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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I would say bone conduction might conceivably work, except those earrings clearly were not touching any bone.

Primarily though, even if they did work, that didn't make him say all the crazy shit. Being fed answers through her earrings didn't force him to talk about people eating dogs and immigrants being given gender reassignment surgery in prisons.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Yeah, the right doesn't seem to understand that Trump lost because of what he said, not what others did to him. "Unhinged old man screams about things he saw on TV that aren't real" seems to work for them.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

primarily though, even if they did work, that didn't make him say all the crazy shit.

He had to say crazy shit because of the covid treatment that the deep state forced on him when he got covid.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago

They were directing her when to laugh and look at him in disbelief.

I doubt she needed that help.