US Politics, November 2019: These people are truly sick.

Biden was the only candidate beating him in swing states. As much as I like Warren or Bernie, they still don't have a lead in the electoral college.

deep statins

Polls are weird things months before the primaries

they're relatively worthless in isolation, maybe equally so in aggregate

yeah but you need to schedule your ratfucking early. can't wait for people to start voting.

You define your opponent as early as possible, before they get a chance to define themselves. The way Trump did it is idiotic, but trying to dig up dirt on Biden was business as usual. It even seemed to work, there really was someone at NYT stupid enough to bite.

trump is also a dumb, old, racist idiot who can't absorb new information, and probably thinks biden looks like the obvious nominee because he's the only one that looks like a Politician to him - an old white guy with a big smile, who he'd heard of before his brain turned completely into television mush.

it's not really a mystery why they targeted Biden. also doesn't really matter.

I feel like re: Trump's health we could be heading for a Woodrow Wilson scenario

you think Melania's going to run the country?

Sort of. More like Scavino will keep tweeting, Grisham will keep talking, and a committee of people will be Shadow Trump

I hope they cart out an actor

The stalin/saddam bosy double thing. Always wanted that for my country.

you think Melania's going to run the country?

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Nancy Reagan did for a while tbh

this is so embarrassing

Fox & Friends asks President Trump not to tweet during today's impeachment hearings: "The president should just ignore this whole thing. ... Don't get outraged over it. It ticks you off." pic.twitter.com/SXDKRoZs1y

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) November 19, 2019

shhhh shhh little fella

The fact that they try to reach him, personally, via the airwaves is really sick and weird.

Presidential self-care

Nancy Reagan did for a while tbh

Melania doesn't seem to love power the way Nancy did... if I had to wager on any one in that shitshow of a cabinet taking charge honestly I would put my money on Pompeo. Pence is too stupid, no one's gonna take orders from Jared, etc.

If he had a stroke and can’t talk, sooner or later the public will find out.

It’s not the 1910s

idk he could barely talk as it was

but yeah if a week goes by without him appearing in public...

i'm afraid to say the hospital visit is probably just a scheduling fuck up. there are probably dozens every day.

this whitehouse is extremely incompetent (so this makes sense) and can't keep a secret (we'd know if it was something more).

He scheduled a cabinet meeting during the break in the proceedings so we will all get to see how he's doing. I watched his last public speech and he was incredibly illiterate and winging the speech with a complete lack of focus, but not sure if that was any more than usual:

https://factba.se/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-healthcare-pricing-transparency-november-15-2019

'Something.'

The fact that they try to reach him, personally, via the airwaves is really sick and weird.

his son had to wish him a happy birthday on Fox & Friends because they don't talk to each other

i'm afraid to say the hospital visit is probably just a scheduling fuck up. there are probably dozens every day.

As many people have pointed out, the White House has a medical facility in the building. He could have gotten his cholesterol checked by walking down the hall. Instead, he was motorcaded to the hospital. This was absolutely not a "scheduling fuck up."

If he had a stroke and can’t talk, sooner or later the public will find out.

― treeship., Tuesday, November 19, 2019 11:49 AM bookmarkflaglink

It’s not the 1910s

― treeship., Tuesday, November 19, 2019 11:49 AM bookmarkflaglink

idk he could barely talk as it was

― Οὖτις, Tuesd

snort

I can't say with certainty that I'd notice if he actually suffered a series of mini-strokes in the midst of a public appearance.

Xpost also reports stated that he had his NSC meeting in private quarters yesterday and hadn't visited the West Wing all day. And cleared much of his schedule.

A source also suggested he was hustled into the vehicle for the drive to Walter Reed, suggesting urgency.

I doubt dude is like, dying, but I really don't think it was a physical. Since when do you do it in six month spurts? I have minorly high blood pressure and I have one physical and three month checkins. Data from six months ago may no longer be very accurate.

Xpost you're probably joking but you really don't always notice the TIAs.

My dad had a bunch of mini strokes and nobody knows when they happened. Rather gradually he just stopped talking and holding his hand funny over a period of a month or so

where's the whistleblower?

Yeah, an uncle of mine turned out to have suffered a series of small strokes over time. Not good, but at least it was caught and understood in retrospect.

At one point in the proceedings, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the top Republican on the intelligence committee, referred to Vindman as “Mr. Vindman.”

“Ranking member, that’s Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, please,” Vindman quickly responded.

heh

https://publicpool.kinja.com/subject-print-pool-report-4-cabinet-meeting-1839942350

Complains about press speculation he had heart attack. Says his physical was “very routine” and it’s the media that is “sick.”
More to come

Michael Collins
White House Correspondent
USA TODAY

Yeah, I know mini-strokes often fly under the radar. I just meant he could be speaking to the world on camera in medium close-up and no one would be able to say for sure whether that slurred neologism he just drooled out was the sign of a contemporaneous brain event or Trump being Trump.

i'm afraid to say the hospital visit is probably just a scheduling fuck up. there are probably dozens every day.

No way. He spontaneously rushed out of the White House on a Saturday (with no tie on) to get a head start (?) on an annual physical several months early? This is not a thing. He could have had anything mundane done at the WH, the only reason to go to Walter Reed, let alone with no advance team or notice, was something alarming, emergency or not. And he has been isolated (literally, this time) ever since.

Dude probably has pneumonia or chest discomfort or something and probably whined like a little bitch the entire ride there and doesn't want everyone knowing he has choochoo trains on his underwear

Apparently michael collins from usa today saw him in the meeting?

He might be back to business today.

Yesterday he seemed not to be

"i didn't have a heart attack. You did. In fact you're dead now"

He speaks!

Trump on his unscheduled trip to Walter Reed: "I went and did a very routine — just a piece of it, the rest takes place in January — very routine physical." He visited soldiers then returned to White House. "I get greeted with the news, 'We understand you had a heart attack.'"

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 19, 2019

This is the most transparent administration in history so I don't know why y'all are speculating

Honestly this is my favorite bit, namely that Melania didn't even know.

On his surprise visit to @WRBethesda on Saturday, Pres Trump says he went for a very routine physical, though even the First Lady asked him about reports he had a heart attack. And when asked by his press office if he was okay, he said he responded, "okay from what?"

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) November 19, 2019

okay from what?
december thread title

The funniest thing is even the conspiracy theorists didn't say "heart attack". They said "chest discomfort".

Dude coulda just had the farts and freaked

Sounds like the James Brown CNN interview

December 2019: I’m concerned, ‘cause there’s nothing wrong!

So unfortunately he is alive, however he looks and sounds like shit