Thursday 24th August 2023

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

Anyone watch the debate last night?

[refitman]

[gilsey]

Anyone watch the debate last night?

In the US?
No, but this thread seems like a good summary




Although 'Pence's honor' is rightly taking some stick.

[frog222]

A four-star hotel, plus a hundred jobs --

" The Stradey Park Hotel is described by local people as “the jewel in Llanelli’s crown”, the place where everyone wanted to hold their weddings. Even today, as workmen pull out the building’s innards in preparation for its new role, it leaves a splendid shell: a cream-coloured Edwardian mansion tucked into a hillside, with views over the Gower coastline.

Now it is in the hands of Suella Braverman. However hard the home secretary huffs and puffs about cutting hotel bills for asylum seekers, she is now one of the biggest hoteliers in Britain. To house a huge backlog manufactured by the Tories, Braverman has just shy of 400 hotels, creating a chain more than twice the size of the Hilton group in the UK.

What costs taxpayers billions is making some people extremely rich. "

It's as tho Steve Bannon is running the Tories on immigration , with Alex Jones leading their anti-masking policies in the NHS !

[frog222]

Staff and patients have obviously not been washing their hands,

it's a a DISGRACE !

[frog222]

Salvatore has a message for people who don’t think about the risks of Long COVID.

“You probably won't develop Long COVID after your Covid infection, but there's a good chance that you might. The only way to avoid Long COVID is to avoid catching Covid. The vaccines and Paxlovid seem to help but aren't a panacea. If you get Long COVID, it will probably be somewhat mild, but it also could be so severe that it will derail your life entirely. Doctors will not be able to help you -- there are no cures or even approved treatments.

One of his specialists even ended up suggesting he try CBD
...

The third infection is really what tipped me into Long COVID. Since then, I've had intermittent chest pain, heart palpitations, various neurological issues (face numbness, buzzing in the feet), joint pain, anxiety, issues with my vision, fatigue, complete alcohol and caffeine intolerance. I alternate between good weeks and bad weeks, with the bad weeks slowly becoming less severe. Some symptoms have totally resolved, while new ones occasionally emerge (the neurological symptoms did not arise until 3-4 months after my third infection). Although I have been able to keep my job and parent my daughter, this year has been one of the worst of my life. Where previously I was having fun on the weekends, for the last 8 months, I have basically spent my weekends laying on the couch and trying to recover."

https://johnsnowproject.org/perspective ... ent-wrong/

[refitman]

Most normal presidential candidate

[AnatolyKasparov]

Anyone watch the debate last night?

I value my sanity too much, but thanks for the updates anyway

[frog222]

Everything is back to Normal, but I still don't remember 2019 being like this ?

[AnatolyKasparov]

Most normal presidential candidate

His implosion is genuinely spectacular.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

One of his specialists even ended up suggesting he try CBD

Well, given how many medals Jamaica are winning at the Athletics World Championships it's pretty obvious cannabis is good for you.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

A letter has laid bare the scale of poverty in Britain – but will Rishi Sunak be moved?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -of-living

I think what most of us are wondering is if Starmer will be moved in the vain hope that anything will change. Even Polly Toynbee has to admit it's unlikely...

Labour will not be promising more benefits, after Keir Starmer’s refusal to abolish the two-child limit. Nor is Rachel Reeves offering tax rises.

Before adding an AKesque caveat...

(That doesn’t tell us what they will do in office: past Labour governments are a better guide.)

Which on the one hand implies they may be more generous in office, until you remember what the past Labour government did and you think oh shit.

Under Blair this country was in an immeasurably better financial position than it is now and yet that Labour government brought in an American insurance company (Unum) that had already been found guilty of denying disabled people benefits they were legally entitled to in the U.S to administer benefit claims here. Which meant those of us claiming those benefits went from having to be assessed by a doctor to being assessed by any wretched 'health professional' who was prepared to take the devil's shilling.

And now we have a Labour shadow work and pensions secretary boasting that the Tories are stealing his ideas, when those ideas involve abolishing sickness and disability benefits for tens of thousands of people.

I don't know yet if my current political ennui is down to the Summer break or whether I've just had enough.

The Tories are like a half dead animal that's been run over but is still trying to crawl to safety with a broken spine while Labour...fuck knows, does the red flag fly when you win by default?

[Sky'sGoneOut]