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  1. 3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Yeah 80s is getting into danger zone


    I had an anaphylactic reaction to something a few years ago and got down to 77%. I drove myself to one of those 24-hour emergency clinics a few miles away and they were amazed that I made it. I've had it happen in the past so I am pretty well versed on all this stuff. The thing is we can't figure out what triggers it. I went to the Austin Allergy clinic and did the whole test thing and the only thing I was allergic to was cedar, which I already knew.

    But, yeah ... 77% is scary as hell. 

  2. I tested positive on Friday, felt like shit all weekend, began feeling better on Sunday night, felt much better yesterday and feel great as of tonight ... nearly 100%.    I took this Covid journey with my devices --- my oximeter and my fitbit ---- and it's interesting to look at it.

    Last Wednesday night, my resting pulse was 61 bpm, my overnight breaths per minute at 13, and my temperature .2 degrees above average. 

    I began to feel bad on Thursday. My resting pulse on Thursday night was 66 bpm, my overnight breaths per minute at 17 (highest ever) and my temperature .9 degrees above average.

    Friday and Saturday I felt awful.  My resting pulse on both nights was 73 bpm, my overnight breaths per minute were 21 & 22, and my temperature 4.1 degrees and 3.9 degrees above normal.  Everything was elevated because my body was trying to fight off the infection and because my lungs were operating so inefficiently.

    Sunday night my resting pulse edged downward to 69 bpm, breaths per minute were 18, and my temperature 1.1 degrees above average.

    Monday night my resting pulse was down to 65 bpm, breaths 15 per minute, and temperature .2 degrees above average.

    It was the same thing with my oxygen levels. I'm normally anywhere from 95%-98% on the oximeter. As my lungs filled with mucous, that went down to the upper 80s-low 90s, to the point that I'd have to consciously deep breath to restore it to MAYBE 93.  But now I'm back up to 96%, my resting pulse is 62 as I type this etc ...

    It's fascinating to be able to measure both an invader's advance and your body's response to it. 

    There were a few times when I woke up in the middle of the night feeling unable to breathe, slapped my oximeter on, and I was down around 85% oxygen levels. Felt like I was suffocating. 

     

  3. 2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    I can’t think of any examples. I can only recall him saying it about women, and women of color more often than not. That’s why it was such an easy prediction. 


    Well Trump only has about 17 adjectives in his brain, most of them one or two syllables, so it's a matter of him going with the one he thinks is best. "Lessee ... uh ... crooked? No.  Sleepy?  No.  Little? No. Lyin'? No .. hmmm Nasty?  That's it, That's the one because she's a woman and she's black so she's probably nasty!"  

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  4. 4 hours ago, C-Man said:

    It is 2024, right? Not 1924 or even 1824?
     


    Her race isn't her platform, of course, but Republicans are obsessed with it. The two things that they can't NOT talk about ---- Kamala's relationship/sexual history and her race ---- are two loser takes with the large majority of Americans. 

    Some Republicans will be unable to resist calling her a whore, and it's going to go very badly for the rest of them, who will be tarred with that misogynist brush. 

    Donald has nothing if not for the politics of personal attacks, and Kamala's going to render most of the avenues useless to him.  She has two things that Hillary didn't have: her race and a lack of history.  

    There's no Swift Boat coming to save them, although they are definitely going to try to find an ex-boyfriend of hers to pay a lot of money to cast doubt on her character. 

     

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  5. 42 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    This is silly


    You missed the "choose to believe"  part of her statement. 

    This is 2024. We build our own realities out of memes, tweets, gifs, and movie clips that suit our fancy. 

    I choose to believe that Dark Brandon triumphs over every thing Republicans can conceive.  Do your own research. Prove me wrong. 

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  6. I originally preferred Kelly to Shapiro. I liked his personal story and his charisma.  But now I think Shapiro is a better choice 1) delivers a bigger state 2) offsets any criticism that Kamala is not pro-Israel and solidifies the Jewish vote 3) he's smart as a fucking whip, funny, and nerdily charismatic.  He's the anti JD Vance, who is smart as a whip, scowls a lot, and robotically dead-souled.

     

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  7. 19 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    I said it yesterday -

    Kamala doesn't have a Benghazi + 12 hours of being grilled by Congress.  No Whitewater, no email scandal, no Vince Foster.  No Rush Limbaugh / Fox News 20 year hate campaign.  No Clinton Crime Syndicate, Clinton charity scandal, Clinton Body Count.  None of that exists today with Kamala.  And there isn't going to be an October letter from the FBI.  No contentious "DNC rigged it for Kamala" bot/troll campaign. 

    Everyone has basically said "a younger candidate will absolutely beat Trump in November" - well there she is.  This country elected a black man twice and a female VP.  They just wouldn't elect Hillary Clinton. 


    And, actually, three million more of us voted for Hillary than voted for Donald but because of the archaic, anachronistic electoral college that our wise forefathers gifted us, she lost.

    I just read that J.D. Vance tweeted several times in 2016 "what percentage of the American population has @realdonaldtrump sexually assaulted?"  If I'm Kamala, or her running mate, I say "reporters should ask J.D. Vance if he still believes Donald Trump sexually assaulted his fellow Americans and, if not, what evidence that has been unearthed since he said that which would lead him to believe that Donald Trump did not sexually assault his fellow Americans?"    I hop on that shit and I stay laser focused on it every day that Vance is Trump's running mate.  Force Trump to abandon him.  Then watch Vance turn on Trump.

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  8. 6 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    I knew Ben Shapiro was Jewish but does that mean all other Shapiros are? All I know is that he made headlines for all the wrong reasons during a time very fraught for Biden's re-election prospects on the most damaging issue for the party.

    There are 100,000 MI voters who went out of their way to say they were "uncommitted" and they did it precisely because of the Gaza genocide. If even a tenth of them are to be taken at their word (and I think that percentage is much higher) then yes picking Shapiro as a running mate would be an unforced error.


    So those voters are going to vote for the man who would completely and without question accept anything Netanyahu wants to do and who told supporters in May that he would crush pro-Palestinian protestors on college campuses? 

    1 minute ago, chainsaw said:

    Why even risk the double haters staying home?


    Because you sew up Pennsylvania. 

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  9. 47 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    He's excellent on union issues, which helps you carry the rust belt, and he's good on LGBT+ and women's issues which helps keep the youth vote energized. He also crushes the WASP test and really highlights the weaknesses of JD Vance.

    Kelly is awful on immigration and even worse on union issues.

    Shapiro is a vocal Israel hawk who punished student demonstrations in his state. That guarantees you lose Michigan and depresses a lot of the anti-genocide voting bloc that wasn't planning to vote for Biden.

    Cooper and Pritzker are too old.

    I don't think it can be done once the party has officially nominated them.


    You can find reasons to rule out any of the potential candidates.

    Shapiro is very popular in Pennsylvania and would guarantee it to be a blue state come Nov.,  and I don't think he would condemn you to losing Michigan, given how strong Whitmer's organizational skills are and how loathed Donald Trump is.  

     

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