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04-07-2020, 05:59 AM #11251
What is the deathrate compared to the newborn rate in 9month?
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04-07-2020, 06:20 AM #11252
But we can still dream...
My biggest concern, is that Bernie stays in the race, as back up for Biden. I don't think odds are too great for both to come out of this unscathed. Not a great time to be a politician. Hope I'm wrong, but Pats proved you should keep a good back up.Screw the net, Surf the backcountry!
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04-07-2020, 06:30 AM #11253
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04-07-2020, 06:34 AM #11254
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04-07-2020, 06:37 AM #11255
The fuckin bernbros kept texting me asking to the rah rah 4 team feel the burners for shit got real yo
Sent em a text last week asking which of his houses he's sheltered safe in
And if he has allowed a non millionaire or a 1st responder trying to keep his fam safeto use the other
Ain't heard back yet I'll let yas know if I do"When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
"I find I have already had my reward, in the doing of the thing" - Buzz Holmstrom
"THIS IS WHAT WE DO"-AML -ski on in eternal peace
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04-07-2020, 06:47 AM #11256
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04-07-2020, 07:14 AM #11257Registered User
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It is surprising how unsurprising this is:
Donald Trump Has Stake In Hydroxychloroquine Drugmaker: Report
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/donal...112913777.html
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04-07-2020, 07:16 AM #11258"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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04-07-2020, 07:19 AM #11259
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04-07-2020, 07:20 AM #11260"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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04-07-2020, 07:52 AM #11261
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04-07-2020, 07:59 AM #11262
One thing we're going to have to get comfortable with is that if social distancing works we're going to have a bunch of idiots come out of the woodwork claiming that Trump was right that this was all a hoax and that there was nothing for concern. It's already happening here in Oregon. There have been reports that social distancing has reduced the number of infections by 70%, which is great if true. That's got the Trumpeters in my orbit saying how stupid this whole social distancing thing is, and what a waste it is...but I keep telling them that this only means that all of these efforts MIGHT be working. Fucking idiots.
Damn shame, throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that
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04-07-2020, 08:09 AM #11263
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04-07-2020, 08:12 AM #11264
Oh balls. I hadn't even thought of that. Florida, Louisiana, Minnesota and a bunch of others are screwed if that can happen.
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04-07-2020, 08:12 AM #11265
History is a bitch.
Why Is Trump Obsessed with Hydroxychloroquine?
It's in his bones.
by Tim Miller
April 7, 2020 5:13 am
You know the old saying: When you’re a con artist who once ran a multi-level-marketing scheme that sold “vitamins,” everything looks like a miracle drug.
Speaking of which, the president of the United States has some things to tell you about the medicine hydroxychloroquine, which is used to treat malaria and lupus:
“We bought a tremendous amount of hydroxychloroquine, which I think is, you know, it’s a great malaria drug. It’s worked unbelievably.”
“I’m not a doctor. But I have common sense.”
There are many questions surrounding the White House’s obsession with hydroxychloroquine. Whether someone has a financial incentive for pushing it. (It’s certainly possible, since he has at least some stake.) The extent to which it actually works (Fingers crossed!) Which TV doctor got the president so spun up on it? (Dr. Oz?)
Some of these are unanswerable. The Trump family’s finances are still impossibly opaque. I have no relevant expertise in immunosuppressive pharmaceuticals. And performing forensic accounting on Trump’s television habits would require access to the meta-data inside his super-DVR remote.
But I do, regrettably, know far too much about the career of Donald Trump. And his weeks long hydroxychloroquine song and dance is simply a redux of the pitch job that has served him so well for four decades: Sell the newest Trump-branded miracle scheme as hard as possible until it becomes completely untenable, the feds show up, or the next one bubbles up from the recesses of his frontal lobe.
You may or may not know about “Ideal Health.”
Ideal Health was a multi-level-marketing company—that’s the polite term for “pyramid scheme”—founded in the 1990s that sold personalized vitamin supplements based on the results of a urine test.
This pee test supposedly provided “a scientific window into your personal biochemistry.”
The company hired a network of low- to middle-income salespeople who earned a commission both from vitamin sales and from recruiting other salespeople. Ideal Health would charge these salespeople thousands of dollars up front to get access to marketing materials and other “network benefits.”
You will not be surprised to learn that many of these people lost all their money and didn’t sell any vitamins. Dozens of them filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission. The company had to settle a lawsuit with the FTC over false claims that “Supreme Greens”—one of their signature products—“cured cancer.”
In short, Ideal Health was a shady vitamin pyramid scheme with a reputation for lying about cancer cures.
Naturally, Donald J. Trump had to get a piece of the action.
In March 2009, Trump purchased Ideal Health and then took Worldcom and Stringer Bell’s advice on fixing a troubled asset by giving it a shiny new gold lamé moniker. He called it “The Trump Network.”
Under Trump, The Network offered a miracle “custom essential” multivitamin based on the “privatest.” They also offered pills for “silhouette solutions” (a diet program), skin care, low-energy, and of course some “Snazzle Snaxxs” for the kids. (I’m sure the health benefits of the Snazzle Twissters Sour Cream and Onion were legion).
But Trump’s real value add was as a pitch man. The Trump Network launch came on the heels of the financial meltdown, so he updated the Ideal Health proposition to would-be salespeople, convincing them that if they listened to Trump they would discover the cheat code to breaking out of financial hardship.
You should watch for yourself.
“Americans need a new plan. They need a new dream. The Trump Network wants to give millions of people renewed hope, with an exciting plan to opt-out of the recession . . . with cutting edge health and wellness formulas.”
To anyone watching Trump’s pandemic press briefings, his Trump Network spiel sounds familiar. What do you have to lose?!
Or as Trump apologist Ari Fleischer delicately puts it, the president always “reaches for hope.”
(I suppose the big guy just can’t help himself. He’s a lot like Reagan and Lincoln in that way, right Ari?)
Of course, for people in The Trump Network, the false promises, or misleading snakeoil, or incorrigible, happy-warrior hope—call it what you will—wound up costing them a lot.
Those who joined didn’t get to opt-out of the recession the way Trump had promised. Instead they had their hardship extended. More bills they couldn’t afford.
FTC complaints came down the pike, again. The Washington Post later reported that Trump Network sales representatives said “they paid thousands of dollars for leadership programs, infomercials, starter kits, and other materials that they never recovered in sales.” As one FTC complaint put it, “They try to use [people’s] hopes and dreams to empty their wallets.”
Offering hope with one hand while grabbing cash with the other was not a one off move for Trump with Ideal Health. It was basically his business model.
In 2018 the Trump family was hit with a RICO lawsuit that laid out a pattern of scams where Donald Trump “deliberately defrauded” vulnerable people who were convinced to put thousands of dollars they didn’t have into marketing schemes that made Trump millions but returned little to nothing to them.
Each scam—from the Trump Network to ACN to Trump University—followed the same playbook. Trump used his image and fame to sell false hope to the marks.
The hope that they could get rich. That they could get the perfect body. That they could find the custom essential vitamin that works only for them. That they could be an orange billionaire in a penthouse with a hot wife and a hotter side piece. All they had to do was give Donald Trump their last paycheck, swallow another vitamin, take this one more class.
And by the time the marks figured out that the scheme didn’t work, Trump had taken the monorail to the next town over. Selling new suckers (and the same media) on a similar bill of goods.
As David Frum wrote a few weeks ago
This is how Donald Trump is wired. He doesn’t know any other way. And he has no incentive to change his behavior because the neverending scam wheel eventually landed him in the most important job in the world.
God-willing maybe the rest of us will get lucky and hydroxychloroquine will turn out to be the one scheme that actually works.
You could bet your venture capital on it, if you have some. I just wouldn’t bet your life.
I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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04-07-2020, 08:13 AM #11266Banned
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04-07-2020, 08:15 AM #11267
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04-07-2020, 08:23 AM #11268
That would be the same cidiots that Climbed Everest in big, puffy down suits and supplemental oxygen and thought in hindsight that the down suits and oxygen were just extra weight and pointless cause they shoulda/coulda just climbed the little hill naked with their own lungs....or something like that. Edit...excluding Wim Hof from that analogy/metaphor thingy.
Master of mediocrity.
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04-07-2020, 08:26 AM #11269
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04-07-2020, 08:27 AM #11270Funky But Chic
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04-07-2020, 08:29 AM #11271
Drove by the backside of our local hospital and saw a big ass refrigerator tractor trailer.
Jeebus.. . .
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04-07-2020, 08:30 AM #11272Funky But Chic
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I hope deebased is right and after a quick sharp surge Sweden comes out the other side quickly and in good shape. Then they can get back to work and start producing more of the best thing they ever made, the SAAB 900. Old-school, unkillable, technologically simple vehicles for the post-pandemic world.
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04-07-2020, 08:31 AM #11273
Donald Trump Has Stake In Hydroxychloroquine Drugmaker: Report
http://huffp.st/DJf5ryj“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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04-07-2020, 08:36 AM #11274Originally Posted by bobz
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04-07-2020, 08:41 AM #11275
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