Election Thread 2024

[Hydra009]

This just a couple months after everyone and their brother says that these crazy tariff wars would drive up prices, and the MAGA crowd suddenly deciding that high prices are great.

[Hydra009]

Just in case you don't know that this isn't really about immigration.

[Nobody]

It's about following Putin's orders.

[Blackleaf]

Could really use a Death Note right about now...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Could really use a Death Note right about now...

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[Hydra009]

Brainworm guy says AI will approve new drugs very quickly

"We are at the cutting edge of AI," Kennedy said. "We're implementing it in all of our departments. At FDA, we're accelerating drug approvals so that you don't need to use primates or even animal models. You can do the drug approvals very, very quickly with AI."

Kennedy is often effective at manipulating an audience, but also says things that don't make any sense, even if you agree with his worldview. At one point during his interview with Carlson he said that when Pfizer's covid-19 vaccine was studied there were two people who died in the control group and one person who died in the vaccine group.

"You remember they were saying the vaccine is 100% effective? Well, that's why they were saying it because there was... there was... two is 100% of one," Kennedy said.

Well, apparently, he's living proof that healthcare (especially mental healthcare) in this country isn't great.  Whether it's drinking raw milk like it's some sort of elixir of immortality or vaccine "skepticism" and telling people to "do their own research" (i.e. trust online cranks over actual medical professionals), not to mention doing lots of disturbing stuff with animals.

He also fired all of an important vaccine panel and filled it with lunatics, so it's not just one clown in office, it's the whole circus.

[Nobody]

Trump is "A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner of no one good quality."
Act 3, scene 6, All's Well That Ends Well, by William Shakespeare

[Nobody]

"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing he has the gods on his side."
Aristotle

[Cassia]

It is really something seeing people admit online that they voted Trump even though the husband or wife were illegal immigrants. They seem surprised that voting Trump is not a personal exemption and then they tweet to him explaining their situation. So stupid.

[Hydra009]

It is really something seeing people admit online that they voted Trump even though the husband or wife were illegal immigrants. They seem surprised that voting Trump is not a personal exemption and then they tweet to him explaining their situation. So stupid.

Probably the same people who think defending billionaires will somehow work out for them in the end.  It won't.

[Nobody]

I just got a notification that informs me that the IRS says churches can endorse political candidates without losing their tax-exempt status.
Who could possibly have seen that coming? 🤔

[Hydra009]

Literal bleach drinkers

When Christina Dominguez complained of a scratchy throat, a friend from the small community church she attended in Liberty Hill, Texas, told her to do something she had read about online: gargle with chlorine dioxide — also known as industrial bleach.

"I gargled three drops with a very sore throat and it was gone the next day," Dominguez said. "My friend said it cured her Covid. I am new to it and don't know much, but I'm a believer."

Ignoring health authority warnings around the ingesting of chlorine dioxide, alternative health influencers are recommending people drink it with water, spray it on skin and even use it in enemas as a "cure" for everything from measles to cancer, HIV and autism.

Why is it always Texas?!

And just think about the mechanics of how bleach would work for a second.  It doesn't just magically spread through the body, killing bacteria (we actually need some of that bacteria, btw) and cancerous cells and whatever they think autism is (brain cells, I guess) and leaves normal tissue intact.  People have accidentally or intentionally done the human trials for that stuff, and bleach causes everything from irritation to tissue damage to death.  There's a reason why there's warning labels on that stuff - it's because someone got hurt/killed.

[Nobody]

Well, according to Joni Ernst, we're all gonna die anyway, so who cares? Die now, die later, it's all the same.

[Nobody]

I just found out, from the Turd Man of Alcatraz, that "skedaddle" means skedaddle! I like learning new things every day!

[Hydra009]

Detained as an illegal immigrant – Maga mom still has faith in Trump's mass deportation plan

"He's doing the right thing because lots of these people don't deserve to be here," Arpineh told the BBC over the phone from the Adelanto immigrant detention centre in California's Mojave Desert.

"I will support him until the day I die. He's making America great again."

She says those being held at the building "were treated like animals".

Another tally for the functionally braindead column.