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They fool those who are easy to dupe. Unfortunately there's a lot of those. But when you're negotiating with world leaders or serious business people that's not much of a useful skill. As his numerous bankruptcies attest. But it's good you recognize that he's a con artist.

Trump inherited hundreds of millions of dollars from his father. He destroyed his father's real estate business. He consistently got out-negotiated when he purchased various properties. This repeatedly led to bankruptcies. What rescued him as The Apprentice where he fooled people into thinking he was a great businessman. As a con artist, he's a genius.

Well, that's generally what politicians do. But she did actually offer factual evidence in reply. Trump simply makes things up,r engages in empty insults, and offers irrelevant replies. But that apparently doesn't count with you.

Whatever the validity of your characterization of Harris thinking, what evidence is there that Trump can even think rationally? His ludicrous defense of high tariffs alone - that they won't increase prices - is nuts.

Geraldo is the kind of "resident Democrat" Fox News typically features. One who is very critical of the party he's alleged to be a supporter of. Like Pat Caddell.

This could be what is known as "concern trolling". Pretend to have something in common with those you disagree with in order to disarm them. Given your absolute and unequivocal support of Trump, it's extremely unlikely that your claim about where you once stood politically holds water.

And, as I pointed out, it depends on what price the govt. can negotiate. On the one hand there's the cost of the medication. On the other hand there's the savings realized from drastically reducing type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, cancers etc. Of course, on the negative side. there are also side effects. Also,ultimately, those medications will become generic. At which point they would definitely be a lot cheaper.

It's funny, it's people like riclag who most need my help. Take for example this subject he put on the soapbox: https://www.statista.com/statistics/191134/reported-murder-and-nonnegligent-manslaughter-cases-in-the-us-since-1990/ Bascially, the Missouri Attorney General went after Media Matters for exercising it's first Amendment rights. Which riclag approved of. That's bad enough. But what makes it incontestable that he needs my help, is that when he posted this, the courts had already ruled that the AG's attempt was a violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution. But since he had me on ignore, there was no way of informing him. I did post something about this on the thread. If you were a true friend of his, you would have helped to educate him by pointing out his error. EDIT: You could still help him now.

Well, polite and respectful would mean not interrupting repeatedly. I'm not necessarily saying he shouldn't have interrupted, but your notion of what is polite and respectful is truly bizarre.

The most reliable statistics about violence are homicides because unlike other crimes, they are more likely to be reported. "Homicides are frequently used as an indicator of crime more generally, particularly violent crime. .. This is mostly because, compared to other types of crimes, homicides tend to be more precisely registered and homicide data is usually more complete (Oberwittler, 2019; Smit et al., 2012). The reason for better registration of homicide statistics relative to other crimes is quite simple: homicides leave a body behind and as such it is less likely that this type of event will remain unreported (Liem, 2022; Ouimet and Montmagny-Grenier, 2014). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14773708231211170 https://www.statista.com/statistics/191134/reported-murder-and-nonnegligent-manslaughter-cases-in-the-us-since-1990/ The figures I've seen run as high as 25 deaths in total. Not much of a blip considering how huge the jump in homicides was. Actually, unprecedented for a year to year jump.

You have just admitted twice apparently that you are wrong. Such admissions are clear violatations of the unwritten law of this forum. Shame on you!

Your evidentiary standards are worthy of Trump. Got any data to share with us about the composition of the audience? And thanks for sharing a Trumpian standard all-purpose insult instead of actual evidence to support your claim about the "guy from Bloomberg." Got any actual facts to share with us. Or just more truthiness? "Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more truth·i·ness noun informal noun: truthiness the quality of seeming or being felt to be true, even if not necessarily true." https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=f5b538dc3f9b8a95&sxsrf=ADLYWIJNVS5A7-JKUwa0KjNL7G4ad-SMxg:1729156211266&q=truthiness&si=ACC90nyOnVY18Aw7zUtkWPYo5mTnIT7hpYakeBDRfgMyPkTi8h48ZqSZSAMIUiMVb37z0vfPETOcioC8erXyO8myQqMqO5zh-BwDWqmWIIzOfm26M6km5t8%3D&expnd=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjdhO_tiJWJAxUHv4kEHWqAHQkQ2v4IegQIHBAU&biw=1536&bih=786&dpr=1.25 You've got nothing.

Well, that was garbled. Here I go again: Do I really have to explain to you it isn't significant that all the women loved him were Trump supporters preselected to be the audience? And why it was sleazy of Fox not share this information? Of course, Fox has a history of sleaze as regards elections. It is a matter of court record.

He also used what is called a "sock puppet" to praise himself on the internet. In this context a "sock puppet" is a false identity. I wish I could say that i'm surprised that Real Clear Politics used such a sleazy character, but, as its roster of it own columnists show, and the fact that it also owns Western Journal, it's an extreme right wing media business.

Also, I'd like to see this confirmed by someone who is not John Lott. He has quite a sleazy history when it comes to data analyis: In the course of a dispute with Otis Dudley Duncan in 1999–2000,[48][49] Lott claimed to have undertaken a national survey of 2,424 respondents in 1997, the results of which were the source for claims he had made beginning in 1997.[49] However, in 2000 Lott was unable to produce the data or any records showing that the survey had been undertaken. He said the 1997 hard drive crash that had affected several projects with co-authors had destroyed his survey data set,[50] the original tally sheets had been abandoned with other personal property in his move from Chicago to Yale, and he could not recall the names of any of the students who he said had worked on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lott

One thing native speakers of English understand is that there's a difference between a lie and a falsehood. A lie is a falsehood deliberately told. Can you share with us your proof that the FBI lied. This is like claiming that because the the employment level was adjusted downward recently, the BLS had been lying to help the Biden administration instead of ultimately having more complete information.

Well, given that Trump has been denouncing the high level of crime under the Biden administration, when it actually began during his administration, it clearly is.

"It seems like a lot." Especially given that there haven't been any huge disasters lately...at least not in the alternate universe you inhabit. And maybe you should read the article again. It's about SBA funding. Not FEMA funding.

And guess when that big jump in crime stats began: 2020. Now who was President back then? The U.S. murder rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020 – the largest single-year increase in more than a century, according to data published this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The findings align with a separate tabulation of the nation’s murder rate published in September by the FBI. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/10/27/what-we-know-about-the-increase-in-u-s-murders-in-2020/

.. You're the one who wrote this: Do I really have to explain to you it isn't significant that all the women loved him if the were Trump supporters preselected to be the audience? And why it was sleazy of Fox not share this information? Of course, Fox history of sleaze as regards elections is a matter of court record. ..

Thank you for your informed response.

And not an issue for the residents of Gibraltar when the workers couldn't cross the border? Services and commerce in general weren't affected?

I guess this is some kind of Pavlovian response you acquired form the Covid controversy. These drugs were recently authorized for use with a prescription, but they are not experimental. Unlike Covid vaccines, the protocols weren't accelerated.

The thing is, from a financial point of view. supporting the use of these medications can make a lot of sense. Depending on what kind of deal the government can negotiate, the rate of return could well outpace even what these medications earn for their manufacturers.

IMO = My words are baseless.