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Here's why Rush Limbaugh is literally dangerous to Republicans

lwf said:
The difference is: Left-leaning organizations changed their tune when the facts warranted, as they are wont to do. Right-leaning organizations doubled down on their stance solely because they were more worried about politics than about facts, as they are wont to do.
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Well said.

They mocked us here in California for our lockdown.

Now we are set to peak the 18th and never exceed our capacities.

We're all gonna see how things play out where they were laughing at us, aren't we?

We should all guess what the new narrative will be then.
 
Michael Cole said:
I was thinking the same thing regarding historical revisionism. Do Trumpists not realize that revisionism doesn't work when the history is fresh in people's memories? Or are their attention and memory spans limited to three months?
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From.the narratives being floated in their media, it appears that they will just adopt the latest narrative immediately.

We've all seen them do the "What had happened was..." bit and then have their hero admit to whatever it was they had just explained away as liberal lies. At which point the last thing he said simply becomes theirs new truth.

Winston Smith with the internet.
 
swing_voter said:
The OP is from 3/11 almost month ago. The virus looked a lot different back then.
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He was criticized for that performance in real time. The "scientists" he dismissed as hacks and the media who reported on their predictions were of course correct, and this ignorant dumbass who has nothing but contempt for so-called experts was revealed as an idiot.
 
Linc said:
more like trumpandumbic
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I like "moronavirus" it can be applied to folks who were moronic in their response to the crisis and all of those who caught it because the believed the original morons.
 
W_Heisenberg said:
Even the most optimistic predictions indicate something like 200,000 to 300,000 deaths in the U.S.

Approximately 40,000 people die in car crashes each year.

In terms of the current rate of death compared to other causes Coronavirus is now the 3rd leading cause of death in the U.S.

Analysis: Coronavirus now third-leading cause of death in US | TheHill

It's actually now double the rate now...of ALL accidents, not just car accidents.

Coronavirus was the 2nd leading cause of death in the U.S. on March 31 - CBS News

So, all this crap you keep posting about it not being a big deal...is trash propaganda and misinformation. Stop it.

You guys need to stop taking your cues from forehead-slapping faith-healers, high school educated dunces like Hannity and Rush, and conspiracy-mongers like Alex Jones. They make money by lying to people.
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He's clearly a Poe.
 
PirateMk1 said:
Sadly I doubt they will be held accountable.
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For trying to save lives, reporting accurately on what the epidemiologists were saying, predicting in fact what we're witnessing in real time, starting in NYC? Hold them accountable!!
 
Deuce said:
24% of FDNY’s EMS is out sick. This isn’t a common cold.
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They're all liberals who infected each other on purpose to make trump look bad.

TDSers, every one.
 
What if...? said:
From.the narratives being floated in their media, it appears that they will just adopt the latest narrative immediately.

We've all seen them do the "What had happened was..." bit and then have their hero admit to whatever it was they had just explained away as liberal lies. At which point the last thing he said simply becomes theirs new truth.

Winston Smith with the internet.
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The hypocrisy and irony is mindboggling. Trumpists claim (desire) is that everyone but them is blindly following media bias, yet none of them participate in the daily threads on the daily briefings. They don't even go to Trump for their opinions of him. They go to Fox and AM radio.
 
apdst said:
If Biden wins, the cv outbreak will disappear from the news. The outbreak will end the day after Biden wins, it'll be a miracle. It's almost as if the media is holding the country hostage.
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Well, that's stupid, because people in Europe being hit hard by CV19 don't give a damn about U.S. politics.

Hopefully, you're right though, because it will "disappear" when we have 1) a cure, and/or 2) a working vaccine that has been given to millions, starting with the most at risk. If that happens by election day, then that's a good thing, whoever wins the election.
 
Glitch said:
Naturally the left are heavily invested in having millions of Americans die. If fewer than 2.2 million Americans die, like they predicted, they will look like fear-mongering fools. Which we already know they are. When this is over President Trump needs to declare the Democratic Party a terrorist organization for the terror they deliberately inflicted during this completely manufactured crisis. More Americans will die from medical mistakes made by doctors and nurses in hospitals than will die from COVID-19.
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And if 2.2 million die? Then I guess it was all some other liberal conspiracy to make trump look bad, right?

And where did you get your 2.2 million number? Isn't that a "worst-case-if-we-all-listen-to-trump-and-Rush" number?

Don't try to give trump credit for our efforts in California, for instance. He deserves none of it.

That's not rain on your head you're feeling. I would advise not tilting your head back and opening your mouth.

See? I don't want bad things to happen to you.
 
Glitch said:
Naturally the left are heavily invested in having millions of Americans die. If fewer than 2.2 million Americans die, like they predicted, they will look like fear-mongering fools. Which we already know they are. When this is over President Trump needs to declare the Democratic Party a terrorist organization for the terror they deliberately inflicted during this completely manufactured crisis. More Americans will die from medical mistakes made by doctors and nurses in hospitals than will die from COVID-19.
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Nostradamus? Is that you?
 
bubbabgone said:
Was that your unnecessarily long way of saying that you trust Fauci?
Okay by me.

In a radio interview Fauci was asked ...
"If you're a doctor listening to me right now and a patient with coronavirus feels like they want to try that [hydroxychloroquine] and you're their doctor, you're not Anthony Fauci the guy running the coronavirus task force, would you say 'alright, we'll give it a whirl'?"
Fauci answered ...
"Yeah, of course, particularly if people have no other option," "These drugs are approved drugs for other reasons. They're anti-malaria drugs, and they're drugs against certain autoimmune diseases like lupus. Physicians throughout the country can prescribe that in an off-label way. Which means they can write it for something it was not approved for."
and then ...
"Would you, as a doctor, prescribe this for your patient?"
Fauci said ...
"yes."

You still trust Fauci?


If you're still not convinced ...


I don't understand why some people are so resistant to learning new information.
You should be wondering why your usual sources of information have been letting you down.
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Umm, it was said very early on that all of the existing antivirals would be tested for efficacy. And it isn't surprising that they found one that appears to work to some extent.

And you'll note tthat he used a good bit of qualifying language. Starting off "particularly if they have no other option"

"Can't hurt. Might help." Was the gist of that statement. Not "We're all gonna be ok because chloroquinine"
 
bubbabgone said:
Really? The Left's changing their hydroxychloroquine tune is looooong overdue. Doncha think? Why haven't they changed it yet? I bet you know the reason and it's all political.
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Well, we were told it was only the common cold and it was going to disappeared like a miracle after it's only 15 cases and soon that will be down to zero and it sill all he over in April and...

Well, you get the idea. Kinda hard to believe anything that comes out of this administration at face value.l if you're not predisposed to only believe what they say today and what they say yesterday is forgotten completely if it doesn't make trump look good.

And we still don't have anything but anecdotal evidence. Some early results included an antibiotic and were actually positive results specifically for pneumonia caused by c-19. The reduction in viral.load could have been the result of the antibiotic reduciing the burden on the immune system, allowing it to fight the virus instead of the virus and the pneumonia.

That said, I hope it does work. And I hope it saves lives.
 
Lord of Planar said:
Thing is, it is usually known when the common flu takes one down. With this, many people just have flu-like symptoms. Testing to verify is expensive. We know there are more people out there who have contracted it,m and the official numbers reflect.
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That's true, and if you read any research about the CV19 CFR, they assume something like half show no symptoms and aren't reflected in any testing. Point is you're telling us things the experts account for, while pretending they don't and then effectively calling them stupid for missing this obvious piece of the puzzle that they've in fact carefully considered.

The bottom line is no one knows what the final CFR will be, but it will in part depend on keeping cases below the capacity of the healthcare system. If not, many will die for lack of space, lack of equipment to keep them alive while they fight the virus.
 
bubbabgone said:
Meaning ... what? You wouldn't take it? It shouldn't be prescribed? It hasn't shown any therapeutic value?

You're peddling desperate BS to defend an indefensible position for political reasons.
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The evidence is only anecdotal at this point. It is. Hopefully it works.

But it isn't a "fact" at this point. It just isn't.

What he was referring to is the "early" social distancing measures that appear to be working here in California. Here in San Diego our cases highest in the popular party neighborhoods with high millennial populations.

I suspect this is because of the early misapprehension that young people didn't get sick enough to need hoapitalization. Which turned out to he wrong. 19 and under rarely do, and even more rarely die.

But if you're old enough to drink you're old enough to have a 20% chance to end up in the hoapital and maybe die.

I'm really not sure what we're all arguing about. The dice have already been thrown. This is going to play out the way it is.

And when its all settled down we will see in hard numbers who was right and who was wrong. Who dis the right thing and who didn't.
 
What if...? said:
Well said.

They mocked us here in California for our lockdown.

Now we are set to peak the 18th and never exceed our capacities.

We're all gonna see how things play out where they were laughing at us, aren't we?

We should all guess what the new narrative will be then.
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Yeah, my brother works in healthcare in San Diego, and he's been doing a daily diary. They are getting a few more cases, but the lockdown is doing what it was intended to do, and keeping cases down. There's no problem with capacity in his hospital chain - quite the opposite. They have plenty of room.

Of course to right wingers, that will be evidence nothing was needed, but we'll see soon enough I think that cities and states that didn't take it seriously will have big problems in a couple weeks.
 
Glitch said:
Once again the jealousy of the rabid left rears its ugly head. Jealousy of other people's success is one of the tell-tale mental defects of the insane left. They truly hate anyone who earns more than they do.
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I hate people who traffic in children. They make lots of money.

Does that make me jealous of child traffickers?

And are you defending them too? They are folks who "earn more money than I do"
 
JasperL said:
Well, that's stupid, because people in Europe being hit hard by CV19 don't give a damn about U.S. politics.

Hopefully, you're right though, because it will "disappear" when we have 1) a cure, and/or 2) a working vaccine that has been given to millions, starting with the most at risk. If that happens by election day, then that's a good thing, whoever wins the election.
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Nobody fighting the virus gives a damn about politics. You can bet they aren't laying around blaming Trump because they're sick.
 
OscarLevant said:
I admire people who become wealthy selling an honest product and not cheating or harming people doing it.

That would not be Limbaugh, and you say this because you can't stand the fact he got rich peddling lies to the public so you have to say this in order for you to feel good about yourself.
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Yup..
 
What if...? said:
They're all liberals who infected each other on purpose to make trump look bad.

TDSers, every one.
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And not just in the US. Republicans would have us believe the whole world is in on this coup to overthrow Trump.

Idiots.
 
jpn said:
This thread is about how Limbaugh is dangerous to Republicans.

Here's how Republicans are dangerous to Republicans:

How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared for Coronavirus
Fiscal restraints imposed by Republicans in Congress in the early years of the Obama administration left the U.S. less prepared to respond to the coronavirus pandemic today.
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That's almost criminal.

Hey, but they stopped some stuff under the 1st minority President. A feel good story.
 
JasperL said:
Yeah, my brother works in healthcare in San Diego, and he's been doing a daily diary. They are getting a few more cases, but the lockdown is doing what it was intended to do, and keeping cases down. There's no problem with capacity in his hospital chain - quite the opposite. They have plenty of room.

Of course to right wingers, that will be evidence nothing was needed, but we'll see soon enough I think that cities and states that didn't take it seriously will have big problems in a couple weeks.
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Yes, the Y2K idiot argument.

Companies prepared, we had few problems SO IT WAS FAKE!!!!!!!!
 
What if...? said:
Well said.

They mocked us here in California for our lockdown.

Now we are set to peak the 18th and never exceed our capacities.

We're all gonna see how things play out where they were laughing at us, aren't we?

We should all guess what the new narrative will be then.
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Florida and many of the southern states are going to be in deep **** :(
 
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