TRUMP GOT COVID

Even if you limit your scope to the past several days: he apparently knew he'd been exposed as of Wednesday, chose to keep a lid on Hicks's diagnosis, and continued interacting with hundreds of people as if nothing was wrong. He deserves (and has practically begged for) any terrible thing that happens to him.

And see this is where, for me, it's a slightly different case than someone who is an anti-masker and went to a Trump rally and then later on goes to breathe near people.

I never thought "let them get what they deserve" about Trump anti-maskers. Because I know that they aren't just deciding for themselves based on their own risk tolerance - they're deciding for everyone they might breathe near. Effectively overriding those people's right to decide their own risk tolerance. It's fundamentally unfair and selfish.

But for a lot of people willing to get close to that loathsome man, they have chosen it and, deliberately, kept on choosing it. My concern for them, morally, is somewhat diminished.

I make an exception for those who don't have a choice. Minor children, domestic and service workers? They didn't get to buy in to a Trumpian conception of risk, but still he and his acolytes have been breathing on them for months.

apparently he and hicks got it during a big makeout party with the troops and cops

Trump called in to Hannity's show just a few hours before he announced his diagnosis on Twitter. Trump was asked about Hope Hicks and acknowledged he may have contracted covid. Then Trump said it could be because cops and troops want to hug and kiss him. https://t.co/D3SHw3PVDq pic.twitter.com/XwRjhH5ZSX

— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) October 2, 2020

he's 100% gonna blame the troops for this

hahahahahaha omg

It's tricky because I am realizing that the degree to which I am a bad person is in a very precise and narrow band.

I am pretty much ok with Trump, Trump enablers, and Trump supporters suffering. Not least because they are responsible for immense amounts of suffering theirownselves. I don't necessarily want them to die, but I confess that part of the reason I want them to live is for them to experience consequences, up to and including awareness of their culpability.

What I do NOT want, and have never wanted, is for innocent folks around them to suffer and/or die.

My feelings about this have layers, like an onion. As for this -

it’s very, very hard when you are with people from the military or for law enforcement, and they come over to you, and they want to hug you, and they want to kiss you, because we really have done a good job for them

- oh god, do we need more "grab em by the pussy" discussion? No. I don't think so.

SUPPORT OUR DISGUSTING, GERM-RIDDLED TROOPS

- Trump 2020

critical support for the US military

I prefer the troops (and presidents) who don't get viruses

Not that I was expecting anything else:

Jill and I send our thoughts to President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for a swift recovery. We will continue to pray for the health and safety of the president and his family.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 2, 2020

What a monster, lock him up.

Absolutely cursed reply/av/account combo in the replies

Fist class integrity and decency

— ✌🏼rosanna arquette (@RoArquette) October 2, 2020

Wishing health to evil murderers seems like passively condoning evil and murder idk

The Johnson-Bolsonaro-Trump covid trifecta is complete.

I actually posted that tweet without noticing that she wrote “fist class”, and now I’m sick. Blame for this tragedy lies with Jeyrme Cobrny.

Modi hasn't got it :-(

Hope springs eternal.

Maybe she meant Biden deserves to be fisted

I’m just going to say what we’re all thinking.

Trump was fine until the debate, where they set up microphones & podiums for him.

Incubation period is usually 2-3 days.

He tests positive a couple of days after the debate.

I put nothing past the left. NOTHING.#TrumpHasCOVID

— DeAnna Lorraine 🇺🇸 (@DeAnna4Congress) October 2, 2020

I know she's a loon, but just to take her suggestion at face value: There is no strategic value for a candidate in as strong a position as Biden is to manufacture chaos at this stage.

I'm just going to say what we're all thinking.

Shit is really delicious.

But the polls are fake.

xp

Modi hasn't got it :-(

He is in several high-risk groups — elderly, obese, low-income.

— Frank McGovern (@FrankMcG) October 2, 2020

looooooool

just thinking back to those rumours that might have had a heart attack at the end of 2019 and redoubling those thoughts and prayers

A Facebook post just reminded me of something else: the grim parallel between Trump-COVID and, his mentor, Cohn-AIDS.

lmaoo wow

I see a lot of y'all celebrating Trump getting COVID and I'm mad disappointed in y'all pic.twitter.com/pcKR6tqZOl

— Knowbody Raps (@KnowbodysTweets) October 2, 2020

Lol

Haaaaaa

"the Left" lol..

It would be very wrong to hope he shits himself inside out and dies screaming in agony so I won't hope that

Scoop: GOP donors are panicking after being around President Trump during a fundraiser at his golf course in Bedminster. 30 to 50 donors were close to six feet of the president at the event, most of the interaction was outside.https://t.co/mhC9cWPNsZ

— Brian Schwartz (@schwartzbCNBC) October 2, 2020

thank you Comrade Corona

It would be very wrong to hope that those people all shit themselves inside out and die screaming in agony

"Coronavirus, welcome to The Resistance" - Alyssa Milano

https://i.imgur.com/Ge5T4px.jpg

the "Best Wishes on a Speedy Recovery" bullshit isn't some unpardonable sin, it's just fucking lame. like you can always just not say anything, that's always an option.

It's not an option for everyone, I'm afraid.

because my brain is broken and I can only think in terms of the fucking election, I do think that yes, if you're a Dem pol or left-wing media personality you probably shouldn't say anything but if you do "thoughts and prayers" is fine because everyone on the right is licking their chops right now at the potential "THE LEFT WANTS YOU TO GET SICK AND DIE" campaign they so want to run right now and given that Biden is way way ahead right now I think any chaos is by definition bad

trump caught the covid
left me a mule to ride

just thinking back to those rumours that might have had a heart attack at the end of 2019

And he was the only one on the Abbey Road cover not wearing shoes.

Wheels within wheels, maan. Back, and to the left. Steel beams.

I think Joe Biden at least has to say this stuff. His entire shtick is taking the high road.

yeah, he does

agreed

If I was Joe Biden I would simply renounce the Democratic nomination so I could wish death on Trump

I mean honestly are people going to get upset about Biden's camp making the most generic politician tweet ever? who gives a shit, it would be amazingly dumb at this stage to do anything else

the Democratic candidate for Agriculture Commissioner in my state is already getting dragged for posting a TikTok reveling in Trump's diagnosis. I for one appreciate the Serious Newsmen of my local media bringing my attention to this rising young political star who I am now very excited to vote for.

Ums, you underestimate many ilxors' knee-jerk antipathy

I mean as terrible a person as he is he's still the President of the United States, if you work for the federal government you can't appear like you're wishing death upon him. if you find out the CEO of the company you work for is sick you can't publicly say "good, he sucks". Yes I know he 100% deserves it but a world in which this is acknowledged is a world in which Donald Trump is never elected president

privately though, fuck anyone who says we need to have an ounce of sympathy for him, particularly since this is the same group who strongly implies that every black person shot by a cop somehow deserved it for "putting themselves in that position". there is nobody on this God-forsaken planet who deserves to get COVID-19 more than Donald Trump. this isn't some sort of poetic justice, this is the direct consequences of his actions, and in fact the real tragedy here is that he's gonna get the sort of top-notch medical care that he's been fighting tooth and nail to deny the people who got sick because of him, even though those people pay more in taxes than he does.

I live in Wisconsin. We are getting fucking SLAMMED with Covid right now. Trump was planning to come here and now he can't. If he had come, it is a matter of fact that people attending that rally would have gotten infected. And they would've passed it on to hundreds of other people. And perhaps those people would've passed it onto people I know. The fact that he is not coming here is directly going to save the lives of people who are not irredeemable fuck-ups. and for that I can finally say, for once, thank you coronavirus

Death is too good for Trump. He needs to live well into the Biden presidency and face whatever reckoning is coming.

Plus we don't want Pence to ride a sympathy vote to a four year term.