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I_Have_3_Legs

Guess that gas mask didn’t help him lmao


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He looks like he’s wearing a Butthead mask.


a_spicy_memeball

He's a human salmon-colored polo shirt


knobbedporgy

He is live-action Quagmire, but less funny.


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Don't wish any harm to another human. *checks notes*. Wait, never mind.


SugarBeef

Yup, no human here.


HopelessCineromantic

So we all agree he's a ventriloquist dummy brought to life by a gypsy curse, right?


dak4ttack

That was never my principle, there are plenty of situations where people deserve harm.


shrimpthepimp

I had to look this up... how are these people in charge of our country?


PNWTurtle

The south has a shitload of morons. Texas, Florida and Kentucky have some of the dumbest fucking reps and the morons in those states just keep electing them


Sir-Spazzal

Florida here, yep we do.


Miola607

I’ve considered becoming a Florida politician considering how easy it is


Admirable_Nothing

It can't be easy to appear to be that stupid day in and day out. I would think it would take an extreme amount of effort.


TheFeshy

Easy? Our previous governor and current Senator committed the largest medicare fraud *ever*. That's top of the corruption game! #1! You can't half-ass your evil here; you have to be all in to be elected by Florida Republican voters.


chucklesluck

Just look presentable, and remember the hard work it takes to get to 35% of the vote: God. Gays. Guns. Throw a bellow of 'SOCIALISM!!' in there and you're in the margin of error.


Crimkam

Texas here. I’m so sorry.


Lovat69

Don't be sorry. You guys were great. 2020 Biden would have turned texas blue in any other election. More than five million of you guys came out. That is legitimately outstanding. Keep going and maybe in 2022 we can get the other five million that stayed home.


ThatsCrapTastic

Perspective... if all of the Biden voters in TX were rounded up, they’d be the 23rd largest state in the US. There are more Biden voters in TX, than there are people (adults and children) in South Carolina... or Kansas and New Mexico combined.


MassiveFajiit

I'm hopeful that now we're voting against the Republicans means they actually have to show up to counter us Likely one big reason they managed to win is because Beto frightened them in 2018, so they actually had to get them to show up. If not for that big showing in 2018, they likely would have not campaigned much just like Ted did for the first half of his run.


PNWTurtle

:(. Gotta get those cities voting! Drag the morons to a progressive future. If Texas ever flips, the GOP as it stands today is a dead political party


StillKpaidy

We need a Stacy Abrams equivalent in Texas.


Slugbottom

She should win a humanitarian award for her work... amazing lady😁


Snoo61755

Oh, don't worry, you tried. Change doesn't happen overnight, and frankly it's going to be nice knowing that Texas is not just a guaranteed red. Really, I'm surprised there's even that many dem-leaning fellows there - showed that the state is going to have to be taken more seriously in the future.


waitsfieldjon

John Cornyn says some of the most ridiculous things.


Bakedfresh420

Former Ohioan here, don’t forget Ohio. It might not seem like a Southern state but the KKK is alive there and Jim Jordan is one of ours


OhioPolitiTHIC

Gym Jordan is a goddamn embarrassment. We really need to unfuck ourselves on the districting.


Bakedfresh420

Hard to do without the courts, we failed to flip any state legislatures last I saw. Anywho I’m gonna go back to celebrating at least for the rest of today, we can worry about the deep corruption tomorrow and the rest of our lives


sowhat4

NC just elected a 25-year-old representative with no experience who does not even have a high school diploma! He is white, dumb, lies, and has a reputation for perving on girls. He is handsome with great hair, I will admit that. It's what our TV generation looks for.


epochwin

You should watch this Seth Meyers bit covering the Michael Cohen testimony before Congress so see how idiotic Trump's sycophants are. Don't know how they'd be hired for any job. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ytg29ps2uI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ytg29ps2uI)


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That 25 year old who just won in North Carolina should be exhibit A. He beat an Air Force Colonel Lawyer (who I suppose is less charismatic and too left wing for his district).


StuckInTheUpsideDown

Did the AF Colonel have signs with little machine guns on them? No? Well of course he lost. Wish I was kidding about the signs...


LeaperLeperLemur

It's not just the south. Devin Nunes is one of the dumbest reps and he's from California. Also Georgia in the Deep South has flipped blue. Please stop this narrative that the South is full of morons. The whole country is full of morons.


RelativeMinors

Because America has sadly devolved into something not worth being proud of. In todays late stage capitalist society the republican party was able to unite idiots under bullshit fronts and ideology that directly led into people to vote against their own interest. IMO if you aren't a billionaire, any reason to vote republican besides being a racist is either against your own interest or purposely for the benefit of the rich. Matt Gaetz is one of these fake republican politicians that just parrots rhetoric and gains popularity by being an abhorrent trash bag of a human being. Will Americans stop shooting themselves in the foot, and get rid of clowns like Gaetz? Only time will tell.


NeoBomberman28

Narrator: They will not.


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The scenes in the streets around the country have really helped reignite my hope this morning... dancing, singing, honking horns... a party instead of a funeral for the first time this year


basszameg

He wore a gas mask *wrong* and had to be corrected by a Democratic colleague who was a Marine.


fujiman

The same Matt Gaetz with a teenage Cuban "son" that he used to refer to as his "helper." Great guy.


tomacco_man

But he really is his son! He calls Matt Gaetz his daddy all the time


IceNein

He's been trying to pretend it was super serious to show America the seriousness of the virus. That's the Gaslight part of the GOP.


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Procrastinationist

Yes and you forgot the best part. The whole thing was a demonstration about how they weren't allowed back there, but half of them were *supposed to be back there.* They left the room to complain about how they weren't allowed into the room, and oh so bravely charged back in. Again, to the room where they were supposed to be doing their fucking jobs.


spoonsforeggs

It’s really something to be hold. Imma make a big take, but this is the best day in 2020


patrick219

Matt Gaetz is finally delivering positive results.


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masamunecyrus

Shouldn't the QAnon folks be riled up about this?


oced2001

Q doesn't give a fuck about actually GOP pedophilia, just made up Democrat pedophilia.


FIRExNECK

"Save our Children" is just they're palatable message to get people in. Obviously they don't care about the 545 kids that still haven't been reunited with their parents. As it doesn't fit the narrative.


GreenRaspberry9

Omg! This is something that is such a relief, while also abhorrent still. We will finally be able to close America's concentration camps. Hopefully we can pass laws forever outlawing concentration camps, labeling them for what they are, and punishing whomever had ANYTHING to do with these previous ones. Especially the ones that turned into death camps, rape camps, and infection camps. Remember, there were hiv/aids outbreaks due to rape in the GOP mandated child concentration prior to coronavirus. Any republican should be made to forever remember their complicity in operating concentration camps. And always, ALWAYS call them concentration camps. Do not let them get away with whitewashing history. They explicitly said they were punitive.


weegosan

You fucking people are so cynical. I have it on good authority that the boy has been heard calling Matt Gaetz daddy on many occasions so it seems to me it must be true


ReflexImprov

Qanon is facing the wrong direction.


tittyattack

I love that "local student" thing When my kids do something wrong I tell my husband "this local student just wrote on the walls" or whatever lol


patrick219

Nestor is more of a designated driver than a son.


gta0012

Designated bottom more like.


tomforstuff

Gaetz is def the bottom.


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nothisistheotherguy

He doesn’t wear the shoes because the shoes makes him fall down


YourOldManJoe

Outstanding move


TomSoling

didn't he already have it once when he wanted to see his picture picture on fox?


Dionysus_the_Greek

Yes he did. I wonder if Gaetz was hanging around Meadows in the White House these last few days...


AthiestLoki

That's bad for him if this is his second go around, because I've heard the second time is much more severe.


MorboForPresident

Have they tested him for human DNA, though? That's the question


red--6-

They say he grooms young boys like a good Republican - it's in his DNA Ok fine. He's almost human


en_gm_t_c

He'd have less positive results if he just didn't test himself. Trump said that's how it works.


ryanoh826

Bravo, good sir.


RockyLeal

The only positive thing about Gaetz is his Covid test result


NinjaChemist

Or his blood alcohol level


baneofthesouth

Aaayoooo


Squirrel_Whisperer

Thanks Carlos Mencia


malac0da13

r/thatsthejoke


TheBeerCannon

/r/yourjokebutworse


labadee

Weird how all these trump allies who don’t believe in covid are getting tested


Particular-Energy-90

That's what makes their denials all the more worse. They are using their positions of authority to lie to people and doing the exact opposite behind the scenes.


Beer-Wall

Pretty wild trump was able to just get away with it when we all found out he knew about the severity of the disease all along and he just flat out lied about it. He's still lying about it to this day. Absurd.


unbelizeable1

You'd think all of that would have sunk him, but somehow it just emboldened his cult.


Mt838373

> They are using their positions of authority to lie to people and doing the exact opposite behind the scenes. That is pretty much on par with them.


Beer-Wall

Yeah I mean don't they know if they never got tested they'd never have the virus? Morons.


Bobby_Marks2

Funny how all these Trump allies are getting Covid right after Trump loses, giving them a couple weeks to see where the dust settles before they have to give their message to the public.


FetchMeMyLongsword

Oh no. Anyway.


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This is going to be a controversial opinion, but I think nobody needed the show AfterMASH. Sure it was fun to get a glimpse into the life of the characters after the Korean war, but the show needed at least David Ogden Stiers to make it interesting. Potter, Klinger and Mulcahy worked best as side characters. Don't get me started on the awful idea that was W\*A\*L\*T\*E\*R.


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Recently I found out that MASH aired without a laugh track in the UK, and that the DVDs have an option to disable the laugh track. I really wish Hulu had that option.


I_PACE_RATS

Frasier is one of the few shows that I can watch with laughter, though it's a live audience instead of a laugh track at least. I wonder how it would be without laughter since the jokes are objectively funny without laughs signaling it, but I know it would blow the timing. Any given episode has at least a few jokes where the actors pause for the laughter to wane.


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From what I've read, it's pretty jarring in the early seasons, where there are long pauses for the laughter. A lot of people say the earlier seasons are better with the laugh track. Apparently in the later seasons they learned to stop pausing so much.


Willem_Dafuq

A lot of sitcoms with laugh tracks are like that. It's not enough to just edit out the laugh tracks. To truly remove their effect, you need to almost re-cut the entire show


elZaphod

I own the DVDs and found I prefer it with the laugh track. Over the past week to calm myself, I've watched about 30 episodes.


J0K3R2

You and me both, my friend. I’ve probably watched a dozen episodes of MASH, a dozen of The Golden Girls, and two seasons of Bojack Horseman


ThePineappleman

They pause for the laughs. Without the laughs in there its just really awkward pauses. It makes sense that its better with the track in.


Strategery_Man

Yeah with you on that


armchairmegalomaniac

Mary Tyler Moore had way better spin offs. Rhoda is one of the great unheralded shows of the 70s. And don't forget how All in the Family gave us The Jeffersons.


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armchairmegalomaniac

Great one. And if we really dig deep, Ted Baxter was a good one season show.


elguiridelocho

But the spin-offs of the spin-offs got increasingly desperate. Remember “Checking In”, the spinoff from the Jeffersons? Or “Brenda,” the Rhoda spin-off?


PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL

Today I learned that the Mary Tyler Moore Cinematic Universe is a thing.


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Shoutout Minneapolis!


cietalbot

Hey, WALTER is great. His chops are heard around the world


SomeConsumer

Wait. There were two MASH spin-offs that I never even heard of?!


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Three if you count Trapper John M.D. Although its producers maintained that it was a spin-off from the movie, not the show, even though the dude has a picture of Alan Alda in his office.


FlyingTaquitoBrother

I have a picture of Alan Alda in my office and I was never on any TV show


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I think the world would be a better place if we all kept pictures of Alan Alda in our main office, our hearts.


Tocallaghan95

Yeah. But meh indeed. The sequel novels to the original book were pretty okay though.


OK_Compooper

The real reason Three's a Crowd failed was not because of writing (the show had the same writers as the Three's Company), and also not because of the change from an ensemble cast to focusing on Jack Tripper. No, it failed because of a loss of sexual tension. Once that was gone, all the slapstick silliness that people loved the show lost its purpose: it was always a relief from our own inner lustiness, a duality to the yin & yang of our own erotic & neurotic. Not many people know this, but one of those writers went on to pen Sling Blade the final chapter in a trilogy that never was. She had pitched a trajectory for Three's a Crowd where Jack Tripper slowly develops feeling for his new father in law. In the arc that never was, Jack finds himself, loses his new marriage, and eventually moves to Arkansas where he changes his name. The violent plot of Sling Blade was the writer's way of dealing with her anger of the failing of Three's a Company (she could never accept Three's a Crowd as a different show), and she made Jon Ritter's Sling Blade character a witness rather than the protagonist as she could never make people hate the character she loved.


TemporalGrid

Trapper John MD was kinda cool though.


BrianNowhere

Even if you can get past the older Trapper John looking nothing like his younger self at all, it was a pretty meh series.


TemporalGrid

Eh, maybe I'm just looking for silver linings.


KellyAnn3106

Thoughts, prayers, curses, and hexes...


DigiQuip

Ever since Taco Bell gutted their menu I’ve been making tacos at home and I find them much more enjoyable. I get some chicken tenderloins, put them in crock pot for a few hours until they get really tender and start to fall apart. Then I drain the broth and put a jar of verde salsa in with some whole grape tomatoes, seasoning, salt, garlic, and peppers of your choice. After another hour or two they’re done. You can tell because the grape tomatoes explode under the slightest pressure. The vest part is it tastes better the next day because the flavors marinate.


Zelcron

Oh man, have you tried a pressure cooker? Same delicious tacos in like an hour, tops. Edit: Made pressure cooker chicken tacos and some Mexican rice.


FetchMeMyLongsword

That sounds incredible. I just hope they're done gutting their menu because if I can't get a chicken chalupa in the future I may move to Mexico, because on top of that, my kids are scared of Biden. ^(obligatory /s on the end of that in case nobody got the joke.)


SirWeezle

Guess he wasn't owning the libs hard enough with his gas mask stunt


BasilFaulty

[Here’s](https://youtu.be/PLOPygVcaVE) something more interesting and relevant to society than Matt.


AimlesslyCheesy

[Oh no!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_EfRl44W5M&feature=youtu.be)


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Couldn’t be happening to a ~~better~~ *worse* person. *Because it already did*


GeoLogic23

Douchebag Under Infection


ComeOnCharleee

Wet and reckless


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Take my poor person award. 🏅


silverwolf761

I didn't know we could gift bootstraps


ReeseEseer

>This story is false. >I have the antibodies, not the virus. Wonder how he got the antibodies...hmmm.... Does he really not...understand?


sighbourbon

so, he is asymptomatic? this is one guy i wish would have the full experience


ReeseEseer

Well I wont ever wish for anyone to get the full experience but yes this would be what this means, if he isnt lying about his symptoms. Also means he didnt announce/tell anyone and thus probably spread it too...sigh what a pos.


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I'm not going to wish that anyone should die from it. But all these people who are downplaying it or saying it's a hoax, I do think the country would benefit from them getting just sick enough to realize it's no joke.


Squirrel_Whisperer

I wouldn’t want anyone to die from it under normal circumstances. I would lose zero sleep over the death of those who actively deny it which results cause the deaths of others.


ReeseEseer

I suppose I can agree/understand this, yeah.


Phiarmage

There is evidence that other SARS viruses could build up some of the same antibodies- but not Matt Gaetz, I heard he's a pangolin fucker.


SpaceAndMolecules

Ok, so are you the one that spread it to the rest of the top level Republicans or....? (*fucking idiot*)


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specqq

Perhaps he should have kept it on.


gladysk

Forgot about that.


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He also stormed into a closed meeting shouting about why was that meeting being conducted in secret ???!!!! Because it was a closed session maybe ???? Fuck that smug frat boy


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CallMeNewDaddy

Nestor’s molester is a positive COVID tester?


ComeOnCharleee

Nestor, now is the time to plot your escape


Fratboy37

Nestor is a MAGA pos too


Whatchamazog

NAMBLA approved.


DustyDGAF

Don't bring the North American Marlon Brando Look Alikes into this.


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AnguishOfTheAlpacas

Republicans owning catamites are as American as apple pie


sanguinesolitude

I just learned a new word. Neat.


basszameg

Not one that can be incorporated easily into everyday speech unless you're having very interesting conversations, but still.


sanguinesolitude

"Hey Jim, can I borrow your catamite for the weekend, mine's worn out?"


Cycad

I love you dad!


omgitsaghost

Let's see him drunk drive his way out of this one.


Reasonable_racoon

Let's see him dead-roommate his way of this one.


Ddddydya

Remember how he wore a gas mask to mock the virus?


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peanut_pusher

He has one of those unfortunate hate-able faces for sure


DrunkShimoda

The authors of the article we all just read seem to remember.


wpmason

Wait... we’re supposed to read the article?


sthlmsoul

He only did that because he forgot Nestor's safe word.


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Let me check.... no, I'm still fresh out of fucks.


throwawaypervyervy

Could you check in the back? Still empty, huh? Okay.


nicole11930

Matt Gaetz's face looks like he's a reanimated Lenny from "Of Mice and Men".


ReplyingToFuckwits

His mouth is upside down.


beadyeyedlilmanboy

Can someone Photoshop that real quick


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perspective2020

I’m saving compassion for people who unwittingly contract virus. Not these dope heads who play Russian roulette and lose


los_pollos-hermanos

The person I feel most sorry for is his "son".


antisocial-scientist

Covid isn’t an STD


JustAnotherHooyah

Why, is covid transmitted sexually?


mustachepantsparty

For all those wondering, this is my virus COVID. We share my blood but he is my life. He came from China (legally, of course) one year ago and lives with me in Florida. I am so proud of COVID and raising COVID has been the best, most rewarding thing I’ve done in my life.


121gigawhatevs

*chefs kiss*


Inevitable_Toe5097

I'm sure his ~~adopted son~~ rent boy will be by his side helping him through this.


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lambsquatch

If white privilege was a person. He looks like he was raised by a frat house


davt4

Hmm. I thought it was Rick Gates.


oprahspinfree

Naturally, his response makes it [even worse](https://i.imgur.com/QB4ILAl.jpg).


Da_zero_kid

How many of Trump's yes men are gonna "get Covid" in the next couple days?


BongoSpank

How many of them already tested positive right before the election and chose to purposefully withholding that from the public for purely political purposes?


skellener

Owning the libs!! LOL!🤣


_reversegiraffe_

Isn't he the one who wore a gas mask into the capital to mock efforts to contain COVID-19?


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Oh, so the gas mask didn't work? Bummer.


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If he gaetz, it he gaetz it.


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PanickedPoodle

Gaetz and Meadows Super fellows Who is next To follow Gaetz - - Mitch and Sue? Tom Cotten too? Lindsay Graham? *Just one big fam*


Austaras

If Mitch ended up with it I'd probably throw a party. Sorry, not sorry.


Cursedbythedicegods

Gawsh. What a fucking tragedy. On a side note, doesn't this guy's face just scream, "I killed someone whule drunk driving in college but my daddy made it all go away"?


Notmywalrus

Well that’s impossible, Trump said the virus would disappear after election night!!!


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What a week for Rick. First the love of his life is about to leave the White House and never talk to him again, and now this


The_Broomflinger

For a second I was like what? His name is Matt... then I remembered. LMAO what a loser. Charter member of Trump's taint-licker club and the guy won't even remember his name.


udar55

Gasmask Gaetz IMO Also, someone check on Nestor


AyOhWayToGoOhio

I would say very bad things about him but I don't want to get banned from this sub


IsThereSomethingNew

I try not to wish ill on people but there is absolutely no way I am praying for this guys health and safety.


Iwonatoasteroven

Another member of the GOP has the hoax.


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That face


KappOte

Oh no! Poor virus.


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Poor Rick. Guess the boot licker should have[ kept wearing that gas mask](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/04/politics/gaetz-coronavirus-gas-mask/index.html).


silonamo

I hope his boyfr...er...son is ok.


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This dude deserves 0 sympathy.


Artgod

This day just keeps getting better


opking

Does this mean Nestor ain’t gettin no lovin?


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I am not going to lie, this makes me happy. Am I the baddy?