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Of course it is. Nothing in his history would make anyone sane believe he’d be anywhere near active flood waters. Or even wear a safety vest on the first place.

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Trump claimed to have sent workers to Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks.

Not only didn’t Trump send workers, he didn’t do anything for the volunteers who did show up.

Plenty of places were offering volunteers rooms and / or food during the clean up operations. Trump’s properties were locked tight.

He did take money becuase he was a ‘small business’ owner.

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Don’t forget him bragging that he now held the tallest skyscrapers on the NYC skyline.

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He did also claim, on 9/11 mind you, that he now had the tallest building in Manhattan. Which wasn’t even true.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/9-11-trump-tallest-building-manhattan-b2164420.html

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This guy has to be exhausted for constantly coming up with the worst fucking takes, lying to boost his own ego and generally being a giant dumbass. I’m exhausted for him.

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…anyone sane…

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They had to. It’s far too dangerous for him to be near actual water. If his diaper gets too saturated it will drag him under.

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He’s wearing jeans in the photo for once. I can’t imagine him ever wearing jeans

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I doubt that man even owns a pair of jeans.

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That dump truck of an ass would never fit into a pair of Levi’s

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😳

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I don’t think you can do jeans when you wear adult diapers

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If it were real, that’d be an incredibly dangerous thing to do–even with a life preserver vest–and a physically taxing one, as well. Neither of which Trump would be doing.

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I mean, drowning is kind of the least of your worries in those situations.

NEVER walk through even suburban flood waters unless it is life or death. Because you know those things called “sewers”? Yeah, they are under there. And if the water has reached the point where it is even a foot off the ground? Then those sewers are entirely(-ish) full and that “water” contains significant amounts of poo, medical waste, chemicals, and so forth. Let alone corpses of animals… and people.

So that is basically liquid hepatitis and Erastil knows what else.

It is also why you NEVER buy a car that has been in a flood area and houses really should be basically demolished at that point (but aren’t because Capitalism).

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Where do you live where people flush corpses?

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  1. You would be amazed what people flush down their toilets
  2. You do realize there are other people in that flooded area too, right? Those “missing” folk? Hopefully all of them show up at a Waffle House two counties over. The reality is… many of them are still there in that horrific soup.
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It’s not about flushing them but I would imagine that graveyards that are below sea level have the bodies in mausoleums and many of those you can walk into so it would not surprise me that places near the ocean might have a rotted corpse.

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Places that flood bad enough that people and animals die in them?

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A sealed casket is buoyant. If a cemetery is flooded, caskets, especially of the recently deceased with disturbed soil, are known to rise through the soil and then dump their contents (bodies) into the floodwaters.

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I find it funny how MAGAts spend all this effort creating photos of Trump looking and acting how they envision him in their heads - because he’s never going to do or be any of them.

  • Naked with chiseled abs? Nope
  • Interacting with his followers? Nope
  • Wading through the floodwaters? Nope
  • Slender? Nope
  • Cradling or caring for children? Nope. Well, not released yet anyway
  • Leading a charge into battle? Nope
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