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Insane Clown Posse Is Modeling Ideal Pandemic Leadership

They might not know how magnets work, but the group’s members do know that cultural figureheads should simply tend to their communities during this time.
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There aren’t many comparisons in American history for Thursday’s press conference in which Donald Trump suggested that the coronavirus by shining lights inside human beings or injecting people with disinfectant. But there is the song “” by Insane Clown Posse. In the much-memed rap-rock track that turned 10 years old , the makeup-caked tough guys Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope wonder, “Fucking magnets, how do they work?” before adding, “And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist.” They also express

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