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Odds Are Bernie lives past

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 06:45:36 +0000

Odds Are Bernie lives past Nov - yay!

https://slate.com/technology/2020/02/bernie-sanders-heart-attack-health-risk-profile-campaign.html

first, I did give other

ocean-kat — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 06:27:11 +0000

first, I did give other reasons. Second it was a major cardiac event. He was put on the emergency list. He immediately got 2, or more?, stents. He had to stay in the hospital for a couple of days after. I went to a cardiologist and he told me I had a heart attack and needed 1 or more stents. He scheduled the surgery for about a week later. I could have left the hospital the same day if I got someone to pick me up. My cardiac event was milder than Sanders but the heart attack and surgery still affected my strength and stamina significantly. It's not like my life is over and I'll probably have 20 or more years left but it took some time to come back. I'm still not fully recovered and likely never will be. There was irreparable heart damage and loss of heart function. There always is when you have a heart attack. And my heart was probably stronger than Sanders. The cardiologist told me I probably would have died if I wasn't hiking in the mountains every day. Sanders was lying when he said he was fine, better than ever. I'm sure the cardiologist told him something different and also didn't reveal the full story to the public.

I didn't choose Biden over Sanders. Neither should have run. Sanders is physically too old and Biden is mentally too old to be president.

It wasn't described. There

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 04:57:00 +0000

In reply to Maybe your experience

It wasn't described. There was much more detail in Hillary's fainting/flu than a heart attack that was initially denied. Of course that prolly makes Sanders more suitable these days, when a President can be rushed to the hospital and no explanation ever comes out.

Maybe your experience

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 04:39:49 +0000

In reply to If Sanders cared about the

Maybe your experience convinced you that your useful life was over after what must have been a very mild attack and so you think nobody else could come back and function well either, that's too bad, but many people have many good years after a heart attack. My heart story is what the cardiologist called a "sudden death event" I experienced while playing tennis. That was over twenty years ago but after CPR kick started me I was hauled off and an artificial aortic valve was installed and I got another fifteen years in the game. Sanders and Biden are both too old IMO but I think you need a better excuse than a heart attack of the severity that Sanders experienced, [I do not think it was ever described as massive but maybe you can correct my thinking with a link] to use that as an reason to choose Biden over him or even to judge him as a narcissist though there may arguably be other reasons to come to those conclusions.

If Sanders cared about the

ocean-kat — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 03:54:40 +0000

In reply to

If Sanders cared about the policy ideas he talked about and wasn't a selfish narcissist he wouldn't have run. He would have put all his support behind Warren. To top it off the god damn idiot had a massive heart attack that put him in the emergency ward and then the hospital for a few days and got a couple of stents put in. As someone who had a heart attack, didn't go to the emergency ward, got one single stent put in and spent half a day in the hospital I have some idea of what that means. He was too narcissistic to even drop out then. Such a supreme lack of judgement is clear evidence to me that he wasn't fit to be president.

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 02:34:14 +0000

In reply to What you quoted from my

I sure don't mean to suggest my choice is an obvious choice. I voted for Sanders who, compared to Biden, was, IMO, an obvious choice if lesser-evil voting can hope to get us out of the mess we are in. Is a 'right' choice possible? Is the best choice a good enough choice to turn us to a good direction? Damned if I know, but I am sorry to say that I have my doubts based on the choices before us.

Cliff notes version of a concisely worded view expressed between two world wars.:

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born.

Yeats

What you quoted from my

moat — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 20:30:05 +0000

In reply to "We can permit the shrinking

What you quoted from my remark relates to your choice to follow Chomsky's advice. There are limits to holding out for a better polity in the face of developments that put the whole set up into existential peril.

Talking that way, is, of course, a language often used in propaganda. The complacency I referred to is necessary to the manufacture of consent. I object to the idea that a group of passive citizens can wait for better items to appear on the menu because they are assuming the consumer role of unhappy customers is adequate to the challenges of the day.

And was not that Chomsky's point back in the day when he argued with the likes of William Buckley?

Lulu distracts ...you have

NCD — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 03:58:21 +0000

In reply to NCD, you have demonstrated

Lulu distracts ...you have never criticized any Russian crime. You have the integrity of RT.

NCD, you have demonstrated

A Guy Called LULU — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 03:27:02 +0000

In reply to Lulu defends Russia, "has

NCD, you have demonstrated clearly and unequivocally in this very comment thread that you lack the basic intellectual integrity to answer the exact same question you asked of me. Wank on.

Lulu defends Russia, "has

NCD — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 02:08:02 +0000

In reply to

Lulu defends Russia, "has doubts and video" ..... add it to the list. Polonium poisoning, Malaysian Air shoot down, Crimea invasion, murder of journalists, aiding Trump's election, bombing hospitals, refugees in Syria ......