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[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 5 points 22 minutes ago

Strange flex for the head of a federal agency to admit to felony drug crimes.

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 3 points 31 minutes ago

You have a worm in your head you dumbshit

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Can we hold a vile of anthrax and say here sir prove you are not scared.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 38 minutes ago

Anthrax is indeed vile, never understood why people like them so much.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 49 minutes ago

Who really gives a flying FUCK what he is or isnt scared of

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 34 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Why is he allowed to be in government again?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago

Because MAGAs think it's hilarious when Libz get all upset about this stuff. Look how crazy they get when you put some lunatic in charge of health care. Who cares? Health Care in this country sucks anyway, he can't damage it any worse than it already is. At least we can get some laughs at the expense of the Libz, right?

It's got to be that. NOBODY could possibly believe that he would IMPROVE health care.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago

Fascism requires bootlickers. If you lick boots, you can’t be afraid of no germs.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Because Americans let conservatives have power, which means the circus came to town. And they brought their clowns with them.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

His publicist is a worm that lives in his brain, it's a recipe for success

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The onion can't compete with this

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

They are having a hard time finding a implausible story.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 15 hours ago

The point of satire is that it's plausible.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actual question: isn't he admitting to a crime?

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago

It's cute that you think that still matters.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago

Not the fucking flex he thinks it is.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Ive done more cocaine than the average person, sadly, and I’ve been in some wild circles. Never have I snorted cocaine from a toilet seat. The cistern sure but the seat come on bro.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 16 hours ago

I’ve also done much than the average person in my time (maybe enthusiast-level at points?) and when I was at my most doing-it-est, I would never use a toilet seat. The only time I’ve done it in bathrooms at all was either from a bullet or key bumps from a pen cap.

It doesn’t pass my “if this drug fell on the bathroom floor at a club, would you still do it?” test. A rare few things pass that test for me.

[–] ugandan_airways@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Exactly. The back of the toilet—sure. Very common. It’s basically a little table. Also great for smashing adderall on for snorting.

Who the fuck would snort something off a toilet seat? Why would you want to bend down that far? It makes no sense. These guys are full of shit no matter what they are talking about.

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Really? Why? Wouldn't you have a perfectly good and slightly less gross bathroom counter?

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[–] Soup@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I am NOT the guy to talk to about drugs but there have been toilets without their own tanks for a long time.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

In that situation you use the other side of your hand or a key. Keys can have the side effect of jamming up locks though.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Oh yea, I’m fully on board with find literally anything else haha

[–] OrangeScentedFish@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When you're a sentient accumulation of germs and parasites, I'm sure a few more don't scare you

[–] TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Spoiler for the end of the game

spoilerThis thing becomes human at the end of the game, so there's you answer___

[–] Magnum 2 points 21 hours ago

Oh lol I need to pick it up again

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Of course not, he's one of them!

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 21 hours ago

Stray pubes just add to the flavour.

[–] slingstone@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

This is stupid enough, but for a moment there I thought he was going to question the germ theory of disease, which would be even worse.

[–] madde@feddit.org 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Every day I'm grateful not to live in the dumpster fire that is the USA...

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I wish I didn't have to share a border with a dumpster fire.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 16 hours ago

Dumpster fire is an understatement. It’s more like garbage dump fire.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 108 points 1 day ago

I miss the days when satire was fake

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Germ says he isn't scared of himself.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Did he mean the lid or the seat? Not that it matters that this ass cancer on society isn't clear with his words, but I kinda want to know where snorted it from.

[–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 100 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This guy does not believe in germ theory, he believes in TERRAIN Theory. So of coarse he is not scared of germs.

According to terrain theory, germs don’t cause disease – it’s your body’s failure to maintain internal purity. If you’re healthy enough, pathogens can’t hurt you.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/your-terrain-your-fault-germ-theory-denial-2025/

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Modern-day Lysenkoism. They're going to kill us all, if they go on long enough.

[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good thing I ate all that dirt as a child, got my body terrain boosted early!

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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 day ago

The guy who got brain worms by eating roadkill isn’t afraid of germs?!? No way.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 20 hours ago

And by used to, he meant this morning.

No shit. He literally doesn't believe in germ theory. He's a moron.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

He still does, but he used to too.

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[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

I used the same mindset when taking the vaccine.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

Searching the epstein and trump papers for cocaine toilets...coming right up!

[–] inari@piefed.zip 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This dude's on auto-pilot. The brainworm took the helm.

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[–] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I’m just imagining Bobby on his knees, snorting a rail off a shit smeared toilet seat, all while a perfectly clean countertop is literally right next to him. Kind of easy to imagine, considering what a fucking dumbass this guy is.

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[–] tyrant@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Glad the dude swimming in sewage run off, doing cocaine from toilet seats, and had a parasitic brain worm is in charge of our health

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