OHMYGOD – Thank you for that! With all the pent-up emotion of recent events, that had me laugh-cry-laughing for five minutes. I needed that. Holy shit. The only thing that could have made it better is I if could have been drunk when I read it. But it’s only 7:20 AM.
Thank you. (Wipes eyes.) That was a public service.
Does the patient pay an additional 20%?
Nah, he’s the healthiest person who has ever lived. They’ll pull a Poochy. He’s returned to his home planet and never heard from again. And all those idiots will lap up and ask for more. “I didn’t know he was from another planet!”
Lordy, best post of the week!
What about barf stains?
Sorry. Watched Knives Out last might.
Yes! Pence is now H.L. for “Hippo Leach”!
I was thinking T.A.L. (Trump Ass Leech)
If you actually read through this bout of schizophasia, you’ll realize he didn’t answer the question. He was asked about his second term - specifically in the context of not having a clear plan for it - and he talked about what he’s supposedly done in his first term.
Trumps’ train of thought often leaves the station too early and he just rips pages out of the dictionary to run through the salad shooter.
Most of Trump’s word salad responses remind me of a child trying to put into their own words a complex idea that someone just explained to him. Like he remembers some main words and repeats those over and over but has no way to actually explain it effectively.
That’s why we get things like him talking about the bad lives of the virus and using light to kill it.
I’ll drink to that!
< gulps Clorox >
The 20% Covid payment is only for Medicare hospital costs so the patient does not pay additional. This is just an additional payment that goes to the hospital. The hospital charges the same amount but the reimbursement from Medicare has increased.
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold… anyone know why America is running out of coinage?
I heard it is for two reasons.
One is that at least one of the mints was or is still shut down.
And the other is that change usually cycles through the economy. People take it to those coins for cash machines. The machines that are in stores that are currently closed or less accessible.
“Brother, can you spare a dime?”
“What’s that?”
k9bfriender mostly correct.
The Latest Pandemic Shortage: Coins Are The New Toilet Paper
The U.S. Mint produced fewer coins than usual this spring in an effort to protect employees from infection. But the larger problem — as with many other pandemic shortages — is distribution.
During the lockdown, many bank lobbies where people can recycle coins were off limits. And coin-sorting kiosks in retail stores saw reduced traffic. With many businesses closed, unused coins piled up in darkened cash drawers, in pants pockets and on nightstands, even as banks went begging.
“The flow of coins through the economy … kind of stopped,” (Federal Reserve Chair Jerome) Powell said.
The Fed chairman stressed that this clog in the financial plumbing should clear quickly, now that businesses are reopening, and that supplies of coins should soon be back to normal.
For your consideration: article in the UK Independent in which former senator Tim Wirth lays out a plan by which Trump might try to stay in the White House despite an electoral loss. Has to do with claiming election fraud in swing states, negating their electoral college votes, then throwing the whole mess into the Supreme Court. I’m not qualified to determine how realistic it is.
That article has been floating around this morning and while I’m not competent on the technical merits of the pathway, I’m pretty sure navigating it would require political capital and acumen… especially the former… which the current administration does not have.
[N.m., goofy late at night posting]
Has anyone posted about Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Jr’s girlfriend, testing positive for COVID-19? I did a search and didn’t see anything…