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An ex-DOGE staffer known as “Big Balls” could end up receiving the highest civilian honor in the United States, placing him in the company of luminaries such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa.

Somehow the dumbest timeline just upped the ante

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 76 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is definitely a "Release the Epstein Client List" kind of post.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Best Trump can do is release Maxwell.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

She must have been in charge of Epstein's dead man switch.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 40 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I know I've mentioned how I hate this timeline, but it bears repeating.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At this point I'm starting to think it didn't even really happen.

Like, I saw the pic, and it's a lot of blood, but not really any cuts or bruising. Especially with it being blamed on a "gang of teens" and being used to justify national guard and now this meddle?

It's just too fucking convenient, but I also believe Big Balls is just one of those guys that ends up getting jumped a lot. I knew a guy in college like that, if he was on his own for five minutes he'd get "jumped for no reason" almost immediately.

Dude just couldn't help but run his mouth

[–] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How do you think he got the nickname Big Balls? I bet he has a lot of bravado and it gets him way over his head, but “it took balls for him to do it!”

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How do you think he got the nickname Big Balls?

Oh, I figured it was just because he was emotionally stunted like every other sycophant in that admin.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Why not both‽

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I bet the name is ironic and his insecurities lead him to get into fights all the time.

I also bet that he routinely got kicked in the balls by the goth girl wearing steel toed boots... a regular occurance since the second grade through highschool.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It hasn't meant anything since the dumpster fire gave one to Limbaugh during his first term.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

All I am saying is that Rosa Parks deserved a better award then.

[–] TheFermentalist@reddthat.com 10 points 3 months ago

The ultimate participation trophy! Won’t conservatives hate that though?

My names Big Balls and I got my ass kicked by a 15 year old girl, and daddy trump gave me a medal!

Such Ralph Wiggum energy

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 9 points 3 months ago

By some accounts, voters voted for Trump precisely because he is a vulgar crook: his election was a negation of Obama and Harris, and an affirmation of the white-supremacist idea that the lowest white man is above the best person who is not one.

In this case, giving this 2-bit goon the award is the same in microcosm.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Haha so funny and outrageous, what a clever and well thought out distraction. So anyway, about the Trump/Epstein files, when are those getting released?

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's like an orange on a toothpick.

... is a phrase I will never forget haha

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

It's a virtual planetoid!

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Stolen valor

[–] Liljekonvalj@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago

Hell is empty.