Rolling COVID-19 Notably Infected and/or Fallen Thread

Stephen Miller's grandmother

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/stephen-miller-grandmother-death-coronavirus-white-house-denial-a9637176.html

Doja Cat: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/doja-cat-has-coronavirus-after-mocking-covid

Rabidly anti-gay Arkansas state Sen. Jason Rapert, who has referred to coronavirus as a "hoax" and called mask mandates "draconian," is now hospitalized with COVID-19

— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) July 25, 2020

get dead soon

Herman Cain's twitter feed has been providing generically shitty right wing zombie talking points on a daily basis, but afaict he's still hospitalized with Covid, and has been for a month. Wilbur Ross was hospitalized for something a while ago, too, with no updates. I'd be cool with all these ghouls disappearing forever.

Robert O’Brien (Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor) has tested positive for COVID-19

Louie Gohmert!

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/louis-gohmert-who-refused-to-wear-a-mask-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-386076

Haha, what a stupid motherfucker

one of the dumbest men in the country

there's only one explanation for how he got it - god must be punishing him for his sins

damn hoaxes

Notable (person?) Buddy, first dog to test positive for COVID-19 in the U.S., has died

:(

COVID has fuckin terrible aim man

No shit

So long Herman cain

eat shit bitch

tbc this is the name of my new self help book and the unauthorized sequel to eat pray love

The Tulsa disease got heeem

Holy shit, is this the most prominent Trump supporter to die so far?

oh I hadn't realized he was actually dead. cool!!

maybe I should complain about COVID's bad aim more often...

You think I’d feel a pang of regret or recognition in our shared humanity and I would change my tune and mourn a death as I would any other but nah go to hell you dumb motherfucker It’s very satisfying to see him gone and I would like more of them to join him

COVID don’t care, fwiw.

You think I’d feel a pang of regret or recognition in our shared humanity and I would change my tune and mourn a death as I would any other

anecdotally I think the COVID era has made people MUCH more cavalier about wishing death on ghoulish public figures. tbc I think this is good and not bad

Literally 21 hours ago:

Our government, and our media, have incinerated their credibility. So, is it any wonder that people are skeptical? #Coronavirus https://t.co/2IMVhLGbLn

— Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) July 29, 2020

how in the world do you post something like that from your deathbed? guess some of us never get that moment of clarity

Like me, you get someone else to do your posts

xpost Well TBF he also posthumously tweeted his own death notification so his clarity is truly off the charts.

first reply to that tweet, posted pre-death

Whoever is tweeting from this account should be careful. If Herman doesn’t make it, you are going to be the thoughtless a-hole trying to hype a dead man. If he does make it, he may have had a change of heart after going through all this & you are doing it without his permission.

— Michelle (@shelly_zen) July 29, 2020

I’m 100% unsurprised that, as far as I can tell, the first high-profile Trump supporter to die from this is Black

he's definitely Black

The world is poorer

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I posted the following message on my Facebook page regarding Cain's death: "Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of their own actions. Still, it managed to kill one of the less carcinogenic Republicans so it's definitely not yet time to throw a party. Let's hold off on that until one of the more odious ones dies." AND A TOTAL KAREN HAD THE AUDACITY TO HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THAT POST! She was all, "I think you need to seek therapy if you think it's ok to celebrate anyone's death." Bitch, please, when Trump dies I am going to party until I cannot party anymore.

never forget that glorious stretch of october 2011 when about 30% of GOP primary voters agreed that herman cain would be a good choice for president

not just a good choice - the very best choice

Man, the floodgates will open when Trump kicks the can. There will be some solemn lip service on the news or whatever, but I predict people will spill out onto the streets like it's V-Day.

And then they'll start looting, lighting things on fire and knocking shit over again, but still.

Cain's candidacy was a cartoon--9-9-9 repeated on auto-pilot--but just by virtue of running for the nomination and actually having lead at one point (the whole Gingrich train-wreck), it seems like a significant death. He seemed affable enough...but I'm just now remembering why his candidacy crumbled.

arguably he (along with Palin and some others) helped set the stage for trump just by helping make the whole thing even more of a weirdo circus than yr standard GOP contest

His contempt for everyone around him is what struck me at the time.

(xpost) Totally; the whole 2012 Republican debacle was a practice run for Trump. (I'll mention this yet again: I argued on here at the time that Gingrich was a lot closer to winning that nomination than anybody thought, but others said no, the party and fundraising always controls these things in the end. For 2012, technically correct; four years later, not at all.)

if you are an influential public figure and you use your platform to be dismissive of the risk of covid you are signing a contract that it's ok for people to laugh at you if you die of covid. it's not very tasteful but that's just one of the many reasons not to sign the contract

— thomas violence (@thomas_violence) July 30, 2020

Man, the floodgates will open when Trump kicks the can. There will be some solemn lip service on the news or whatever, but I predict people will spill out onto the streets like it's V-Day.

Looking forward to it so I can come on to ILX and troll people like Mordy did when Thatcher died.

a virus knows no morals

otherwise Gohmert will already be dead

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(xpost) Totally; the whole 2012 Republican debacle was a practice run for Trump. (I'll mention this yet again: I argued on here at the time that Gingrich was a lot closer to winning that nomination than anybody thought, but others said no, the party and fundraising always controls these things in the end. For 2012, technically correct; four years later, not at all.)

Trump not even good at losing.

a virus knows no morals

otherwise Gohmert will already be dead

True. And speaking of shitty Texan fascists, I would really love for the virus to fell Chip Roy and Ken Paxton.

...and Dan Patrick and Abbott and Crenshaw and...