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vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: Wallace Gasiewicz on March 12, 2023, 12:49:19 pm ---Trump's quote:
Sounds to me he was talking about lung lavage not "injection"
That is IF he knew what he was talking about, I don't know.
Did not mention bleach.
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Ok,"bleach" is a bridge too far, but none of the other common externally used disinfectants are safe to use internally, as most people know by the time they are around 7 years old.
(Ok, mercury was used internally for various conditions in the past, but it has very dangerous side effects.)
An adult man making such a suggestion casts severe doubt on his intelligence.
If the things Mr Trump suggested were possible, they would have been used in the past against other quite dangerous lung infections.
Kim Christensen:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 12, 2023, 06:23:13 am ---
--- Quote from: Kim Christensen on March 11, 2023, 04:01:15 pm ---Trump's famous interview where he muses about injecting disinfectant to cure COVID is a good example of what I'm talking about.
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Bringing it back to Adams, he has a famous list of hoaxes:
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1631295633138016259
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Well, at least Adams provided a tick-box for "Hoax Quiz" as the first selection... :-DD
xrunner:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on March 12, 2023, 03:01:45 pm ---effects.)
An adult man making such a suggestion casts severe doubt on his intelligence.
If the things Mr Trump suggested were possible, they would have been used in the past against other quite dangerous lung infections.
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I've asked a few extreme right-wing friends I know about remarks like that from Trump (I usually know better than to expect anything rational from them about him). They say "Oh come on! He was joking to troll the media! (or insert some other group _______").
That's their answer to anything stupid he says - he's just joking. :-\
fourfathom:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on March 12, 2023, 03:01:45 pm ---An adult man making such a suggestion casts severe doubt on his intelligence. [(Trump video)]
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IMO there is no debate when it comes to Trump's intelligence. He has very little, at least not how we would measure it here. He does have other skills though.
But Scott Adams is correct when he includes the "bleach" thing in his list of hoaxes. Trump said something stupid (which was not surprising), but he didn't say what has been claimed, and not just in this particular case.
PlainName:
--- Quote ---But Scott Adams is correct when he includes the "bleach" thing in his list of hoaxes.
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Pedantically, yes. But bleach is often shorthand for disinfectant (fewer syllables, easier to remember, etc) and for 'cleaning material' which Trump obviously means (and he does say 'cleaning'). I wouldn't call that misquote a hoax in the accepted sense. In fact, I would say that trying to pass it off as a hoax is actually the kind of straw-clutching that conspiracy theorists like to zoom in on.
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