The Reaper Should Have Gone To SpecSavers - Trump Thread #168

Actually, he should demand a televised apology from Trump

@RedTagAlan

Thank you soooo much for reminding me of the Lumberjack Song! My sons loved Python (as I did back in when I was a teen) and I have wonderful memories of driving up to the Mountains for camping singing that song over and over in the car. Interspersed with "Always Look on the Bright Side" and various Al Yankovic parodies.

It's now my ear worm but one I gladly accept

Ahh...you beat me to it. Just came here to post this. He should sue for emotional distress.

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn

Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

Yes, same here.

And I should add that I'm quite sure the US does have prefectly good hernia care. What I'm boggling at is the behaviour of Paul in pretending that socialized healthcare is the work of the devil and must be inherently so much worse than the US system... and then himself going outside the US system when he wants healthcare.

The cherry on the cake is that country he chose to go to does have socialized healthcare. He used a private hospital in Canada right enough... thus clearly demonstrating that the prevalence of socialized healthcare in Canada has not prevented the co-existence of world-leading private hernia healthcare for those who wish to pay. <shrug>

Fair comment. That was certainly not my intention.

Apologies if we have offended any Americans on the thread.
Here endeth the bantz.

Perhaps senators should only be allowed to access health care in their own states, unless immediate urgency is needed.

That might focus their minds.

Possibly. I head that later ...

"Waldorf Salad" is a great documentary about those attitudes.

It's a sort of follow up from oversexed, overpaid and over here, isn't it.

Big feet also.

It was a common view in my elders growing up that Americans had big houses, big cars, and big heads.

In the US, bigger is always better. Now it has to be bigly bigger.

As an aside, in some countries, there's a joke where you add 'US' to things. eg, He's 6'2" ...US. He's really 5'8".

You mean he isn't a big enough prick as it is ?

The answer is probably the most outrageous and unexpected one. On those grounds I go for a PEN*S EXTENSION!!!

I have no idea if this is an outpatient procedure.😎

Yes, hernias happen all over the abdomen and groin; but in general not in the rib-cage or the lungs. That was what I thought in the first place. He was said to have broken ribs and a bruised lung after being manhandled and knocked to the ground.

Broken ribs are definitely pretty easy to detect; cracked ribs, even. Not that there seems to be all that much to be done about them because they're not easily splinted, but you can know what's happened and retire to bed-rest sitting as upright as possible, and careful breathing, and they ought to mend in between a fortnight and six weeks. (Flail chest is something else again, but I don't think it's suggested that ailed Rand Paul.) Oh, and ice-packs can be really helpful, as are over the counter pain-killers.

It just does seem a little strange that the injuries he suffered in 2017 caused a hernia needing treatment in 2019 but not before then.

It can be a stomach issue as well, especially with pregnant women, which obviously resolves post birth. But hernia is a weakness within all of the abdomen, especially if muscles are separated.

I've had fractured ribs following a road accident. It's very painful and easily identified via x-ray.

Yes, as mentioned above; the diaphragm separates the lungs and ribs from the abdomen, so I suppose a broken rib might puncture it, but I would expect that to be noticed at the time it happened rather than more than a year later.

I think possibly your citing the past 250 years was a mistake. The NHS is less than eighty years old, after all, so anything earlier than that is pretty irrelevant to any discussion about the NHS.

I also think that bad-mouthing all US systems and ways of doing everything as a sort of knee-jerk reaction is a mistake. Especially when you live in a second-rate country like ours with third-rate politicians.

I forgot about TrumpRX. How much is this man raking in???

See what happened when I said the dems should do a bold unified policy like a US NHS. It started a discussion. Now do that in the US and it would wipe Trump domestic policy under the table.

Is that two weeks up for the Trump health plan yet ? When was that ? 2017 or 20018 ?

Ahh wait. His discount online drug store was his plan.

Upper hernias do exist. For example a hiatal hernia.

Pointing out deficiencies in others, is not assuming perfection for oneself.

Is it a different Obamacare that Trump and co are dismantling ? As a result of their democratic election ?

Thank God that issue doesn't exist in the UK. No waiting lists, no staffing issues, no failures of communication.

Pointing out failures in others in response to ones cited in your own is a great way to come to a dead stop in progress, isn't it ? I could easily cite a load of foul ups with the NHS. However I could also cite the time I broke down in floods when a relative awoke after what seemed to me to be the ministering of angels.

Hey, come on! Everyone knows the NHS is wonderful! I have only been waiting three years for treatment to a an easily-operable condition which has meant I have difficulty walking, and often can't sleep, for pain. But I have an appointment to see a specialist in August, and might have that operation this year with luck. No, sorry, not operation; it's a mere procedure, same as having a stent inserted is.