![]() These two scientists win the Nobel Prize for their lifetime work with North American and South American porcupines they'd found some promising anti-cancer leads. The objectionable but contextually defensible answer I just gave reminds me of one of my favorite jokes. The derivation has nothing to do with hebes or kikes or sheenies or anything. So, um, if you are not registered to vote, please do it, sooner rather than later. ![]() The president of the United States retweeted it. This press conference might literally kill people. How nutty was this? How easy was it to identify as misinformed, wildly biased, and literally insane? One of the principal doctors who spoke was this lady. Their comments on it were insane many saw it as proof of a national conspiracy They are out there, in stunning numbers, and nothing will persuade them of the truth about this man. But that's not the point: Trump's idiot followers consumed it voraciously. The video of the event was viewed tens of thousands of times across many platforms and it was amplified a millionfold because it was re-tweeted by, yeah, President Trump, even though it was not only obviously false but also wildly irresponsible.īy now it's been scrubbed from Facebook, youtube and other public forums. The doctors identified themselves as "America's Frontline Doctors," though they are clearly nut jobs, or worse. (Yes, there is a blatant internal inconsistency - if the virus ain't dangerous, how can spreading it hurt Trump?) The press conference was sponsored by. A group of "doctors" (some of whom ARE doctors) gave a news conference in front of the Supreme Court, for some reason, in which they assured America that you don't need to wear masks, that hodroxycloroquine is a cure for the virus, and that that fact is being withheld from the American public, presumably to intensify the pandemic in order to hurt Donald Trump's reelection chances. The thing that happened yesterday was terrifying. For those of who feel some sense of security that the disaster in the White House is going to be mightily expunged in three months' time, recalibrate your fear. Trump still has a lot of support (at least in Michigan) across the board and it's pretty discouraging.Very short intro today. is decorated with giant "Trump 2020" flags. When I ask about racist and other awful Trump tweets and statements they say "well, we do wish he could be a little more compassionate and polite". These are the arguments of highly educated Republicans. They have bought into a (new to me) theory that the Dems plan to oust Biden after a single year of presidency under Article 25 (for ill health) and thus make Harris president - who they are convinced is a far left radical socialist. They are convinced that Trump will save the country economically and that the Democrats would destroy the country with some kind of wild socialism. My parents are retired upper middle class professionals both with post graduate degrees, my sister also lives there and is a professional with her doctorate. It was so depressingly Trumpy that I feel like I spent a week marinating in a foul substance. They needed some help and Covid rates in my state are down (as they are also in the U.P.) so I seized the opportunity and was there for a week. Just got home from Upper Peninsula Michigan (the U.P.) where I visited my very elderly parents for the first time since pandemic started.
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