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doodle wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 4:04 pm Confused...why are these weenies all checking into hospitals, being given heavy doses of drugs, for 'mild' symptoms? I mean, it's just like the flu right? Who goes to these lengths with the flu? Are they just hypochondriacs? What's the deal?

I had a whole list of whys. Ehh, decided not to.

They can flaunt the rules and magically not get affected. Oops.

Technically, they are more important than us. If that wasn't just shoved in my face all the time, though, I'd probably be ok with it.

Like:

Oops: https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/poli ... n-hospital

Cortopassi wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 4:32 pm Technically, they are more important than us. If that wasn't just shoved in my face all the time, though, I'd probably be ok with it.

Sincerely trying to understand here, since you didn't respond to my previous question.....

You're upset with the people who are making personal choices and going about their lives because....you're choosing to look at photos that were chosen to be published by some paper/blog/website that a photographer chose to take of the people in the photo...none of it at the direction of the people in the photos?

Who's shoving it in your face? And even if they are, shouldn't you be upset with those people (the press, presumably) rather than the people simply going about their lives, making their own choices?

Yep, hard at work..signing blank pieces of paper.

I don't know anymore what to say...who to blame. Is it america? Is it Donald Trump? Is it politics? Or is it just people? Honestly I'm becoming a jaded spiteful misanthrope. F*#@ Humans. Maybe that should be my political party slogan going forward.

Trump is 74 and according to actuarial tables has a 2.3% chance of dying this year. Which I hesitate to include because as exciting to the liberals as it would be, this means over half of the people in his age bracket who died of COVID were going to die anyway this year. Of something else. Because they're old.

Yeah, your statistical extrapolations are more than a little off there...maybe you should reread that

Trump has learned a lot about covid. “I learned it by really going to school,” Trump said. “This is the real school, this isn’t the ‘let’s read the book’ school. And I get it. And I understand it. And it’s a very interesting thing, and I’m going to be letting you know about it.”

What a moron. Anyone who reads that and thinks this man is fit to lead is an uncontestable idiot.

More ad hominem to solidify the position. Sad. Prayers urgently needed.

doodle wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 5:12 pm Trump has learned a lot about covid. “I learned it by really going to school,” Trump said. “This is the real school, this isn’t the ‘let’s read the book’ school. And I get it. And I understand it. And it’s a very interesting thing, and I’m going to be letting you know about it.”

What a moron. Anyone who reads that and thinks this man is fit to lead is an uncontestable idiot.

The man knows sales.
Advertising doesn't work because it makes sense.

This advertisement will work.

Trump is doing what he knows works, not what makes sense.

doodle wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 4:43 pm Honestly I'm becoming a jaded spiteful misanthrope.

If you hadn’t told us, we never would have guessed.

doodle wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 5:12 pm Trump has learned a lot about covid. “I learned it by really going to school,” Trump said. “This is the real school, this isn’t the ‘let’s read the book’ school. And I get it. And I understand it. And it’s a very interesting thing, and I’m going to be letting you know about it.”

What a moron. Anyone who reads that and thinks this man is fit to lead is an uncontestable idiot.

Just because the Trump thing is black and white to you doesn't mean that's how it is. There is a huge gray area in between "I love Trump" and "I want Trump out at any cost".

Your name calling is the exact same thing that Hillary did. Can you not see that? You need to step back and ponder if maybe you're not able to see the forest because of the one big orange tree.

I Shrugged wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 7:49 pm

doodle wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 5:12 pm Trump has learned a lot about covid. “I learned it by really going to school,” Trump said. “This is the real school, this isn’t the ‘let’s read the book’ school. And I get it. And I understand it. And it’s a very interesting thing, and I’m going to be letting you know about it.”

What a moron. Anyone who reads that and thinks this man is fit to lead is an uncontestable idiot.

Just because the Trump thing is black and white to you doesn't mean that's how it is. There is a huge gray area in between "I love Trump" and "I want Trump out at any cost".

Your name calling is the exact same thing that Hillary did. Can you not see that? You need to step back and ponder if maybe you're not able to see the forest because of the one big orange tree.

Really? Cause I thought Trump was the one making up all the cute names for his opponents. Can you not see that? That's not rhetorical. Can you see that?

There are objective standards for idiocy and Trump checks all the boxes. Can't win hearts and minds of an audience devoid of those faculties. Sorry, that isn't an ad hominem. His behavior is objectively stupid.

Walter Reed physician comments on latest batch of idiocy displayed by our genius in chief.

The dude is a marketing genius. He sent a hundred pizzas out to the crowd supporting him outside Walter Reed.

doodle wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 8:43 pm His behavior is objectively stupid.

His behavior is subjectively stupid.

It could be that you are wrong.
Is it stupid to do what works?

doodle wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 4:04 pm Confused...why are these weenies all checking into hospitals, being given heavy doses of drugs, for 'mild' symptoms?

Because they’re high-level politicians, so they’re being about 100x more cautious than their mild cold-like symptoms warrant.

doodle wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 4:04 pm I mean, it's just like the flu right? Who goes to these lengths with the flu? Are they just hypochondriacs? What's the deal?

It’s more like the common cold than the flu. In fact, I’d say the data we’ve gathered this year shows us pretty clearly that SARS-CoV-2 is literally just a new variant of the common cold whose symptoms happen to disproportionately affect very old and/or frail people.

It’s the sniffles. That’s the hilarious truth. We’ve gone full 1984 and lost our collective sanity over the sniffles. Welcome to the Twilight Zone!

Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 8:50 pm

doodle wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 8:43 pm His behavior is objectively stupid.

His behavior is subjectively stupid.

It could be that you are wrong.
Is it stupid to do what works?

Depends if you have any conscience. Because he is a sociopath and everything is a means to an end for him then perhaps by those standards his behavior is genius. He doesn't give two shits who gets hurt if he gets what he wants. And you understand that his playbook is pure demagoguery? Right? Like that term has a definition and objective standards to measure it by. You are complimenting the same populist tactics that Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro use.

doodle wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 9:17 pm

Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 8:50 pm

doodle wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 8:43 pm His behavior is objectively stupid.

His behavior is subjectively stupid.

It could be that you are wrong.
Is it stupid to do what works?

Depends if you have any conscience. Because he is a sociopath and everything is a means to an end for him then perhaps by those standards his behavior is genius. He doesn't give two shits who gets hurt if he gets what he wants. And you understand that his playbook is pure demagoguery? Right? Like that term has a definition and objective standards to measure it by. You are complimenting the same populist tactics that Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro use.

It's not a compliment on ethos to acknowledge that Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro are/were talented and intelligent. Try to be objective.

Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 9:26 pm

doodle wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 9:17 pm

Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 8:50 pm

doodle wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 8:43 pm His behavior is objectively stupid.

His behavior is subjectively stupid.

It could be that you are wrong.
Is it stupid to do what works?

Depends if you have any conscience. Because he is a sociopath and everything is a means to an end for him then perhaps by those standards his behavior is genius. He doesn't give two shits who gets hurt if he gets what he wants. And you understand that his playbook is pure demagoguery? Right? Like that term has a definition and objective standards to measure it by. You are complimenting the same populist tactics that Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro use.

It's not a compliment on ethos to acknowledge that Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro are/were talented and intelligent. Try to be objective.

You're shouting down a well.

All this activity in the last hour! Is it all from the the mind of a manic-depressive?

Vinny

If you want to know more about "The 25th Amendment & Continuity of Government" put on C-Span now! Or, catch it later on the C-Span web site.

Vinny

One of the side affects of dexamethasone one of the drugs in the cocktail that our 'warrior president' took for his sniffles...is grandiose delusions so who knows what effect that would have on a man already consumed by those...The stream of bullshit spewing out of that man is an infinite wellspring. That isn't really the trouble though.... It's that so many americans believe it.

President Donald Trump during Tuesday night’s debate said he secured the endorsement of the “Portland sheriff” -- presumably a reference to Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese.

Reese shortly after tweeted that was false.

“In tonight’s presidential debate the President said the ‘Portland Sheriff’ supports him," Reese said on Twitter. "As the Multnomah County Sheriff I have never supported Donald Trump and will never support him.”

"Bored and eager to appear healthy"

Appear?

Vinny


Trump hopes for Monday discharge as Americans wonder about his health


https://ktvz.com/politics/2020/10/05/tr ... is-health/

But after all according to Mr. Leavy, what does the truth matter when lying works just fine?

Trump isn't hitler..largely because he is constrained by laws and institutions of our country. Rex Tillerson (who knows the man a bit better than any of you) explained how exasperating it was to have to hold the man's hand and explain to him constantly like he was a six year old that the things he was trying to do were illegal. The man has mentioned extending his term, called into question peaceful transition, used tear gas against peaceful protestors, time and again whipped up public sentiment to pitch. Look at his latest tweets in all caps for crying out loud. Can certainly imagine him shouting those from the steps of the Reichstag. My family is all from Austria and Germany....a lot of them were nazis, they know what a nazi looks like. No surprise, Trump reminds them of the nazis.