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Donald Trump calls wife Melania ‘Mercedes’ in CPAC speech
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Thanks for that horrifying visual. Ugh, I need to go soak my brain in bleach.
On second thought, please don't:
Trump’s bleach press conference happened one year ago today. We’ve never been the same.
I remember that press conference. It was so clear that someone had mentioned that bleach and UV are effective virus killers and he just ran with it like a PSA for awareness of Dunning-Krueger.
...and then:
Accidental Poisonings Increased After President Trump's Disinfectant Comments
Ah, god. That was (is) funny. It shouldn't be. It's not really. But I can't help it. That was so fucking poetic.
Are you also into prophecies?
The rate of everything goes up and down constantly. I'm reminded of the non-stop "x is down 3% as uncorrelated event takes place" financial articles.
In the case of bleach poisoning, the numbers are low, so going from 1 to 2 poisonings can be a "100% increase".
From your link:
That whole thing was so ridiculous, they were talking about what kills the virus on surfaces. There are a lot of things that can sanitize a table or counter but that doesn’t mean they can kill germs in your body without also killing you. Imagine having a sunburn inside your lungs because someone shoved a light down there, that was Trump’s genius solution to the pandemic in that moment.
He's so narcissistic that he legitimately thought he randomly came up with a cure for COVID on the spot that no one had thought of.