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[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Can we ask the aliens to abduct Trump, never to be seen again? I've always said he isn't good for anything. But now that I think of it, dissecting his brain would be a great study on the extremes of human narcissism and degenerate behavior. I'm sure the alien scientists would love to study such a odd case.

They'd just find a spongy mess where his frontal lobe should be.

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 2 points 16 hours ago

They aren’t putting that awful biomass on their probe bench.

[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 17 hours ago

He's going nuclear

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

False Flag I bet.

And he's gotta make it bigger than 9/11. That's the worst part.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

If I were writing the script, it would turn out that the aliens found us sometime in the late 60s, but they assessed that as long as we kept electing idiots we didn't pose a threat.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

No shit. Everything he has been doing is nothing but a smoke screen.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Right now on the planet Z'gloooooob, Lezqqq is about to get arrested as he is in the epstine files.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

You joke, but I think he is about to try and tell us that Obama himself is an alien.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

He already tried it years ago with the whole "birther" thing.

[–] I_Jedi@lemmy.today 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I want to see Trump support lizard person theory. The one where humans are imprisoned by lizard people living on the Moon.

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 3 points 17 hours ago

With Ted Cruz standing behind him, menacingly.

[–] dissentiate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 20 hours ago

I hate how real this could be. I can almost imagine the wall of shit tier grammar on his truth social post...

[–] Ranulph@thelemmy.club 0 points 18 hours ago

Lets hope that something of substance is announced. We can count on the opposite but we can hope

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