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[–] SelfProgrammed@lemmy.world 290 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now republicans want masks?!? Ha

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 52 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There’s a certain irony there, no? 🤣

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 152 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Laura Loomer loves that shit.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years 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.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 103 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We know she has no sense of taste.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years 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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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Or excessive cocaine use.

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 90 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This definitively was not in my 2024 Bingo card:

Republicans masking

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 88 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

Tell everyone.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 72 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 71 points 2 years 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.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 68 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ha ha ha he really is an orange turd.

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 63 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oof. Thanks. I hate it.

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years 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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[–] Fester@lemm.ee 50 points 2 years 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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[–] Zier@fedia.io 49 points 2 years 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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[–] whyalone@lemm.ee 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

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

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[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Skadda bim scribbly do dee da da

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago

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

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 2 years 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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[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 34 points 2 years 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.

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 44 points 2 years 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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[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years 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@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 years ago (15 children)

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

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[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If only they could smell his personality...

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[–] xangadix@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years 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.

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