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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

It’s gonna be dr oz. Edit: FUCK.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hate that this is a valid prediction.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

The only doctor he knows better is Dr. Pepper.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In that case I’m gonna blame Oprah Winfrey for that one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I already do

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who was that demon-sperm doctor? Close runner-up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Stella Immanuel, the doctor down the road from me. It's a good pick because she's insane, she's a woman, she's a person of color, and she's an immigrant. So she'll be a multiple token to "prove" how he's not against any of those people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They don't give 2 shits if we think their racist, sexist, or homophobic. They revel in those names. So do their followers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Some are absolutely exactly who you have described. Some want to pretend that it's really the Democrats that are super racist so they keep around their tokens so they can say "I have a black friend!". Others are entirely disengaged and don't give the slightest shit about it one way or another.

They're not a monolith and they have to pander to each of these groups differently. For the first they pander to literal members of organized Nazi groups and peddle shit like the great replacement theory. For the second they appoint folks like this and point out folks like Gregory Cheadle and say "That's my African American!". For the third they yell about how prices have gone up and promise they'll bring them down with voodoo economics. It doesn't matter that the economics are lies. It doesn't matter that they're using women and people of color as props. All that matters is they tell enough conflicting things that everyone gets to latch on to their own lie and say that everything else was just bluster.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s gonna be dr oz.

You called it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not the same position. But close.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh you are right - I didn't chase the context up high enough to confirm my recollection. Still - no better, arguably worse. 😬

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

If he could spell it, it'd probably be Dr Frankenstein

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Close, as in really super close...? One might even say, accurate?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well, no, because he wasn't picked for surgeon general.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah Dr. Drew is far more friendly with his ilk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But Dr Drew is a reasonably competent doctor.

More importantly, would he be an obedient servant of the king, and follow his bidding (and delusions) without question? Because that's the only thing that really matters here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ah, Dr. Oz just got tapped for CMS. You’re right lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

FUUCK. You are almost certainly correct.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How is Trump being trolled by this?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

He’s not. But several years ago the media latched onto a well established term from “internet culture” without understanding (or perhaps caring) what it was actually describing, and decided that it meant ridiculing something on social media. It’s an example of a subculture’s slang getting thoroughly corrupted through mainstream exposure until it no longer means what it once did.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This headline is basically “Have you seen this meme?” and nothing more.

Its then shared on the same websites as memes get posted.

Such enlightened age of information we live in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

While I agree with your point, this isn't an indictment of journalism. Comicsands.com is George Takei's personal buzzfeed clone. I love George Takei but it's not an actual news source, it's a meme blog. Personally, I don't think it belongs in any serious news oriented communities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That just sounds like a tabloid with extra steps.

However i am not one to argue with subjective literature for entertainment but in this place mistook it for attempted journalism.

Would it fit better in /memes? It is not a meme but contains some and adds context.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

If they are "trolling" on Xitter, they are just trolling themselves, in the end. It helps out Elon and he's in the tank for donvict.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dr. Hannibal Lecter, obvs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

He thinks he's a real guy. I wonder what Anthony Hopkins would say?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Please don't. Fascists dont understand satire. They're going to do exactly what you say

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kevorkian, besides being dead, acted out of a sense of morality. Nothing could be further than Trump's intention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

So that puts him a few spots below Mengele on the list of candidates.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Hi Doctor Nick!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I keep waiting for Taylor-Greene to be appointed Secretary of the hurricane machine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

afaik, noaa and nasa are still up for bidding.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

If Dr Spaceman was real, you know he'd be in the running. That or he'd be the guy in the WH giving out pills like he's the candy shop guy from Willy Wonka.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just want him to appoint El Chapo as head of the DEA

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I am appointing THE LATE GREAT El Chapo, good guy, best guy, never met him, I hear great things, AS HEAD OF a little thing I like to call....deeah, or Dee Ee......Ay....like the word idea, without the I....there is NO I in IDEA, my father used to say....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I met a professor of engineering named Dr Doom once, I think he’d make a fitting surgeon general for trump. Unqualified and ominous

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Shit journalism.

Look I absolutely despise trump but I'm ready to block this instance because of the incessant rage bait

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

When he inevitably fires the pick, it’ll be “Czary, Not Czary”