I don’t think that’s what Trump meant, and we all know that. 
He wants to ignore the deaths of thousands of Americans in order to reopen the economy, because he believes if he’s got a good economy, he’ll win.
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We do know that, just in this case by accident he may have been less wrong than usually. Which is a pretty low bar, it almost looks like the bar is just lying there on the ground.
Umm, yourself. As a physician, I completely understand the testing paradigm. It appears that you don’t understand irony/sarcasm when you read it.
No, I was just trying to be ironic, but it was lost on many who have missed the point of my statement.
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whinces
stares at display
nods silently, for a completely different reason than the rest of the community
looks at calendar
looks at potential candidates for the next general election in Germany
shakes head in silence
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On the internet, no one can see your facial expressions to see if you’re being sarcastic… and given the fact that the president is saying this kind of shit, and that there are people who believe and repeat what he says as fact, it can be hard to discern that sarcasm, even when it should be obvious. That’s why many of us use a /s to indicate such, given poe’s law and all that.
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I’ll grant your medical/testing expertise, then, but perhaps not your irony or sarcasm skills (not least as you seem unsure as to which it was you were apparently attempting).
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I read a faithful supporter say “If you really listen to the President he’s telling the truth”. They’re all idiots.
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Thank you. I will remember that. I have never heard of the /s but will consider it in the future!
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And if you don’t go looking, then Alderaan is still there.
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I was in Hamburg on business during the Federal election of 2005. Interesting to be having a beer with the news on the big screen.
(Ich verstehe kaum genug Deutsch, um den Nachrichten zu folgen.)
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Sometimes, you do gotta clarify what you mean online to avoid misunderstandings… happens to all of us sometimes! So, no worries!
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Once you take the plunge, all truth is subjective. That’s one of the reasons they’re so angry; the world just doesn’t function the way they’ve convinced themselves it does and that dissonance has to go somewhere.
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You are forgetting this one:
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I agree with you-- I do think that is the message he is trying to get across-- that as a way to keep score, counting test results is imperfect. But that’s NOT what he said. I think his thoughts are too disorganized to make the point that you made. And that’s what’s worrying to me-- that the guy holding the keys to the nuclear arsenal can’t express himself cogently. He loves to talk about Biden’s mental capacity, but Biden is not the old man I am worrying about.
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When his term was just beginning waaaaaayyy back in 2016, my mother used to use the “he’s a businessman” argument to justify voting for him. Drove me nuts. Now when I point out to her what a piss poor job he’s been doing, all she can say is that the stock market has been (generally) up and that’s all she cares about. I don’t know if she was a terrible person before he was voted in (probably), but her true colors sure came out after the last election.
This whole run-the-country-like-a-business scam he has going on just won’t lose steam. It boggles.
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Normally hearing something he said will make me clench my jaw and be in a foul mood for an hour afterwards, but this is just such a neat little Japanese puzzle box of interlocking personality flaws, I can’t help but be entertained. You can see how the intricate gears of stupidity, malice and negligence mesh together and drive one another.
It reminds me of those conversations you end up having with new parents about how their baby can recognise faces, but doesn’t yet understand that their hands are connected to them.
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Ow, my balls.
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