• @[email protected]
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    1012 hours ago

    undermine Trump’s second presidency

    He’s been impeached, convicted, and had an absolutely awful pandemic response, and noneof it ultimately mattered, he served his whole term and got a second one. Trying to hurt his reputation is a lost cause, not to mention JD Vance is the fallback.

  • IHeartBadCode
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    Some have suggested that the Deep State is already seeking to undermine Trump’s second presidency by plotting a civil war or scheming ways to prevent him from entering the White House

    Because they are, and this is the really important part, FUCKING IDIOTS WHO SAY DUMB SHIT.

    This is the shit that gets me upset. Back in the early 90s there was this group online, had an IRC chat room and everything, that would wax prophetic about pyramids, exotic matter, the Kennedy’s, and the Pentagon. NO ONE FUCKING WROTE ARTICLES ABOUT THEIR DUMB ASSES. Because they were idiots.

    “Some have suggested” WHO?! Name and shame or shut the fuck up about it. Articles like this just fucking make idiots look bonafide. This isn’t an us vs them situation. This is like eight people who are detached from reality saying crazy ass shit and some outlet reporting it on a slow news day.

    I swear one day, I hope, media will see how fucking twisted they themselves have made this god-forsaken planet. What they draw from it, I know not what, but hopefully a bit of “damn maybe we should chill a bit” is in the cards.

    • @jeffwOPM
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      There’s actually good reason not to point people to fringe outlets pushing conspiracies.

      Also, fringe IRC channels didn’t infiltrate an entire political party

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    If only there were some sort of thing people could, I don’t know, get injected in their arms that might help with such things!

  • Erasmus
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    2819 hours ago

    Seeing how RFK is trying to get the polio vaccine banned I could see this actually happening but not in the way conspiracy theorist are hoping it will happen. 😂

    • @breadsmasher
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      I bet thats the play - they spread rumours of a “plandemic” to cover the real polio pandemic when it arrives

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    917 hours ago

    While appearing on MSNBC on December 4 to talk about infectious disease prevention under the upcoming Trump presidency, Hotez said “We have some big picture stuff coming down the pipe,” referring to avian flu, new strains of Covid, and other potential outbreaks. “All that’s going to come crashing down on January 21 on the Trump administration. We need a really really good team to be able to handle this.”

    Ron Howard voice from Arrested Development:

    “They did, in fact, not have a really, really good team. In fact, they had a worse team than the last time a pandemic started.”