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

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?

apparently, yes, he knows Trump is watching

If I guessed I would say he was under some pressure from the administration or family to keep things positive or under wraps, and was torn between his public and private duties as a doctor.

Xpost

But he knows Trump would be watching now so doesn't that give the game away? Unless he really thinks he is out of the woods now and can handle the truth. But he won't trust him next time!

Or maybe it's like how the placebo effect works even when people are told it's a placebo.

i shall not count the chickens before they have hatched, but this feels like a culmination of a lifetime of "positive thinking"

I think it’s more simple than that, like literally everything this administration does and says there’s a huge difference between how he’s doing (based on what the media knows) and how he’s doing (in reality)

"I didn't want to give any information that might steer the illness in another direction"

probably misspoke and meant to say "might steer perception in another direction"

I'm sure they're working on the errata as we speak.

Also, I think there's a chance Trump *isn't* watching, but his leaderless minions are scrambling for the right thing to do and say.

If he actually does die we’re absolutely gonna find out through some hospital staffer leaking it to the press

I thought he meant coronavirus was watching the TV, ready to attack on any sign of weakness

Right, that makes sense, brownie. Steer the prognosis.

hopefully in a few days dr nick will be like "i misspoke when i said he was diagnosed 72 hours ago. i meant he was going to DIE in 72 hours."

We'll know he's dead when the hospital chimney smoke burns black.

i kind of think there's going to be an audio signal, too - like some high pitched whiny squeal that will blasted through the EMS at the moment of death

Wonder if this is partly about avoiding a market tank Monday am

I have a lifetime's-worth of 'not being a ghoul' chips that I've been just burning through the last several days, lemme tell you.

xxpost It will be a loud Scooby Doo foghorn.

But he knows Trump would be watching now so doesn't that give the game away? Unless he really thinks he is out of the woods now and can handle the truth. But he won't trust him next time!

the physician is demonstrating an awareness that his president would not perseverate to deconstruct & comprehend said acknowledgment of previous circumlocution

i kind of think there's going to be an audio signal, too

I believe the audio signal will be a certain Martha & The Vandellas song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BUBd9dQvtY

I believe the audio signal will be a certain Martha & The Vandellas song.

https://images.app.goo.gl/458moJx4RnQ7Jvou9

What kinda sucks about this is acting like all the dipshits in 2016 who endlessly speculated that Hillary Clinton was actually dying based on 3 seconds of film. But we’re being gaslit so hard about everything all the time and I think it’s telling that you have multiple newscasters saying “even with the most charitable reading possible none of this is adding up”

Meanwhile in more cutting edge comedy that isn’t SNL but is as funny

WARNING: May cause your sides to split pic.twitter.com/jt7jOcrHkx

— Dave Weigel, Re-Animator (@daveweigel) October 4, 2020

if he comes out of hospital not in a box there's another of their songs that'll work fine

May I suggest...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPt7BN7ZuJk

Frogbs and sleeve otm. Having him back at the WH quickly (for optics) is short-sighted, because it will make the optics of a relapse worse.

And as far as Trump being "discharged," I think I want to prank call those doctors and say "Doctor, I'm noticing a foul-smelling, unpleasant discharge."

"A discharge? From where?"

"From your hospital."

"Mr. Trump, You need to settle up on your hospital bill."

"Discharge it to my card."

WARNING: May cause your sides to split pic.twitter.com/jt7jOcrHkx

— Dave Weigel, Re-Animator (@daveweigel) October 4, 2020

the Depends budget on this show must be astronomical

why is 1996 bob dole doing a 2020 joe biden impersonation?

BREAKING: Joe Biden tested negative for covid again today.

From his campaign: “Vice President Biden underwent PCR testing for COVID-19 today and COVID-19 was not detected.”

— Matt Viser (@mviser) October 4, 2020

weaponized prez went for a ride

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/04/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-alternate-reality/index.html

https://i.imgur.com/IAToecn.jpg

Because futures start trading at 6pm East Coast time. https://t.co/ymuM8szaSt

— Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal) October 4, 2020

Same, Julie, same

lol. reminds me of the thought I saw expressed somewhere on twitter recently, that we now understand the opposite of doomscrolling is schadensurfing

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/04/business/media/trump-coronavirus-coverage.html

In 2017, Mr. Bresnahan and his colleague Anna Palmer wrote that the powerful Republican chairman of the Senate’s appropriations committee, Thad Cochran, was “frail and disoriented,” a story that sped his retirement. Last month, Mr. Bresnahan and Marianne LeVine reported that fellow Democrats were worried whether Dianne Feinstein was up to leading her side of the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings because she gets “confused by reporters’ questions, or will offer different answers to the same question depending on where or when she’s asked.”

...

Physical decline is likely to be a major feature of the next few years of American politics, at least. The current line of succession, after Mr. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, features Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is 80, and the Senate president pro tempore, Charles Grassley, 87, who also runs the Senate Finance Committee. Ms. Pelosi’s two most powerful deputies in the House, James Clyburn and Steny Hoyer, are both 80 or older. Over in the Senate, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee is 85 and coasting to re-election. The chairman of the Appropriations Committee is 86. Joe Biden, who turns 78 next month, is nearly a year younger than the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who is also seeking re-election in November.

This concentration of power in the hands of the old is an American phenomenon, Derek Thompson recently wrote in The Atlantic, noting that our leaders are getting older as European leaders get younger.

Yeah it has always staggered me how old your leaders are. Old white men in particular. No one in any other field works past like 70 or so but theyre still running for office at this age, why!? Go sit by a fire in the alma mater club FFS.

lol they already do that anyways! Why quit?

Good morning

https://i.imgur.com/QorzKq2.jpg

US election poll: Trump BEATING Biden despite being hospitalised with Covid – EXCLUSIVE

The monthly Democracy Institute Sunday Express poll for the Presidential election shows that Mr Trump is still on course for victory with 46 percent of the popular support compared to his Democrat rival Joe Biden’s 45 percent.

However, his overall lead has dropped by two points since the last poll in September.

The poll was completed after the news broke that President Trump and his wife Melania have been infected by Covid-19.

But 68 percent said the illness would not affect their vote while 19 percent said they were “more likely” to support Trump and only 13 percent “less likely”.

Almost two thirds said they felt sympathy and concern for the President while 38 percent said him getting the disease was “karma” in an indication of the current divisive nature of US politics.

Crucially, Mr Trump’s lead in key swing states including Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin remains at 4 percent by 47 percent 43 percent.

This gives a projected Electoral College split of 320 to Trump and 218 to Biden.

While other polls have Biden ahead, the Democracy Institute, which correctly predicted Brexit and Trump’s win in 2016, only considers people who identify as “likely voters” rather than all registered voters and also asks about the so called shy vote.

English people: Is this paper for real?