Do you honestly believe that?
If so, walk me through the logic.
I took it as him being facetious? @Legalsteel’s link on the situation covers this pretty well I think.
Golf! With the world in such crisis!!!
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/rory-mcilroy-donald-trump-play-151706012.html
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I used your googles tip!
He could be, but I have a hard time detecting facetiousness sometimes. (that word sound like a sneeze)
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Sorry, I was too busy explaining how the article you posted did not remotely support Trump’s claim that the murder rate is the highest it’s been in 47 years to deal with this one.
Anyways, to answer usmc’s original question: there is a body of literature suggesting a link between head trauma and Parkinson’s, yes. The best study I’ve seen on the subject indicates that concussion increases long-term risk of developing Parkinson’s by about twofold.
However, that does not mean that everyone who has head trauma will develop Parkinson’s disease. This level of nuance is often problematic for people like our pal rajster - they read a story that says “X increases your risk for Y” and interpret it as “everyone who has X will get Y” - which is not true. If the lifetime risk for Parkinson’s disease is 5% and a concussion increases the risk to 10% that still means plenty of people with a history of concussion will never develop Parkinson’s disease. The mere fact that one has a history of head trauma /=/ will get Parkinson’s disease.
Whether HRC has Parkinson’s disease or not, I could give a shit at this point - she’s not President and she is old news (although Trump seems oddly obsessed with bringing her up as though she personally is at fault for the “mess” that he has inherited). But the fact that she has a history of head trauma does not guarantee that she has Parkinson’s. Mmmmk?
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Thanks. I had seen an article on JAMA that, iirc, said basically what you just did, but I couldn’t access it. There seems to be quite a bit of conflicting information on this particular relationship.
Trump, October 13, 2014: “Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf.”
Right. Got it. When the US is in trouble, the President needs to have his nose to the grindstone. No time for golf. Understood.
Trump, February 16, 2017: “As you know, our administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy. To be honest, I inherited a mess. It’s a mess. At home and abroad, a mess. Jobs are pouring out of the country; you see what’s going on with all of the companies leaving our country, going to Mexico and other places, low pay, low wages, mass instability overseas, no matter where you look. The Middle East is a disaster. North Korea — we’ll take care of it folks; we’re going to take care of it all. I just want to let you know, I inherited a mess.”
Whew. Things are pretty bad out there. I hope our President is holed up in the Oval Office night and day working on solutions to…oh wait, what’s that?
Trump, February 19, 2017 (three days after declaring the United States to be on the brink of destruction): spent the day playing golf with Rory McIlroy.
It almost makes me want to say “Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Trump spent the day playing golf. Sad!”
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Well, Obama played golf all the time. He’s just following what Obama did!
I’ve noticed after the flood of Breitbart/Infowars articles about Sweden (and Malmo in particular) - you know, stuff like “Islamic gangs roaming the streets”, “rape capital of the world” - questions on travel sites from many panicked Americans about whether to cancel their trips to Sweden as it’s supposedly unsafe.
Sweden is not a peaceful land of blondes and mooses anymore, and even major cities are perfectly safe…for a tourist. Which means if you’re don’t go to Rinkeby on purpose (and it’s a long way out) after dark, you’re safe.
So it’s pretty much like your average US city, with “good” parts and “bad” parts.
The controversy is whether the locals themselves have resigned themselves to such a system, where certain neighborhoods are not necessarily outright dangerous, but where one does not go, especially after dark.
So the alt-right hysteria is for the most part unwarranted, but claiming everything is perfect and ignoring the problems of quasi-ghettos in Sweden is also a major issue…
Agreed. I live just outside of Baltimore City so I get it.
Just to reiterate, my initial posts and laugh was about the event “last night in Sweden”, which obviously didn’t occur. I’ve never been to Sweden, I don’t know almost anything about Sweden, and I don’t really care about Sweden or how they deal with their problems.
Exactly. The point was that the POTUS cannot adequately parse information coming to him from a news show where the information is reduced down to soundbites.
Think about what happens when he’s provided with complex intelligence information…
Oh wait, he hates reading and doesn’t like intelligence briefings. So that pretty much answers it, which is frankly scary.
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I said it was a reasonable question to ask based on her medical history which there is evidence to back up that assertion. when someone asked me if I thought she had Parkinsons, I said I don’t know but she doesn’t look particularly healthy.
This is why he’s a retard. Aside from being a financial analyst who can’t understand the concept of per capita, he sees no difference between a hit piece suggesting Trump could have neurosyphilis and a doctor breaking down potential Parkinsons disease symptoms for an elderly person with a history of head trauma.
^Posts link that says, and I quote directly from said link: “Despite the recent uptick, the murder rate in our 50 cities was lower in 2016 than it was in 2007, and for the 26 years before that.”
^Still thinks that supports President Trump’s (factually incorrect there-is-no-two-ways-about-it) statement that “the murder rate is the highest it’s been in 47 years.”
^Calls usmc the “retard” in this conversation
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It would appear he not only communicates in sound bites, but also thinks, and critically analyzes things in the same short bursts. He’ll take his intelligence briefings in 140 characters or less, please and thank you.
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I’m not the smartest guy in the room, but you’re a god damn brick compared to me. How bout you fuck off already.
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Wasn’t the article about Trump from a Doctor? So you believe a doctor when it’s something you agree with, and it’s a hit piece if you don’t agree?
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a lot of people disagree with me and don’t like me or my posts but I genuinely can’t say they’re stupid.
You are 100% stupid
I will repeat this.
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Lol, yup. Specializing in infectious diseases… But there’s no history, derp… Trump is supposedly some super Alpha that’s been banging all sorts of women for decades. One of those Russian chicks probably gave it to him via a Golden shower or he picked it up while grabbing a pussy. Probably @therajraj’s pussy.
Right, that’s how I became a Sergeant of Marines, graduate Cum Laude with a degree in Accounting, am now a Senior Financial Analyst, have several letters after my name, etc, etc…
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