The last time my brother's aunt got COVID she told us she cured it by putting candy corn in her asshole. After that she started doing it every day as if they were multivitamins but she was diabetic so she fell into a coma and eventually died, this was 8 years ago so I have no idea how the hell she got COVID in the first place. Rest in peace Gary-Ann.
last comment is backwards - true third irony would be if a hypothetical third founder died of an ectopic pregnancy after being denied an abortion, but she could never exist as that would require tpusa allowing a woman to be a founder.
Ahh the olde heartwarming Dickens tail where the three ghosts try to convince the president on in midterms-eve to allow elections to continue without DHS influence.
That's not what they're referring to, they're saying TPU wasn't founded to peddle covid conspiracies because the pandemic wouldn't start for another 8 years.
It was founded to peddle the right wing douchebaggary that fueled the covid conspiracies and antimask nonsense. The co-founder won a Herman Cain award 2 days before Herman Cain did.
They say it was founded to push COVID conspiracies. Tpu was founded in 2012. Either they pushed COVID conspiracies in 2012 which would be highly worrisome or this is misinformation.
Yeah. I don't like these guys, but for our own credibility we should be factual. TPU has had many questionable opinions about public health, including covid. But they weren't founded specifically related to covid, or as I understand it even with a particular focus on health/life sciences.
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red_tomato@lemmy.world · 117 pts · 202d
He also wanted public executions.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 202d
monkey's paw curls
Mirshe@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 202d
I too would like my public execution be at an unknown (to me) time and place. Like Burgess Meredith in The Obsolete Man.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 21 pts · 202d
Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world · 68 pts · 202d
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 202d
yelling BUY THE DIP after any ponzi scheme or BS investment fails will never not be funny
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 202d
The odds aren't zero. He's not any more braindead than the rest of the conservatives, and won't pass nearly as many terrible laws.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 9 pts · 202d
I mean sure but with the Heritage Foundation's hand shoved up his keister and working his mouth directly could you tell a difference in effect?
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca · 51 pts · 202d
The last time my brother's aunt got COVID she told us she cured it by putting candy corn in her asshole. After that she started doing it every day as if they were multivitamins but she was diabetic so she fell into a coma and eventually died, this was 8 years ago so I have no idea how the hell she got COVID in the first place. Rest in peace Gary-Ann.
artifex@piefed.social · 34 pts · 202d
One has to wonder how THAT was the thing she decided to try to cure it.
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 202d
Dammit I miss the Herman Cain Awards. It was morbid as hell, but there was always fun reading:
rumba@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 202d
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 202d
Leopards ate my face is the Dump 2 era's Herman Cain awards.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 202d
Wouldn’t that also make her your aunt?
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 202d
To be fair, I'd not want to acknowledge that either after the candy corn thing.
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 202d
Yeah
ryper@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 202d
COVID wasn't even a thing 8 years ago...
athatet@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 202d
So you have no idea where she got it then either I suppose.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 200d
Valentine's day, 2018 was 8 years ago. The first cases in Wuhan weren't until November 2019. That's more than a year and a half later.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 202d
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 201d
In the end Kirk leaned left.
LapGoat@pawb.social · 32 pts · 202d
last comment is backwards - true third irony would be if a hypothetical third founder died of an ectopic pregnancy after being denied an abortion, but she could never exist as that would require tpusa allowing a woman to be a founder.
morphballganon@mtgzone.com · 3 pts · 202d
UNLESS they were planning to transition after their pregnancy
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 201d
LapGoat@pawb.social · 4 pts · 201d
prenatal care that they previously offered, but was made illegal by repubs
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 2 pts · 201d
The irony is that each founder represents the inverse of their own position:
Covid is a hoax = Covid kills their founder / Guns don't cause crime = Killed by gun crime / Abortions are bad = Shitty human avoided by abortion
SoftQuartz@anarchist.nexus · 19 pts · 202d
lol the universe has a sense of humor
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 202d
Oh damn
rumba@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 202d
Ahh the olde heartwarming Dickens tail where the three ghosts try to convince the president on in midterms-eve to allow elections to continue without DHS influence.
Gladaed@feddit.org · 2 pts · 202d
This is misinformation. Tpu was founded in 2012 well before the COVID pandemic.
CountVon@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 202d
They didn't say TPUSA was founded in 2020, they said one of its founders died of COVID in 2020. Which is true.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev · 12 pts · 202d
That's not what they're referring to, they're saying TPU wasn't founded to peddle covid conspiracies because the pandemic wouldn't start for another 8 years.
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 202d
It was founded to peddle the right wing douchebaggary that fueled the covid conspiracies and antimask nonsense. The co-founder won a Herman Cain award 2 days before Herman Cain did.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev · 3 pts · 201d
That's certainly a more accurate way of putting it, yes.
Gladaed@feddit.org · 5 pts · 202d
They say it was founded to push COVID conspiracies. Tpu was founded in 2012. Either they pushed COVID conspiracies in 2012 which would be highly worrisome or this is misinformation.
deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 202d
I think they were just giving examples of generic conservative grifter stuff
CountVon@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 202d
That's how I read it, though clearly others felt the need to ackshually.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 202d
Yeah. I don't like these guys, but for our own credibility we should be factual. TPU has had many questionable opinions about public health, including covid. But they weren't founded specifically related to covid, or as I understand it even with a particular focus on health/life sciences.
Article about the founder dying: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/turning-point-usa-founder-dies-coronavirus-complications-387077
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 201d