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 he’d 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 he’s never allowed an intoxicant to pass his lips doesn’t 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 you’d 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.
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Actually they were ramping up the HCQ will kill you stories in my view. Trump hcq statements took the wind right out of the MSM’s sails on the issue. Trump was taking the drug (WITH ZINC!) and he did not die. Whether or not the drug worked or not is not the issue here. Trump showed that he was willing to do what he had urged others to do if they and their doctors agreed on that particular course to take. He showed himself to be a true leader on this particular issue and was not a “do as I say not as I do” hypocrite.
Trump took a weapon out of the MSM and Dem’s hands on that issue. He did what he urged others to do and supposedly, if the MSM was to be believed, risked his own death in doing so. Now they might continue to criticize the drug’s use but their plaintive little cheeps and bleeps are now ineffectual against the president.
Well played, President Trump...SIR!
The run background and credit check that you pay for
I haven’t rented a place since 1999, and as I recall, there was no fee to apply.
If I were a landlord, I’d just prorate in the rent.
It SOP these days
Glad I’ll never have to rent again!
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