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

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.

If you're having health problems, I feel bad for you, son

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 are drastically underselling both people's inability to grasp large numbers and the ripple effect one moron in a position of prestige and power can have.

Pence is going to try to ropadope the debate into taking a moment of silence to pray for the recovery of this asshole.

Cf how it wasn’t actually a real thing until Tom Hanks had it

xxp I wasn't speaking to public perception. I'm saying it strikes me as odd that someone would saddened by this because it somehow reflects systemic incompetence.

There was an effective system for managing infectious diseases in place that this guy dismantled.

I hear the president is becoming increasingly isolated.

Deep State strikes again

I was unable to sleep at 3 am ET and stupidly looked at my phone. By 4 am this was already a right wing talking point - that forces in the government had deliberately infected the Greatest President Ever.

By 5 am every possible take, and evry possible counter-take, were definitely in play.

It's borderline criminal that Trump was aware he was exposed to the coronavirus by Hope Hicks, who tested positive on Wed., but he still traveled to his club for a fundraiser on Thurs. "where one attendee said POTUS came in contact with about 100 people" & he was having symptoms https://t.co/fRJJuyCQrY

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 2, 2020

We got our asses kicked by this early and are currently one of the best states as far as covid control goes. fucking asshole brought it here!

#BREAKING: New Jersey has started coronavirus contact tracing for people who attended President @realDonaldTrump's fundraiser at his Bedminster golf club Thursday evening, @GovMurphy said Friday morning. https://t.co/1LsVGIC3kF pic.twitter.com/V3Q3bzZwLH

— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) October 2, 2020

also we don't know that Hope Hicks or anyone else on staff gave it to him...it's just as likely the other way around

BREAKING - Ronna McDaniel, the RNC chairwoman, tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday, multiple sources say. She has mild symptoms. She was last with POTUS last Friday and has been in Michigan since then.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 2, 2020

You know, I'm starting to think this covid thing might be serious.

ChiNeSE HoAX

FAkE nEwS

I mean...there's a good chance a ton of high profile people in this administration have it now, correct?

Wait, Chinese hoax, c hoax, coax, coaxial ... the virus is being spread by your TV! Unplug everything!