A rant:

[vraiblonde]

Did Donald Trump Just Burn Some Bridges With His Base Over the Dr. Oz Endorsement?

redstate.com

Any so-called Republican who would do a sudden about-face over Trump endorsing one candidate they don't like is a squish at best, and most likely a paid performer.

Full disclosure: I don't like Dr. Oz either. But I'm not going to go all scorched earth because of him.

I loathe that sort of tunnel vision and think people who do it are the most brainless among us. I think if Kurt Schlichter or some other alleged conservative is going to throw themselves on the floor over one endorsement, they should just declare themselves for Joe Biden and get it over with.

It's infuriating to watch these numbskulls jeopardize the whole country because of their little snit.

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[Monello]

For someone that has been in politics for a short while, Donald Trump has shown an incredible ability to confound his opponents. The fact that he got 12 million more votes the 2nd time around speaks well of how a lot of Americans felt of the job he did as president.

His opponents will try to use each and every issue to create division as far as Trump is concerned. Even meat loaf and ice cream choices are worthy topics to determine his viability to lead the nation. This is just 1 more effort to expend words and emotions towards Trump in a negative light.

I have to believe that Trump will back the person that has the best chance of winning. In the end, that is all that matters in US politics. Do lesser candidates get elected over quality opponents? Sure, it happens all the time. And let's not leave out how much of a boost a candidate gets from name recognition. That is how people like Franken, Ventura, Arnold and a host of others get elected.

 

[HemiHauler]

For someone that has been in politics for a short while, Donald Trump has shown an incredible ability to confound his opponents.

Donald Trump has been in politics his entire adult life. Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn’t been paying attention.

 

[Gilligan]

Donald Trump has been in politics his entire adult life. Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn’t been paying attention.

What brilliance.....such astonishing insight....a depth of perception seldom seen....

 

[HemiHauler]

What brilliance.....such astonishing insight....a depth of perception seldom seen....

It’s a gift possessed by few.

 

[ThatOneNerd]

well he tells you the reason why he endorses dr. oz in the first sentence of his official endorsement.

"This is all about winning elections in order to stop the Radical Left maniacs from destroying our Country."

 

[HemiHauler]

well he tells you the reason why he endorses dr. oz in the first sentence of his official endorsement.

"This is all about winning elections in order to stop the Radical Left maniacs from destroying our Country."

Funny - the only people who spend money on homeopathy, crystal therapy (WTF is that? LOL), and faith healing are the same leftist morons who think the Cheeto Jesus will re-ascend to the EOP and fork over metric fuk-tons of money to that baboon.

 

[BOP]

Funny - the only people who spend money on homeopathy, crystal therapy (WTF is that? LOL), and faith healing are the same leftist morons who think the Cheeto Jesus will re-ascend to the EOP and fork over metric fuk-tons of money to that baboon.

Which is weird:
"Just a century ago, there were 22 homeopathic medical schools, 100 homeopathic hospitals, and over 1,000 homeopathic pharmacies. Boston University, Stanford University, and New York Medical College all taught homeopathy.

This all changed due to the Flexner Report — officially known as Medical Education in the United States and Canada — in 1910. The report was an attempt to align medical education under a set of norms that emphasized laboratory research and the patenting of medicine. The report was funded by John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, among others.

Rockefeller and Carnegie offered grants to the best medical schools in America — with a caveat: only an allopathic-based curriculum could be taught. Thus, Rockefeller and Carnegie systematically dismantled the courses of these schools by removing any mention of the natural healing power of herbs and plants, or of the importance of diet to health.

Rockefeller used his power to influence Congress into declaring the AMA (American Medical Association) the only body with the right to grant medical school licenses in the United States. This suited Rockefeller perfectly – he then used the AMA to compel the Government to destroy the natural competition, which it did through regulating medical schools.

After the Flexner Report, the AMA only endorsed schools with a drug-based curriculum. It didn’t take long before non-allopathic schools fell by the wayside due to lack of funding and fear mongering/smear campaigns against natural remedies.

The result is a system which churns out doctors who are deficient in nutritional, herbal, and homeopathic knowledge and who disregard the idea that what you eat can actually heal or hurt you.

While physicians encourage patients to make healthy food choices, only 27 percent of U.S. medical schools actually offer students the recommended 25 hours of nutritional training, according to a perspective piece in the July 2015 issue of Academic Medicine. The word “nutrition” is not included in board examination requirements for internal medicine certification, and cardiology fellows do not need to complete a single requirement in nutrition counseling.”

Source: Homeopathic SOULutions
Thanks Gage Tarrant

NOTE: I have not researched the veracity of the above, though I believe it is all certainly plausible. I've not been able to find the original location, having looked on homeopathicsolutions.com and on Gage Tarrant's FB page.

 

[BOP]

Flexner Report - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Report (also called Carnegie Foundation Bulletin Number Four) called on American medical schools to enact higher admission and graduation standards, and to adhere strictly to the protocols of mainstream science in their teaching and research. The report talked about the need for revamping and centralizing medical institutions. Many American medical schools fell short of the standard advocated in the Flexner Report and, subsequent to its publication, nearly half of such schools merged or were closed outright. Colleges in electrotherapy were closed.

Homeopathy, traditional osteopathy, eclectic medicine, and physiomedicalism (botanical therapies that had not been tested scientifically) were derided;[2] some doctors were jailed.[citation needed]

The Report also concluded that there were too many medical schools in the United States, and that too many doctors were being trained. A repercussion of the Flexner Report, resulting from the closure or consolidation of university training, was the closure of all but two “negro” medical schools and the reversion of American universities to male-only admittance programs to accommodate a smaller admission pool. Universities had begun opening and expanding female admissions as part of women's and co-educational facilities only in the mid-to-latter part of the 19th century with the founding of co-educational Oberlin College in 1833 and private colleges such as Vassar College and Pembroke College.

 

[Monello]

Funny - the only people who spend money on homeopathy, crystal therapy (WTF is that? LOL), and faith healing are the same leftist morons who think the Cheeto Jesus will re-ascend to the EOP and fork over metric fuk-tons of money to that baboon.

Sounds like someone needs her chakra balanced.

 

[Clem72]

well he tells you the reason why he endorses dr. oz in the first sentence of his official endorsement.

"This is all about winning elections in order to stop the Radical Left maniacs from destroying our Country."

The answer is actually closer to the bottom of that paragraph. Apparently Dr. Oz went to the Wharton school of business and we know DT loves that school and most of their alumnus.

 

[SamSpade]

Full disclosure: I don't like Dr. Oz either. But I'm not going to go all scorched earth because of him.

Me neither. He seems to be the Jerry Springer of the medical shows.
If a medical fad is discredited, you can almost bet that Dr. Oz did a show on its merits.

 

[Bare-ya-cuda]

Sounds like someone needs her chakra balanced.

He needs his colon cleansed and maybe, just maybe he won’t be spewing sh!t on here.

 

[GURPS]

Rockefeller used his power to influence Congress into declaring the AMA (American Medical Association) the only body with the right to grant medical school licenses in the United States.

and they keep the number of doctors limited

Stossel talked about this in a recent segment

 

[gemma_rae]

Funny - the only people who spend money on homeopathy, crystal therapy (WTF is that? LOL), and faith healing are the same leftist morons who think the Cheeto Jesus will re-ascend to the EOP and fork over metric fuk-tons of money to that baboon.

I don't use the metric system. Tell me, how much is that?

 

[Monello]

I don't use the metric system. Tell me, how much is that?

It's 1 & 1/4th of a butt load.

 

[HemiHauler]

I don't use the metric system. Tell me, how much is that?

Approximately half the weight of your rump.

 

[RoseRed]

Approximately half the weight of your rump.

What do you know about her rump?

 

[Kyle]

What do you know about her rump?

Sounds like a stalker.

 

[RoseRed]

Sounds like a stalker.

Right!?! I wonder if he's the guy in the parking lot, not Grumpy.