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

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!

5G my man

Dana Bash reporting that Hicks, Trump, Stephen Miller, Bill Stepien, Chris Christie, among others were basically in a small conference room, unmasked, for days prepping for the debate.

— Person Woman Man Camera TV (@ClaraJeffery) October 2, 2020

this is all because Biden said Inshallah

so in the last FOUR DAYS you've got a bombshell story about the President committing tax fraud, a diasterous debate in which Trump literally told Nazis to "stand by", Melania saying "fuck Christmas" on tape, his ex-campaign manager going berserk and embezzling $40 million from the campaign, now the POTUS has Covid and we're gonna spend all today finding out which high level officials have it as well? could this be the greatest infrastructure week of all time?

good morning!

Melania saying "fuck Christmas" on tape

ok she's now easily the best trump

he's lying about COVID, like he lies about everything

every single thing he says is a lie, it's so fucking obvious

that being said, I'd love to see these fuckers all die

What does he gain from lying about this? What advantage, what ego-stroking, what self-mythology does this play into?

yeah this is not some orchestrated thing

dominates the news cycle, for starters

"cured with hydroxychloroquine"

Yeah, getting sick is a sign of weakness in Trump's mind...not sure what he would have to gain from lying about it

outpouring of bot-dominated sympathy

I can keep going?

I'd love to see these fuckers all die

Only if they can do so without taking out any of the huge number of innocent people they happen to breathe near

Exhibit A is still "he lies about everything, compulsively"

i do not buy this theory at all