US Politics XXVI: Sorry you're not Canada

[Hewson]

oooh no, sorry. the correct answer was "Don't Stop Me Now", but we would also have accepted "Another One Bites The Dust" for half points.

I could've sworn your Friday night routine involved "Fat Bottomed Girls".

 

[DaveC]

lance's mom promised me she wouldn't tell anyone about that

 

[Hewson]

lance's mom promised me she wouldn't tell anyone about that

You know she can't keep her mouth shut.

 

[anitram]

Unbelievable that the WH is seemingly covering up so much. It's not about them, it's about all the people who were exposed to it by reckless irresponsible behavior. But why would they give a crap about that?

The American people have the right to know the full true information about the President having a potentially fatal virus.

It really makes you wonder what would have happened if Bloomberg News didn't break the story about Hope Hicks.

 

[womanfish]

From Maggie Haberman

Conley has now jeopardized his own ability to be believed by the public. It is in part because he is adhering to the wishes of a patient who does not want the information about yesterday disclosed, according to people briefed on what has taken place so far

For his entire life, the president has been phobic about illness and extremely wary of hospitals, according to people who know him personally or have worked with him. He would not have gone to a hospital if he was feeling relatively fine

A key thing Conley said is that the course the virus is taking in the president will reach a critical period where it becomes clear in 7-10 days (presumably meaning from onset of symptoms). It will take some days to know the prognosis.

We know he was now given a treatment that is only given to those severe enough to be hospitalized. And yet, we really know nothing.

 

[anitram]

From Maggie Haberman

Conley has now jeopardized his own ability to be believed by the public.

I mean duh?

These people wouldn't put a doctor in front of the cameras if he was unwilling to lie and obfuscate.

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

And yet this is the same party that's spent months now trying to claim that Biden is the one who's in some sort of decline. Amazing.

So to recap: one of our current presidential candidates is for a party that has been responsible, and advocated others be responsible, when it comes to this virus, who've worn masks in public, and who trust and listen to scientists and medical experts in regards to this pandemic. They have also tried to work with others to help tackle some of the fallout of this virus, and have tried to put guidelines and mandates in place to help keep everyone safe.

Our other presidential candidate is currently at Walter Reed hospital being treated for a virus he refused to take seriously, and his party is getting sick in droves with the same virus because they also refused to take it seriously, and they've put other people at risk, potentially jeopardized our country's national security in the process, and have 200,000 plus American deaths on their hands because of their mismanagement of this virus, as well as their general selfishness and ignorance. And they've got "experts" and "doctors" that nobody can trust, too.

Gee. Yeah. Our choice this November is SUCH a tough one.

 

[anitram]

Gee. Yeah. Our choice this November is SUCH a tough one.

OK, but will Biden support packing the SCOTUS??

Because God knows we can't decide until we all know that.

 

[Irvine511]

ok, but will biden support packing the scotus??



Because god knows we can't decide until we all know that.

 

[BEAL]

https://twitter.com/nilesgapol/status/1312422017027706880?s=21


https://twitter.com/nilesgapol/status/1312422707481378816?s=21

Just deplorable

 

[BEAL]

https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/1312492444961787905?s=21

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

Officially the best tweet I've seen in response to this whole mess:

https://twitter.com/AlisonLeiby/status/1312210212741242880

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Chris Christie checked himself into a hospital. His dr advised it because he has asthma. His doctors put him on Remdesivir.

 

[anitram]

https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/1312492444961787905?s=21

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/1312492444961787905?s=21

Must worship leader. Complete idiocy.

 

[anitram]

Chris Christie checked himself into a hospital. His dr advised it because he has asthma. His doctors put him on Remdesivir.

Don't worry, I'm sure if any of you guys here came down with COVID, you could totally walk into the hospital and get the best care, including experimental treatments. Free too, courtesy of the taxpayers.

 

[womanfish]

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https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1312492265479180290

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Don't worry, I'm sure if any of you guys here came down with COVID, you could totally walk into the hospital and get the best care, including experimental treatments. Free too, courtesy of the taxpayers.

Exactly. The privileged lives they lead, while having a #1 goal of taking health care away from the taxpayers, is sickening.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

I'm sure Operation MAGA will be completely COVID responsible while holding their events.

I believe Eric, Lara, and Donnie Jr were at the debate. Maybe the Rose Garden too. And I'm sure they were close to Trump, unmasked. So they should be quarantining for 14 days, not Operation MAGAing.

 

[BEAL]

https://twitter.com/verambergen/status/1312500086459428865?s=21

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

https://twitter.com/verambergen/status/1312500086459428865?s=21

If Trump really said that, it's the exact reaction I would expect from him. Only Trump can turn being completely irresponsible and getting covid himself into even more denial about covid.

Ftlog get him out of that WH

 

[DaveC]

https://twitter.com/verambergen/status/1312500086459428865?s=21

i would bet very large sums of money (if i actually had any very large sums of money) on that being 100% written by rudy.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Officially the best tweet I've seen in response to this whole mess:



https://twitter.com/AlisonLeiby/status/1312210212741242880

Nice.

 

[anitram]

https://twitter.com/verambergen/status/1312500086459428865?s=21

I find this totally believable.

So the story will be he went out there to get it on purpose so that he could show the American people that it's totes no big deal (so long as you're hospitalized immediately and started on multiple experimental protocols).

Which is good news for all those who want to sue his ass, if he wants to claim he purposely got it and then infected others as a result, well that's a lawyer's dream.

 

[BEAL]

Agree.

The truth is easy to see, Trump is in very critical condition.

If he wasn’t, we wouldn’t be getting 52 different stories about how he is / isnt, unsure , sure etc

Wouldn’t surprise me if Christie checked in to hospital just to make it appear normal that Trump had to (with mild symptoms)

But Christie is also a huge risk too with his weight

 

[anitram]

I believe Eric, Lara, and Donnie Jr were at the debate.

They were all there except Barron I think. Tiffany and Ivanka too. Ivanka is the one who pointedly refused to wear a mask when one was offered to her by the staff on hand.

So was Don Jr's girlfriend, you know the one who screamed at us at the GOP convention and turns out sexually harassed somebody at Fox resulting in a massive payout - too many news stories to report on this.

 

[womanfish]

That about sums it up right there

https://mobile.twitter.com/parkerbutler10/status/1312506503216070657

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

I will never forgive conservative media for what they've done to my father (and a few other relatives).

I'm going to have some more bourbon now.

 

[anitram]

This is the sort of discourse being had at RedState, for example (they are now supposing this was spread at the debate, nevermind how all those other Senators picked it up):

Considering all the people who came down with it at the same time in Trump's circle, its very obvious this was a biological attack. He was targetted with it, like a sort of Covid shotgun blast in his general direction. It wouldn't even surprise me if it were weaponized in a Lysol aerosol can to get past Secret Service.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Well at least they're not saying it's a false flag to allow trump to disappear for a few days and return to take the Democrats into custody.

Oh wait, some ar saying that.