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Will Americans Vote for a Man Who Is Now Widely Reported to Exude a Rancid Odor?
(sethabramson.substack.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2024
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I don't get the people saying this doesn't matter. People don't just naturally smell horrid if they are regularly bathing.
Has he always smelled like shit or is this new? Is this further evidence of his inability (or unwillingness) to clean himself? Or is this a refusal to allow anyone to clean him despite a disability? Incredibly, is someone forcing him not to clean himself? Is this some form of incontinence he has refused to address?
There are various implications about his health. Things most reasonable people have assumed but that Trump has stringently refused to provide acceptable verification for.
There are things to think about beyond "bad man stinky" but other people here are acting like they're too high-minded to ponder them.
/inb4 I already know Trump sucks because
Wow so many questions youve raised that might have a basis in reality. I find the best way to form a foundational belief about someone is to focus on things that seem to be out of their control (OR IS IT??).
Can we just straight up ban certain people from running for president to avoid this going forward? Smell, poor vision, obesity, age, maybe weird lookin people too...
We absolutely should be banning people from public office (especially the presidency) because of age, mostly because of its causal relation with physical and mental fitness. Which is what the questions about his apparent smell are also trying to get to the bottom. Is this person suffering the advanced effects of age or are they still fit to perform the duties of the position?
But thanks for engaging with the topic instead of trying to make this some banal conversation about what I think of his eau d' toilet. Is what I wish I could've said.
If you read the article you would see it claims he has smelled since the 80s.
Sorry I raised questions about your hot take, im sure i wasnt operating with enough information to fairly judge you. But unfortunately i dont have the mental capacity to consider anything that isnt a "feeling" conveyed by an article headline and the picture that accompanies it.
I can't tell if you really thought I was really out here to post "hot takes" or if that's simply the limit of your ability to process other people's questions. In any case, thanks for the clarification. This will no longer be addressing you, so feel free to go be angry somewhere else.
If true, it's a long standing issue. And weird that it's only being heavily brought up this election cycle. Perhaps last time the idea of Trump presidency was so far-fetched that it wasn't deemed worth it? But it's so easy that, if you're going to sling mud like most political parties do, you'd have no reason not to use it from last time.
Dont call people "high minded" for disregarding body odor as a politically relevant discussion.