had the most "unhinged" diet of the administration officials.
"The interesting thing about the president is that he eats really bad food, which is McDonald's, and, you know, candy and Diet Coke. He drinks Diet Coke at all times," Kennedy said. "He has the constitution of a deity. I don't know how he's alive, but he is."
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This is astonishingly funny.
This wouldn't even work in an onion article because the complete absence of subtlety would be too jarring.
You could replace every pill in this man's cabinet with jellybeans and improve his health by 60% overnight
This is the guy in charge of our entire health system
Our health system is a bunch of VCs funding startups trying to jam more AI into it, even if it has to be perpendicular to the other AIs. This is hot on the heels of the same thing with blockchain. I think the big crate fits.
Isn't it awesome? He's got the medical background of social media obsessed parents
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Imagine taking vitamin C instead of just eating a raw orange or something.
Well my guinea pigs need extra vitamin c from a lil chewable according to my vet. So what, are you calling my guinea pigs worthless or something??? /s
Vitamin C is abundant in leafy greens too. Like, it's so difficult to have a vitty C shortage that scurvy was completely unknown in all human records until we started making long voyages without fresh vegetables
Vitamin C degrades too easily. Just by shaking an orange a little too much you destroy most of its vit C.
absolutely incredible stuff
This is almost verbatim a Marc Maron bit