TRUMP GOT COVID

Bolsonaro gets covid once every 6 weeks, no one pays it any attention

I'm not much bothered by the risk of sympathy vote but am worried that prospect of President Pence might add a few more votes. What are the election rules if he actually dies before Nov 3 anyway?

Amy Covid Barrett

Asshole’s popularity tends to rise when he’s not visible, so it could help him

xps:
How Stuff Works: What Happens if a Presidential Candidate Dies?

Before the Electoral College meets: new candidate chosen by party. It doesn't have to be the vice-presidential candidate.
Before inauguration: covered by succession rules under 20th amendment. VP-elect becomes President-elect.

Seems bizarre outcomes are possible, eg: Trump loses the popular vote but has an edge in the electoral college, dies before the Electoral College meets, the GOP puts Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz on the Electoral College ballot, and if their electors are faithful or Biden has unfaithful electors, someone who wasn't on any 2016 ticket could get in. One would hope that would be the death knell for the Electoral College...

Great article about some such bizarre-outcome possibilities:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/

my thoughts and prayers going out to that poor virus right now

Kate Garraway - Did you have an instinctive reaction when you heard Donald Trump had contracted coronavirus?

Dominic West - "Well I did slightly leap in the air with joy when I heard"#GMB pic.twitter.com/d2tqM3zyhR

— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) October 2, 2020

Aside from poetic justice, isn't this actually terrible news? If he's lying, which could be the case, and could be covered up easily, he could make a "miraculous recovery", further enabling his fantasy 'everything is fine' narratives. If he is sick and survives, he'll sail to victory on a sympathy vote. If he is sick and dies, another Republican will sail to victory on a sympathy vote (and a de-energized left who are already only voting for Biden begrudgingly).

Has anyone ever won on a sympathy vote?!

Sympathy isn’t doing it for Boris, who had a baby on the way at the time as well and was a lot more popular than Trump.

who votes for someone because they're ill?

People who were going to anyway

You would think without the rallies it's the Republican activists who would be further de-energised too.

left wing tinfoil hat social media seem to think this is a scam and he's going to announce a miracle cure in a couple of weeks, doesn't sound likely.

People who were going to anyway

Exactly. Don't think Trump will lose support because of this but the idea that someone who wasn't going to vote for him in the first place decides to do so because "get well soon" seems preposterous.

Ah imagine thinking this admin could cover something up

Has anyone ever won on a sympathy vote?!

It's a weird world and there have been a lot of elections. Some probably qualify. There are interesting stories out there. Some wives have won (or been appointed to) seats previously occupied by their husbands.

Jean Carnahan, for example, was appointed to the Senate seat that her husband Mel won posthumously; she was not reelected.

If Mark Kelly wins his Senate race it may partially reflect a sympathy vote for Gabby Giffords.

If he is sick and survives, he'll sail to victory on a sympathy vote.

No. People hate him.

If he is sick and dies, another Republican will sail to victory on a sympathy vote (and a de-energized left who are already only voting for Biden begrudgingly).

No. Mike Pence is widely loathed within the Republican Party, and the Trump cult views him as basically a vestigial tail. Only the hardest of Bible-thumping psychos actually likes Pence.

I will say this - the emails I got overnight with subject lines like "Your chance to meet the President of the United States" are reading pretty darkly hilarious this morning.

This is all Trump's own fault for getting so many tests.

a) no he doesn't
b) god speed, comrade rona

It's a weird world and there have been a lot of elections. Some probably qualify. There are interesting stories out there. Some wives have won (or been appointed to) seats previously occupied by their husbands.

The world can be weird but our march toward the destruction of humanity -- something you'd think as spetacular -- as quite banal for much of the time.

I'd rather wait for narrowing gaps in polls from this point onwards.

Maybe God gave Trump covid so he'd win with a sympathy vote from the people that crucified his son. Weird.

COVID-19, welcome to the resistance.

This is all Trump's own fault for getting so many tests.

― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Friday, October 2, 2020 7:27 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Actual lols.

Boris did well out of the sympathy vote for a month or so, which is all Trump really needs. Admittedly Boris was starting from a much higher position in the polls.

The Republicans are going to fight this month dirty as hell. We've seen nothing yet

"Boris did well out of the sympathy vote for a month or so, which is all Trump really needs."

He did not fight an election from a hospital bed.

As has been routine for months, Vice President Pence is tested for COVID-19 every day. This morning, Vice President Pence and the Second Lady tested negative for COVID-19. Vice President Pence remains in good health and wishes the Trumps well in their recovery.

— Devin O’Malley (@VPPressSec) October 2, 2020

Am I reading into this or does this imply that Trump WASN’T being tested every day?

https://i.imgur.com/2JVhTEf.jpg

xpost It sure sounds like it. Unless it's just a total coincidence that his daily test came up positive on the same day as and immediately after Hicks came up positive.

Yeah, on second thought, "sympathy vote" does seem unlikely, and not exactly part of Trump's appeal.

In this case: I hope he survives, but has lasting, life-long health consequences.

Oh, and yeah I hope he survives to lose the election obv

pic.twitter.com/X1N9egkgwY

— burst cow (@sponcondereplay) October 2, 2020

Guys remember that sympathy bump Hillary got in the polls in the week after she got pneumonia?

Oh wait...

What are the odds of Trump contracting the 'vid if he hadn't run for president? Like you know we wouldn't be up to 200,000 dead under Prez Hillz.

Here's hoping he's one of the unlucky ones, and that his age and mass make him susceptible to at least a few of the bad symptoms. Though the rate we're going in this country, he's going to fully recover with no symptoms in a couple of days, but all his spraying at the debate will give it to Biden, who will then die.

But really, he is the president, our president, and they should really try absolutely everything to make sure he recovers. Windex, lemon Pledge, Dr. Bronners, bronzer, ear candles ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLGww-dlwIg&ab_channel=LesWinner

Leave Dr. Bronner our of this

goddamnit

out* grrr I hate this phone

Dr. Bronners will be used to wash his underwear after he shits himself so often. Also, brush his teeth, shampoo his hair, clean the sinks...

I most recently used Dr Bronner's in a solution that I sprayed on my house plants to kill gnats. I assume covid is around gnat size, I say give it a chance.

In this case: I hope he survives, but has lasting, life-long health consequences.

yup

but not that long

dies before the Electoral College meets, the GOP puts Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz on the Electoral College ballot

lol they all hate Ted Cruz

xp if getting him out of office meant getting him out of our lives I would agree, but enough of this guy already

Ok, I had a go too, very obvious thing to do, but it fits very well

Sorry, I had to do this. It does fit even better than expected though. pic.twitter.com/CyrZQzKeZL

— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) February 12, 2021

gotta project it on 16mm while flapping the film with yr fingers

I read that that "Free" Huckabee Kids Guide to Trumpism actually requires automatic payments from a credit card, so all in all, a pretty apt way to pass your legacy as sheep for right-wing fleecing on to your children.

aw, i was gonna order some copies to scan and post.

man it wouldve been so cool if he died, but on the other hand the storming of the capitol was pretty momentous too

idk what Kipling poem they used (I have a guess but I'm not going to click on it), but I'm guessing it wasn't this one:

I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?

It was the one that began "There once was a man from Nantucket."

ah, a classic.

you're correct about the robbing and the gwb alignment for sure

They used If, because they are fucking basic but i'm sure you knew that

The stupidest thing about that If/Trump video is that it was billed as a "tribute to his accomplishments", but the video clips just showed him walking around in various places, waving vaguely at either people or trees or walls - it wasn't always easy to tell -, with zero hint of any accomplishments of any kind. They didn't even show his big beautiful border wall. Apparently his great accomplishment consisted of walking and waving without tripping over his feet.

the thing that really made my heart sink was after Trump got Covid a whole host of cable/late night hosts from Chris Hayes to Stephen Colbert to basically everyone on CNN said something to the effect of "we wish him and Melania a speedy recovery"

maybe it was just for appearances and to not play into the "evil liberals want Trump to DIE!" narrative but it still was sickening. the man is singlehandedly responsible for getting a quarter million people killed. he's made life worse for pretty much everyone on the planet. you spend every night telling your audience what a soulless monster he is. if there was ever a person who deserved a long, painful covid death, it's him.

you have to wonder if he'd got reelected would more people have got the jabs?

dang i didn't mean to bump this what am i doing over here