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Trump may be mystery patient in odd case of 79yo getting experimental obesity drug
(arstechnica.com)
He needs dementia drugs more.
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Just imagine how much more disgusting he would look if he lost 50-100 pounds and he was a shambling pile of loose skin.
Turns out the wicked witch of the west was orange; not green…
I'd prefer Raiders of the Lost Ark to The Wizard of Oz in this specific case.
It’s got literal Nazis so that tracks.
like one of those zombies that had all the fat and flesh rot out, but their skin.. sun tanned and dried, hangs on, like some kind of moribund hipster fashionista bag.
It would be extremely funny if he cheated his way to early entry, and then it turns out it isn't safe for old fucks. Like maybe that hasn't been tested since it's still early enough in trials.
Until we find out that one of the side effects is violent psychotic dementia
one of the side effects is violent psychotic dementia
It's not a side effect if the patient already suffers from it....
retatrutide
I had to do a double take to make sure it was retardicide... That surely would have gotten rid of the fucker
retardutide?
The patient's name? John Baron
I've got three family members taking this drug and have both lost a ton of weight. All of them have lost sunstantial amounts of weight. My brother is down 70 pounds.
Ain't no way Trump is taking it. He's still fat as shit.
He's lost 70 lbs in morals and human decency.
The drug works by killing your appetite. Trump's a long-time abuser of amphetamines, which do the same thing. His current obesity means a reduction in appetite did nothing for him, which is probably why the previous anti-obesity drugs also failed.
He can't resist Whoppers.
As far as we know all he eats is McDonald's so is anyone surprised?
trump is immune to constipation due to the drug abuse.
seems like overeats/addicted, GLP-1 likely would work on that.
Do any of your family members eat McDonald's 3 times a day and only sleep 4 hours a night?
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Has he tried copious amounts of injected bleach? Everybody says it works wonders.
Eeplacing mayo on burgers with Ivermectin should also help.
There's a new medical procedure that needs to be done only once. Kinetic injection of lead to the brain. So simple it can be self administered, or with the help of a friend in line of sight.
As a bit of a thought experiment, would it be possible to make a web app the allows users to calculate trajectory based on live weather data and other data points to give people an easy way to fire into the sky and have the lead land accurately near fascists
Might be a fun project.
With a few tweaks Gorillas.bat could accomplish this. I'd do it, but my QBasic coding chops are a little stale.
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the side effect is autism
This is like a yo momma joke. Yr prez is so fat they had to invent a new type of triple-ozempic
When the president sits around the house he sits around the house, with a tween.
Let's pray for non trivial side effects. And I'm not even religious
If it is, pulmonary hypertension will kill him regardless.
🤞
Not only that, there's a chance we'll get to see it. A sudden physical collapse after which he never leaves the hospital is not unlikely.
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Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?
Stat reporter Lizzy Lawrence replied, saying, “I asked you, the FDA, and HHS multiple times yesterday whether this application was for the President. No one answered my question directly.” Desai then seemed to confirm that no one had answered the question, calling it an “idiotic question.”
I'm gonna have to agree with Desai here. It's a stupid fucking question. As much as I hate the guy, the only link is a 79 year old. This is national enquirer level of reporting.
No, the only links are "79 years old," "name not given," and "literally the only person in the country who was approved for this"
That doesn't strike you as "Hmm, maybe we should see if the fat-assed President is once again abusing his office for personal gain?"
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It's probably not him: he's still a lardass.
That's the point, apparently he tried other weight loss drugs and they didn't work. I guess his addiction to McDonald's is stronger than Ozempic.
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