"Will you shut up, man?" US Politics October 2020

THIS IS A HELL OF A FUCKING INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK

like Boris "testing positive" a few weeks after hiding in a fridge, on camera, to avoid answering hard questions from serious journalist Piers Morgan on camera

xp to me

he looked and sounded absolutely terrible before tbf

What I’d like to do is to give Asshole a wide range of potential treatments, including some not for COVID, and get him to make a decision without advice from “experts” and “scientists”.

He'll probably be fine

betting markets think the big winner is mike pence (was 1%, now 7% chance to be the next president)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjTce9LVoAARcyI?format=png&name=small

Judging by the betting markets and Dow futures this is not good for his re-election chances

well, if he's going to go down, at least he went down on top shortly after an offensive annoying petulant public meltdown

Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020

THE RESPONSES TO THIS ARE SO FUCKING BIZARRE WHAT IS GOING ON

Like are these Iranian bots wishing death on him? The translations are kinda spooky. What’s with all these unsettling images? This is so weird

https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/donald-trump-tested-positive-for-covid-19-and-people-are-trying-to-cast-satanic-spells-on-him-via-internet-2927407.html

I can’t think of any way I’d prefer him to die than after 30 days intubated on a respirator, unable to appear on TV or open his foul fat mouth, watching the election results roll in as he takes his last desperate breath.

live long enough to die in prison, please

So, Trump brought down by Hope.

Frogbs, the same sort of tweets popped up recently when Taylor Swift fans took to p4k etc because they thought she didn't get a good enough review.

Hoping this thread title finally delivers for good.

he’s gonna be fine and emerge bragging about how some people are saying he has the greatest immune system the world has ever seen

yeah people are really into posting "curses" in Amharic because they think it looks demonic or something? pretty dumb and racist imo!

original language of the Bible?

Nope

You're thinking of aramaic, most of the original bible was written in Hebrew with some aramaic

duh, stupid of me sorry

Time to go back and watch Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for a refresher course.

Boris got such a numbers boost from being in the hospital it was wild to watch. Surely not in this case though, right?

Taking that back - he didn’t get a boost (though his numbers were very high at that point anyway)

This is not what happened. Two separate polls (by us and Opinium) done BEFORE Johnson announced his positive test on 27th March put the Tories on 54% with a 26 point lead. We had him on 72% satisfaction. Neither that, nor his ICU admission, had a discernible effect on the polls. https://t.co/k1TRs2k2en pic.twitter.com/1K7YVwiKoL

— Matt Singh (@MattSingh_) October 2, 2020

Trump was never one for shaking hands with Covid patients, I'm guessing

pic.twitter.com/BAFU9Qd3Fi

— Simon Young (@iamsimonyoung) October 2, 2020

A+

so uh will Amy Coney Barrett quarantine?

not sure blaming the military for infecting him is the best plan

lol the NYT's political story already reads like an obit:

No modern president has publicly endured a health crisis this close to a re-election attempt. Ronald Reagan was shot and convalesced in 1981, just over two months after he was first sworn in. And Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while in office, but it was more than a year before he faced the voters for a second time.

Ever since he began his unlikely political rise five years ago, Mr. Trump alone has been the driving force behind his campaign and then his presidency. A real estate developer who eventually became a marketer of himself, he has dismissed the advice of experts in politics, government and, most recently, public health.

To the shock of his legions of critics, his bombastic style won him the Republican nomination followed by the presidency four years ago.

And for over three years as president, he was able to steer the political conversation any way he wanted, sometimes to his benefit but often to his detriment.

After the coronavirus shut down the country in March, though, Mr. Trump finally ran headlong into a foe that could not be attacked, ignored or fully overwhelmed with his usual tactics.

RIP big man

Do we have confirmation that Biden and his wife are OK?

Remember when Trump's rebuttal for the "pee tape" story was that he would never get near urinating Russian prostitutes... because he's a germophobe?

Good times, good times.

Let's rewind the tape a bit

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-told-comey-pee-tape-real-germaphobe-article-1.3930847

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/07/07/donald-trump-germaphobe-1399258

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/03/03/politics/donald-trump-germaphobe-coronavirus/index.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/germaphobe-trump-hates-people-coughing-and-sneezing-in-his-presence-2019-7

good morning y'all, i miss anything big on the UK shift?

I can’t think of any way I’d prefer him to die than after 30 days intubated on a respirator, unable to appear on TV or open his foul fat mouth, watching the election results roll in as he takes his last desperate breath.

― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, October 1, 2020 11:26 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This, except he lingers on in a painful state until inauguration day.

can we just move straight onto harris v pence please

I feel like Biden's gonna be governing from a bunker for the first hundred days, while they sterilize the White House until it's basically a clean room.

They need to rush Trump massive doses of bleach and hydroxychloroquine, stat.

Trump getting the 'ronnie gives him a lovely out/excuse he can use for losing so it seems like a win-win all around. I hope he survives (this).

live long enough to die in prison, please

― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Friday, October 2, 2020 2:48 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

prison would be nice, but death by COVID seems the one true way to prevent his martyrdom....

he would forever be stuck with World's Dumbest Criminal

death by COVID seems the one true way to prevent his martyrdom....

surely the q massif would just say that he was murdered somehow and it was a cover up?

damn they didn't have to shoot him with the COVID gun

Yeah, Deep State strikes again. Introduce an unknown virus, spark a deadly pandemic, encourage its global spread, the White House is yours for the taking. Thanks, Soros, Gates, Epstein, etc.

I'm feeling El Tomboto's post. For a time since the 2nd World War the USA has been seen globally as a competent place. It's a reason that the global reserve currency is the US dollar, and that the international language has been English. Alongside Boeing's recent failures, and of course the failures of the US military strategy in the Middle East, this is another sign that that era of competence is over.

it seems weird that Trump getting it would be the signpost for competency-breakdown when 200,000+ have died

I can think of approximately 199,999 instances prior to this one that better speak to systemic incompetence. This is just one man's idiocy.

You mean his incompetency at catching a relatively easily transmissible deadly virus while taking no serious precautions.