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Sarah Cooper sends up Trump the Doctor
Posted: Fri 24 Apr 2020 1:33 pm
by wanderer
Re: Sarah Cooper sends up Trump the Doctor
Posted: Fri 24 Apr 2020 2:03 pm
by erol
funny in that form but scares the bejesus out of me in it's source form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BalDN6i ... e=youtu.be
Re: Sarah Cooper sends up Trump the Doctor
Posted: Fri 24 Apr 2020 2:33 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
To be fair Trump who is the least articulate president I can ever remember is never going to stack up well against Obama who was the most eloquent president I can remember.
Obama could explain nonsense and make it seem viable.
I guess Trump is half listening, as he isn't a details man, to various theories from scientific advisors and not making a good job of explaining them.
On that subject I'm sure Fleming would have had a tricky job explaining how great penicillin is to to the man in the street.
"So let me get this straight you came back from a two week holiday and found some mould on a plate that you forgot to clean and that is going to wipe out most infections?"
To illustrate the point here is the great Bob Newhart on the introduction of tobacco. If nothing else it should make you laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO1nCuVQIeg
Re: Sarah Cooper sends up Trump the Doctor
Posted: Fri 24 Apr 2020 2:43 pm
by erol
I have no problem with Trump using his abilities to suggest things to doctors to consider trying. It is not like he has no 'access'. Behind the scenes. To use a press conference where the supposed aim is to inform the public to make such 'musing' public is to me beyond irresponsible and stupid. And scary.
Re: Sarah Cooper sends up Trump the Doctor
Posted: Fri 24 Apr 2020 3:18 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
erol wrote: ↑Fri 24 Apr 2020 2:43 pm
I have no problem with Trump using his abilities to suggest things to doctors to consider trying. It is not like he has no 'access'. Behind the scenes. To use a press conference where the supposed aim is to inform the public to make such 'musing' public is to me beyond irresponsible and stupid. And scary.
I think anyone who listened and seriously thought he was suggesting people inject themselves with bleach might be those who insist that children’s superman capes need to have the warning ‘this cape doesn’t allow you to fly on it.’
Re: Sarah Cooper sends up Trump the Doctor
Posted: Fri 24 Apr 2020 3:20 pm
by frontalman
Abraham Lincoln and JFK hoping for an early Christmas present??????
Re: Sarah Cooper sends up Trump the Doctor
Posted: Fri 24 Apr 2020 3:30 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
frontalman wrote: ↑Fri 24 Apr 2020 3:20 pm
Abraham Lincoln and JFK hoping for an early Christmas present??????
Speaking of Abraham Lincoln and presentation Bob Newhart covered that pretty well
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjz7VAljYs
Re: Sarah Cooper sends up Trump the Doctor
Posted: Fri 24 Apr 2020 3:47 pm
by alphamike
Janey Godley's voiceover regarding disinfectant
https://twitter.com/i/status/1253652233276870656
Re: Sarah Cooper sends up Trump the Doctor
Posted: Fri 24 Apr 2020 4:06 pm
by 13roman58
I think anyone who listened and seriously thought he was suggesting people inject themselves with bleach might be those who insist that children’s superman capes need to have the warning ‘this cape doesn’t allow you to fly on it.’
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Isn't that the problem?
The stark raving lunatics who voted for him actually think that he knows what he is talking about.
The world is in a dangerous place in time, more so due to that idiot. (Language self moderated. )
Stay safe.
Re: Sarah Cooper sends up Trump the Doctor
Posted: Fri 24 Apr 2020 5:04 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
13roman58 wrote: ↑Fri 24 Apr 2020 4:06 pm
Isn't that the problem?
The stark raving lunatics who voted for him actually think that he knows what he is talking about.
The world is in a dangerous place in time, more so due to that idiot. (Language self moderated. )
Stay safe.
To be fair the voters weren’t given much of a choice with Hilary as the alternative.
As for idiots thinking he is instructing them to inject bleach I think it is more a case of opponents deliberately misunderstanding an admittedly inarticulate man for political capital. If there are people who genuinely think it is advisable to inject bleach then so be it, I’m a great believer in Darwinism, if you are that stupid you are going to kill yourself somehow.
Ironically I actually think him being as he is might actually be a positive in world affairs. It seems the world treads very lightly around Kim Jung Un as they did around Hitler because they aren’t too sure what he might be capable of. Who is to say that Kim Jung Un hasn’t calmed down considerably because he is a little concerned with what Trump might be capable of? How often have we seen dictators ride roughshod over statesmen? Often the best person to stop a bully is another bully.
Re: Sarah Cooper sends up Trump the Doctor
Posted: Fri 24 Apr 2020 6:07 pm
by erol
EnjoyingTheSun wrote: ↑Fri 24 Apr 2020 5:04 pm
I think it is more a case of opponents deliberately misunderstanding an admittedly inarticulate man for political capital.
I do not see this as being an issue of people exploiting an inarticulate president for political capital. I see it as being an issue of a president with so much ego and belief that he has a superior great brain on any subject that it leads him to think 'showing' that in a press briefing that is supposed to be about government imparting useful information is a good idea, for him and the people when in fact it is just plain dangerous in so many ways and not just to those who might be 'darwinainly stupid'.
Re: Sarah Cooper sends up Trump the Doctor
Posted: Fri 24 Apr 2020 6:22 pm
by EnjoyingTheSun
It sounded to me that he was more fumbling around and airing potential help in a spectacularly inarticulate way.
Personally I’d have said when we have a cure I’ll f#%$ing tell you until then don’t keep asking me but rest assured we are looking into every eventuality end of bulletin. But then I don’t have the polish to run for office although Trump does give me hope.
Re: Sarah Cooper sends up Trump the Doctor
Posted: Fri 24 Apr 2020 10:45 pm
by wanderer