Look at this first link and send up your Thoughts and Prayers gang. Por favor.
FINGERS CROSSED, PEOPLE
That’s not going to be an option…
Wow.
Amazon says nearly 20,000 employees have caught the coronavirus
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/01/amazon-workers-covid-positive/
Sprots!
Sports agent Drew Rosenhaus: ‘I am very worried’ about NFL season after Titans coronavirus cases
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/01/drew-rosenhaus-worried-about-nfl-season-after-titans-coronavirus-cases.html
Stonks!
Constellation Brands draws interest after committing $100 million to Black-owned businesses
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/01/modeldraws-interest-after-committing-100-million-to-black-owned-businesses.html
Have a great Friday!
…I see there’s no shortage of folks out there who are inclined to think that he might be just claiming to have the thing so as to duck the next debate (& just generally be able to hide until the lawyers can try to hand him the result he wants because he’s never achieved anything for himself) since often there’s a sympathy bump for stuff like this…& being able to shrug it off & come back “strong” before polling day would play well
…but if so they really doubled down on selling it by the looks of things?
I’ll believe he has the Rona when he’s on a ventilator
Till then I’m just going to enjoy the schadenfreude tho
Its just too much fun to waste by being overly cynical
…yeah…I hear that…I just find myself thinking how it went when Boris Johnson came down with it…& although he’s no poster boy for the health nut contingent he’s younger & less obese than the lying-ass president who lies all the time…so I guess there’s at least a possibility that by the time vice presidential debate rolls around Pence could be in the hot seat in more ways than one
…if it doesn’t prevent him from fulfilling his duties (to the extent he ever has) then I’d be pretty skeptical, I guess…but for the time being I’m inclined to think that even the audio that got released of Melania being pretty much exactly who you think she is & the whole debate debacle…& the fatuous asshole trying to claim that Hicks most likely contracted it from all the military & law enforcement folks who apparently want to hug her all the time…still isn’t enough to make them try to run with it if it isn’t true?
In my nightmare scenario Trump has it, the MAGAts refuse to believe it and/or believe he shrugged it off because it’s no big deal, he’s incapacitated, he somehow wins re-election, and we get into a Woodrow Wilson situation. But instead of getting an Edith Wilson (Woodrow’s sane and judicious wife) to run things we get Ivanka and that creepy House of Wax figure Jared calling the shots.
Based on his now extensive incompetent corpse of work, Jared is an even bigger idiot than Trump and even more blatantly corrupt.
He’s everyone’s nightmare scenario (and Ivanka isn’t any better, just prettier.)
Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers.
There are undoubtably people in the GOP desperate for Pence to take over, and this would be as good a reason as any. Probably as good a rationalization to issue a blanket pardon as he could get to grease the skids. The media would eat it up too.
But I don’t think it works. Trump never acts cleanly or rationally, and if there is a handoff, it’s slow and fumbled. The majority of people who hate Trump aren’t going to forgive Pence. There will be a lot of Trump diehards who resent the switch, and if Pence goes full MAGA to appease them, he loses hope of independent appeal.
And the bottom line is time is too short to rewire a campaign. I could see Pence nibbling at the margins, but not a lot more. Probably the best side effect would be Pence walking away from the nutjob stuff Trump might do.
I’m not sure I believe it either. See my longer comment to Lemmy down below. I think he might be calling out sick.
If he didn’t get tested, he wouldn’t have Covid…idiot!
Fake: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/doomsday-planes-trump-covid/
Can you imagine what’s going to happen if he gets through this with zero complications and declares, “See, I told you it was nothing more than the flu?”
…I mean…I don’t want to imagine it…but it’s hard not to
…that was pretty much where I was going with the remark about bouncing back in time for polling day potentially playing well…but also the thing about finding it hard to believe he could shrug off an actual infection?
To be fair, Christmas decorations that ugly take a lot of time.
McEnany knew yesterday that Hope Hicks and others tested positive and still held the press briefing anyway. The one in which she was yelling at a Fox reporter about rivers with no mask on.
I hope when the dust settles that all those Amazon warehouse workers sue the fuck out of Jeff Bezos and end up owning the company (despite whatever bullshit liability protection the GOPers jammed in.)
This is beyond criminal negligence.
No conga line yet? Then allow me!
Trump got the coro-NA! 🎶
Trump got the coro-NA! 🎶
What if he thinks he is going to delay the election over this? I mean, I’m quite sure he can’t, but he can stir a lot of people up over it in the meantime.
I doubt he’s thinking that big. While I’m certainly rooting for the virus, I wonder if he even has it. I’m suspicious and cynical, but what if he’s just using it as an excuse to cancel his “debates” without looking like a coward?
His performance was absolutely awful, and I don’t even see his bootlickers mounting any sort of defense. The most I’ve seen is a sort of weak bothsiderism that says well, Biden was bad too. (Patently false — Biden was competent, and that’s the only bar he had to clear.) Trump’s defense of white supremacy was frankly devastating to his campaign. His failure to agree to a peaceful transition was terrifying. Then there’s just the hundreds of soundbites that favor Joe while making Trump look stupid. There’s no upside to putting a clearly confused and incompetent old racist on stage. There’s FAR too much that could go wrong. I’ve said it before, but Trump is so bad that one wrong word is going to goad him into screaming the n-word into the microphone.
I think he (at the insistence of his handlers/enablers) is using the virus as an excuse to hide.
My incredibly cynical take is that they don’t actually have it and are using it to distract from the other shit happening. Then, they have a pretend recovery and can say see it wasn’t so bad.
I really hope I’m wrong.
He’s not faking the test results. At this point Trump would rather announce he has debilitating scrotal fungus and has gone impotent than admit COVID got him.
Here’s the problem though (and trust me i am super pissed off that I’ve been driven to this pseudo-conspiracy theorist point): Trump’s physician has already falsified reports on his health in the past (remember the 29.9 BMI and the claims that he’s the healthiest president in the history of presidents?). So, I don’t find it far fetched that the whole thing is bullshit.
If there is any funny business going on, it’s in the opposite direction. Like lying about how bad he is, how long he has had it, how reckless he has been in spreading it, and/or how many times he has refused to be tested.
If he wanted to dodge the debates, he could have faked a broken toe or a clot that needed thinners and monitoring. This is real, and we should be prepared for it being worse than the flu.
I’m definitely rooting for the virus. The worst would actually be that he has it but is asymptomatic.
Mark Meadows is saying trump has mild symptoms. Melania has tweeted that she has mild symptoms. So I’m thinking their story is going to be no worse than the flu.
…to extend the Boris Johnson comparison…they said he was doing fine & hadn’t needed serious medical intervention…until after he came out of it & admitted that he owed his life to the people who’d been monitoring him & done exactly that…pretty sure he was ventilated at some point because there was some discussion of how the UK doesn’t have a clear line of succession when it comes to who takes over if the PM pops his clogs
…so I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they keep saying he’s not doing badly all the way through…but equally I don’t know that I’d take their word for it for long?
Is he tweeting? if not he’s SICK.
This is the true measure of his condition. If the tweets stop for more than a day, he’s incapacitated.
…or if they go a full day with intact syntax, come to that
See my comment above. I wonder if they have it, too. But I think he’s just calling out sick.
Wait, does this mean hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work as a preventative?
Did anyone see this Cornell study?
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-donald-trump-biggest-driver-covid-.html
Also, Ronna has the rona?
https://www.axios.com/rnc-chair-ronna-mcdaniel-coronavirus-positive-d361fcf6-061c-4af2-ad1d-55eeadba50d9.html
My bigger fear than him faking it is that he is not and these fuckers infected Biden. It hits him hard but somehow doesn’t effect the Orange. That would be the most 2020 scenario.
On the other hand, I also read that RBG has successfully argued her first case before God.
OMG: “On the other hand, I also read that RBG has successfully argued her first case before God.”
My buddy just texted me a worst 2020 scenario, Trump has magic antibodies that will be incorporated into the vaccine & we will all have to inject a little bit of him into us to survive. I told him I hate him!!! My other friend says the side effect is your skin turns orange. Happy Friday!
THAT would turn me into an anti-vaxxer.
Luigi! Excellent choice.
what meg said!
The f-ck is wrong with people?
Actor Rick Moranis punched in the street in random attack
The cure for what ails you
https://backtalk.kinja.com/fur-face-friday-1845252600
…if only everything were as reliable
More like the FUR for what ails you, amiright???
most def!