• SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Do Republicans know the story about the king who had no clothes on? Do they understand what it is about and how it is a metaphor? Do they know the word metaphor? Who am I kidding…

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      Quite to the contrary, they know that he’s naked, that’s the whole point. They get off on people pointing out that the emperor has no clothes, because they’ve built a shared identity around defending the emperor and his very stable genius choice to be naked.

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      1 year ago

      Time reported that disinfectant poisonings were up as much as 121% in April, 2020, right after their glorious leader mused about injecting disinfectants to cure COVID infection.

      Brightly-lit bulbs they are not.