Breaking: Trump and Melania Have Covid (Part 5)

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How is Chris Christie doing?

🕺 You're fabulous, OP !

Christie fine.

He's eating threraputic 🍩 donuts.

Posted in the latest Coronavirus Megathread:

[quote]Hearing rumors that Chris Christie is in ICU and on a ventilator - apparently more news is hitting media later today. Take it with a big grain of salt (but not as big as his fat ass).

R5 if that is the case, that would hurt Dump even more that. Dump ending up back in the hospital. That would be disastrous for Dump.

If someone infected at the White House dies it will be really bad for Trump.

Yup r7, was actually thinking that about Christie too, who was obviously infected by Dump.

Has Trump said one word of sympathy or showed any concern about anyone else infected in this White House wave? Not shockingly, but it seems like he thinks he is the only one affected by this. Still, you think someone around him would craft some sort of statement from him.

He has not said a word about his wife either R9

I’m waiting for Giuliani and Barr to come out of hiding (cough) (cough). Although just having Giuliani silenced for the next few weeks is pretty good too.

[quote]Giuliani silenced for the next few weeks is pretty good too.

Is it too much to ask for all eternity?

🤭 Trump thinks being referred to as " Superspreader" is a real compliment.

Well what was that big to-do last night?

Some Datalounge drama queen said that the VP debate probably wouldn't even happen because there would be "more pressing matters."

WELL?

It's tonight r14.

I’m the best spreader. Doctors couldn’t believe what a great spreader I am. They’ve never seen anyone like it. They say “Trump is a super spreader.” And I agree. Trump is a tremendous super spreader. And I might be immune now, can you believe it?

[quote] He has not said a word about his wife either

Who?

Ghouliani has supposedly tested negative again. He was also at a republican fundraiser in New York last night, sans mask (of course!).

[quote]Some Datalounge drama queen said that the VP debate probably wouldn't even happen because there would be "more pressing matters."

R14, Didn't that same drama queen mention a press conference about "national security concerns" taking place this morning? The press conference was about the arrest of two ISIS members in a hostage-taking scheme. Hardly something that would have caused the debate to be canceled.

Alas R19, that drama queen was me. I meant that I had a feeling that Pence was going to test positive. The other stuff you mentioned did not come from me.

R18, I believe Giuliani's negative test results, like I believe Donald doesn't wear Depends. These people have such absolute Hubris when it comes tp Covid-19 they're not only in denial about it's transmissibility, they believe they're fucking invincible when it comes to succumbing to it. I wpuldn't be surprised if they secretly have started hiding Super-hero costumes in their closets.

Is it decades of coke abuse that has destroyed their gray matter and made them feel invincible? Plus the whole nonsense about believing themselves to have "superior genes..."

Who's next?

Before the Bidens move in, the White House needs to be tented and fumigated.

[quote] If someone infected at the White House dies it will be really bad for Trump.

The cult of celebrity is fun! It’s fine for 210,000 people to die across the country, but God forbid Chris Christie should die — that would be bad!

Bootsy - I'm gonna need your definition of "bad".

[quote]Has Trump said one word of sympathy or showed any concern about anyone else infected in this White House wave?

No, that was left to Michelle Obama. Her basic humanity came across as a shocking contrast to the current embedded tone from the WH.

[quote]Not shockingly, but it seems like he thinks he is the only one affected by this.

Well yes - his contraction we're led to believe is entirely exceptional, not least with its opportunity therefore to display his theatrical egotistical valour at the eleventh hour.

[quote]Still, you think someone around him would craft some sort of statement from him.

Most are too sick, but making Trump sound empathetic even now is a task beyond the most gifted if deluded speechwriter. No-one anywhere would believe it, and they know it.

[quote]Trump thinks being referred to as " Superspreader" is a real compliment.

Well it is his pet name for Melania.

R27 - did someone mention humanity? Biden has it in spades.

[quote] He has not said a word about his wife either

Yes he did. He said she was doing well & not having symptoms & pointing out she is much, much younger than he is. Then he said Melania loves this country very, very much, no doubt because her fock kreesmas tirade had just hit the headlines.

Thanks r29, that was great.

Can you just picture Trump waddling away in a panic in that situation?

Donnie Spreadums

From The NY Times: President Trump’s decision to virtually storm away from bipartisan talks over a coronavirus aid bill less than a month before Election Day was a remarkably perilous act for a president about to face voters and for Republicans who are fighting to keep the Senate and now risk being blamed for the collapse of a compromise that had always faced steep obstacles. Vulnerable Republicans were alarmed at what one of them, Senator Susan Collins of Maine, called a “huge mistake.”

Omigosh, Susan Collins is taking a definite and completely useless stand. Alert the media!

well, sounds like they got the more infectious but less deadly form of virus...the mutated one.

Trump’s doctors are extremely trustworthy.

Speaking of Collins, any chance she’ll come down with it?

Any news on Crispy????

R36 Her chances are shaky at best... (sorry, I couldn't resist).

[quote] they're not only in denial about it's transmissibility,

Oh, dear!

For r37,

In case you’re interested.

LSS: He hasn’t been heard from but he’s still hospitalized.

R37, I'm also wondering. No news since he checked into the hospital purely out of an abundance of caution!

Well, I wonder if the rumours of him being in ICU are true. It would be hard to keep secret if it were though.

Rudy is taking hydroxychloroquine

Uh...huh.

Jim Acosta tweets just now:

Marine is stationed outside West Wing. Trump is in the Oval. He’s being briefed on stimulus talks and hurricane.

Marine One or a Marine? What is even the big deal about that?

Reportedly he’s in the Oval Office maskless.

I guess it means Trump is doing just fine.

Meh. Unless the orange shit stain drops dead it doesn’t mean anything.

[quote]Marine One or a Marine? What is even the big deal about that?

A Marine stationed outside the Oval Office means the president is there.

From Harvard Health

[quote]Most people with coronavirus who have symptoms will no longer be contagious by 10 days after symptoms resolve. People who test positive for the virus but never develop symptoms over the following 10 days after testing are probably no longer contagious, but again there are documented exceptions.

and from a site called Medscape:

[quote]The duration of viral shedding varies significantly and may depend on severity. Among 137 survivors of COVID-19, viral shedding based on testing of oropharyngeal samples ranged from 8-37 days, with a median of 20 days

There really is no bottom for this guy.

[quote]There really is no bottom for this guy.

Pics please.

[QUOTE] There really is no bottom for this guy.

Don’t forget about me!

USA Today:

White House coronavirus outbreak may have exposed thousands from Atlanta to Minnesota

Two staffers for GOP congressman Doug Lamborn tested positive but were told not to tell anyone (even people they may have infected)

Mike Pence is going to a retirement community in Florida for a MAGA event. I hope no one dies.

I have absolutely no sympathy for anyone who is in the Oval Office with him. They are not on our side anyway and they know damn well he’s positive and what the dangers are. If they don’t have the balls to say, “fuck off I’m not coming in there,” then that’s on them.

If these sycophants get sick, so be it.

Has he been on live TV since he got back to the White House? That might tell you something.

Nope hasn't been on live tv for 44 hours. According to the Lincoln Project

White House quietly tells veterans group it may have exposed them to Covid

As if the veterans in VA homes haven’t suffered enough.

[quote]Mike Pence is going to a retirement community in Florida for a MAGA event. I hope no one dies.

Even Mike?

[quote]Mike Pence is going to a retirement community in Florida for a MAGA event. I hope no one dies.

Shady Pines, Ma!

Have any in the White House/Capitol Campus who have been tested positive, actually been reported to be physically ill now with Coronavirus? Or has Trump placed a ban on revealing their conditions?

[quote] I have absolutely no sympathy for anyone who is in the Oval Office with him

Trouble is, there are many working class people who have to have contact with him.

Speaking of that, I just saw several people go past the Marine at his door. They looked like a cleaning crew. Why would they go in with him in there? Did he shit or puke the place up? Kill Mark Meadows in a ‘roid rage?

I’m so over this fucking meat head I made a tombstone (like I’m sure many have) just to get my hatred for him off my furry chest:

The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln

2h

Trump hasn’t been seen on camera for 44 hours. Where is the president?

We need 5000 people to respond to this tweet with #WhereIsTrump.

Come out of the basement, Donald.

CNN: In an unprecedented move, the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday published an editorial written by its editors condemning the Trump administration for its response to the Covid-19 pandemic -- and calling for the current leadership in the United States to be voted out of office.

"Anyone else who recklessly squandered lives and money in this way would be suffering legal consequences. Our leaders have largely claimed immunity for their actions. But this election gives us the power to render judgment," the editorial says. "When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent. We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs."

I can’t get over that they want to go out and kill their own voters. It’s true some Democrats will get sick, but the Democrats are wearing masks and washing their hands. The Republicans aren’t. They are fish in a barrel. Then they go home and spread it like Kellyanne.

If Pence goes to Florida and talks to a bunch of elderly people, what are their children and doctors saying? Can they tell him no? What if a whole bunch of them get it from him and his staff? They’ll probably die.

What kind of coverage do you get after bringing Covid to an old folks home and killing all the old folks? How do you spin that? It’s conceivable if they infect enough people in close districts, or they have to be quarantined, people will be mad enough to swing the election. Are they completely brainless? In a few weeks the crying widows and kids will be angrily denouncing him on television.

That’s not a nursing home, that’s The Villages. No one will give a shit if he thins the herd there.

Mike Pence belongs in quarantine - he has too much exposure from the White House. And isn't he in charge of the coronavirus task force? How humiliating!

R70, if he was killing Democrats, Republicans wouldn’t care. But he would be infecting an audience of 100% Republicans.

In those communities, socializing is a big deal. Those people have their friends, and the single ones are slutting around all over the place, fucking anyone they can get. Those places are hotbeds of STDs. It’s super easy to pass a disease in a place like that.

If Pence kills off a lot of bridge buddies and boyfriends and girlfriends, they are not going to be happy. And their kids are going to have a shit fit. All those senior communities are busybodies with nothing to do but police other people.

R64, Chris Christie is still in the hospital

R72, The Villages isn't a hotbed of STDs. You have a vivid imagination

[quote] just to get my hatred for him off my furry chest:

Hey, Boo!

How YOU doin’?

[quote] Trouble is, there are many working class people who have to have contact with him.

I agree. Before I posted it I wanted to exclude those workers, but I can’t imagine other than cleaners who would be in there when he is not, I can’t think of anyone who can’t say “no way, Jack. You ain’t gettin my ass in that Covid cloud!”

The Villages is comprised of a large majority of Trump-lovin' bug chasers who'll rush at Pence for a hug, handshake, and autograph.

R74:

The Increase in STIs in Retirement Communities

A study performed by Berkeley University of California Wellness uncovered “significant increases in STIs” among adults 65 and over, between 2010 and 2014:

Chlamydia infections increased by 52%

Syphilis infections rose by 65%

Gonorrhea cases increased by more than 90%

The study suggests that the increase in STI’s can be linked to Americans living longer and in better health than previous generations. Adults are sexually active well into their seventh decade and beyond, and with the higher rates of divorce and the death of a spouse, seniors are dating again for perhaps the first time since their youth.

This article is from that well-known hotbed of hysteria, A Place for Mom.

Apparently, Christie is still "fine." I saw a second, slightly more recent article, from this same site, that claimed he was NOT on a ventilator yet. I can't seem to find it again though.

[quote]The Villages is comprised of a large majority of Trump-lovin' bug chasers who'll rush at Pence for a hug, handshake, and autograph.

I hope the "White power!" guy is there.

Why is paid liar Doctor Conley allowed in front of the cameras for updates on the president's condition.

We know he's spewing lies.

There was an unidentified gathering on the White House lawn today. Guess What? ........ No face masks, no social distancing.

R79, according to the article you linked, one person talked to Christie on the weekend, and another on Monday. Both say they had no insight into his condition. Or Christie wouldn’t discuss his condition with them.

That’s odd, isn’t it? Sounds like if we hear anything it will be a leak from staff.

R78, STDs are increasing outside of retirement homes, so what's your point? BTW, you didn't post anything about The Villages specifically

R78 Eww grandparents have sex?

[quote] That’s odd, isn’t it?

I think so.

If your friend was in the hospital and other friends asked how he’s doing, either you say “he’s doing great!” or you avoid the question.

It's either "He's coming along as well as can be expected" or "Uh, he died."

Famous Hitler video

Chris Christie will be dead by the end of the week.

Why isn't Joe (and the people he's inches away from) wearing a mask in that video at R29? Not a good look when calling the GOP out for their wrecklessness.

Don't you mean the GOP's "wreck"fulness, R89? Why are you assuming that the video in R29 is recent? It's from eight months ago.

Wrecklessness, Boris?

White House security chief "gravely ill" with COVID-19

R85, if he’s your friend, normally you just tell people what’s going on. At least to say, he’s got a headache, he’s not feeling well. Rather than, “he’s in the ICU on life support, he’s doing great!” Who does that?

People generally presume if you’re in the hospital, there’s something wrong with you or you wouldn’t be there.

R84, not only do grandparents have sex, but apparently because they’re too old to get pregnant, they don’t use condoms and get every STD imaginable.

The gonorrhea rate for senior communities increased 90% in four years. That doesn’t happen if you’re taking any precautions at all. Maybe you should take Grandma and Grandpa aside and tell them about the birds and the bugs.

ABC News: Per FEMA, 34 people connected to the White House have been infected

Another Pentagon case:

[quote]A Marine Corps four-star general is the second senior military leader in two days to test positive for COVID-19.

[quote]Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Gary Thomas has the virus, officials announced Wednesday night. Thomas was one of at least nine senior leaders who began self-quarantining Tuesday after the Coast Guard's vice commandant, Adm. Charles Ray, tested positive for the illness this week.

[quote]Thomas attended Pentagon meetings with Ray and other senior leaders last week. Marine Commandant Gen. David Berger was visiting the British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth off the coast of Flamborough, England, according to a military news release.

[quote]Coast Guard officials say it's not clear where Ray contracted COVID-19. He and several military leaders, including Berger, Milley, McConville and Brown, attended a Sept. 27 Gold Star Families event at the White House. The Washington Post reported this week that masks weren't required at the event and social distancing was not enforced.

Was FEMA involved before? Is the WH a disaster area now?

So many people are sick (or hopefully quarantined), who’s running things over there? Who’s left? If they were being responsible, at this point they’d put a tent over the whole thing and fumigate.

Where’s Biden going to live? At this point, the best bet would be for him and Jill to stay home and work out of his house for a few weeks until it’s decontaminated. I’m not kidding either. They’re going to have to fumigate for all the Trump rats and roaches, and then there’s the Covid. The rats have completely gotten out of control the last couple of years. And the President’s suite has to be full of virus and vermin. The Bidens shouldn’t live there until it’s clean.

It will be sad for Biden, he was there with Obama and it was probably a lot less dirty and run down.

[quote]White House security chief "gravely ill" with COVID-19

How foolish of him to let Covid dominate his life.

He’s been letting Covid “dominate his life” since September. Sounds like he might be on a vent and could die. It makes you wonder if this is actually the second round with these people, not the first.

I am reading that doctors don’t know when Trump contracted Covid because he wasn’t being tested. Everyone around him had to be tested so he did not have to be. (Trump logic)

So this past weekend in the hospital could have been the 7-10 day peak which is why he’s on Dex now. I’m just so disappointed if this is the case. I was looking forward to the crash.

R100, but that assumes that he was walking around without symptoms for a while, then became symptomatic. I don't know how likely that is.

Damn, I think Trump’s going to recover. What I’d give to be the Invisible Man...

[quote]Is the WH a disaster area now?

NOW? Have you been asleep since 2016?

Trump's antibody treatment was tested using stem cells from an abortion. Don't tell the antichoice crowd

Bloomberg reports two of President Trump’s military aides tested positive.

The aides act as valets who always travel with the president, carrying nuclear launch codes in a briefcase known as the “nuclear football.”

Internal FEMA memo reveals 34 people connected to the WH have tested positive for Covid, more than previously thought.

Pinkeye is apparently an early sign, and Pence's eyes are mighty red tonight.

[quote]Damn, I think Trump’s going to recover. What I’d give to be the Invisible Man...

R102, I doubt that invisible men are immune to Covid. If you're going in there, you damn well better have an invisible mask.

R90 the tweet is from yesterday. There is nothing that indicates the age of the video.

Also, yes you caught me, I misspelled a word. Something we've all fallen victim to at one time or another.

Damn the lack of an edit function. R90 check the date on the tweet.

R100, it’s really common for the first week of Covid to be little or no symptoms. The second week is the bad one. That’s because it takes a while for the virus to multiply inside the person. If Trump was really sick on Thursday or Friday, he probably had it at least a week already, maybe more. That’s why they quarantine asymptomatic people for fourteen days. They’re waiting to see if they get sick.

I saw a study that said if you get tested1-2 days after getting the virus, it’s almost 100% certain your test will be negative. Tests don’t show positive until there’s a substantial amount of virus. It takes days to build up that much virus. Every day that goes by after exposure, it’s more likely a test will come up positive. There have even been a few people that didn’t test positive until 21 days, but that’s uncommon. Fourteen days is the minimum.

It looks like Trump had the virus a long time, probably when he was debating Biden, and likely he and his family thought they had it. That’s why they took their masks off at the debate. We don’t know when they were exposed, but they do.

R107, I saw an interview with a Covid ward nurse months back, in the early days, and she said every patient she had had red eyes. They were just discovering it at the time, and many nurses said they noticed that.

Is infected senator Mike Lee OK?

Google 'Joe Biden Meets Shamar'. It's from 15/02/20.

He’s the PERFECT candidate to croak from COVID!

Why the fuck hasn’t he died, or gone into relapse yet?

This virus has mutated, we do not know which strain orange turd got, I'm sure they are analyzing in the lab...

The new strain isn't as deadly.

Is anyone talking about Trump’s makeup job in latest video? Did he do it himself? My God.

RE: makeup, someone on MSNBC said it looked like Trump had escaped from an institution, and his face was two different colors — peach on top and brown below the cheekbones.

Someone else had to have done his makeup as he always leaves those circles of bare Spam-coloured flesh around his eye-slits when he does it himself. He probably can't hold his arms up long enough.

He must have been desperate as I remember reading interviews with the hair and makeup people on the Apprentice and they said he wouldn't let them touch him. He did everything himself.

That makeup is embarrassing. He's not an attractive man but he's so vain. The swooped hair that seems to change diffetent color blond every day. The elongated ties to cover his gut. The overlong suit jackets to hide his famously yuge butt. The fear of being caught in a goofy photo or viral video.

This a person who has no introspection. It's all surface.

Mike Lee was the belle of the ball at that nomination ceremony. He's in every photo, glad-handing everyone, grinning, hopping around. He seemed to have a personal stake in her nomination.

Thanks to his strenuous efforts, he caught Covid.

Trump's makeup artist.

R118, I thought he was compensating for steroid chipmunk cheeks by doing his version of sculpturing cheekbones with makeup. I thought it looked like the extreme two tone makeup they used to do for black and white television in the old days.

The Official Covid19 Count from the SuperSpreader event @ The White House now stands at 34.

Who will be the first to succumb to The Corona as a result of the Rose Garden Massacre? Sadly, it's going to happen .........

R125, you people act like the Wuhan Cold is the end of the world. It's not!

I no longer get 4 a.m. phone calls demanding I turn Judge Jeanine on, when it was actually watching a Beachbody informercial he was watching. Worse, 90% of those calls came from the toilet and I could hear everything that was going on the background. It may not seem like a big deal but when that's your day-to-day life it's fucking draining.

We have wifi down here. We have Twitter. I mean, I tweeted six times yesterday! How bad can it be?

Unfortunately, typos aren't only for the pre-deceased.

Oh well, c'est la mort!

Next debate is going to be virtual, and Trump is refusing to participate. Sounds like a forfeit to me.

If you blow up this photo, it looks like he has Subconjunctival hemorrhage below the iris, rather than pink eye. Also the pupil is larger than the other one.

[quote]If you blow up this photo

Do I have to?

I think he tried to scratch his eyes out as penance for looking at another woman too long without Mother’s approval.

R131, woman????

R132, pretty sure Kamala is a woman. Do you have information to the contrary?

[quote][R132], pretty sure Kamala is a woman. Do you have information to the contrary?

I believe what was implied here was that Pence fucks dudes. (rather than questioning Kamala's gender, which seems pretty clearly female)

I could be wrong of course.

R314, you are not wrong.

[quote] Sounds like a forfeit to me.

It’s not a football game.

Pence has canceled events and is returning to DC. He's got it.

To be clear, I don't know that for sure, but why else would he?

Maybe this is why?

R138 it’s down now

Why is Deadline breaking that story?

Dear God, if he KNOWINGLY exposed Kamala....

They took it down quickly.

What a bad nose job.

Please tell me they are suffering miserably

I'm surprised that people are pegging his nose job now, he's had it for decades:

Original nose:

After nose job:

R140, Tom Tapp (who wrote the article) covers COVID news and Gavin Newsom for Deadline.

What was in the article at R138? The link doesn’t work now.

that fly

r 147: The headline was:

PREP. DO NOT PUBLISH UNTIL THE NEWS CROSSES. Vice ...deadline.com › 2020/10 › vice-president-mike-pence-te... 38 mins ago — Vice President Mike Pence announced late Wednesday that he is among those who have tested positive in the ongoing White House coronavirus ...

It seemed very clear last night that Pence is poz.

R150 I think so too. Pence seemed sluggish and lethargic at the debate. Supposedly Trump was noticeably “exhausted” at that fundraiser the day before he tested positive too. I think Pence has Covid.

Another fly vid mocking Pence. This one has a catchy tune!

Why would they write an article with such specificity as "announced late Wednesday" if it was just meant to be a placeholder?

Someone needs to take away his AquaNet and replace it with this.

Oh My God! (even though the fly is in the wrong place)

I can't help but wonder if that story is true and they media outlets agreed NOT to release their stories until after the WH had a chance to reveal Pence was positive. Then the WH backtracked, so the outlet "accidentally" published the "placeholder" article.

They would have broken that, given that it would have meant he was knowingly exposing everyone at the debate.

Has anyone heard from Chris Christie?

[quote]Has anyone heard from Chris Christie?

We haven't--and we're getting worried.

Let's hope his fat ass is in excruciating pain

Trump sounds awful

R160 “Clinton people oscillated his mic”? Wtf is he talking about?? Sounds like he’s having paranoid delusions or something.

He's delusional to think he's going to have a rally on Saturday. He lost what little mind he had left this past week - and he wasn't working with much in the first place. His doctor should be ashamed of himself and lose his license for going along with this charade.

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows hosted a wedding with 70 guests for his daughter in Atlanta this May, despite a statewide order and city of Atlanta guidelines that banned gatherings of more than 10 people.

Nothing is making sense.

All we've seen of Trump in days are odd videos that may or may not be in front of green screens and who knows when they were actually filmed. ... Live phone interviews, however, have him sounding very congested and a rambling mess. ... Don Jr wants an intervention, Nancy wants to talk 25th Amendment, Pence making mysterious trip back to Washington. ...

All this would make one think that Trump is doing very bad, but here's his doctor saying he can go back to public activities this Saturday? WHAT?

Still no word on Krispy Kreme Christie.

R164 Confused? You won't be after this week's episode of Soap.

Chris Christie is probably dead.

Any possibility Don Jr talked to Nancy?

Tune in next time for the continuing story of As The Stomach Turns.

I hope Mother Marcus makes an appearance!

[quote] All we've seen of Trump in days are odd videos that may or may not be in front of green screens and who knows when they were actually filmed. ... Live phone interviews, however, have him sounding very congested and a rambling mess. ... Don Jr wants an intervention, Nancy wants to talk 25th Amendment, Pence making mysterious trip back to Washington. ...

Lol

As the other posters remarked, this all sounds like a poorly written plot that someone wrote for an unbelievable tv soap.

Had to laugh to cut the sense of loss and sadness I feel for the US atm.

Looking at Pence the other day, and these other graciously contributed photos, I wonder if maybe he's on the spectrum. He' highly intelligent and seems unemotive.

[quote] Looking at Pence the other day, and these other graciously contributed photos, I wonder if maybe he's on the spectrum. He' highly intelligent and seems unemotive.

Funny you that you write this. Just saw a tweet from a former GOP guy who worked with Pence. Apparently he is NOT intelligent, but highly ambitious. Found that interesting. If I could find the tweet, I’d post it, but it was in one of those long list replies to The Lincoln Project guys.

There are also vids of Pence floating about where he was a radio host. Have you seen those? Pretty interesting. He’s physically larger, a bit sloppy and much more expressive. Certainly not the repressed, robotic creature he appears as now.

R172 You're right. I misdiagnosed. Aspies don't lie, either. Pence is just weird.

Trump never had COVID. That’s quite obvious by now. The people I know who had it (even milder cases) were laid low for at least a week and were so exhausted they could do nothing. He thought it would help his standing if he shrugged off COVId but it has massively backfired on him because it only highlights he is a liar who can’t even get his story straight.

One other thing I’ve noticed is it’s mainly his biggest sycophants who also claim to be infected. Chris Christie, KAC, Hope Hicks, Stephen Miller - these people would gladly claim they had COVID too if they thought it was a strategy to re-elect Trump. None of them have to prove they had covid and their doctors have not made statements etc.

This is what our country is now. The people at the highest level of govt getting away with a scheme like this to change the subject from tax fraud, fuck Christmas, and the worst debate performance by a sitting President.

Vote.

So what‘s your explanation for why Trump has totally lost contact with reality and is now batshit crazy, R174? He’s on drugs, and his symptoms all go along with taking some pretty dangerous drugs. If he’s on high doses of steroids, wait another week or two at the most, he’ll look like a pumpkin. You can’t fake that.

Hush r175!

R174 was almost asleep. Now the idiot is probably gonna start on about Building 7 or some other nonsense and then he'll never shut up.

R175, what did you picture Trump acting like when he realized he was going to lose the election if he hadn't gotten Covid? Him losing the last thread to reality would fit that bill.

Still, there's that death-warmed-up look, struggling-to-breath Evita moment, and not appearing live on screen for days.

Given which, his blurt about doing a rally on Saturday seems specially astonishing and insane. The latter seems the best assessment, due to existing narcissism, plus an experimental drugs cocktail.

As someone upthread said, nothing makes sense, now more than ever. If he completes a rally, those claiming fake Covid will have a strong case. An old fat man managing such a thing so soon, or at all, is surely unknown in the annals of this virus.

Moscow Mitch is such a weasel, he has not visited the white house since August, he knew sooner or later they would contract it!

16 Senators tested POZ though and the infection rate in KY continues to surge -- so, there's still hope yet!

Who thinks Pence is poz?

[quote] The people I know who had it (even milder cases) were laid low for at least a week and were so exhausted they could do nothing.

And yet others die, others need critical care, and still others experience absolutely no symptoms.

Your knowing people who had it doesn’t mean shit.

The difference is steroids. Steroids are given out in some cases to people who have a serious illness and just have no energy to the point they can’t eat or do anything. But this particular steroid is given to people who are low in oxygen.

On Mount Everest, they give it to people who are suffering from hypoxia and their energy is so low they can’t walk down the mountain. It’s like an upper. But all they have to do is walk them down (with heavy supervision) , they don’t need to take it every day for weeks.

I’ve read other cases of people taking it for serious illness and they all say they’re manic, can’t sleep and delusional. Some have hallucinations. Most of those people have to be supervised, like by a family member, so they don’t run out and do something crazy.

[quote]Most of those people have to be supervised, like by a family member

Oh no. NO. I said until the convention, then I am out of here.

No. JUST NO.

No.

[quote] On Mount Everest, they give it to people who are suffering from hypoxia

You can get an STD from Mount Everest?

Back in St. Olaf our mountains went down, not up.

Trump was hopped up phoning into Hannity last evening. Motor mouthed conspiracies non-stop. Hannity had a hard time getting in a word, or even tell him the hour was up and he needed to STFU.

Trump does sound a bit slurry. I don't see that his discourse has changed, though.

Boy, nobody is talking about the taxes and money-laundering!

If he starts getting paranoid, which is what it sounds like, watch out. He could declare war on China or something.

[quote]Boy, nobody is talking about the taxes and money-laundering!

It'll come back after he loses and lives to see it. The NYT and New York State are unlikely to say, 'Oh well, we gave it our best shot.' Something to look forward to!

Honestly, I really don’t even care if Dump goes to prison. He deserves it, for sure, but it would set a precedent in the US that I think must be carefully considered. However, I want NY and NY state to come at him with everything they have to bankrupt him to where all he REALLY can afford anyway is McDonalds. He would lose so much more that way—friends, family, respect, attention. It would be the best outcome.

[quote] it would set a precedent in the US that I think must be carefully considered.

That if you commit a crime you go to jail, regardless of who you are or were?

Yeah, sounds like a dangerous precedent to set.

Dump has committed thousands of crimes, up to and including the most serious crimes against humanity. He deserves to rot in prison 100%.

Fox News Dr. Marc Siegel Will Interview Trump, Conduct ‘Medical Evaluation’ On-Camera Friday Night

R193, whew! There’s no need to worry now. FOX News is on the case!

[quote]Fox News Dr. Marc Siegel Will Interview Trump, Conduct ‘Medical Evaluation’ On-Camera Friday Night

Well, that's enough to make a maggot gag.

Was Doctor Nick from The Simpsons (also a Fox show) not available?

Is this where Trump / fake doctor declare him to be a god? Because I keep waiting for that.

Even if he loses, Cheeto will still be a clear and present danger unless he's locked up. But even then, as we saw with Michael Cohen, he can publish books (ghostwritten of course).

Since incarceration isn't looking likely in the near-term, he'll go on a paid rally circuit fleecing the deplorables and get on Faux News / OAN or do his own media where he will be free to spout the most insane rhetoric and conspiracies. He'll engage with the white supremacists and incite violence.

Another thing, he'll definitely tweet out classified information just to spite the next administration -- or make up fake 'classified information' to 'reveal' to his rubes. Is there a law that prevents him from publicizing either genuine or made up classified info after stepping down?

[quote]he can publish books

Which, no doubt, will sell easily as well as those of his spawn.

R198, yes there is. It’s 18 U.S.C. § 798.

I hope Trump has a loud red faced, can't breathe coughing fit on Fox tonight.

he's a dumb cunt

Trump has been on Rush Limbaugh's radio show all afternoon.

Rush: "You are one of the strongest, the most unwavering, the most determined, most loyal people I have ever met...it's just a breathtaking thing. I want people to get to know the Donald Trump I know."

Trump falsely says he got impeached for calling Zelensky to congratulate him. That call was in April. The one in question was July.

Pressed by Rush Limbaugh for how his health plan covers pre-existing conditions, Trump calls Democrats vicious liars. "Pre-existing conditions I'm totally for." Says he has a plan.

"This is what I mean with Republicans, they don't play the tough game," Trump says of Durham report not coming out before the election.

POTUS talking about Pulitzers for the Russia coverage, says people "who should get the Pulitzer" prizes didn't get them.

"This unfairness never ends!" Limbaugh laments during a discussion about Fox News panelists.

Trump says Merkel is "smart and cunning" followed by "I like Putin!"

Trump is still talking as music signals the end of the 2-hour segment.

So Rush was lying about having terminal cancer?

Shocking.

A teacher and two students at the school attended by children of Amy Coney Barrett, the Supreme Court nominee who brought her family to a Rose Garden celebration at the White House on Sept. 26, have tested positive for the coronavirus.

When he dies, he can't have a burial site on land--it will only turn into a shrine for Deplorables. He needs to have his pine coffin dumped into the Indian Ocean, like bin Laden.

Cunt Barrett needs to quarantine her Offred ass.

Saw a chyron on CNN that Cheeto was throwing F-bombs (I guess on Limbaugh's show?)

Typhoid Amy

R208-

[quote]“If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before.” — the President of the United States

CNN reporting Trump will be at an "in-person event at the WH tomorrow, with the President speaking".

Oh, great, he can spread Covid to more people

Our Lord Jesus Christ also used profanity whenever he was rathful, in righteous anger.

Rep. Mike Bost, an Illinois Republican, has announced he has tested positive for coronavirus

Do you think that Putin still thinks Trump is useful?

Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but I can see Putin getting a kick at Trump failing spectacularly

Considering the damage that Trump has caused, R215, I suspect that Putin regards that investment as perhaps the best in his career. Keep in mind that it wasn't all that much of an investment: a few hundred, at most a few thousand, hackers and trolls doing phishing attacks and creating fake accounts to further their "fake news" and gin up conflict.

That's nothing, which is why we're still seeing the troll farms in action. Now if he had to do a substantial investment, that would be a different matter. I rather suspect that Putin would have cut his losses by now and moved on in that scenario.

Are they dead yet?

[quote] it's just a breathtaking thing.

And if anyone would know about breathtaking....

"Teacher says, every time a bell rings, a Republican gets COVID."

[quote]I can see Putin getting a kick at Trump failing spectacularly

Putin's goal was not to support Trump.

Putin's goal was to destabilize the American political system and destroy our relationships with our allies.

He doesn't give a shit about Trump and never did.

[quote] The Trump rally in Bemidji a few weeks ago has been associated with nine COVID-19 cases. Two have been hospitalized, and one person is in the ICU.

Why is the White House refusing to say when Trump last tested positive?

They are actually (or also) refusing to say when he last tested negative.

R219 Someone needs to make an image of Zuzu with that quote in place.

Jaimie Harrison demanded that Lindsay Graham take a COVID test before their next debate.

Lindsay said no.

Infected? Too invested in the hearings next week? Scared he'll get his butt kicked again?

More than two thousand guests have been invited, according to a person familiar with the event.

In a statement, the White House said attendees will be “instructed” to wear a mask while at the complex, but will only be screened for Covid-19 with a temperature check and “brief questionnaire" — not a test.

..."Good luck," Biden said.

How much do you want to bet that the "brief questionnaire" includes a legal "I won't sue you if I get Covid from this stupid event" declaration?

Bummer! Krispy Kreme is out of the hospital - alive.

And Melania?

Who?

Is Pence at the Nuremberg Rally today?

R231 Pence is campaigning in Florida today.

Did we ever find out why Pence rushed back to DC yesterday?

r233, he had the squirts.

[quote]Did we ever find out why Pence rushed back to DC yesterday?

Forgot to pack his fly swatter.