TRUMP GOT COVID

Amid speculation on treatments more appropriate for critical patients, the NYT article's sole positives were "the fact that Mr. Trump is walking on his own, and that he delivered video statements in which he was able to complete sentences without gasping for breath." Since it's quite obvious that all the released videos have mid-speech edits, things might not be so good for Asshole.

his quack doc conley

Dr. Conley is struggling to treat a panicky, rather stupid, but Maximally Important Patient he can't afford to refuse. Who also happens to be his boss. Under the circumstances, giving him a lot of basically benign stuff like famotidine, melatonin and vitamin D to address whatever symptoms Trump is complaining and whining about might just be to calm him down and make him feel well-treated and in control. They may be a load of placebos, but in this instance, might also be smart treatment.

yeah this guy clearly not used to having to lie on someone's behalf on national television

can't believe they're still introducing new characters during the series finale

That's what ER did!

most apt description I've read today is "Trump has some serious end-stage Michael Jackson energy right now"

perhaps tmz will somehow break the news of him croaking

Yes please

thermo each of those images features a man in black clothes against a slate-grey sky facing a bleak situation

each features strange black “floating” entities that appear to be harbingers of doom

there’s a visual congruity to them, all produced within a couple of years of each other, that i find striking

there’s also a slanty angle to each - the beach, the mic booms - that’s almost exactly the same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWZJS_XNMS0

lol

it’s not unthinkable that trump’s trying to give various “wealth managers” time to move money around before the markets tank on the news that he’s in for a rough ride, right?

from the nytimes article, a few details that stuck out:

The president has also been watching lots of television, even more than usual

that’s a lotta tv


Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration under Mr. Trump, said on Sunday that he had spoken to several officials who attended the Barrett event but had not been contacted by contact tracers.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Are the markets really that reliant on the US have a sociopathic man baby as president? I do not understand this at all.

I think it's more about "uncertainty"

I would lol if he died and the markets skyrocketed

I mean, having a leader who starts trade wars because he isn’t getting enough attention would be textbook uncertainly. But I guess I shouldn’t bother looking for logical behaviour in the market.

Speaking as a philistine, I get the sense that the stupidest outcome is usually the likeliest. Maybe I'd make a killing if I got into stock trading.

Trump himself famously doesn't own many stocks, relative to his other assets.

Is it just me or are we slowly but surely slipping back into the usual hellscape timeline?

it's the same tbh

Is it just me or are we slowly but surely slipping back into the usual hellscape timeline?

― pomenitul, Monday, October 5, 2020 6:33 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's just called "monday"

https://www.garfield.com/img/garfield.png

An essential element of any proper hellscape is occasionally providing the hellscape-bound just enough hope to hang themselves with.

This is why I’ve always taken issue with Dante’s ‘abandon all hope, etc.’ The utterly hopeless are not in Hell, or at least not in its lower circles.

already feeling nostalgic for the rush of finding out he first got covid tbh

ok the fact that Trump and Trump alone is trying to rush himself to the WH is probably not great for his prognosis

I should stop reading this thread, I don’t want to be disappointed. :(

he's feeling the steroidal manic period. hopefully he'll get much sicker again soon.

only he can fix it iirc

Trump last week: "Isn't your son addicted to drugs, Joe?"

Trump today: pic.twitter.com/VfGqhECQMr

— 🇯🇲Black🇭🇹Aziz🇳🇬aNANsi🇹🇹 (@Freeyourmindkid) October 5, 2020

A few years ago I had a herniated disc in my neck and got a steroid injection about 10am. As the day wore on I felt a tremendous rush of energy and by 6pm after one beer I just about thought I could fly. I got about 2 hours of sleep that night because I could not relax even one bit.

Is it just me or are we slowly but surely slipping back into the usual hellscape timeline?

If Trump's got even a moderate case of COVID-19 (and if it wasn't serious he wouldn't have stopped tweeting), his campaigning is finished. Early voting numbers are insanely high as well... the GOP has very little time to turn things around. Headlines like "Secret Service Agents Denounce Trump's Parade" is not that.

yeah c'mon pom, KIP

The president had wanted to be discharged from Walter Reed yesterday, but doctors weren't okay with it. So the car ride became the compromise https://t.co/bwHty5jcaD

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 5, 2020

Sorry, been listening to too much doom metal lately.

you should be listening to Roisin Murphy tbh

still absolutely frightened by the fact that Trump still has a 15% chance of being re-elected

Ehhhhhh, you know me.

But I probably will give it a shot at some point for curiosity’s sake.

xp

chin up, it'll go down to at least 12% if he croaks

lol so true

like the dead guy who won in Missouri

Here’s some KIP from that piece

Mr. Trump’s camera-friendly, morale-boosting “surprise visit,” however, may have masked the reality of his condition, and his seeming energy may have reflected the fact that he was given the steroid dexamethasone, according to medical experts. Dexamethasone has been shown to help patients who are severely ill with Covid-19, but it is typically not used in mild or moderate cases of the disease.

ha! I have Róisín on right now!

xposts

It does seem like the President is singlehandedly trying to rush himself out of the hospital and will probably get his wish only to have to be rushed back later this week

A notoriously corrupt Romanian mayor who died of Covid recently got re-elected postmortem. I keep thinking about him and his ghost.

What a time to be dead alive.

it's a dead man's political party

Trump’s tweet habit had been mostly quiet since he got coronavirus, with just retweets and thanks to well-wishers.

Today, @realDonaldTrump is on a spree, on guns, stock market, military taxes, voting.

Reason: @Scavino45 tested negative and is now up at Walter Reed with him. pic.twitter.com/H0n23Z5kkM

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 5, 2020