• Karyoplasma
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        Even doubly so, when you think about it. Masks really don’t work against BO, just like the idiots claimed it didn’t work against covid lol

        • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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          They’re pretty good at making you realise you shouldn’t have rushed brushing your teeth, though – which also highlights what they’re for.

          Come to think of it, I wonder if that’s part of why some people hated them so much, because they had to breathe their own stank mouth. Huh.

    • @dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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      522 months ago

      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.

      • @DeviantOvary@lemmy.world
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        On a serious note, COVID isn’t the only virus that can cause loss of smell (permanent or temporary). I lost it before COVID for a month or so, and it took some time for it to return completely. But to this day, there are still certain chemical smells (like deodorants in spray) that smell a tiny bit off to me.

        • @fluckx@lemmy.world
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          Know somebody that lost smell due to covid and they also said there are certain things that just don’t smell the same anymore.

          Like coffee apparently. It no longer smells as good to him as it used to.

          • @DeviantOvary@lemmy.world
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            Yeah, I think my sense of smell in general has never returned in full capacity. I think it’s slightly weaker. Crazy stuff.

        • @psycho_driver@lemmy.world
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          My wife has COVID olfactory loss that has never fully come back. I’m thankful in a way because I can fart on road trips and she doesn’t know it.

      • My mom has no sense of smell, I believe it was from a polyp surgery where the surgeon nicked something during the operation. We couldn’t have any gas powered appliances growing up because she wouldn’t be able to smell a leak if there was one.

        Plenty of reasons beyond COVID for why someone may not be able to smell.

  • @lambalicious
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    This definitively was not in my 2024 Bingo card:

    Republicans masking

    • @PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      You’ve got it all wrong, they’re fine with masks for certain purposes (lynchings, intimidation) but not for others (public safety, AntiFascist protest)

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

    Tell everyone.

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      If we have to create stories so that the American media actually has to pay attention to the suffering of people at Trump’s rallies, then that’s what we’re going to do

      • @jj4211@lemmy.world
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        Even if it weren’t true, is just an “alternative fact” that would clearly be “directionally true”

      • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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        92 months ago

        On Facebook, I saw that my neighbor posted about her friend’s daughter’s cat going to a Trump rally and leaving early because of the smell. This is a 100% true, irrefutable fact, that can and should be quoted on national TV and taken seriously.

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        Yeah but we’re not creating this. This is many eyewitness accounts. Quoted verbatim.

  • Avid Amoeba
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    > Kinzinger described Trump’s scent as an odd mix of armpits, ketchup, makeup, and butt

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    tbf he looks it. if there’s anyone who looks exactly like BO would, it’s him. with his disgusting color, shape, texture, everything.

  • ThePowerOfGeek
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    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.

  • @Fester@lemm.ee
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    Are we to believe that this is the reason Miller, Vance, and Loomer all wear skin masks? Seems convenient.

  • Zier
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    He smells as putrid on the outside as he does on the inside. This is what evil smells like.

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      Now, there are people who have a medical condition that causes body odour, so let me say that they are not necessarily evil. Trump, however…

      • Zier
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        But trump does not have a medical condition. He’s a junkie who shits himself and he eats the worlds worst diet. This is what real zombies smell like.

      • @Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
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        Some people lack a sense of smell. They often have an offensive odor. Since I find what these people say offensive its no stretch at all to believe they really stink.

          • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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            12 months ago

            Why would he snort Sudafed when he had access to real drugs? Sudafed can act as a simulant but it’s a very rough “high”, more comparable to drinking too much coffee than a party drug.

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              52 months ago

              From what I’ve previously read, a young Trump had a close family member (I wanna say Uncle) die from drug abuse, specifically cocaine and alcohol, and he had to watch this guy spiral all the way down. Trump swore to stay away from drugs and booze after that, but I think it just scared the shit out of him. Plus, he had that drawer that was suspiciously full of “the good” sudafed.

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                No, he was very much face-down-in-the-coke-pile for awhile. His production assistant says he has a scar on the side of his nose from repairing his blown-out septum, which is one reason he slathers all that greasy paint on his face.

                David Cay Johnston notes that the helicopter service trump rented to fly between NY and Atlantic City was based out of Miami for a reason.

                Trump’s casinos retained Weichselbaum’s firm to fly high rollers to Atlantic City. Weichselbaum was indicted in Ohio on charges of trafficking in marijuana and cocaine. . . . Weichselbaum, who in 1979 had been caught embezzling and had to repay the stolen money, pleaded guilty to two felonies.

                Donald Trump vouched for Weichselbaum before his sentencing, writing that the drug trafficker is “a credit to the community” who was “conscientious, forthright, and diligent.”. . . In seeking early release, Weichselbaum said Trump had a job waiting for him.

                Ya boi knows a rail of coke when he sees it.

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                  Fair. I can’t claim to be an expert on trump drug use. I’m going off a blurb I remember hearing somewhere, but I can’t attribute or verify.

                  Trump is also known to lie on occasion.

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        We can only dream of things being so bad for the campaign that this would be a planted story.