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Grand Mal

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Given that adulation is the currency Trump values highest, is he bragging about his profit when he brags about how many people listen to his Covid updates?
 
What are we looking at?

Are those dead bodies in body bags? In the back of a refrigerated semi trailer?

I don't get it.
 
Grand Mal said:
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Given that adulation is the currency Trump values highest, is he bragging about his profit when he brags about how many people listen to his Covid updates?
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What is the color coding of the corpses for? Gender, people with or without the Big C or what?
 
Drawdown said:
What is the color coding of the corpses for? Gender, people with or without the Big C or what?
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My guess? They opened a box of a different brand.
 
Grand Mal said:
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Given that adulation is the currency Trump values highest, is he bragging about his profit when he brags about how many people listen to his Covid updates?
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Not in the least "profiteering". Just Mr. Trump displaying his usual level of understanding and compassion for the suffering of others.
 
Grand Mal said:
My guess? They opened a box of a different brand.
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White is usually preferred if evidence needs to be collected off the body because it is easier to visually spot. Sometimes yellows or reds are used for high risk bodies. You could be right but my guess is they are using it more purposefully than that since they are also arranged by color.
 
Grand Mal said:
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Given that adulation is the currency Trump values highest, is he bragging about his profit when he brags about how many people listen to his Covid updates?
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Hmm... what politician takes actions or makes statements which they feel will not garner them more political support?

Boasting that cable news profits (aka ratings) increase by covering Trump's briefings is rather harmless, IMHO.
 
Drawdown said:
What is the color coding of the corpses for? Gender, people with or without the Big C or what?
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That is likely just the result of using body bags from a different maker.
 
Metric Mouse said:
Having read Huffpo's. "Don't take covid 19 seriously " article from late January, I just shake my head at anything that they produce.
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OK, go to Sirus radio and listen to the repeat of the show. He still nailed it.
 
Metric Mouse said:
Having read Huffpo's. "Don't take covid 19 seriously " article from late January, I just shake my head at anything that they produce.
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Ah, the ole "they may have been wrong once on something one time I think so I can ignore everything they say forever" posts. Does this "guideline" apply to everybody?
 
Grand Mal said:
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Given that adulation is the currency Trump values highest, is he bragging about his profit when he brags about how many people listen to his Covid updates?
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Short answer: No.

Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooo.

Criminey, they bitch if there isn't enough information. They bitch when there is too much information. :roll:
 
jmotivator said:
Short answer: No.

Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooo.

Criminey, they bitch if there isn't enough information. They bitch when there is too much information. :roll:
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Who is 'they' and which information?
 
Vern said:
Ah, the ole "they may have been wrong once on something one time I think so I can ignore everything they say forever" posts. Does this "guideline" apply to everybody?
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No. Just to publications that deny science in order to score political points with their readers, who then die from following their anti-science advice.

edit: Also, this is literally the same subject they were wrong on before, so while they may be right at other times on other things, their track record on proper covid 19 responses is pretty wrecked
 
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Who is 'they' and which information?
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Those complaining about his remarks. When there is a national epidemic it is good that a lot of people are tuning in for updates... unless you are whoever posted that meme.. then how dare Trump hold nightly press conferences while people are dying. :roll:
 
jmotivator said:
Those complaining about his remarks. When there is a national epidemic it is good that a lot of people are tuning in for updates... unless you are whoever posted that meme.. then how dare Trump hold nightly press conferences while people are dying. :roll:
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That's not the point at all. The point is he's bragging about his TV ratings from telling America about the epidemic as it kills thousands. Do you really not see how offensive that is? World leaders everywhere are giving regular updates about this pandemic but I flat-out guarantee he's the only one bragging about the size of the audience that listens to him.
 
Grand Mal said:
That's not the point at all. The point is he's bragging about his TV ratings from telling America about the epidemic as it kills thousands. Do you really not see how offensive that is? World leaders everywhere are giving regular updates about this pandemic but I flat-out guarantee he's the only one bragging about the size of the audience that listens to him.
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Oh, is that what it is about? Then **** them twice. It's bull****. The progressive a-holes pound trump for holding nightly press conferences, they even stop showing them on some cable news networks like those networks have something more important for that hour, and then when Trump points out how many people are tuning in they attack him for "bragging". **** them. Hard. They are scurrilous little political ****wits who see the most important thing to their readership in this crisis to be placating their rabid anti-Trumpism.

Again, **** them and everyone who thinks their **** meme has value. They are awful people.
 
jmotivator said:
Oh, is that what it is about? Then **** them twice. It's bull****. The progressive a-holes pound trump for holding nightly press conferences, they even stop showing them on some cable news networks like those networks have something more important for that hour, and then when Trump points out how many people are tuning in they attack him for "bragging". **** them. Hard. They are scurrilous little political ****wits who see the most important thing to their readership in this crisis to be placating their rabid anti-Trumpism.

Again, **** them and everyone who thinks their **** meme has value. They are awful people.
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He didn't point it out, he bragged about it. Here's one of his supporters on it...

"Howard Stern is calling President Trump's boasting about his coronavirus briefing ratings "mind-boggling," saying the reason so many viewers are tuning in is because Americans are "scared ****less."

"Do I pull my hair out of my head when I see my buddy Donald Trump standing there talking about how can people not look at his ratings and his ratings are higher than 'The Bachelor?'" the SiriusXM host said on his eponymous show Tuesday, adding that "the reason his ratings are higher" is "because people are scared ****less."

"It's not your incredible reality TV show that you're putting on for the country," Stern said of Trump, who as a New York real estate developer was a frequent guest on his radio show. "It's because we're in crisis and we're tuning in to see what the president has to say. We're looking for leadership, motherf---"

Here's Trump "pointing it out".

."Because the ‘Ratings’ of my News Conferences etc. are so high, ‘Bachelor finale, Monday Night Football type numbers’ according to the @nytimes, the Lamestream Media is going CRAZY,” Trump tweeted. “

Your boy Trump is a jerk, an asshole. Maybe you deserve him but most Americans don't.
 
Grand Mal said:
He didn't point it out, he bragged about it. Here's one of his supporters on it...

"Howard Stern is calling President Trump's boasting about his coronavirus briefing ratings "mind-boggling," saying the reason so many viewers are tuning in is because Americans are "scared ****less."

"Do I pull my hair out of my head when I see my buddy Donald Trump standing there talking about how can people not look at his ratings and his ratings are higher than 'The Bachelor?'" the SiriusXM host said on his eponymous show Tuesday, adding that "the reason his ratings are higher" is "because people are scared ****less."

"It's not your incredible reality TV show that you're putting on for the country," Stern said of Trump, who as a New York real estate developer was a frequent guest on his radio show. "It's because we're in crisis and we're tuning in to see what the president has to say. We're looking for leadership, motherf---"

Here's Trump "pointing it out".

."Because the ‘Ratings’ of my News Conferences etc. are so high, ‘Bachelor finale, Monday Night Football type numbers’ according to the @nytimes, the Lamestream Media is going CRAZY,” Trump tweeted. “

Your boy Trump is a jerk, an asshole. Maybe you deserve him but most Americans don't.
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Why should I listen to Howard Stern any more than I should listen to the numbskulls at Buzzfeed? Just because a lot of idiots have the same dumb thought doesn't mean you have to.
 
Metric Mouse said:
No. Just to publications that deny science in order to score political points with their readers, who then die from following their anti-science advice.

edit: Also, this is literally the same subject they were wrong on before, so while they may be right at other times on other things, their track record on proper covid 19 responses is pretty wrecked
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MM, you're on a roll. First we get the ole "they may have been wrong once on something one time I think so I can ignore everything they say forever" post. Now you've literally just posted exactly what your dear leader and fox did as some sort of criticism of something you may or may not have read. Amazeballs.
 
Drawdown said:
What is the color coding of the corpses for? Gender, people with or without the Big C or what?
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Orange bags indicate a bio-hazard (someone died from disease vs. injury). They no doubt ran out of orange bags.
 
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