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I'm still heartbroken that Marsha Blackburn tested negative.
Rick Scott - POSITIVE!
This made my morning thx
Welp, bad news. His office said he "misspoke" this morning and that he's negative.
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I'm still heartbroken that Marsha Blackburn tested negative.
Rick Scott - POSITIVE!
This made my morning thx
Welp, bad news. His office said he "misspoke" this morning and that he's negative.
As much as I'm not a fan of people rooting for others to catch a deadly virus, your particular ability to call anyone out on decency walked out that door a long damn time ago.
And somehow, all of this is going to improve Trump's chances of re-election, according to some. I find it very odd that anyone could see willful incompetence and subsequent ironic comeuppance as a good political strategy, but perhaps I'm not imaginative enough.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.
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.
And somehow, all of this is going to improve Trump's chances of re-election, according to some. I find it very odd that anyone could see willful incompetence and subsequent ironic comeuppance as a good political strategy, but perhaps I'm not imaginative enough.
Chris Christie checked himself into a hospital. His dr advised it because he has asthma. His doctors put him on Remdesivir.
Wonder if M&Ms have any therapeutic effect on Covid?
Maybe MyPillow can help
I want more than one dot. I want a dot with a line on top of it!
Yes I do wish that every single person who has allowed politics to make it acceptable to downplay a deadly pandemic should face the wraith of the disease because I firmly believe that 1) they’re smug and it’s karma, 2) though I’m not someone of faith, in that lens they are challenging god, and most important of all 3) this high profile outbreak event will save more lives the bigger it gets.
puts on Thinking Cap ...Gee. Yeah. Our choice this November is SUCH a tough one.
Hands out Dunce Caps!!!
Heh. Heh. yup.Officially the best tweet I've seen in response to this whole mess:
https://twitter.com/AlisonLeiby/status/1312210212741242880
So sorry, headache.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.
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https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1312492265479180290
Yeah, I love how anyone who supports a President who has said the most vile disgusting things about other people can be so outraged about people wishing karma on him.
That being said-because I am a much better person than Donald Trump will ever be, I don't wish covid on him or any other person. Or for him or anyone else to die from covid.
I watched my Mom dying of cancer for nine months. And I've had to listen to Donald Trump mocking people who died from brain cancer. So fuck you Trump and all your one-way morality supporters. No moral indignation about taking health care away from people either. Selective hypocritical moral outrage. IT IS WHAT IT IS
Trumpworld delighted in cruelty. Now that Trump has COVID, it demands empathy.
Trumpists love their Dear Leader in no small measure because of his talent for unapologetically engaging in abject cruelty.
Whether he was mocking a disabled reporter's affliction and delighting in Hillary Clinton's health travails on the 2016 campaign trail or separating migrant children with Down syndrome from their parents and ridiculing Joe Biden's son's struggle with drug addiction during his time in office — Trump supporters can't get enough of the Dear Leader triggering the libs, or really anyone with a conscience.
To his fervent supporters, Trump's callous viciousness is funny. It's the humorless politically correct scolds and loser Never Trumper conservatives who need to lighten up, they say.
Now that President Trump and first lady Melania have tested positive for COVID-19, Trumpworld has discovered the value of empathy. And they are shocked — shocked! — that some of Trump's critics have delighted in the irony of Trump's coronavirus denialism contributing to his own infection.
On Trump's favorite show, "Fox and Friends," on Friday morning, the conservative Washington Examiner correspondent writer Byron York said, "This is a time for people to pray for their leaders, to wish them well," adding that the Trump critics snarking over his illness would likely come to regret being so mean to the president.
The conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, who sells "Leftist Tears" cups on his website, sarcastically tweeted Friday: "Looking forward to all the kind-hearted expressions of sympathy to Trump and Melania from the blue-checkmark Left."
While Shapiro has been cagey in his support for Trump — distinguishing himself from "Never Trump" by calling himself "Sometimes Trump" — he's demonstrated a Trumpian comfortability for mocking the ill, such as when he joked in 2016 that then Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who was sick with pneumonia, "should pledge to defeat ISIS by coughing on them."
The Trumpist podcaster Dan Bongino, who this week praised Trump as "an apex warrior" following his disgraceful debate performance, on Friday tweeted: "This morning is the strongest reminder in a long time about how sick and disgusting the Left is."
Bongino's tone-policing is particularly rich given his proclamation in 2018: "My entire life right now is about owning the libs."
Explicitly laying out his support of "the combative, no-retreat style, of Donald Trump," Bongino wrote: "We will own the Libs today, we will own the Libs tomorrow, we will own the Libs next month, and next year. We will not be retreating or apologizing anymore."
To be sure, even an amoral bully like Trump deserves sympathy for contracting a dreaded disease that's already killed 200,000 of his fellow Americans. Anyone wishing for his suffering can't claim any moral high ground.
But in a roundup of "liberal ghouls"' tweets on his site, Bongino conflates some truly vicious comments from partisan activists with reasonable and fact-based tweets such as NBC News correspondent Heidi Przybyla saying, "After months of publicly rejecting the advice of his own medical experts, President Trump has fallen victim to his own false narrative around the risks of the coronavirus."
It is completely appropriate and relevant to point out that Trump contracted a disease whose lethality he willfully lied to the American public about. He also personally made mask-wearing the dumbest culture-war battle of our time.
And even after tepidly walking back his mask skepticism over the summer, he mocked Biden at this week's debate for often he wears masks:
"I don't wear face masks like him. Every time you see him he's got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away ... and he shows up with the biggest mask I've ever seen."
At that same debate on Tuesday, Trump's guests were offered surgical masks by Cleveland Clinic doctors. They refused.
Now that Trump, Melania, White House senior adviser Hope Hicks, and Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel have all tested positive for COVID-19, perhaps the president and his supporters will at last take the pandemic seriously and engage in very simple and easy preventative measures.
These would include wearing masks, discouraging large crowds, and eschewing the spread of coronavirus conspiracy theories that misinform millions of people who hang on the president's every word.
While it's unkind and inhumane to take delight in another person's suffering, there's not a thing wrong with criticizing Trump's handling of the virus and saying that in some ways he brought this on himself.
Trumpists who've luxuriated in the president's cruelty should recognize the difference.
These are the people we’re supposed to feel sorry for:
https://mobile.twitter.com/asbildner/status/1312545194886209536