Red Mosquito

Reportedly Trump gets tested every day, so it would mean at least two days of false negatives while also spreading it to Biden. It was a closed space and they were talking consistently for a long time but I think it's doubtful.

Trump and Biden both dying of the rona would be the sweetest October surprise.

Mickey wrote:

digster wrote:But, in all honesty, this is probably the best chance he has to win.

Why. Explain to me how you think this helps.

How is getting a virus everyone is going to end up getting too that big of a deal? I get he's called it a hoax but no Trumper is throwing away their MAGA hat because of that. He doesn't have to debate and can emerge a strong man when he beats it.

It's one poll, but here's a look at Boris Johnson's approval ratings for this year. He was diagnosed with coronavirus in late March and entered the hospital the first week of April.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/tr ... val-rating

We should never underestimate the potential for an electorate to be utterly asinine.

Actually I take it all back, you're both right, I forgot we're talking about Democrats who will probably end up voting for him out of sympathy.

What a time to be alive*.

Great. Now I have to get a new yard sign

verb_to_trust wrote:

Mickey wrote:

digster wrote:But, in all honesty, this is probably the best chance he has to win.

Why. Explain to me how you think this helps.

How is getting a virus everyone is going to end up getting too that big of a deal? I get he's called it a hoax but no Trumper is throwing away their MAGA hat because of that. He doesn't have to debate and can emerge a strong man when he beats it.

The reason it helps is basically the reason that the debate didn't help; anything that takes the focus off the fact that Donald Trump is Donald Trump is good for Donald Trump.

I have so many questions.

How does he campaign for the next few weeks without being able to do rallies? What if he ends up on a ventilator? A presidential ticket lead on a ventilator on election day?

What if he’s just sick enough to be bedridden (or hospitalized) for a month, and the final weeks of the election are a swamp of speculation, rumors, and uncertainty?

He gets to stay off television and play the hero. I'm not sure there's a better opportunity for him.

I smell a con here. Almost too obvious.

When he ultimately announces he is cured in two weeks he will assert that:

- He is stronger than weak, frail Joe Biden

- The virus isn’t that big of a deal, couldn’t even kill me and I am 74 years old


This all supports his whole angle juuuuuust a little too conveniently.





On the other hand if this is true and it kills him, it will be sooooo much better than the heart attack I’ve been hoping for.

Speaking of hope, someone make an Obama “HOPE” meme about this and incorporate Hope Hicks and Joe Biden ok thanks.

People don't automatically end up dead from this. Overwhelming likelihood he's fine in two weeks and gets to skip a debate. Nothing burger.

I find it interesting Melania has it since she probably spends as little time with her husband as possible. Makes me think she got it from Hicks or someone else.

Trump and Hicks tested positive on the same day--there's also a chance that he gave it to her, or someone else they had contact with passed it to them.

Maybe this is how we stumble upon KFC gravy being an effective treatment therapeutic?

digster wrote:He gets to stay off television and play the hero. I'm not sure there's a better opportunity for him.

Bammer wrote:I smell a con here. Almost too obvious.

The plan is simple: steer the national story away from your deeply unpopular approach to the pandemic by faking that you have, in fact, handled it so badly that we all need to wait and see if you’ve killed yourself.

Nothing else gets the vote out the way everyone having to ask questions like “wait does the whole White House have to quarantine now” and “how many top officials are in his exposure path” and “you mean he met with his Supreme Court nominee and he KNEW he’d been exposed” does.

McParadigm wrote:

digster wrote:He gets to stay off television and play the hero. I'm not sure there's a better opportunity for him.

Bammer wrote:I smell a con here. Almost too obvious.

The plan is simple: steer the national story away from your deeply unpopular approach to the pandemic by faking that you have, in fact, handled it so badly that we all need to wait and see if you’ve killed yourself.

Nothing else gets the vote out the way everyone having to ask questions like “wait does the whole White House have to quarantine now” and “how many top officials are in his exposure path” and “you mean he met with his Supreme Court nominee and he KNEW he’d been exposed” does.

Millions of people have gotten the virus. But when Trump gets it we're all so shocked by what a fuck up that is it tanks his chances on Nov 3?

McP's response is really rational, an attribute I've rarely ever been able to ascribe to the electorate, particularly undecided voters in the last weeks of a presidential election that's been front of mind for well over a year.

digster wrote:McP's response is really rational, an attribute I've rarely ever been able to ascribe to the electorate, particularly undecided voters in the last weeks of a presidential election that's been front of mind for well over a year.

And in all that time of people thinking about the election and arguing about the election, he’s ALWAYS been down by 6 to 10 points. Never better. Getting sick isn’t going to correct that.

digster wrote:McP's response is really rational, an attribute I've rarely ever been able to ascribe to the electorate, particularly undecided voters in the last weeks of a presidential election that's been front of mind for well over a year.

Let's wait and see if he even gets sick. Maybe that causes a disruption, otherwise, it's nothing. All the death wish types need to accept the dead president/vent outcome is very unlikely.

He's going to be fine. It's the President of the United States who has doctors waiting hand and foot on him. It's not someone getting wheeled into an overcrowded hospital in the midst of an outbreak. He'll have the best care money and power can buy.