Well, I can’t watch. I think I’m going to go run get a flu shot to see if that helps. But you can. Here’s a fresh thread, jackals.
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Well, I can’t watch. I think I’m going to go run get a flu shot to see if that helps. But you can. Here’s a fresh thread, jackals.
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WaterGirl
Weren’t you sick already this week? I don’t think you’re supposed to get a flu shot when you have already come down with something.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: They always ask me if I’ve been sick in the past 2 weeks when I’ve received flu shots.
UncleEbeneezer
Somewhere, Jenny McCarthy frowns…
Baud
OT: Just saw on LGM that Tulsi is suing Hillary for defamation!
ruemara
@WaterGirl: I read that you can get the shot within a few days of getting sick. IDK.
chris
@Baud: Someone on twitter called a LOLsuit.
oatler.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/virulent-anti-semite-rick-wiles-has-once-again-received-white-house-press-credentials/
chopper
@chris:
even worse, a lawyer LOLsuit.
WaterGirl
@ruemara: Dr. WG says: Don’t do it!
Baud
@chopper: Heh.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@ruemara: Sounds like you’re thinking of Tamiflu, not the flu shot.
Betty Cracker
A Fiona Hill clip! I love her so much.
Yutsano
@ruemara: Usually you don’t get administered a flu shot if you’re sick with anything. But if you’re thinking of the anti-flu drug, then yes you can get that.
Or what BillIn said.
painedumonde
Coronavirus has no vaccine – 1918 here we come. If you are ill, a vaccine is not a cure. Fluids, rest, eat, clear your lungs repeatably.
VOR
Please let us know if the flu shot helps with any Trump-induced symptoms like stress, shouting “WTF?” at the TV, and banging your head on your desk.
Marcopolo
So there is one downside to how good Adam Schiff is: all the other House managers arguments just seem a bit less for happening in his wake. Just glad that in my life whenever I have been required to make some kind of public performance, statement, presentation, etc.. that I have never had to follow anyone particularly gifted in that respect.
ruemara
@WaterGirl: I feel a lot better, but weirdly wobbly
@painedumonde: Yeah, I kinda realized my disinclination to eating might also be causing the wobbliness. I’ve gone from 12-1600 cals to about 800
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Just looked that up, and here’s an excerpt from USA Today:
Yeah, I’m sure Clinton was really smarting from the 2016 snub from the political juggernaut that is…Tulsi Gabbard.
But wait — there’s more:
I’d love to see how they arrived at that estimate.
WaterGirl
@ruemara: I felt a little wobbly for an hour or two the day after christmas as I was heading to the train to come home. Happily, it did not last.
Still does not seem like a great time to add a challenge to your body. I would make you chicken soup if I was there.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@ruemara: Holy cow. Eat something, lady!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@painedumonde:
I’m a little worried that the CDC may have been gutted like the rest of the government. Will building a wall keep a virus out?
ETA: Asking for an imbecile president.
Yutsano
@WaterGirl: The temptation to make good old fashioned Jewish penicillin is strong.
Gin & Tonic
@Marcopolo: I recall many years ago, Johnny Carson had Bob Hope (old and fading) on his show, and had him come on after Robin Williams (at his manic peak.) First words out of Hope’s mouth were something to the effect of “yeah, thanks a lot.” He knew.
JPL
The full strength of the flu show only lasts about four months, and this flu season is quite long. Bears have the right idea about hibernation.
chris
@painedumonde: Nothing to see here.
The Moar You Know
@painedumonde: Hyperbole much?
JPL
@chris: uhoh
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Dorothy A. Winsor: No need for the CDC or that “science stuff”, Wall will fix everything.
JPL
So trump is going to restrict travel VISA’S to a foreigner who appears to be pregnant.
oatler.
Jason Crow sounds a bit like Ed Sullivan.
donnah
Jason Crow, Dem from Colorado, is making excellent points and explaining the huge value of the money promised and then denied to Ukraine. He makes the poignant point several times that Ukraine’s soldiers were going into battle wearing sneakers. No boots, no flak jackets, no helmets. Limited weapons, meager arsenal…he really spells out how important it was to have Ukraine as an ally and how important it was to help with financial assistance.
Well said, and points that should be spelled out.
WaterGirl
@Yutsano: I made it twice when I was sick. The first batch was all I ate for 4-5 days, and when that ran out, I made more.
The only thing missing was someone to make it for me!
Patricia Kayden
WaterGirl
@donnah: He set the stage for that yesterday when he talked about being in Iraq and elsewhere in 2004 (?) and how they had to forage for pieces of metal anywhere they could find it because our solders did not have the armor they needed.
[Aside: Fuck you, Rumsfeld]
So he set the stage or that by talking about himself, and American solders, yesterday. Didn’t really harp on it, mostly put it out there.
And now today. Smart move.
Jeffro
@Marcopolo: The praise for Schiff (on Twitter and elsewhere) is just off the hook. I will have to settle for replays… =(
Gin & Tonic
@donnah: Completely true. I have a friend who devotes his spare time to sewing tactical gear for the soldiers on the front lines, and I have been involved in several fundraising efforts for his project.
WaterGirl
@Patricia Kayden: Before this is over, Roberts is going to have all of Trump’s shit sticking to him, just like everyone else.
This was his chance to insist on truth, and the law, and it turns out he is just a Republican toady for Trump, just like all the others.
Jeffro
@Betty Cracker: Am I remembering correctly – didn’t Hillz say something like “10 Dem candidates + a Russian asset” and Gabbard immediately assumed Hillz was talking about her?
Clinton never called her out by name, iirc. What a whack-job!
WaterGirl
@Jeffro: Could have been Tulsi, could have been Bernie. Who knows?
Immanentize
@Patricia Kayden: Justice Roberts is the Judge Ito of Impeacent trials.
Juju
@Betty Cracker: I think Tulsi bent over, reached around and pulled it out of her ass.
mrmoshpotato
@VOR: Did your 2016, 17, 18 or 19 flu shot help with that?
Immanentize
@Juju: The lawsuit is just a fundraising effort. It is GOP 101. See, Devin Nunes.
mrmoshpotato
@Betty Cracker: Well, more proof that stupid doesn’t burn.
mrmoshpotato
@ruemara: Drink some orange juice.
Just One More Canuck
@WaterGirl:
my former neighbour used to make parsley soup for my wife and I every time one of us got a sniffle – it is awesome
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Immanentize:
Must I?
Juju
@Immanentize: I understand that. I was referring to the source for the $50 million amount for the lawsuit.
WaterGirl
@Just One More Canuck: I had to google. It looks a little off putting, but… Parsley and potato? Parsley and celery?
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: No no. A Wilmer reference would’ve been “10 Dem candidates + a yelly, pouty asshole I beat like a rented mule in the primary.”
trollhattan
@Baud:
Killery accused Tulsi of being Tulsi without uttering the name Tulsi. Only killery can triangulate defamation and make it vanish. Magic!
debbie
Anyone else pissed off about this SC hearing today which would allow private religious schools to get public funding? If these religious institutions can’t be forced to do anything that conflicts with their beliefs, why can I be forced to pay taxes towards institutions I don’t support or believe in? Isn’t that a violation of my religious freedom?
Ella in New Mexico
@Jeffro:
Explains all the bullshit and taunting Tweets from Republicans in the Senate and House today
They’re getting killed and they know it.
Maybe also explains Trump saying in an interview today he’s looking at cutting entitlements and Social Security and Medicare next year…messaging those R’s to stay strong and stay loyal during Impeachment, help Russia get him re-elected and he’ll jump on their pain train.
catclub
@Jeffro: Yes. Only possible complaint was that Hillary called the Russian asset a she. But Tulsi took the bait.
debbie
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Drinking vitamin water has really helped when I was recovering from the flu or pneumonia. You don’t realize how out of it you are until you get liquids and electrolytes back in your system.
stinger
One thing that strikes me forcibly, listening to Rep. Demings, is what a terrible position we put Zelensky in. Not just that the much-needed aid was being held up, but that here he is, having run successfully on an anti-corruption platform, being asked to BE CORRUPT in order to get the aid. By the United States!
Yutsano
@WaterGirl: A friend of mine is allergic to penicillin. Every time I hear of him getting sick I threaten to make the Jewish version. He’s scared it’s going to kill him.
trollhattan
@Yutsano:
In Soviet Russia, chicken soups you.
Mnemosyne
@Ella in New Mexico:
I was just saying in the thread below that Trump is also jumping on the lefty anti-Biden bandwagon with that. After all, if both he and Biden are planning to cut Social Security and Medicare, why not vote for Trump, the guy who’s honest about how he’s going to screw you?
Yutsano
@trollhattan: Heh. He does a rather passable Russian accent. Interesting considering he’s Danish and did his mission in Uruguay.
Gin & Tonic
@stinger: That is not going unnoticed in Ukraine. It is not to the US’s benefit.
Gelfling 545
@VOR: I’ve had the shot. It doesn’t.
ixnay
@debbie: rehydration solution (helpful in any sweaty or other fluid/electrolyte-losing situation): 1 quart water, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon “lite” salt (which is pretty much half regular salt, half potassium chloride). Dissolve and chill. Sip a little fairly frequently. If you cannot bear the taste, try it with a little juice, but no additional sugar beyond that. These proportions are what it takes to maximize sugar and electrolytes uptake. (At least that is what Dr. Google tells me. This is what is used in 3rd world countries in, e.g., Cholera epidemics.) Works for me.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: It makes about as much sense as fucking for virginity, which was on some woman’s protest sign last week.
debbie
@ixnay:
Sounds good, but the last thing I want to be doing when I’m feeling like garbage is to mix up a solution like some misbegotten barkeep. It’s tough enough just unscrewing the cap.
stinger
@Gin & Tonic: I have no doubt. A little embarrassed that that particular aspect never struck me before.
And now Rep. Jeffries is also bringing it home.
Gin & Tonic
@stinger: Ukraine has a lot of arable land and a lot of people who have been engaged in agriculture for generations. China has money and people but not much arable land. You don’t need a PhD to figure this out. If the US is in bed with the bear on your border….
ixnay
@debbie: Ah, well, I am fortunate that Mr. ixnay will do that for me. Vitamin water or pedialyte it is, then.
eddie blake
@Jeffro:
no, she actually said republicans were grooming someone for a third party run. was misquoted.
and gabbard jumped like she was bit.
Jeffro
@WaterGirl:
@eddie blake:
@catclub:
In that case, I’m looking forward to ‘discovery’, I think that’s the legal term. Go for it Tulsi, you Russian asset third-party fake Dem.
smintheus
@debbie: Pissed off is too mild a term for how I feel about forced tithing to benefit the Catholic Church.
Just One More Canuck
@WaterGirl: parsley, potato, carrots , sal and pepper and a beef bouillon cube for flavour ( she insisted on it) – looks weird but is delicious
rikyrah
?BillinGlendaleCA
Interesting, during this break on CSPAN, I just see Republicans being interviewed. First Sen. Skelator, then Sen. (Everybody HATES Me) Cruz, and now Sekulow.
WaterGirl
@Just One More Canuck: Huh. I would take a recipe if one ever comes your way. Does it have a TON of parsley? Does it TASTE like parsley?
rikyrah
eddie blake
@rikyrah:
stunning how commie doc brown and his sandernistas are COMPLETELY unconcerned about building party unity. i mean, i GET it, he hates democrats, THEY hate democrats, but it still BAFFLES me that they would rather fight US than the actual, you know, fucking FASCISTS.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
mr first tier Ivy League over here
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@eddie blake: in fairness, reports from Vermont and elsewhere indicate he has no interest in building the socialist party, either.
Just One More Canuck
@WaterGirl: my wife got the recipe from her recently (we keep in touch – she’s 85 and recently lost her husband) so it should be easy to put my hands on
rikyrah
????
Jerry (@js_edit) Tweeted:
Mediocre white men who aren’t very good at their jobs and/or who are afraid to stand up for what’s right are bringing this country down. From generals to senators to reporters. There’s one common denominator. Mediocre white guys. https://twitter.com/js_edit/status/1219828427110273025?s=20
Jim, Foolish Literalist
very stable genius
rikyrah
I don’t think that the Democrats have wasted one minute of the time given to them.???
Republicans are traitors…but, we knew that already.???
WaterGirl
@Just One More Canuck: I’ll look forward to that, thank you!
rikyrah
mrmoshpotato
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Thank fuck he’s so good at the presidenting.
mad citizen
@debbie: You’re way behind the times. I think we did this in Indiana a couple decades ago. (Money to religious schools)
Bill Arnold
@Gin & Tonic:
Trump’s M.O. is corruption; it’s one way he “owns” people; he corrupts them.
When he says he is concerned about corruption, it’s true. He wants more of it. (Also the story about him complaining about bribery by US citizens being illegal even in other countries.)
cain
@painedumonde:
Dont’ worry our president will handle it, he’s handle it before! He knows more than the doctors do about this! This is serious shit. But he won’t give a shit unless somehow Mar-a-Lago is threatened.
Bill Arnold
@eddie blake:
It’s easier if you think of them as supporting fascismauthoritarianism, by helping to elect Republicans.
(Exceptions apply for elections for positions representing super safe Democratic districts.)
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@ eddie blake The Communists refused to unite with the Social Democrats against the Nazis because the Communist claimed their was no difference between the Social Democrats and Nazis. Thus as it always is with the Hard Left, a knife the liberal back.
Martin
The only reason Republicans are looking for a witness trade is because they know they don’t have 50 votes. They can only get there by getting Democrats on board in exchange for Bolton.
Republicans can call as many witnesses as they can get 50 votes for.
joel hanes
@WaterGirl:
it turns out [Chief Justice Roberts] is just a Republican toady
Overdetermined.
So his behavior in this Senate proceeding is just further confirmation of an already-undeniable fact.
joel hanes
@Jeffro:
didn’t Hillz say something like “10 Dem candidates + a Russian asset”
No. Secretary Clinton said “Republican asset”. You are correct that she did not offer a name.
The FTFNYT misquoted her as “Russian asset”.
Gabbard [spit] immediately decided that the epithet was aimed at her own self.
Whom the cap fit, let him wear it.
eddie blake
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
same shit with the spanish civil war. it’s not that people don’t learn. it’s that they don’t WANNA learn.
joel hanes
@rikyrah:
I honestly didn’t realize we have elected politicians who have this level of elite trial skills.
We have a couple we’re not even using.
e.g. Katie Porter
WaterGirl
@Martin: Can you say more about what you mean by that?
WaterGirl
@joel hanes: Was she the “here, let me look that up for you in the book that i fucking wrote” person?
She was awesome.
germy
Adam Klasfeld
@KlasfeldReports
Hecklers disrupt Rep. Jeffries’ speech. Moving on, Jeffries quotes Scripture: “The Lord loves righteousness and justice.”
WaterGirl
@germy:
What speech? His presentation in the “trial”? Who is there to heckle? I thought everyone was required to be quiet.
germy
@WaterGirl: I happened to be watching when the yelling started. Jeffries paused, and then quoted scripture.
I was confused because I didn’t know spectators were allowed in these proceedings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0OCwUzdni
The heckler was yelling about Jesus Christ and abortion, and called Schumer “The devil”
WaterGirl
@germy: interesting. “video unavailable”
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
That is ?????
Betsy
@chopper: will the lolsuit be decided by rural jurors?
Apologies to 30 Rock scriptwriters, and everyone here.