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

Hair and tan games gonna take a hit in the hospital

when he says "Walter Reed" you can hear him struggle for breath, just a little.

to be fair he struggles for breath in the best of circumstances

I’d like to think that the moment they got the shot he turned on his heel and shat his pants

― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII),

I like to think that this is when he became president

all of my pro-Trump FB friends are silent actually it's kind of shocking I haven't seen a single "prayers up for the President" post

ends on a bit of a grimace. still far too not-dead to suit me though

well he's probably only on Day 4 or 5, I think Days 8-10 is when the shit really happens

That's a deep fake, you guys totally fell for it.

News that Trump's heading to Walter Reed breaks 15 minutes after Wall Street futures close for the weekend lmao Monday's gonna be incredible.

— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) October 2, 2020

I hope he does fine. I can’t wish death on him and it would be so much better to see him recover and then beaten on nov 3

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— food truck drove away with my debit card (@fart) October 2, 2020

day 10 of symptoms. not from when you caught it (which is notoriously hard to pin down)

I don't get that, sorry. explain (xpost)

They probably shot him up with goofballs before that vid and before he walked to the helicopter.

Minutes later, he was shivering, drooling, amd repeating "what's it all about,Alfie?"

I don't get that, sorry. explain (xpost)

― akm, Friday, October 2, 2020 7:01 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUz9xCTOPRw

I hope he does fine. I can’t wish death on him and it would be so much better to see him recover and then beaten on nov 3

I think it would be good for him to be prosecuted for his crimes and die in jail but this is in my top 3 alternatives.

oh, ha (xpost)

Honestly I respect the sentiment but can’t begin to relate. I only have to think of one child torn away from his mother and father at the border to wish immediate death on him.

yeah but i have to admit i would be kinda sad if by dying trump avoids prosecution for rape, tax crimes and fraud, and is spared the experience of being shellacked at the polls. it would be better if he were beaten properly and soundly in november

Not to mention that wishing death upon him – now that he's caught Covid-19, of all things – is not the same thing as plotting and carrying out his assassination. Don't panic, there might still be a place in Heaven for you.

I think the surest way to stamp out his insidious movement is not an electoral loss, or prison, or even assassination, but to have him die of his own idiocy.

It would be humiliating and make his martyrdom a heavy lift

Inshallah

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— Big Boy (@deep_beige) October 2, 2020

Dan S is like one of the people who was scolding me for posting hilarious memes when noted sociopath and murderer John McCain died.

The guy has blood on his hands. The faster he gets to hell, the better we all are.

he's not going to prison; this is America

The bright side re: pending criminal cases in the event he died is he would no longer be around to obstruct.

We could get a lot of this shit on the books in record time.

I think him dying now would inflame his cult. I have no insight but it seems better to me that he be humiliated in the election and then prosecuted for his crimes

Anyway we are all bracing for disappointment, right? He’s probably going to be fine :-/

Then he'll get reelected.

But fuck such thoughts.

I remember you thought the same of Warren Harding

How would dying of the very disease he mocked and called a hoax burnish his rep with the cult? I mean as opposed to other outcomes?

Never forget:

We'd like him to be able to come home now, which is frustrating, but we're glad the doctors are being thorough and making sure they do the job right. Thank you for praying, everyone. Please keep doing it. He really is getting better, which means it is working.

— The Cain Gang (@THEHermanCain) July 27, 2020

He's not going to die, sadly. Even in his age group, the vast majority of people recover. Instead, in a couple of weeks' time, he's going to be bragging about how he "aced it", there will be NYT stories about how he has privately called people who died from it "losers" etc etc

it would be so much better to see him recover and then beaten on nov 3

Why, so he can continue to make life miserable for millions upon millions as a hero to his death cult?

The death cult will remain and its brains have been thoroughly scrambled by Trump's misrule. The best we can hope for is a landslide loss in November, so as to drive home to the cult leaders his repudiation by the public. Dan S may be right in that a dead man losing an election would not carry the same weight going forward.

Despite its moral irrelevance, the way in which his illness, recovery, or death plays out will no doubt affect the politics around investigating the official misdeeds of his administration and prosecuting his many crimes. There are so many ways for this to play out they are past predicting.

nice

POTUS was spooked after he tested positive for coronavirus and became increasingly alarmed as he developed symptoms — like a fever — overnight, person familiar with his reaction says.

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) October 2, 2020

"I’d like to think that the moment they got the shot he turned on his heel and shat his pants"

I like to think that this is when he became president

lol

xp That might be true in the context of a Republican electorate who hadn’t already been convinced the whole thing is rigged. A landslide loss will do nothing to calm his followers.

Did we ever find out whether his brother died of covid btw?

A landslide loss will do nothing to calm his followers.

True enough. But the people at the top who must win elections to keep the gravy train rolling tend to notice landslide losses in a more professionally interested light.

xxxp Hadrian I don’t know exactly, but if he died now I worry that the Trump cult would concoct a story somehow to make him a martyr and then repeat the story a million times until it became folklore

I want to see him become a disappointment to everyone

I'm inclined to agree:

There are a lot of "why is Biden unliterary disarming?!" hot takes but pulling negative ads for a few days generates a lot of positive headlines that probably outweigh the value of said ads, especially given the "we must bring the country together" message that Biden is offering. https://t.co/Lv7s8T1pHI

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 2, 2020

lol @ 'unliterary' tho.

consider if he died he would go away

He's not going to die, sadly. Even in his age group, the vast majority of people recover. Instead, in a couple of weeks' time, he's going to be bragging about how he "aced it", there will be NYT stories about how he has privately called people who died from it "losers" etc etc

yeah c'mon, let's stay positive here

I want to see him drawn and quartered followed by a parade of children of all ethnicities shitting directly onto his screaming face but I am preparing myself to be disappointed; I suggest you do the same