Trust me, it was not a first draft on either. I was trying to persuade, not vent. I’ll not make the mistake of assuming she’s ‘my’ senator again.
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When I saw that clip my first thought was: that’s the definition of “sporadic”, you moron. Some places have what they need and some don’t.
He probably thinks it means it stops virus spores or something. “Your PPD’s are sporadic, that’s great! (why do they seem to be complaining)”
I’m completely serious. He is such an idiot.
Back in early February I sent an email to my senator, Martha McSally. This week I actually got back a reply. I’m thinking she’s not liking her poll numbers.
You’ll note that the only thing of substance in her response was addressing what I said in the fourth paragraph. I guess she thinks I was stupidly burying the lede. I’m still concocting a response; I’m vacillating on whether ‘mealy-mouthed’ is imflamatory or not.
Not nearly enough.
How about “gutless and a disgrace to the vows she took as a member of the armed forces and the vows she took when she was sworn into office”?
Cadet Bone Spurs compares doctors and nurses to soldiers running into enemy fire, as if he’d have the slightest clue about either.
The thing is, that this is actually a pretty powerful analogy* but in his subsequent stream of consciousness improv over it totally ruins its effect. I was imagining how a competent orator like Obama could have brought it home, only to realize that his doing so would instantly be jumped on by Republicans as being a slam against our troops.
- He clearly didn’t write it himself. You can tell from his bored singsong drone at the beginning of the clip that he always settles into when is reading something someone else wrote.
And thanks to him they are running into that fire damn near completely unprotected.
From a speech in Allentown, PA today:
– Trump
If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.
It’s common sense.
If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.
It’s common sense.
If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.
It’s common sense.
Is he brain damaged in some way? How on Mother Hubbard’s green shoe does he spew this bullshit with a straight face? How are reporters not asking him what in the ever loving hell he is smoking? How does he still have any support?
I spend way too much time letting Trump infuriate me to the point of needing medical intervention. This was a whole separate level of foaming at the mouth fury that this sick piece of garbage is in charge of this country.
Nobody tell Trump about, say, New Zealand having tested over 200,000 people for COVID and having had fewer than 2000 confirmed cases (and no new cases for days now).
Meanwhile, the US has tested fewer than 10.5 million people and had over 1.5 million confirmed cases.
Test/case ratio in NZ: >100
Test/case ratio in US: <10
Hmmm, maybe it’s not actually how much testing you do that determines how many cases you have, after all.
You and me both!
Numbers? Don’t do numbers. Only do big numbers if there’s a dollar sign involved.
It’s just like how you have very few cockroaches as long as you never turn the kitchen lights on at night.
ETA: time out dup post.
Or turn on Fox News.
And here’s how that bit of breathtaking stupidity will be spun:
The only reason the US has by far the most Covid-19 cases in the world is because the USA is #1 in testing. The USA tests more people than anywhere else in the world. MAGA
:rolleyes:
And y’all are dumbasses for thinking Great Leader said something stupid.
Whenever i hear this I want to scream “DOES THE PHRASE ‘PER CAPITA’ MEAN NOTHING TO YOU PEOPLE?!??”
Yes, we’re doing a lot of testing. whoop de shit…we have a lot of people. how are we doing on tests per capita? or even more important: on the number of tests per month compared to the number that all epidemiologists say we should be doing? Not so good
There was an interesting story about Vietnam. Relatively few tests, but concentrated where most effective. Aggressive contact tracing and quarantining (prob much more than we would accept or pay for in US). Good covid control, zero deaths.
Can’t find link just now.
Yup. That and it’s completely fucking useless to ‘test’ a bazzillion people if it takes three weeks to get a result. :rolleyes:
And I’d like to add that testing does jack shit if you don’t have an infrastructure in place to contact trace.