Posted on 05/23/2020 7:11:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Donald Trump began his week with a staggering admission. Seemingly off the cuff, he announced that he was taking the drug hydroxychloroquine.
What followed was a public debate strange even by present standards. Was the president telling the truth, or was he lying, in a sly provocation, to annoy reporters who have fetishized his recurring promotion of the drug?
The evidence that the president was lying was strong. His lips were moving, for one thing. For another, he was vague and even self-contradictory about how long hed been taking the drug and why. A statement issued later by his doctor was meant to serve as a confirmation, but never explicitly asserted that he had prescribed the drug for the president. And Trump is famously squeamish about ingesting foreign substances. A man who says hes never allowed an intoxicant to pass his lips doesnt seem like the sort of person who would submit his body as a test tube in a one-off nonclinical trial of a controversial drug.
A strong case for the skeptics!
And yet I have come to take the president at his word. Trump has a jumbo-size tolerance for risk. As a businessman, he was a high-wire act, swinging from one bankruptcy and defaulted loan to the next with scarcely a glance at the abyss yawning below him.
His diet of taco bowls and Quarter Pounders and gobbets of ketchup washed away in rivers of Diet Coke is what youd expect from an orphan boy with a bit of pocket money. He refuses any exercise more salubrious than stepping into and out of a golf cart. Maskless in the White House, he inhales unfiltered the vapors of the yes-men who surround him. With unsettling regularity, the man tempts fate, his own and ours.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Where is the News? The media is 95% opinions.
And 5% lies.
Notice how the Trump trying to kill us all with HCQ hand wringing had died off until Trump claimed he was taking it? Now the stooges are once again beside themselves about it. Im thinking Trump is sitting on info to be released showing how many tens of thousands of Americans have been saved by Trumps drug. Hes trolling them, getting ready to hammer them with the facts.
“President Donald Trump began his week with a staggering admission.”
Did anyone here stagger when they heard this?
The only relevant fact that the remaining people who work for The Atlantic is how long their irrelevant jobs will last: Yesterday in the news it was announced that The Atlantic laid off 68 employees, about 17% of its work force.
So, here is the deal: LIEberals LIE!
Since LIEberals LIE, they presume that EVERYONE ELSE is lying!
Got it?
The Atlantic just announced layoffs and financial problems.
I’m sure articles like this will pick it right back up.
Bye bye, atlantic! I hear you’re going out of business! couldn’t happen to a nicer leftist rag.
The treatment protocol is 5-7 days....used prophylactically for someone who shows no pos test and no symptoms but has been exposed to a diagnosed case. Watch DrBeen medical lecture
Ferguson is channeling his inner 2nd Grade Mean Girl. Some thick snark hes spewing into the mirror here. Egads.
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He should leave the mean girl mode to, you know, actual *women*, not girls like himself.
I used to think democrats were just stupid... now it really apparent they are evil and mentally deranged.
Hey Andrew FergusonIdiot, don’t let science get in the way over your obvious political targeting rant, kkthx.
Do most people really give a shit either way?
My last comment was directed at the asshats making much ado about this and other asnine stuff around him, not you Seek&Find. Their nonsense is so old.
No, of course not! HCQ is rat poison that KILLS YOU - ask the Democrats, the morning schmoe, and the rest of the media.
Thanks for responding to my post.
Ferguson wrote one good book, titled “Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College,” published by Simon & Schuster in 2011.
He does a decent job describing the gyrations parents and teens endure to get into a competitive university.
Giving away the ending, Ferguson’s boy went to the University of Virginia.
During the 15 years or so I lived in the Old Dominion, the conventional wisdom was that Virginia Tech was easy to get into but you had to work hard for that sheepskin. UVA was like a Southern Ivy — ever-so-selective but once you were in, you could skate.
What lunacy. Having to go through a protracted competition for the privilege of getting a “prestigious” institution to take your money.
A thousand years from now, historians are going to look back at today’s higher education with the same bewilderment as we consider the medieval Scholastic philosophers debating how many angels could dance on the head of a pin.
Actually, the Scholastics get a bad rap, but that’s another subject ...
Liberals and never Trumpers are upset because now the left’s attempts to give him COVID will not work.
Oddly enough my daughter was accepted at every university she applied to. I did nothing to help her save cough up money for tests and transcripts
Parents ought to let their little darlings figure it out themselves. It builds character
Kind of like applying for an apartment
I was not aware that there is a fee just to apply for an apartment?
Why would I want a tightwad landlord such as that?
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