Feels like the media softened this story. : politicalmemes

[-] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 137 points 2 months ago

Harris was on Colbert a day or two ago talking about it and she kept calling them tests, which makes it sound like a case of $10 tests. But she did a good job of telling people to remember how hard it was to get tested at the time, how people had to wait in line in their cars for hours, then wait a few days to get the results.

Also remember Trump kept saying we didn't need to test so much because when we tested a lot it made the number of cases go up., which was so incredibly stupid. I saw a clip where he was on tv ranting that we were testing too much and it turned out to be the very same day he gave those machines to Putin.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago

Yet another statement from Donald which even on its own should have ended any support whatsoever. Yet another act of corruption.

[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

It's like telling the accounting department to stop posting journal entries because it "keeps making the balance sheet go down".

Then again, we're talking about a guy who managed to bankrupt multiple casinos. Businesses for which the revenue model consists mostly of people handing you money, and you handing 3/4 of it back.

[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

It's like a body is riddled with cancer and they just wanna single out and treat a mosquito bite!

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 82 points 2 months ago

Yeah this makes more sense.

[-] CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago

What the fuck. This is the shit nobody knows about. Istg trumpies either wearing blindfolds or somehow miss all his shady bs

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 24 points 2 months ago

He's hurting the "right" people.

Apparently that's what quite a few people want, while not realising they are those same people.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

With a two party system (even a de-facto system like in the us) people will just lock into one side and ignore everything bad about their side while ignoring everything good about the other.

It makes the political system get treated like a sports game.

There is no alternative for compromises, since the no other party will ever get power, this turnes everything black and white, you don't need to think you just need to pick one side once and keep going.

Then it even easier to pick the racist side since the "non racist" side will make your world more complicated and annoying, with the racist side you know exactly who the enemy is, with the other side you need to think and even realize that sometimes you yourself is the enemy. That requires introspection, and the willingness to accept that the world is grey.

TL;DR: It is a combination of racism, unable to do introspection and wanting easy answers.

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Algorithmic content delivery and biased news outlets mean they live in a very different world.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

Anybody got the source on this? Want to send it to some people

[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago

Bob Woodward, one of the primary reporters for the Watergate scandal, was the one who revealed and detailed it in his latest book called "War" that is out on the 15th. Dmitry Peskov, the main spokesperson for the Kremlin (Russian equivalence of the Whitehouse) confirmed it on the 8th.

It's all over the web at the moment, just pick their goto new media site from the results.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Trump+Kremlin+COVID+test+machines&t=fpas&iar=news&ia=news

Here's a couple (left out Bloomberg as it's paywalled)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2024/10/09/kremlin-confirms-trump-sent-covid-19-tests-to-putin-but-denies-reported-calls-between-the-two/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/kremlin-confirms-trump-sent-putin-covid-tests-denies-putin-phone-calls-since-he-left-office/ar-AA1rWFFV

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

What does somebody with such Strong Traditional Values need a measely old test for anyhow?

[-] arcane_lemming@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yet another reason not to vote for tr*mp (particularly significant to me, as a Ukrainian), other than

He was on the *pst**n jet
There was a *** scandal
He is blatantly racist and anti-immigrant
He committed fraud and other crimes
Conspired against citizen's rights
He committed or conspired to commit treason
And so much more If I was a citizen of America, I would vote for Harris

[+] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world -19 points 2 months ago

Look I wanna trust Camry Diaz but what the fuck are "reusable covid testing machines" ? Either "google" sucks or I suck at searching so I can't find anything and all I have to go on is my bullshit radar and it's in the red. It sounds too much like the vague accusations from the lower brain cell politicians. It just has that style and motive.

Idk. Dont buy an explanation just cause you agree with it

[-] egrets@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Skepticism is healthy, but it took me less than 30 ~~seems~~ seconds to find an answer. According to Forbes, they were "ID NOW" machines by Abbott Point of Care - so presumably V1 of this device.

[-] Phineaz@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

EDIT: It's not thermocyclers.

I'm guessing it might be thermocyclers, I.e. PCR-machines.

You still need some consumables (esp. the proper primers), but the machine is entirely reusable. However, it is also a fairly basic and it sounds unlikely that Putler had a lack of thermocyclers.

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