Hillary won more votes for President

More distraction from the real issues. This election year is a total joke.

Oh her team botched it big time! I've been on many campaigns in my former life and this campaign is simply out of touch. I don't know if they're aware how paranoid many of her opponents supporters have been on the internet about her health- and they just fed right into the paranoia. It's campaign 101 gone horribly wrong.

hedonist said:

Jason P said:

Multiple versions of her health status by her own people is a continuation of the lack of transparency in the Clinton legacy. Who knows if it is even pneumonia based on the track record?

Granted I haven't seen too much of this, but I did find the allergies / pneumonia thing odd. Overheating after either? Not so far-fetched.

When my elder son was in third grade, he had a significant cough. I took him to the Doc. She said he had pneumonia. It took bronchitis the following year and sending him to an allergist to determine that he has an impressive allergy to cottonwood tree pollen. And it was the only thing he tested positive to. It happens

The truth will come out

This will draw more attention than any other issue this election year. America loves this shit.

Let's put this all in perspective.


An absurd week in America’s two-tier election

Pundits claim Clinton had a bad week. Next to Donald Trump’s seven days of gaffes and scandal, that is insane.

This may have been the most absurd week in U.S. politics in recent history.

Here is a list of gaffes, mistakes, or scandals that came out of the Trump campaign, just in the last seven days, just off the top of my head:
Let’s begin with the Commander and Chief Forum. Trump lavished praise on the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. He then made the unprecedented error of discussing his classified intelligence briefings and claiming his briefers were unhappy with the current President. After that, Trump lied, yet again, that back in 2003 he opposed the Iraq War.

It was then revealed by the Washington Post that Trump had taken credit for charitable giving by others. It reported he lied to the IRS, claiming donations he never made. What’s more, he illegally used $20,000 earmarked for his charity to buy a six-foot portrait of himself.
Trump then gave a TV interview to the Kremlin’s propaganda network RT, and afterwards claimed he only did it because he was “tricked” by Larry King. In another appearance he gave an incoherent monologue about something he called “nuclear warming,” which included false accusations against Clinton and sentences like, “Uranium is big, big stuff because it means the ultimate.”

Next, as the terror attacks of 9/11 were remembered, a radio clip emerged of Trump (on the very day of the attacks!) boasting that his building was now the highest in New York. Then it was reported Trump has publicly lied about helping to recover bodies at Ground Zero. He also claimed he personally had “hundreds” of friends who died in the attack, not one of whom his campaign was able to name.

While all of this was going on, he made an unprecedented personal attack on the chair of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen. He renewed his attacks on Elizabeth Warren, once again calling her “Pocahontas.” He promised he would start a war with Iran if its sailors made inappropriate gestures. After his VP released his own tax returns, Trump once again refused to do the same. His son tweeted a neo-Nazi meme. And one of his chief surrogates disavowed the Geneva Conventions.

By comparison, how was Hillary Clinton’s week? She failed to smile at Matt Lauer. She echoed numerous polls by asserting half of Trump’s supporters are racist. And she almost fainted while suffering from pneumonia. Which is all to say, the media consensus as delivered by the pundits and the headlines is that Clinton had a really bad week. This is absolutely, unequivocally, insane.

Every day, Trump says something or is revealed to have done something that would have disqualified every other candidate for president over the last 40 years. Howard Dean’s political career ended after he yelled too loudly at a campaign rally. All Michael Dukakis had to do was pose for a picture in a tank and his campaign was over.

By contrast, Trump is exposed as a liar, a fraud or a bigot on an hourly basis. He is shown repeatedly to be ignorant of the most basic elements of the U.S. Constitution or international affairs. You could describe his entire campaign as a train wreck, if a train was able to crash day after day non-stop. But still, the pundits roll their eyes—“That’s just Trump being Trump”—and turn to Clinton’s cough.

There are a few possible reasons for this. It could be the dog-bites-man problem: The media only focuses on what is new or unusual. Trump’s lies are neither. There could be a desire to ensure some obvious “balance” in the media coverage. If news outlets reported on every single Trump gaffe, there’d be almost no room left to cover Clinton. Others have speculated that it’s just sexism; Clinton is getting much more scrutiny because she’s a woman. It is hard to imagine a male candidate being criticized for not smiling enough. Clinton’s unique relationship with the media is to blame, too. She and her husband are notorious for cutting corners with the truth and hiding their activities. This has ensured she doesn’t get a pass on anything.

But it doesn’t really matter why it is happening. What matters is that it is happening at all. Everyone needs to step back from the daily coverage and cast their eyes over the massive smoking wreckage of this election. As soon as you do, it becomes painfully obvious that Trump is the most unsuitable candidate for president in living memory. My God, he isn’t even qualified to be president of the Hair Club for Men.

The absurdity of the last seven days has made it impossible to deny there aren’t two tiers of scrutiny in this election. Maybe, as a result, we’ll see a turn toward sanity. Maybe, the media will begin to judge Trump as a candidate for the office he covets, and not as the reality-TV star he is.

http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/an-absurd-week-in-the-two-tier-election/

Degeneratefk said:

unsung said:

Degeneratefk said:

unsung said:

tonifig8 said:

Here's another angle. To be honest it looks disturbing.

https://twitter.com/USA1stAlways/status/775007154101161984

That looks bad. I've never seen overheating treated like that.

Where have you ever seen overheating treated?

I'm Red Cross CPR and first aid qualified. It's basic stuff.

That training g can be done in 30 minutes on a computer

Good. Then it doesn't take a genius to know how to treat heat related illnesses.

unsung said:

ledvedderman said:

Degeneratefk said:

unsung said:

Degeneratefk said:

unsung said:

tonifig8 said:

Here's another angle. To be honest it looks disturbing.

https://twitter.com/USA1stAlways/status/775007154101161984

That looks bad. I've never seen overheating treated like that.

Where have you ever seen overheating treated?

I'm Red Cross CPR and first aid qualified. It's basic stuff.

That training g can be done in 30 minutes on a computer

Hey man, unsung makes me pull my hair out on occasion but don't disqualify someone else's accomplishments. If we ever hit the deck at a PJ show, we will be glad if he's around.

Props.

It's easy to say it takes 30 minutes on a computer when it's actually an 8 hour course that I took and take annually, but whatever.

I have to do a re-cert every year as well and it's a half day course for me. Either way what I'm wondering is whether Chelsea took the course...apparently her apartment is a heat exhaustion treatment facility.