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Trump apparently thinks soda kills cancer cells because ‘it kills grass’ (www.huffpost.com)
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The man who suggested people drink bleach during the COVID pandemic is back with another hit.

Donald Trump reportedly thinks soda is good for him, because it kills grass — and therefore it must also kill cancer cells.

The wild revelation comes via Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump’s administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, who shared the anecdote on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast Tuesday.

“Your dad argues that diet soda is good for him because it kills grass if you pour it on grass, so therefore it must kill cancer cells inside the body,” Oz told Trump Jr. in disbelief, to which Trump Jr. just laughed and shrugged knowingly.

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[–] 149 points 6 months ago (5 children)

It’s got what plants crave

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Cancer?

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    • [–] 121 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Trump has cancer and is killing it with soda? Well, at least he's treating it correctly. Donald, add bleach to your sodas for extra killing power. Lots of bleach.

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    • [–] 73 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    This is easy to disprove, if carbonated drinks could kill cancer Trump would've died already.

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    • [–] 66 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center declined to comment.

    Hahahaha. Just imagine getting that email.

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    • [–] 49 points 6 months ago (20 children)

    The man who suggested people drink bleach during the COVID pandemic

    This honestly blew my mind, and I don't think he's ever topped this level of stupid. To this day it may be the dumbest thing he ever said. I'm just in awe of this reality.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

    What about the time he stared directly into the sun?

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    He glanced at it. If he had stared at it, he would have been blinded.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    The past tense of blind is blound

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    So "was blound?" I like it, I'm going to use it, not that it's going to come up often. Probably going to have to engineer a conversation, steer it in the right direction. Something like "Morning , Larry, how's your eyesight today?" Then roll right into saying something like "I got so drunk I was blound all night." Smooth.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    To be fair thats not the quote "And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that."

    Still dumb

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  • [+] -23 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    Trump never told people to inject or drink bleach. That was started on reddit.

    The UV light idea was given to Trump by virologists at Stanford, who did more stupid things in 2020 than anywhere in the world. The actual concept was to pass blood through UV light and reinfuse back to the patient.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago* (7 children)

    And then I see the disinfectant [bleach], where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning.

    So he didn’t specify bleach as the disinfectant of choice. He definitely suggested that injecting disinfectant would be a possible solution. I agree, and he should go first.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, see? He never said bleach! He might have meant Lysol, or Hydrogen Peroxide, or Vinegar, or Formula 409, or something, you don't know!

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    All of which are totally a-ok to inject and is a medically valid suggestion! /s

    LOL the absolute narcissism to think you can solve this problem on a whim with absolutely no medical knowledge, or really any knowledge of any kind... Its peak Trump.

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  • [+] -14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Again, the concept of using an injected antiviral was given to him by Stanford, and that's how he understood it as a typical American who has no level of STEM. Stanford was on a mission to remove lockdowns on behalf of their donors.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-inject-bleach-covid-19/

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-bleach-covid-19/

    I get the hate for Trump, but you guys are no better then MAGA playing mailman.

    No, JD Vance did not actually fuck a couch.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Trump didn't make the leap to directly say to do that, but he did clearly think that strong lights and disinfectant in the body 'should be looked into'. He was saved from directly making a terrible recommendation by having some amount of deference for the medical organizations, but did try to show 'thought leadership' in a very dumb direction.

    It was not some sort of Stanford spinning up wild concepts, it was Trump taking very obvious things about how we handle these things outside the body and thinking that we would be the first to ask 'but what about inside the body?'. Yes, he phrased it as a question to be looked into, but he clearly thought there could be something to it.

    About the only credit you can give to first term Trump in this scenario is that he at least ultimately left health issues up to the health departments, even as he groused the whole time.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    I mean, I quoted where he literally said that.

    Yes, one can give him the benefit of the doubt as he is a fucking idiot. But fuck that, he’s in a position where the words he says are taken at face value and will and have killed people.

    Even if his heart were in the right place and he were merely stupid, there is no reason to defend this shit.

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    • [–] 36 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    So just inches away from Idiocracy plot, yes?

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    Nah, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho at least wanted the smartest man in the world trying to solve problems for him. This administration wouldn't let a smart man near anything.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Oh, we're way beyond that. We left that plot behind the horizon as we zoomed away and left it in the dust.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    If anything the comparison is actually kind of insulting to Camacho at this point. He was an idiot and a blowhard but he actually appointed the most competent people he could find and cared about the average person's well being.

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    • [–] 34 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Killing cancer is really easy. The hard part is keeping the patient alive while doing it.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, small detail.

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    • [–] 30 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    "The Democrats don't matter... The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit"

    Steve Bannon 2018

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    • [–] 29 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

    Draino kills grass, too. Way more effectively than diet soda.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Draino isn't for cancer though, it's for his cholesterol clogged arteries

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    Draino is pretty effective for pretty much anything in its path, except metal. It doesn't discriminate.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Really? What's the racist drain clog buster? I won't bust clogs without racism.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I don't remember its name but it only works in pvc pipe, it hates abs. I'm guessing your whole system is already pvc?

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    • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I know that there's a lot of crazy to unpack, here, but can we talk about the grass for a second? Just how much soda did he pour on his lawn? To make him think of soda as some kind of grass killer?

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    • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Brawno. It's got what plants crave.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Such a better President

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    • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    But why is he talking about cancer. Does he have cancer??

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    • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    its got what plants crave!!

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    • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    He should try poison

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    • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    Wait, does this mean Trump has cancer? Was Oz making news here?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    Oz was making news in the sense of 'announcing' that Trump thinks Coke kills cancer.

    So thats about the same level as uh... 'I take BRAINFORCE because it makes me smart' or 'I use colloidal silver because it keeps you healthy'.

    Its not directly stating that Trump has any medical condition, its basically just saying he's an overconfident dumbass who believes in medical quackery.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    But he wouldn't even be thinking about cancer or its potential treatments unless it was directly relevant to him, right? Because he only thinks about himself? Optimistic speculation?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    I mean, developing cancer of some kind is just broadly more likely as you age.

    If you're ~60+, the chances of cancer being what kills you go up significantly

    So, the general idea of wanting to not have cancer, and trying to do things that will make it more likely you will not develop cancer, is not particularly odd or specific in itself.

    Of course... soda consumption as a means of doing this is dubious, it would make much more sense to basically develop a healthy diet, and stick to that, as a means of staving off cancer.

    Trump is notoriously a bit of a germaphobe, and also famously doesn't drink. Or at least he says he doesn't drink.

    He's just generally concerned about his health... but he's a fucking idiot, he so does that by way of essentially superstitions.

    EDIT:

    Oh!

    You mean... he thinks it 'kills' cancer in the sense of 'he already has cancer, so it must be elimated from within him'.

    Yeah ok so this is hard to explain factually, but basically, if you know older Boomers or Silent Gen, they very often just use 'kills' in that context to functionally mean 'keep you clean inside' or 'prevent'.

    Its... kind of a muddled and not totally literal use of the word.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    No, it's actually way stupider than that. Because even if "BRAINFORCE" doesn't actually make you smart, at least that's what they tell you it does.

    Nobody has ever thought this about soda. It's just so unbelievably fucking stupid.

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    • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Knowing that 47% of US voters will vote for this guy no matter what he says, does or fails to do is utterly painful. This man shouldn't be allowed to run a lemonade stand, much less an elected office or branch of government.

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    • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

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    [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Trump Jr actually laughed and said 'Well if you think about, there might be something to it...', something like that.

    I've seen the video clip.

    Then Dr. Oz is very obviously internally seething, but wearing a happy mask on top of it.

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    [–] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Just let him keep drinking it by the gallon and the problem will take care of itself.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    But its so fucking slow

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    • [+] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Uh, source please. For peer review.

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    • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    And butter lubricates the blood. Make sure you eat 6 sticks a day Agent orange!

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