TRUMP GOT COVID

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

Now Kayleigh McEnany's got the Cove.

A real jabroni.

Voting for that to be on his tombstone.

quite frankly that might wind up getting him killed

fine with that tbh

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

― frogbs, Monday, 5 October 2020 17:48 (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It'll be a victory over covid parade as he heads back to the WH

With a fogger atop the limo belching his aerosolized spittle onto random passers-by.

press briefing, mandatory
subject: you all have covid now and we are the experts on covid now

Once you’ve inhaled the spores, you become other. Surrender to their spell and speak a sooth beyond human ken.

https://t.co/1DT19eZHET pic.twitter.com/qwVNEbXXPA

— Alex Ross (@alexrossmusic) October 5, 2020

good shit

immensely satisfying monday paragraph

"which lie do we tell them!?"
"which lies, it's gotta be more than one"
"wait, did we use this lie yet?"
"....we're running out of time, just put the garbage bag on the lectern, take off your mask and get back in here"

*PRESS SECRETARY WHO SPENT LAST WEEK EATING HER FRIENDS' COVID BARF AND BARFED COVID ALL OVER REPORTERS YESTERDAY*

"I DEFINITIVELY AM NOT GOING TO JAIL. THERE WAS NO WAY FOR ME TO KNOW I SHOULD HAVE WORKED REMOTELY YESTERDAY, OR AT THE VERY LEAST WORN A DARN TOOTIN MASK"

"...the Lectern remained covered with a garbage bag."

Such fitting symbolism for this whole shitshow.

lectern has to wear a mask too, give it a break

meanwhile, outside of the hospital, the discourse grows louder

Early Sunday afternoon. Thirty days until the election. Donald Trump’s supporters were holding history’s loudest vigil outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, where the president’s oxygen levels were being monitored as he struck boardroom poses for the camera. Fifty supporters danced on the northbound curb of Rockville Pike, elbows and knees within inches of side-view mirrors moving at 40 mph. The blare of horns competed with AC/DC and Lee Greenwood.

Men with bullhorns walked around, calling for “eight more years,” praying to God, needling journalists and the handful of protesters across the street, at the intersection of the pike and South Wood Road. A spry older woman ran up and down the two-foot-wide median as “Eye of the Tiger” played on a portable speaker. She had a white Trump flag tied around her waist and a blue Trump flag aloft in her wriggling arms. Her purse swung into the path of BMWs and minivans whooshing by. “TRUMP FOREVER,” the woman on the median shrieked. “TRUMP FOREVER. TRUMP FOREVER.”

"Born in the USA" was trending on Twitter yesterday because Trump supporters were blasting it outside the hospital. If it weren't for all the sick people in the hospital who are just trying to get some rest, I would love the idea of Trump's supporters forcing him to listen to the music of someone who's literally campaigning for his opponent.

Serenading a draft dodger with a song about not having that option.

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

Born in the USA, etc.

it's been 40 years, how can people still not get that song?

Let’s not forget that people are morons

cluster city baby

NEWS: @NYMag has confirmed that Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California has tested POSITIVE for COVID-19. Pastor Laurie was at the Prayer March on the Mall with Mike Pence and Franklin Graham and the ACB Rose Garden event later that day.

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 5, 2020

STRIKE DOWN THE HERETICS GOD

From Karl's post:

the lectern remained covered by a garbage bag

I repeat:

the lectern remained covered by a garbage bag

Can someone please call the writers' room and tell them the metaphors are getting a little too heavy-handed this season?

the lectern remained covered by a garbage bag

Keep on rockin' in the free world

There's covid on the street
Red, white and blue
covid in their feet
covid sleeping in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead
i feel like Satan, and i want to digest them
in my belly for eternity while they scream and beg for forgiveness and i will never fucking listen to them, ever, no matter right or wrong they are because it's motherfuckin apocalypse for the right that's right it's judgment day you fucking pricks

Keep on rockin' in the free world

And yet more in the TOO OBVIOUS zone:

She had a white Trump flag tied around her waist

I will go down with this ship

There will be one - white - flag around my waist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayrHIpnE2mU

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go
Built FORD tough in the USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9d5csMFAfE

Saw the Marine One and decoys heading toward Walter Reed.

— Kellie Meyer (@KellieMeyerNews) October 5, 2020

Lectern covered in a plastic bag
No Covid direction, still plenty of traffic
Some kind of fashion