US Politics XXVI: Sorry you're not Canada

[anitram]

And of course the Trump campaign didn't even have the courtesy to notify the Biden campaign before they found out from the media.

CNN showed video of people in Trump's section at the debate waving off the person who was trying to give them masks.

They didn't notify any of the members on the press who were on Air Force One, nor any of the people at the debates, etc.

They are brazen criminals.

JUST IMAGINE if this was Biden and he didn't tell the Trumps. Benghazi on steroids.

 

[anitram]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ecorations-b744562.html?utm_source=reddit.com

Great October for the Trump campaign so far. Heckuva job.

 

[BEAL]

https://twitter.com/maggienyt/status/1312021288894988289?s=21

The Trump admin, the campaign, and the GOP are the super spreaders

 

[anitram]

"who gives a fuck about christmas? Trees and decorations?! But i have to pretend now."

-melania trump.

a++

 

[Hewson]

A national treasure.
She makes Jackie Kennedy look like a bag lady.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Well you can tell by her Handmaid's Tale Christmas decor that she doesn't give a fuck about Christmas. Stay classy Melania. She's a fraud dressed in very high priced clothing. And a birther.

Much worse was what she said about the families at the border. Even though her own parents reportedly became citizens via questionable means. And who knows about her.

 

[anitram]

Much worse was what she said about the families at the border. Even though her own parents reportedly became citizens via questionable means. And who knows about her.

She came in under the so-called Einstein visa. An "individual of extraordinary ability."

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

She came in under the so-called Einstein visa. An "individual of extraordinary ability."

Oh yeah, she speaks seven languages...something like that. Kaching is one of them.

 

[phanan]

Chris Wallace was just on Faux & Friends and said the entire first family refused to wear masks Tuesday even though the Cleveland Clinic rules required them, they even waved staffer from the clinic away who brought masks over before the debate.
Jill and everyone else in the building including Wallace's family were masked the whole time. He said his wife & kids told him everyone else in the audience made note that the Trump contingent were the only maskless folks there.

So hopefully everyone else in attendance at the debate is negative from this, which will only serve to help Biden even more and demonstrate further that masks really do make a difference. This would counter any so-called sympathies thrown the President's way.

 

[DaveC]

She came in under the so-called Einstein visa. An "individual of extraordinary ability."

she has the extraordinary ability of being able to tolerate being underneath donald trump.

 

[DaveC]

Well you can tell by her Handmaid's Tale Christmas decor that she doesn't give a fuck about Christmas. Stay classy Melania. She's a fraud dressed in very high priced clothing. And a birther.

this should put to rest the obvious lie that some rogue stylist put that "i don't care do u" jacket on her for the border visit without her being aware of what it said on the back.

 

[womanfish]

A couple things. First. Boris did not have a rally around the flag moment. Not sure where the person that tweeted this got it. But there were other decisions and factors that came about a week before Johnson got Covid that boosted the support/view of government. It then declined slowly after while he had Covid.

https://mobile.twitter.com/YouGov/status/1311958523912294401

On another note. There is one possible way that Trump could benefit here. But he is mentally and emotionally unable to do this so, the Covid diagnosis is only going to hurt him.

He could come out now and say - I was wrong about my approach to the virus. Masks do stop the spread, social distancing is necessary and apologize to all my supporters for holding rallies that might have put them at risk.

Something like that. But there is zero chance of this. And from all reports, the WH is in complete panic, and have said that him testing positive will only remind people of how he downplayed the virus and told people not to wear masks. Quote - "it is a political disaster"

And please note. These are the same people that called Trump's church teargassing a big win.

 

[womanfish]

she has the extraordinary ability of being able to tolerate being underneath donald trump.

 

[Hewson]

she has the extraordinary ability of being able to tolerate being underneath donald trump.

That likely hasn't happened since Barron's conception. She really looks like she thinks the same about Donnie as she does Christmas.

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

God damn FINALLY. Well done. And perfectly delivered

https://mobile.twitter.com/TDucklo/status/1311863055362461696

Good on him. This is what actually owning and standing by your words looks like, people. I'm glad he's not apologizing for what he said.

As for THE big news story this morning...

No, it will not garner sympathy on a level that swings the election. The reaction has not been especially sympathetic outside of conservative corners. And why would it be? If you knowingly spread misinformation to toe the party line, putting the lives of millions in jeopardy, there is no defending you.

Boris Johnson had not spent 6 months openly mocking the virus before he was infected. Trump's brand is built on it.

This. If it turns out he lied about having this, knowing how many people in this country have gotten sick with and died from it, that'd be a line he could never come back from. His cult would shrug it off, sure, but the rest of the country would just add that to their ever-growing list of reasons to get him out of here. That would be a level of sheer cruelty and callousness that there'd be no words to adequately describe.

While I don't believe it to be untrue, it didn't stop my mind from thinking how it could be a tactic, but for a different outcome: According to reports, Trump is acutely aware that things look grim regarding his reelection. Of course he can't stand losing. So a Covid infection would create a path out of it: Claim the infection impaired his health with long-term consequences and it would render him unable to govern for a second term.

I was just sharing this same theory elsewhere earlier. Yep. He loves to bluster and talk tough, but he always backs down like a coward when push comes to shove (look how he tried to act like a big tough guy in his tweets a few years back where he was bragging about how he'd destroy North Korea and everything. Now he gets "love letters" from Kim Jong-Un). I can easily see him using this as a means to quietly slip out.

(And then he'd also probably spend that time trying to arrange an escape to another country to avoid prosecution. Hopefully, if he tried that, that part of his plan wouldn't work.)

And it's downright pathetic to have to question whether he does or not.

This. See, people, THIS is why lying about stuff like the crowd size at your inauguration, or other seemingly "unimportant" things of that sort, matters. Because when you're lying about any and everything, no matter how small, it makes it that much harder to trust you when it comes to the important stuff.

We can't trust one single thing out of the WH, including when they knew that people within that circle were ill.

Trump started feeling ill on Wednesday, meaning he was spreading it in the days before that (including the Tuesday in question). And God only knows when the rest of them were symptomatic and covering up.

These people are the worst trash in the world.

Yep. And yet we've got people out there who are mad that we're not showing any sympathy for Trump over this. It's hard to be sympathetic towards someone who didn't give a shit about a virus that killed so many, or who's shown a complete and total lack of compassion and sympathy towards people in any other times of crisis.

Treat others like you want to be treated, people. It's really that simple.

 

[BEAL]

https://twitter.com/senmikelee/status/1312055257992753152?s=21

Weird how the party of anti science and education is struggling with a cause and effect scenario

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

shot

https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1311064032300929038

chaser

https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1312055257992753152

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Sooooooooo here's a thought... what if Coney Barrett is the outbreak monkey?

 

[womanfish]

Hmmmm... Would have hoped for a better showing from Dems on this in early voting. Concerning.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1312014480088338434

Also, where are the god damn FL polls?!?! Asking for many millions of friends...

 

[anitram]

Yep. And yet we've got people out there who are mad that we're not showing any sympathy for Trump over this. It's hard to be sympathetic towards someone who didn't give a shit about a virus that killed so many, or who's shown a complete and total lack of compassion and sympathy towards people in any other times of crisis.

Treat others like you want to be treated, people. It's really that simple.

Wait why are they all sympathetic and praying if this is a nothingburger of a virus?

 

[womanfish]

And um.... Tick Tock Joe and Jill. Lets get those test results announced. He needs to be on the trail.

 

[womanfish]

Wait why are they all sympathetic and praying if this is a nothingburger of a virus?

Praying the hoax china virus will disappear from Dear Leader like a miracle.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Wait why are they all sympathetic and praying if this is a nothingburger of a virus?

Yes indeed. Hoisted on their own petards.

Just yesterday Trump said the end of the pandemic was in sight. And he wasn't seen wearing a mask, even though he knew that Hope Hicks had tested positive. If the reports are true that was already known.

IT IS WHAT IT IS

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

And Trump traveled to New Jersey yesterday.

Chief of staff says he's not going to get into the tick tock (Not Tik Tok) of the timeline. Gee I wonder why.

 

[anitram]

Sooooooooo here's a thought... what if Coney Barrett is the outbreak monkey?

Now that would be a great Trojan horse.

 

[anitram]

Bidens tested negative.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Hmmmm... Would have hoped for a better showing from Dems on this in early voting. Concerning.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1312014480088338434

Also, where are the god damn FL polls?!?! Asking for many millions of friends...

That's actually huge. That's registered Democrats... not people who voted for the Democratic nominee.

You'd imagine that close to 100% of that 53% went for Biden.

How many of the 47% remaining are not registered with either party? Those are the ones who broke for Trump last time and this time appear likely to break for Biden based on polling.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Now that would be a great Trojan horse.

I mean... Imagine if the seat ends up staying open because the candidate they tried to push through got a huge portion of the republican leadership sick?

 

[womanfish]

That's actually huge. That's registered Democrats... not people who voted for the Democratic nominee.

You'd imagine that close to 100% of that 53% went for Biden.

How many of the 47% remaining are not registered with either party? Those are the ones who broke for Trump last time and this time appear likely to break for Biden based on polling.

Ah! Thank you for easing my mind. I often forget about Indys that are breaking for Biden at a decent margin this time. And of course the soft Reps that "gave Trump a chance" last time.

 

[womanfish]

I mean... Imagine if the seat ends up staying open because the candidate they tried to push through got a huge portion of the republican leadership sick?

You hate to see it.