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President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Jan 20, 2021.

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  1. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    “All them brown folk are gonna put me out of business.”
     
    wicked, Aug 11, 2021
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  2. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    When did Tucker Carlson morph into Glenn Beck?

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    DanOregon, Aug 11, 2021
    #16790
  3. Machine Head

    Machine Head Well-Known Member

    Heartbreaking
     
    Machine Head, Aug 11, 2021
    #16791
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  4. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    Artist Tracey Snelling has created a genius multimedia diorama about the Four Seasons Landscaping press conference.

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    garrow, Aug 11, 2021
    #16792
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  5. matt_garth

    matt_garth Well-Known Member

    Giuliani’s partner at the time was the son of former U.S. attorney general Michael Mukasey.

     
    matt_garth, Aug 11, 2021
    #16793
  6. Hermes

    Hermes Well-Known Member

    This is why I can never get into model railroads. It would take over my life.
     
    Hermes, Aug 11, 2021
    #16794
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  7. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    The fact that he’s still alive tells me maybe we’ve been overhyping the CIA all this time.
     
    BitterYoungMatador2, Aug 11, 2021
    #16795
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  8. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    Webster, Aug 11, 2021
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  9. Kato

    Kato Well-Known Member

    Kleptocracy
     
    Kato, Aug 11, 2021
    #16797
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  10. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Which means he stands to profit from the pandemic getting worse. In a functioning society he’d fear prison time.
     
    dixiehack, Aug 11, 2021
    #16798
    OscarMadison, lakefront, 2muchcoffeeman and 5 others like this.
  11. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    In the case of this stock purchase, the benefit would have really been at that point in time, as people realized the virus was a serious thing. Supposedly his wife bought some stock in Gilead on February 26 before the World Health Organization classified it as a pandemic. There was a lot of talk already about Gilead's antiviral Remdesivir being effective against the coronavirus. Gilead stock was getting a lot of play as a result. Unless she flipped the stock and sold within the next couple of months, as a buy and hold investment she would be sitting on a slight loss today if she still owns it.

    Rand Paul sits on the Senate Health Committee. If he had access to non-public information about the seriousness of the virus and shared it with his wife, that would be the conflict of interest. The one small caveat is that a lot of people without any info that Rand Paul may or may not have had were buying Gilead stock on those dates and the stock went on a roller coaster ride over the next few months as people tried to figure out what was going on. Remdesivir was very much on people's radar screens already when she bought.

    My guess actually, given the small dollar amount involved and the fact that you didn't really need any non-public information (and there doesn't seem to have been any) to do what she did, was that she was like everyone else making a speculative play on a little Gilead stock because of the news. That doesn't mean that Paul should get a pass on not disclosing it and get raked through whatever people who don't like him want to take him through for it taking a year and a half for him to finally disclose it.
     
    The Big Ragu, Aug 11, 2021
    #16799
  12. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    Not sure where this post goes, so I'm going to put it here ...

    I got a call this morning from a relative that my uncle was taken to the ED (Emergency Department ... don't even ... ). Was there all day. Not sure what's wrong, but it's certain that it isn't a hangnail.

    First off, there was an older woman in a wheelchair who was thirsty. She stopped a staffer and asked if she could have a glass of water. The staffer, the epitome of class and compassion, told her that she would have to buy some water from the machine. My mother's husband - they've been married two years ... he's a good egg - and my sick-as-a-dog uncle got up, bought her a bottled water because these folks couldn't be bothered to do a simple favor for a women clearly in need in the midst of an ED that made a circus look slow.

    Worse, my uncle was in there all day, still couldn't get a room - and he'll be there probably a few days and perhaps as long as two weeks - and will have a bed in an ED room at least tonight.

    For those of you who might still be hesitating, get the vaccine (my uncle is vaccinated ... it's NOT COVID). This ED was something out of a nightmare, and I'm now back in a corner of the world where, IMO, too many people still think not getting vaccinated is political instead of life-or-death. That a hospital is so in shambles that a patient who clearly will be an inpatient cannot get a room basically 12 hours after going to ED is a problem. Cannot have a battery of tests run to help diagnose and determine the best road to clinical recovery because reasons (lack of staffing, dealing with a pandemic ... maybe something else).

    Rant over. All energy to my uncle. Thanks for your time.
     
    Sam Mills 51, Aug 11, 2021
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