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Clinton has pneumonia
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Hillary is not afraid of debating Trump. She'd pretty much have to be hospitalized for her to back out, and even then she'd probably do it via satellite.
Lactose_Intolerant
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white blood cells
toadsworth
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Did she think she could hide the fact that she had pneumonia from the public? She needs to take some days for herself and recover. God, running for president sounds like the worst.
Suikoguy
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Oh wow
King Tubby
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"Clinton campaign lying about health claims! Only has 3 months to live! Lungs held together by glue and masking tape!"
Maybe scandal isn't the right word, but it's going to be an ongoing story.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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whyamihere
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What's the scandal?
jeff_rigby
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How does someone with Pneumonia and dehydration with overheating on a 70 degree day, recover to walk down the street smiling a little more than an hour later??????
Dehydration makes me nauseous with a headache and takes me several hours to recover. If it's compounded with Pneumonia double that.
Why are the Secret service and aides shielding her from view as if it's a practiced maneuver. This is not the first time stumbling and falling...un-diagnosed Pneumonia for almost a year? No something else is happening.
Is this a serious post? I'm sorry if you're joking, but I honestly can't tell.
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But seriously, just imagine Fox News today had she announced beforehand she wasn't attending the 9/11 Memorial.
"Oh, Hillary Clinton 'didn't feel like going' to the 9/11 Memorial to honor the brave men and women who lost their lives on that fateful day."
And he's going to look like an asshole doing it. If this was a secret MS thing then yea it'd be bad, but it's not. She got sick, people get sick. If he tries hitting her on this then he's going to look like a bully and do I need to remind you what happened to the last person to act like a bully in an elections against Clinton?
Necromanti
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Wait until people learn that presidential candidates poop.
Too easy lol
toadsworth
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True. I'm so sick of this partisan bs.
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thepotatoman
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Hillary Clinton would never take a risk to hide meaningless information from the public until it blows up into a much bigger thing.
If you really had it you know how much it can make you collapse. I had it in late December / January too.
Multi lobar pneumonia in both lungs. Thought I had the flu and carried on working for over a week. Kept getting worse, going to the toilet every night felt like I was blind drunk, couldn't walk properly, couldn't think properly. It was fucking horrible. My skin started to go a grey colour, couldn't breath, coughing every minute.
Went to the hospital to be told I had a chest infection. They gave me Antibiotics and told me to rest. Carried on for another week until one morning it took me over an hour to get out of bed, struggled to get downstairs and when I sat down on the couch I had a weird feeling I was going to die if I didn't go hospital. I told my GF that if I went sleep tonight I wouldn't wake up. Bear in mind I'm 24 years old.
Went back to the Hopital, they gave me an x ray. Their exact words were "if you didn't come here today, you probably would have died". Turned out I had sepsis caused by the Pneumonia as well.
This is the x ray. I've posted it on GAF before. The white in the lung is the Pneumonia, whole left (my right) side and half the right.
Long story short. Yes it can make you faint and yes it's deadly.
I know you're being funny, but pneumonia could take someone at Hillary's age out pretty fast. Shit had me, a male in his 30s, laid up in the bed with a 100+ degree fever for a week. With her healthcare, she should be fine, but she needs to get off the campaign trail for a while.
Maintenance
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Iron will. I can see this dialogue or something similar happening:
Staff: "Hillary, you need to rest."
Hillary: "They'll take this presidency from my cold, dead hands."
She waited so long for this that not even pneumonia will stop her.
Staff: "Hillary, you need to rest."
Hillary: "They'll take this presidency from my cold, dead hands."
She waited so long for this that not even pneumonia will stop her.
EDIT: Misread
Androidsleeps
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It'll make House of Cards look like a boring regular politics show.
And_Gignac
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nnnnnnnnnnn mess!
The way this was handled was TERRIBLE. Clinton´s PR person should be fired.
this post explains so much about jeff rigby
I'm 24 and I very nearly died because of it. Never been ill in my entire life. It's really scary isn't it.
I just had mild Pneumonia and it was the first time my mother ever had me ask her for the doctor's number. I was 23 at the time. It took me over a month to fully recover.
2nd, this is extremely worrying to be honest. Pneumonia are her age is typically re-occuring and far more serious. This is what killed James Brown, Bernie Mac, Brittany Murphy, Leslie Nielsen, etc. All fairly rich people too.
2nd, this is extremely worrying to be honest. Pneumonia are her age is typically re-occuring and far more serious. This is what killed James Brown, Bernie Mac, Brittany Murphy, Leslie Nielsen, etc. All fairly rich people too.
I've had pneumonia. It was awful. Sick for almost a month. Didn't go anywhere.I wasn't allowed to go anywhere near anyone lest I get them infected. Stayed in one room and watched TV and played Nintendo for 3 weeks.
Her doctors gave her antibiotics. So it's bacterial pneumonia... She's probably contagious right?
Why was she calling over that child earlier today outside her daughter's apartment in New York? Isn't that rather irresponsible if she's contagious?
Also, I felt AWFUL during those three weeks. Fever. Coughing. Vomiting. General aching feelings.
How is she campaigning at all????
I'm having difficulty believing she has pneumonia. Maybe there's such a thing as "light pneumonia", but if there is, I never had it.
Her doctors gave her antibiotics. So it's bacterial pneumonia... She's probably contagious right?
Why was she calling over that child earlier today outside her daughter's apartment in New York? Isn't that rather irresponsible if she's contagious?
Also, I felt AWFUL during those three weeks. Fever. Coughing. Vomiting. General aching feelings.
How is she campaigning at all????
I'm having difficulty believing she has pneumonia. Maybe there's such a thing as "light pneumonia", but if there is, I never had it.
smh it must tire you to come up with new ways to shit on Hillary. I mean I get it, you feel like you have to to try and balance out how Trump looks daily, but man. You spent all day doing your best to try and make Hillary look as bad as possible. Putting in the work.
The likley hood of catching pneumonia is very low. It's a specific bacteria that affects you when your Ill. I have kids and the docs said they'd be perfectly fine when I went home.
Mine was bacterial too. Probably through working in CEX lmao.
Hopefully they don't read this... ;P
bob_arctor
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Last I heard, dude was making up a letter from the NFL crying about scheduling. That is pretty much the complete opposite of "chomping at the bit."
It's not bad optics to get pneumonia; it's bad optics for her staff to say "it was allergies, oh wait it was the heat, just kidding it's pneumonia" amid Trump's campaign trying to push this notion that she's gravely ill.
mercenar1e
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its better for him to stay quite and just let the news echo her health issues for a few days.
...he was a man though. Tell me people don't think that even if they deny it.
It's actually amusing to me though because the women I know tend to be far more healthier than the men, at least in terms of getting sick. My mom never gets sick and I get sick every 2 months or so.
whyamihere
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I mean, her cough was from allergies. It's the first sentence in the OP. And then it actually was heat because her doctor -- again, in the OP -- said she was dehydrated and her pneumonia contributed to her near-faint earlier today.
excelsiorlef
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This is nonsense....
Btw WaPo, CBS, MSNBC and CNN haven't gone nuts like this.
The only people talking like that are the people who were already talking like that.
Only now they have less evidence because we know it's a temporary illness
King Tubby
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Hell, John F Kennedy had a body made out of popsicle sticks and he seemed fine up until Dealey Plaza.
Man or no, it was definitely downplayed during his presidency. The Secret Service would try to confiscate/destroy photographs of Roosevelt in a wheelchair.
whyamihere
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This is pretty common for people with walking pneumonia.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Looking at the doctor's statement and it makes sense in terms of timeline.
SaviourMK2
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Can someone at her age recover from it?
entremet
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This was way before the public had access to these reports. Different times.
And Clinton is has been elected yet unlike FDR.
You're comparing a Presidential hopeful to one that served three terms.
Not to mention this is the social media era.
They won't though. It will be a side-story by tomorrow and out of the cycle by Tuesday.
EatinOlives
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Can you really blame the Democrats for crazed Republicans making up random conspiracy theories? They're gonna jump on anything regardless of what it is.
mercenar1e
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you will be surprised.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Come on...
excelsiorlef
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No she's already dead but good news is she recorded her phonetically to be able to build a cgi version who will campaign via satellite.
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