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

don't play with my heart dammit

lol, had me for a second.

He's going the distance!

trump's gonna end up fine isn't he. he could end up as a fucking brain in a jar of formaldehyde and still go grift and crime into his next stolen term.

*_*

ok i'm better now, sorry.

surely Mitch McConnell should get with the programme grandad.
I mean to be a loyal -party member shouldn't he be courting the vid?

McConnell is a Republican, not a Trumpian.

a bygone disctinction

he also unfortunately is a regular mask-wearer, who’s repeatedly urged people to wear them. he’s a horrible heartless ghoul, but he’s not a covidiot

McConnell knows that Trump is a repugnant idiot, and most likely holds him in utter contempt. McConnell has never taken his eyes off the prize of using Trump"s gift for public chaos and negative interest in governance to advance his own previous-gen Republican mission of stacking the courts.

He's way less interested in governance than Trump is!

an overstatement—they come at their equal disdain for gov't from different places

he also unfortunately is a regular mask-wearer, who’s repeatedly urged people to wear them. he’s a horrible heartless ghoul, but he’s not a covidiot

his is very much a face that was made to be masked

It's like his face needed a shell too.

lol

shame really since he's helped so many of the population feel like dirt and not helped control the virus for so many people. You'd think he must need to share the experience himself.
& otherwise how is he going to share the feeling of extreme pain and desperation he's inflicting on others.

Headlines from new NBC/WSJ poll (conducted after the debate, 9/30-10/1)

1. Biden's national lead among registered voters expands from 8pts to 14pts

Biden 53%
Trump 39%

Was Biden 51%, Trump 43% in Sept poll before debate

— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) October 4, 2020

lol

Good morning!

In Florida, 550,338 vote by mail ballots have already been cast

Votes cast by party:

Dems293,835
Republicans 152,079
No major party: 104,424

It’s Election Day in Florida

— Matt Dixon (@Mdixon55) October 4, 2020

More people have voted in Florida a month before Election Day than theses states have total registered voters pic.twitter.com/E5ikXdIOrE

— Matt Dixon (@Mdixon55) October 4, 2020

It's really refreshing to see ballots rolling in without his airhorn blare accusations of fraud shitting up the feed.

Got my mail in ballot yesterday, will be taking it with me to vote in person this week. Voting without getting my "I voted" sticker is just not voting at all.

Excuse my ignorance, are “no major party” voters for small parties or voters not registered to either major party?

I found that strange as well, because as we all know, Florida *is* a major party state, dude, and no poll is going to tell me otherwise.

I interpret that as registered independents and third party registrants all lumped together

I just moved & registered to vote in Florida at the DMV. I told them "Independent", and it looks like I'm now registered with the "Independent" party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Party_of_Florida

put my ballot in the mail today! felt good

also, i clicked an article with the headline As virus spreads across GOP ranks, some Republicans say party will pay price for ‘stupid’ approach hoping for some schadenfreude, but all i got was this:

Pence’s debate is seen by some Republicans as an opening to both boost Trump with skittish voters and refresh the party’s message on the pandemic since Pence has led the coronavirus task force.

“All he has to do is be kind and pleasant, to be reassuring and competent,” said former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R).

let us all meditate on trump's ability to be these five things: kind. pleasant. reassuring. competent. and how that's all he has to do.

No major party = everything other than R and D, including independents, minor parties, and no party affiliation.

I believe ol' Newt is talking about Pence there, not Trump.

The lying from the White House on Friday and from Conley yesterday about the president's condition is staggering.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 4, 2020

So dexamethasone was found to be beneficial ONLY in patients on a ventilator OR on oxygen.

NOT on patients who don't need oxygen.

There was even the possibility of harm in that patient population.

— Craig Spencer MD MPH (@Craig_A_Spencer) October 4, 2020

lol, seriously

it is staggering, though. it couldn't be a better october surprise, really - in my mind the major scandal is all the people he (and his inner circle, i assume) knowingly exposed. you'd think they'll be spending 99% of their effort this month trying to prevent negligent manslaughter lawsuits

So either he’s sick or they’re killing him.

let's not either/or this

let's both/and this

Trump is going to have the world's best ghost costume this Halloween.

very convincing.

Lmao

There’s a long history of White Houses lying about the president’s health — JFK, FDR, etc. The distinction here is the incompetence.

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) October 4, 2020

People have been lying about JFK's health for decades.

for the record, he didn't make it.

So they’re saying he’s gonna be discharged tomorrow? Lmao okay

yeah, here's what's coming out of this announcement, in the first wave of coverage:

President Trump has “improved,” according to White House physician Sean Conley, but experienced significant oxygen drops on Friday and on Saturday. His doctors said he has had no fever since Friday morning, and could be discharged as early as tomorrow.

The doctor declined to answer questions about the president’s lungs, including whether there is scarring or if the President has pneumonia.

ok dr nick riviera

i am, honestly, truly surprised that dr phil and dr oz are not on this team

Dishcharged to the whitehouse is not exactly discharged from hospital. It’s like being moved to a different hospital!

Or funeral home.

"I didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction," Dr. Conley says when asked why he was reluctant to answer specific questions about the president's health yesterday. pic.twitter.com/TbzY1JKplO

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) October 4, 2020

“Think happy thoughts”

I'm not UNpleased to learn that a yes-man quack has Trump's life in his hands.

Is it not very well known that people with Covid get better and worse on a daily basis and that based on the timetable the worst days are almost certainly gonna be coming up this week

in other words, yes, they should send him home.

yeah it would be pretty sweet to see him slink back into Walter Reed in a day or two

Jokes aside, can anyone tell me what Dr Conley was trying to say with "I didn't want to give any information that might steer the illness in another direction"? I genuinely don't understand what it means. Some kind of positive thinking mantra?