jesseriley wrote:
Stephanie Grisham reportedly leaving as press secretary without ever holding a press conference!
And without being missed lol. Don’t let the door hit you! Boris needs a new press secretary, I hear. Wonder if she can write obituaries?
Well Trump outdid Obama again. The incoming press secretary will be his 4th. Obama only had 3. And it only took Trump 3 1/3 years to do it. The true definition of managerial excellence.
Boris Johnson's health is going downhill fast. He resisted treatment for the hoax it's-just-the-flu virus for 10 days. He is on oxygen now, and likely had a tracheotomy (a tube through an incision in the neck) to improving his breathing. This is basically the life support step that keep people in ICU for so long with this COV disease.
jesseriley wrote:
UK refuses Trump’s offer of experimental drugs for Boris. Ouch.
That's not surprising. The UK takes a lot of pride in their National Health Service.
When this is all said and done, we will find that nations with universal coverage got better care and better outcomes. It will show that we have the worst health system in the industrialized world.
foo wrote:
Well Trump outdid Obama again. The incoming press secretary will be his 4th. Obama only had 3. And it only took Trump 3 1/3 years to do it. The true definition of managerial excellence.
Except Trump could claim she was never a real press secretary because she refused to hold any press conferences. That was her decision, and that has nothing to do with him in anyway.
I wonder what use a femme fatale press secretary who never holds a press conference would be? And did we have to pay for the “protection”?
I don’t mean the 9MM under the pillow, either, baby!
Agree Smorbun, but I’d certainly still keep an eye on this situation, he’s pushing it hard.
Trigged you jumped as you often do to the wrong conclusion, set up your straw man argument to dismantle. I’m fully aware that it is a generic drug.
I miss the good old days when putin paid for trump’s whores instead of us.
SDSU Aztec wrote:
Trump is not promoting the drug to make money for himself or some friends. He sees it as a way to end the crisis, bring back the economy and win the election. He believes the drug will end the crisis only because he wants it to and he will be a hero when it does.
The only thing Trump cares about is being reelected.
I believe today that that is his motivation also. It is always about him. Just in this case, not a monetary issue, but rather a reelection issue.
yards wrote:
Rigged for Hillary wrote:
"Trump holds between $3,003 and $45,000 of the Dodge & Cox Int'l Fund"
You forgot the Trump Crime Families holdings. And you forgot the Trump donor holdings who use market gains to send "donations" to Trump. Trump will make millions as peddler-in-chief of this snake oil.
I would not dismiss this at all.
The swamp has NEVER been murkier.
Trump has ordered his heath team to NOT ever contradict him on his miracle drug cure. Trump is using government money to buy it up AND ship it to hospitals. What is he planning? An executive order forcing doctors to force feed it to coronavirus patients in ICU? Whether the drug is used or not Trump has already made money for forcing the government to buy it and ship it.
Trump is buying up " hydroxychloroquine, adding it to the national stockpile, urging manufacturers to ramp up its production and sending huge shipments of the drug to hospitals and pharmacies in hot zones like New York City where doctors are free to prescribe it to patients. "
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/06/trump-drug-coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine-170543
Ciro wrote:
Agree Smorbun, but I’d certainly still keep an eye on this situation, he’s pushing it hard.
I agree completely. Trump needs to be watched as if by a hawk at all times. I am not saying he for sure doesn't have a big financial interest here, but we can't condemn him just yet. We all know though that he's not above trying to make a buck on anything, and if it is determined that yes, he has been pushing this drug to make money, I will not be surprised at all, because he is the lowest of the low. An amoral person will do anything, and he is amoral.
Smorbun wrote:
I agree completely. Trump needs to be watched as if by a hawk at all times. I am not saying he for sure doesn't have a big financial interest here, but we can't condemn him just yet.
Trump has been using government money buying up the drug. He has been shipping it to hospitals. The profit is now in the bank, whether the drug is used or not does not matter. Trump will not force the sellers of the drug to refund the money he is spending on it.
yards wrote:
foo wrote:
Well Trump outdid Obama again. The incoming press secretary will be his 4th. Obama only had 3. And it only took Trump 3 1/3 years to do it. The true definition of managerial excellence.
Except Trump could claim she was never a real press secretary because she refused to hold any press conferences. That was her decision, and that has nothing to do with him in anyway.
It wasn't her decision. She wanted to have press conferences. It was Tiny's decision.
yards wrote:
Rigged for Hillary wrote:
"Trump holds between $3,003 and $45,000 of the Dodge & Cox Int'l Fund"
You forgot the Trump Crime Families holdings. And you forgot the Trump donor holdings who use market gains to send "donations" to Trump. Trump will make millions as peddler-in-chief of this snake oil.
The drug is off patent and Trump can buy a flat screen TV with his "massive" profits of $1400.
Grow the hell up.
We should have seen when Trump started pushing it so hard something was amiss. In this case he is the providing himself with cover for the mass purchases of the miracle drug he is buying.
Rigged for Hillary wrote:
The drug is off patent and Trump can ....
... spend millions of taxpayer dollars buying it all up, and selling it, and shipping it to American hospitals.
The swamp has never been murkier.
Ciro wrote:
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/david-perdue-senators-stocks-coronavirus-143411337.htmlThe swamp has never been murkier.
He's running for re-election in an increasingly purple state. Not the smartest move.
Fat hurts wrote:
Ciro wrote:
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/david-perdue-senators-stocks-coronavirus-143411337.htmlThe swamp has never been murkier.
He's running for re-election in an increasingly purple state. Not the smartest move.
Honestly, I think Rs think this sort of thing is fine. Seriously. They believe in a bare bones capitalism that encourages you to get what you can get. So I don't think this will hurt the guy.
Sure, it's a negative campaign topic that could get more Ds to show up on voting day though.
Bigly idiot Americans, no wonder we are where we are...
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