TRUMP GOT COVID

your "e-existence" would be threatened in this case only by continuing to act like a troll and a jerk fyi

so, calling a politician a fat tub of lard is a worse and more bannable offense than celebrating the news that they've contracted a potentially fatal disease? do I have that right?

― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, October 10, 2020 2:35 PM

Sure, and ILXors have the right to FP you. This isn't about rights, it's about consequences.

The thing is it’s actually much funnier to call someone svelte tub of lard

Sure, and ILXors have the right to FP you. This isn't about rights, it's about consequences.

I've got a right to FP people who think it's OK to wish someone who has contracted Covid-19 dies or, at the very least, suffers possible life-changing consequences from it? That's acceptable? Right?

I would never direct a racial slur at anyone on this board or anyone I personally know (even the ones I think “sound funny”).

For one thing, it seems unwise to conflate bodyshaming with racial slurs, and I would advise you to not go that rhetorical route. For another, if you're suggesting that I'm a big fan of racial slurs in my private life, well, you're free to think that but you'd be wrong.

Sure, and ILXors have the right to FP you. This isn't about rights, it's about consequences.

ILXors have the right to flag whatever posts they want to flag, without consequences. It's on the mods to sort through it and make the right decision.

You have the right to FP someone for wishing you nothing but good health and long life. You have the right to FP someone for posting "xp". Go for it! But there are thresholds to pass before that FP effects any change.

Yes, but we all know that some FPs are officially sanctioned and some are dismissed.

What are you talking about? Examples of sanctioned/dismissed, please, so I don't misunderstand your accusation.

What accusation? I thought if someone FPed for something the mods consider trivial or unworthy they don't count it?

Have I got that wrong?

Also personal grievances?

don't we have a separate board for this conversation? this thread is about trump having covid lol

You've got that wrong. FPs are deleted when they pass six months old and when someone is banned for accumulating them. I don't delete joke FPs; got too much to do and have never seen joke FPs build up to a bannable level. I've never judged whether an FP is trivial or unworthy. I can't imagine any other mods wasting their time that way. xp to Tom D.

#onethread

xp

Lotta grouchy people on ILX today.

Anyway, back to Trump being sick. Pictures of him today show him sporting a bandage on the back of his hand, no doubt due to an IV. I think it'd be a lot easier to hide a several days old little IV hole or fading bruise than have a more conspicuous bandaid, which implies the IV site is still pretty fresh and/or ugly. Trying to think why they'd still be hooking him up to tubes at this stage if he were better. There were rumors that he went back to Walter Reed today, but the WH said he was out golfing. Which probably means he was at Walter Reed again today.

I would never direct a racial slur at anyone on this board or anyone I personally know (even the ones I think “sound funny”).

Are we comparing fat jokes to racial slurs now?

Tom, if for whatever reason somebody decided to make 20 socks and FP a bunch of innocuous posts by a single user for the lulz, obviously the mods are going to reserve the right to use our judgement in such a case.

That’s not what happens on a day to day basis. Even for a site this small, we really don’t have the time to go by anything but the numbers. And as Matt DC helped prove by volunteering his time to research what types of posts comprise the overwhelming majority of FPs, our users never really use the function in bad faith.

maybe if FP was more fun to use people would do that but nothing happens. it's not like when you text someone happy birthday on iphone and it makes balloons pop up on your screen.

Lotta grouchy people on ILX today.

Y? Because we LOVE you!

You've got that wrong. FPs are deleted when they pass six months old and when someone is banned for accumulating them. I don't delete joke FPs; got too much to do and have never seen joke FPs build up to a bannable level. I've never judged whether an FP is trivial or unworthy. I can't imagine any other mods wasting their time that way. xp to Tom D.

OK, this isn't the thread for it but I'm pretty sure that's not how Matt DC described the process. It is kind of important because it's pretty easy to get banned on ILX these days.

one wishes

Whatever.

Tom please can you take this to I Must Protest so I can continue to get updates on the ailing health of Trump and various awful people here, happy to join you in beefing on the appropriate thread like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnEMOQTh27s

I don't hate Chris Christie. He's a funny, charming, likeable dude.

no

I think this thread got covid, unfortch.

The guy's doing speeches and scheduling rallies so it looks like he's out of whatever woods he was ever in.

Forever angry this didn’t happen
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ej_-fpDXYAkkHp8?format=png&name=large

right when the nation needed superman most of all

ok help me out, is donald trump dead y/n?

here you go, buddy: http://istrumpdeadyet.net

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CZeMZ3WPuLY

My stomach hurt can i have pepto

I don't hate Chris Christie. He's a funny, charming, likeable dude.

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

— wint (@dril) February 15, 2017

WH doctor says Trump “no longer considered a transmission risk to others...” pic.twitter.com/ymUrjMLx4Z

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 11, 2020

stark but plausible

We will never be free of the beast.

Weird how when your doctor is also your employee, it changes the dynamic a bit

You have to read this to believe it.

Trump was planning to appear frail and then rip over his dress shirt to reveal a Superman tee-shirt when he left the hospital, according to the @nytimes.

Whenever I think Trump can’t do something more ridiculous, he proves me wrong. pic.twitter.com/yvxJuRkrAu

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) October 10, 2020

Heartbreaking that he didn't go through with it.

Only improvement would have been incorporating a Hulkamania shirt rip

I hate him so much. So goddamn much.

Fun snippet from Nuzzi's Intelligencer piece today, on last weekend's crisis:

A senior White House official told me there has been an ongoing effort to persuade the president not to do any of this, as there always is during his episodes of advanced mania. Asked what the effort looked like this time, with Trump physically removed from most of the people who might try to calm him down, the official said, “Well, for starters, it’s unsuccessful.”

One former White House official said that stopping Trump from doing something stupid that he really wants to do is possible only if you’re “actually sitting in front of him.” Sick themselves or trying to avoid a sick president, “the people he trusts and respects who would be barriers to that behavior don’t seem to be around,” this person said. “It just looks so chaotic. Duh.”

A second former White House official said the problem is “now people are so broken down, to the point where everyone’s been in ‘Jesus, take the wheel’ mode for the last couple years, and fighting against him is only gonna get them burned. Why even try?” The president’s staff, this person said, have no ability to think strategically because the president’s behavior poses new threats to survival every five minutes.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/donald-trump-covid-19-white-house.html

the superman thing has to be a joke

the interregnum between Nov 4 and Jan 20 is going to be a good time to buy stock in heartburn med producers

Can't wait for the launch of a two-front war in Venezuela and Iran

A second former White House official said the problem is “now people are so broken down, to the point where everyone’s been in ‘Jesus, take the wheel’ mode for the last couple years, and fighting against him is only gonna get them burned. Why even try?”

extremely deep sigh

the superman thing has to be a joke

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, October 10, 2020 9:33 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I understand why the few flickering embers of your sanity compel you to believe this, but I would like to gently present the past four years as a counterargument and then welcome you as we tumble together into the abyss.

Trump's Razor - if it sounds too dumb to be true, it probably is