TRUMP GOT COVID

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

I think of the times when I've had a nasty flu and decided a week later that I was OK and ready to resume normal life, only to have my triumphant return to social life end around 7:30pm after experiencing a hard fadeout, and someone having to drive me home from the restaurant, arrange me on the couch, and turn the TV on for me as I insist I'm fine and then pass out.

so scavino45 is giving himself another chance to get it? why are these people so dumb

lol I just saw someone call Trump Impatient Zero.

same, f. hazel. last time i got the flu i decided to go to work too soon and was getting out of breath walking around. and i'm not an obese 74 year old. i'm heartened the thought that by engaging in too much activity he's just making himself sicker.

I saw people quoting those Trump tweets and the first thing that popped into my head was "The Knowledge" by Janet

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

xp

― pomenitul, Monday, October 5, 2020 4:11 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

No Pom, it's a trap!

the doctors maybe well send him home tomorrow seems pretty well contextualized by his demands to be sent home immediately

which is not to say he wont discharge himself lol

sad lol but Trump is like the inverse of that Janet song. Prejudice, yes! Ignorance, yes! Bigotry, yes!

There are all different kinds of steroids. I've been on dexamethasone, but I've had cancer and back surgery.

maybe we will get one of those trademark "I hereby discharge myself!" tweets.

lol, thanks for having my back, LBI.

I can't wait for him to explain covid to all of us

Anytime slick, these are confusing times. xp

I know this ain't surprising to anyone but lol @ the President making all these bizarre garbled statements and never once mentioning his wife who he got sick

trying to predict what I'll be doing and how I hear about it when he croaks; it's a diverting passtime.

Looking forward to the week or so he'll spend crashing off dexamethasone (if his case is truly moderate). If his hypomania on it is any indication, he'll be due for some depression and suicidal ideation. Fingers crossed, at any rate.

friendly request to brefrain using words "Trump" and "discharge" in close proximity, trying to eat here

refrain from

Can’t wait till he shakes hands with all the mutants camped outside the hospital.

He’s their pied piper.

yeah I'm reading up on dexamethasone and if he really is on it (obviously I don't trust a fucking word anyone around him says) there's no way he's healthy by November

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

This is making me lol as I've had so many negotiations with stroppy kids like " ok you can have one more go on the car then it's straight to bed!"

Not sure if anyone feels the same but this whole situation is so charged with extreme wishful thinking from both sides of the spectrum that I really feel averse to speculating based on any degree of hearsay flying around from any source.

This is exactly how I feel

isn't all wishful thinking extreme? think about it.

don't wish

use magic

magical thinking is the way forward

Well it's just making all the freeze-frame-narrative storytelling more popular than ever before.

Fifty years from now, I have no doubt that historians will tout The Secret as the most important political science treatise of our time.

I think it's safe to assume -- at the very least -- it's somewhat worse than the administration is trying to portray, just given their inability not to lie about absolutely fucking everything

but that range could be mildly worse to drastically worse and who knows?

"worse, maybe not too much worse, maybe a lot worse" is a reassuring place to be though. wonder when he'll crash from the steroids. wonder when it will come back like a hurricane. feeling optimistic.

Fifty years from now, I have no doubt that historians will tout The Secret as the most important political science treatise of our time.

― pomenitul, Monday, October 5, 2020 11:20 AM

seriously ^

part of me wants to put some blame on promiment daytime talk show hosts and entertainment figures et al that spent so much of the 90s and 00s endlessly promoting books like The Secret. millions of people tuning in, being told by people they respect that magical thinking is not only acceptable, it's actually the proper way to live your life. bullshit has consequences

Apropos of nothing, I sing this thread title to the tune of "Saved by Zero."

One Case Leads to Another

the part I can't reconcile is that everyone knows this disease really gets bad from days 7-10 and the President had to be hospitalized on day 2 or 3 & they're claiming he could be discharged on day 5 despite being given all these treatments you would associate with someone who's in for a long hospital stay. like it's really fucking obvious that this administration is doing everything possible to show he's doing well and suggesting his prognosis is somehow different from every COVID-19 patient on the planet for political reasons and quite frankly that might wind up getting him killed

Live your life like a placebo effect, that’s the ticket.

btw the press corps were called to Walter Reed three hours ago and they haven't said anything yet, something's up

This is such a circus

Well, he is a clown.

what a bozo