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

New from Trump’s physician... who is also a naval officer subject to the orders of the commander in chief.

Yeah, lot of confusion and misstatements coming from physicians, who are generally not known for confusion and misstatements. in service of an administration notorious for sewing confusion by way of misstatements.

The fact that he wouldn’t take a test before the debate must be questioned now too. Why didn’t he?

Q: will we actually see any R blowback when one their infected actually croaks from Trump-traceable Covid?

nope. they've overlooked 208,000 deaths. what's one or two more?

I think it’s very possible he was already positive then. That would square better with the way his symptoms have developed.

According to the official account, he had severe symptoms almost immediately after testing positive. Since this virus has a long incubation period—2 to 5 days usually, but up to 14–he was likely infected far before then. And theoretically he is getting tested often.

Just a quick reminder:

Stories you’ve forgotten about from this week:

* Brad Parscale taken into custody, under investigation for $25M+ theft from the campaign

* Trump paid just $750 in taxes (!)

* Fox paid $4M to settle accusations of sexual harassment by Don Jr.’s girlfriend’s

* Melania’s tapes

— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) October 3, 2020

And, of course:

* The debate performance, where Trump couldn’t bring himself to condemn white supremacy

— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) October 3, 2020

MacIntire, FDR's doctor in the final days, was also a Navy man.

Per AP: "Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, said the president went through a 'very concerning' period Friday and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care." https://t.co/Pw0WvmPltp

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) October 3, 2020

"Two monoclonal antibodies don't make one polyclonal antibody, Doc"

NEW: Regeneron spox Hala Mirza tells @CBSNews's @amybirn that it's incorrect to call what the President has received "polyclonal antibodies."

“It is two monoclonal antibodies. It was incorrect in the physician’s letter.” https://t.co/rYtEQlWQNm

— Sara Cook (@saraecook) October 3, 2020

They also spelled regeneron wrong on that release

Oh no, he’s tweeting again

xp also failed to capitalize several words and left out numerous exclamation marks

SEAN P. CONLEY DO FUCUP

regeneron sounds like the kind of thing x-men or avengers would be fighting bad guys for

Someone dressed as the Hulk destroyed Trump's star on the Walk of Fame with a pickaxe. The hero America needed in this fragile moment imo.

Or someone for him. 1 about stimulus checks and 1 thanking frontline hospital workers

More like coDONALDvirus, amirite?

it is very hard to understand why Trump wasn’t tested until Thursday night. Why wouldn’t he be tested as soon as Hicks got a positive test back?

Reports are that he tested positive midday on Wed. Much worse.

― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, October 3, 2020

nope, not any more. now, according to Conley, he was tested Thursday night, and he just misspoke earlier. sounds like a pro!

we have always been at war with eastasia!

White House incompetence on full display for the world to see!
On Monday, the entire city of DC had only 14 new cases of COVID.
Trump WH alone is now responsible for 23 new cases & rising. They had every privilege available to them to limit the spread of the virus & they blew it. pic.twitter.com/cFjPggBppW

— Rula Jebreal (@rulajebreal) October 3, 2020

🚨 NEW TONE ALERT 🚨

An MSNBC anchor just said President Trump, who days ago instructed white supremacists to disrupt polling places and mocked people for wearing masks, now has a "gentler tone" and his tweet was "heartfelt"!!!

I cannot believe this is happening before our eyes pic.twitter.com/pXc6PYuMXz

— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) October 3, 2020

MSNBC really needs to improve their B-team.

Q: will we actually see any R blowback when one their infected actually croaks from Trump-traceable Covid?

― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, October 3, 2020 1:15 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Has anyone on their side said a damn word about Herman Cain

lol milo

from what I've seen of cable media the last 24 hours suggests Blitzer, MSNBC, et. al have ho patience with Trump's bullshit anymore.

Incubation period for DJT'S bullshit: 40 years

But he's the preznit. Like Van Jones, they wait for the moment he's newly baptized.

I think much like sticking Arlington cemetery right outside Rober E lee's door to remind him of what he was responsible for, the Virus should carry trump's name to remind him.

the Cummings virus

MSNBC can fuck right off with that shit.

Boots Riley needs to start his own network

a fun wrinkle in all this: when Trump emerges he either has to decide to start wearing masks or keep going without, and either choice is politically catastrophic for him

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) October 3, 2020

Pretty much my thought and a good part of why this is so fucking hilarious

He's obviously going to go no mask, believe he's immune, saying the virus is still a hoax etc etc

Btw can I just mention that for the first time since Election Day 2016 it feels like we’re off the hellworld timeline, even if only for a moment. We all knew how Russiagate, Kavanaugh, and impeachment would end. It was never in doubt. But there ain’t shit they can do to protect him from from this. He will, for once in his goddamn life, have to face the direct consequences of his own actions. There’s no fucking “both sides”ing any of this. It’s a disaster any way you look at it.

xp come on he’s not gonna be able to escape the fact that the entire nation just saw him get fucking airlifted to the hospital

I kind of feel the same way. Like, finally.

he may not be out of the woods for awhile.

i had covid, it was extremely not fun, and i was feeling the brunt of the effect for about 9 days. my wife had it for 11. neither of us had low blood oxygen. neither of us went to the hospital. we were feeling basically better after about 2 weeks.

trump is already in the hospital. it looks like his blood oxygen is low. he's fat and in his 70s. i think it's going to hit him very hard. i'd be surprised if he's able to do any public appearances at all between now and the election tbh.

The fact that he is not tweeting non-stop, despite being locked in place, lying down with nothing better to do - standard operating procedure for recovering from illness, for all of us - definitely indicates there is more going on than they are letting on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W_QerWy65Y

the story of bolsonaro is a warning, though:

Seven television debates, featuring all the candidates, were scheduled once campaigning began. Starting in August, they exposed Bolsonaro’s disadvantage in the medium: poorly prepared and ill at ease, he was ineffectual. The more he was exposed to it, the flakier he was likely to look. In the first week of September, however, this danger was suddenly lifted. Stabbed by a mentally ill man at a provincial rally and rushed to hospital for an emergency operation, he spent the rest of the election safely in bedridden recovery, protected not only from debates or interviews, but from the demolition that Alckmin’s managers had been readying on their TV slots – sympathy for a victim who had nearly lost his life now precluded anything so tasteless.

residents otm

xpost Yes but, as various people have pointed out with similar examples elsewhere, it's not like Bolsonaro spent six months beforehand denying the existence of mentally ill men with knives in the middle of a situation where hundreds of thousands had died because of them.

(Which, if that were the case, would probably have attracted attention.)

Another good angle for the Dems: Trump’s stupidity directly leading to a Covid outbreak in the White House has huge national security implications which could have been prevented with a 3 dollar piece of cloth

Note to Schumer: here is what McConnell would do if situation reversed. 53 D’s, 5 or more quarantined. Keep Senate in session, bring in all Rs, replace you as leader, change committee chairs, direct Sergeant at arms to bar entry to any with Covid, reject SCt nominee. Just sayin.

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 3, 2020

“National security” is an argument that convinces never trumpers and Susan rice and that’s about it.

OK dude

ok computer

Ok go

Ok Cupid!!

That’s all four

If “trump is a national security risk” was a compelling argument for a significant number of people then the last four years would have gone differently, and biden would be mentioning is more often than never.

Republican Rep @McCaulforTexas @RepMcCaul REFUSING 2wear a MANDATED mask on our IAD-AUS flight despite being asked THREE TIMES by flight attendant b4 we have even left gate. Walking around w/o mask bc he thinks rules don’t apply 2him. VOTE HIM OUT! @SiegelForTexas @HouseMajPAC pic.twitter.com/IoDB9xO3f0

— AUSborn&bred (@AusbornBred) September 25, 2020

My piece of shit rep who only holds office because the citizens of Austin have been disenfranchised via extreme gerrymandering.

meanwhile if anyone was excited about the thom tillis thing it turns out his opponent got caught in a cheating scandal, because there is no good news out of north carolina, ever