2020 Democratic presidential primary

Her biggest crime is over-emoji'ing.

She should definitely have died in jail for that, yeah.

yerac I hope you’ve got something a little more substantive than that, or else what you’re saying is pretty gross, considering what chelsea has been through

No, I really don't. Not everyone likes her nor needs to on the internet. Her emoji'ing is well documented.

I don't really have much of an opinion on the commutation besides what Buttigieg having said not being really controversial in my opinion.

Although I feel like when it happened, I was happy about it. Who knows.

I was in plenty of pain after getting one wisdom tooth out. Idea that I shouldn't be able to get painkillers because addicts exist is bizarre to me.

As is the bizarre notion that you can combat addiction via supply.there will always be opiates you can acquire if you want them

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, March 19, 2019 5:02 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

to be fair under this law you would be able to get a 7-day rx for this indication, which is certainly enough

also, diversion is a major source of misused/abused pills, and many people *become* addicts with the injectible stuff because their pain is intitially treated inappropriately with opioid pills

that said I do oppose the proposal on principle.

― k3vin k., Tuesday, March 19, 2019 2:16 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry i am being a bit reductive and dumb. i just hate the political class' total inability to advance radical drug policy that would actually help to save lives and not these silly sort of tinkering half-measures that at best might mean a few people don't discover their addictive personality through over-subscription.

It is p clearly controversial, as evidenced by the controversy here.xp

emojis are a sensitive topic.

I apologize for an in poor taste joke, especially since she is in jail again.

medium to long term pain is best managed with a combo of guided movement therapy, mechanical intervention (osteopathy, massage, etc), and lifestyle coaching around diet and other factors. These are service-oriented treatments that don’t scale and involve significant effort on the part of the patient so can be difficult to implement. ftr advocating for more of this holistic tx is a necessary corollary to restricting opioid rx imo, as are policies that enable people with limited mobility to access essential services: more and better public transportation, greater density, better designed public spaces, etc.

k3vin otm and sorry to the thread for being a whiny dick earlier.

tinkering with rules about handing out opioids to acute pain patients is basically dressed-up moralizing about how the poors go and get themselves hooked on oxy, if she cared about the opiate epidemic she'd be proposing a nationwide network of safe injection sites

Apologies accepted. sciatica and Yerac condemned to a 40-hour diet of nothing but opioids

xp. yes, basically what silby says

If I didn't have a work and financial situation that let me fly across the ocean and monitor my dad's pain pill intake (with his prior consent!!!) he'd have had, at best, someone insufficiently paid by the state come in and give him the pills according to the letter of the prescription and yeah, that might very well have ended badly. But the solution to that too-common situation isn't an artificial 7-day supply for all by legislative fiat.

is Beto having one of those televised Town Halls soon? ten shiny american dollars to anyone who asks him what his favorite song by The Cramps is

^^"Sheena's In A Goth Gang", IIRC.

i have also had two MRIs since i moved here. i'm quite healthy.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, March 19, 2019 1:47 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

MRIs reimburse for a ton, it's like why not order an MRI if you've got good insurance, goes the logic

Good luck USA

I am considering running in the 2020 Democratic primary. The goal will not be to win, but to bring a critique of American imperialism to the Democratic debate stage. The website (https://t.co/j5qZdJoH7S) is under construction. Official announcement will be in the coming days.

— Senator Mike Gravel (@MikeGravel) March 20, 2019

more honest about his goals that a few entrants already in play, I think

https://i.imgur.com/Yxa93Nk.gifmikegravel.orghttps://i.imgur.com/Yxa93Nk.gif

Senator, question: why is your campaign headquartered in Westchester?

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) March 20, 2019

The teenagers who convinced me to run live there.

— Senator Mike Gravel (@MikeGravel) March 20, 2019

Bernie's got competition for the 'wish I had a cool grandpa who wasn't glued to Fox News' demographic.

switching to supporting Mike Gravel for the next eight to twenty minutes based purely on that last tweet

Senator Mike Gravel is at the very least a shoo-in for the great real names thread

that whole thread is hilarious, he’s just talking with that kid and the kid accuses him of buying not followers, what a website

The 2020 Democratic field pretends to progressivism, but don't buy the lie. @KamalaHarris kept innocent men on death row. @JoeBiden voted for the Iraq War. @CoryBooker invented a drug dealer friend (and voted with Big Pharma).

— Senator Mike Gravel (@MikeGravel) March 20, 2019

[fire emojis]

I’m a #gravelguy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBcMUZAXMW4

i mean, where's the lie?

grandpa :)

Does nobody remember Gravel from ‘04-‘08 and the infamous rock in the pond video?

I literally cannot remember ever hearing of him

I was 15-18 those years tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBcMUZAXMW4

Oh fuck I just pasted the wrong thing lol

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0rZdAB4V_j8

whoa that is fucking rad

is he in on it?

I mean it’s him in the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65K9CgZIXIA

Accent on the second syllable in his last name believe it or not

doing some wiki-ing — what an interesting career. favors free college tuition and a carbon tax but ran as a libertarian one year

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0rZdAB4V_j8

― moose; squirrel (silby)

that was one of the most compelling campaign videos i have ever seen

I like that his mentions already have people doing oppo research, he voted against the same bussing bill that Biden did.

perhaps, but what was joe biden's position on staring blankly into a camera for nearly 2 minutes before throwing a rock into a lake and then slowly walking off into the distance?

lotta pain docs itt

a hard-stop, legislated(!!), 7d limit rx on opiates is pretty fucking dumb, even for acute conditions

Legislators love to introduce legislation that fits in a tweet and makes them look concerned about the issues

just spitballin but a good clinical screening tool pre-op that identified people that might be at risk of addiction or dependency could help lay out a tapering program that involved both treatment of pain and maybe a lil buprenorphine taper afterwards so as to avoid long-term addiction and/or diversion, darts at the wall ppl

I think we should all just be given a morphine ration to help cope with life.