Donald Trump

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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,555
    I still can't get over the idea that Coopster thinks of MPs as an elite.

    Does he think there is some sort of quality assurance process or assessment of the abilities of candidates?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
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  • pinkbikini
    pinkbikini Posts: 876
    edited October 2020
    This seems horribly likely, but superbly done...!

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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    well now...
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,329
    We can conclude that he doesn't know what he doesn't know about covid.
    Not the genius that he claims. Expect a run on masks.
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  • tangled_metal
    tangled_metal Posts: 4,021
    Did I really hear POTUS and FLOTUS have tested positive for covid 19? That's worrying at his age. He was likely infectious at the debate too. Was it a 90 minute debate? That's potentially long enough to produce a viral load sufficient to spread the virus from what I've read about transmission.

    What happens if two candidates are quarantined or get seriously I'll with it? Will that leave Pence and Harris to do the campaigning and debates for awhile? I'd prefer to see Harris debating tbh. Harris against Trump would always have been a fun TV debate to watch. Popcorn experience.
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    finally, a bit of good news...
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Schadenfreude
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,561
    Has to be fake news as Trump has previously said the virus is a hoax hasn't he?
    Be such a shame if he got a bad bout of it.....
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    Much like the SNP MP, even when he knew Hope Hicks had tested positive, he went to a fundraising event.

  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    edited October 2020
    But has he got it. Or is it a tactical ploy to give him 2 weeks rest and get sympathy & votes!
    THe report said no symptoms.

    Of course he’s not exactly tried to avoid getting it
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,358
    It's one way to get out of the next 'debate' with Biden, I guess...
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    14 days from contact, should be out on the 15th?

    Pence has a debate with Harris next week, not going to happen in person, surely.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Not sure this is good news tbh
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    rick_chasey said:

    Not sure this is good news tbh

    Inevitable wasn't it?

    He can't divert attention from his actions in the pandemic now, can't go and hold rallies (unless he does, which is bad for him).

    If he can catch it with every advantage he's had - might make people in risk groups like he is think a bit about protecting themselves more than he did.

    He'll try and make himself look like a strong man if he gets over it or doesn't have symptoms, obviously, but getting a bit late now. He's a potentially ill man trying to get four more years when voting has already started. The only positive for him is the test.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    I dunno, I just see his inability to campaign as something that will be seen as undermining the legitimacy of the election.

    He'll presumably pick up some sympathy votes too.

    And that's before the fact he's 74 and overweight - it's not that unlikely he gets seriously ill with it.
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  • john80
    john80 Posts: 2,965
    Does it make you a bad person if you want to see Trump in a ICU ward.
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,312
    edited October 2020
    john80 said:

    Does it make you a bad person if you want to see Trump in a ICU ward.

    No, just makes you more honest.

    Some will die of Covid, it's inevitable... better that to be Trump than any other I can think of
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    The thing I can see with this is that if he gets minor symptoms and carries on "working" he will either use it to continue to trivialise the virus or to show how great he is in beating it (or, more likely, both).
  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,648
    I agree with Rick, I don't think we should underestimate the amount of sympathy he will get from his base. They're perfectly capable of performing the mental gymnastics to feel bad for him getting Covid.
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  • coopster_the_1st
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    kingstongraham said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Not sure this is good news tbh

    Inevitable wasn't it?

    He can't divert attention from his actions in the pandemic now, can't go and hold rallies (unless he does, which is bad for him).

    If he can catch it with every advantage he's had - might make people in risk groups like he is think a bit about protecting themselves more than he did.

    He'll try and make himself look like a strong man if he gets over it or doesn't have symptoms, obviously, but getting a bit late now. He's a potentially ill man trying to get four more years when voting has already started. The only positive for him is the test.
    Depends how badly he or his wife is affected by it.

    If they stay asymptomatic or mild symptoms then it will hopefully remove a lot of the hysteria around C19 which can only be a good thing
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    john80 said:

    Does it make you a bad person if you want to see Trump in a ICU ward.

    I don't want to see anyone in an ICU ward, tbh, but that's just the way I am.
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  • briantrumpet
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    Ben6899 said:

    john80 said:

    Does it make you a bad person if you want to see Trump in a ICU ward.

    I don't want to see anyone in an ICU ward, tbh, but that's just the way I am.

    I'm a bit conflicted about it. Hitler, for example? Is it wrong to wish ill to people who have caused lots of people to die? And if yes, at what point, in numbers dead, is it acceptable to celebrate their demise?

    All that said, I'd like to see Trump in court for all his alleged crimes.
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  • pangolin
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    coopster_the_1st said:

    kingstongraham said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Not sure this is good news tbh

    Inevitable wasn't it?

    He can't divert attention from his actions in the pandemic now, can't go and hold rallies (unless he does, which is bad for him).

    If he can catch it with every advantage he's had - might make people in risk groups like he is think a bit about protecting themselves more than he did.

    He'll try and make himself look like a strong man if he gets over it or doesn't have symptoms, obviously, but getting a bit late now. He's a potentially ill man trying to get four more years when voting has already started. The only positive for him is the test.
    Depends how badly he or his wife is affected by it.

    If they stay asymptomatic or mild symptoms then it will hopefully remove a lot of the hysteria around C19 which can only be a good thing
    Boris was very seriously ill. Why is that anecdotal case one that should be ignored, as opposed to an anecdotal (and yet to happen) case of Donald only getting it mildly?
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  • slowbike
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    briantrumpet said:

    Ben6899 said:

    john80 said:

    Does it make you a bad person if you want to see Trump in a ICU ward.

    I don't want to see anyone in an ICU ward, tbh, but that's just the way I am.

    I'm a bit conflicted about it. Hitler, for example? Is it wrong to wish ill to people who have caused lots of people to die? And if yes, at what point, in numbers dead, is it acceptable to celebrate their demise?

    All that said, I'd like to see Trump in court for all his alleged crimes.
    Oh, I'd be quite happy for him to have it and suffer with it - however, I believe it's a ploy to be used for political gain - in whichever way he can. You could call him stupid - I disagree - immoral would be better, that and unintelligent.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    slowbike said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Ben6899 said:

    john80 said:

    Does it make you a bad person if you want to see Trump in a ICU ward.

    I don't want to see anyone in an ICU ward, tbh, but that's just the way I am.

    I'm a bit conflicted about it. Hitler, for example? Is it wrong to wish ill to people who have caused lots of people to die? And if yes, at what point, in numbers dead, is it acceptable to celebrate their demise?

    All that said, I'd like to see Trump in court for all his alleged crimes.
    Oh, I'd be quite happy for him to have it and suffer with it - however, I believe it's a ploy to be used for political gain - in whichever way he can. You could call him stupid - I disagree - immoral would be better, that and unintelligent.
    So I think one of the main destabilising techniques KGB et all use is fill the news cycle with enough lies and doubt that reasonable people no longer know what is true anymore, or at least, doubt the veracity of mainstream news.

    It is critical to helping undermine democracies.

    You can say that this has, broadly, been successful in large parts of the West.
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  • briantrumpet
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    slowbike said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Ben6899 said:

    john80 said:

    Does it make you a bad person if you want to see Trump in a ICU ward.

    I don't want to see anyone in an ICU ward, tbh, but that's just the way I am.

    I'm a bit conflicted about it. Hitler, for example? Is it wrong to wish ill to people who have caused lots of people to die? And if yes, at what point, in numbers dead, is it acceptable to celebrate their demise?

    All that said, I'd like to see Trump in court for all his alleged crimes.
    Oh, I'd be quite happy for him to have it and suffer with it - however, I believe it's a ploy to be used for political gain - in whichever way he can. You could call him stupid - I disagree - immoral would be better, that and unintelligent.

    Yes, could well be a ploy. Given that his doctors are dishonest enough to claim that he weighs 225lbs, despite the visual evidence to the contrary, I have little confidence that they'd not invent a positive test or two, which it would be hard to disprove.
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  • veronese68
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    Pross said:

    The thing I can see with this is that if he gets minor symptoms and carries on "working" he will either use it to continue to trivialise the virus or to show how great he is in beating it (or, more likely, both).

    I think this is true, it will also 'prove' that hydrochloxiwotsit works like he said it would. Or will he claim he drank bleach.
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  • rakkor
    rakkor Posts: 53
    Here's hoping Pence has also got it - Trump down, Pence down and Pelosi takes over the reigns of power in the run up to the election - Oh the irony of it all
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    coopster_the_1st said:

    kingstongraham said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Not sure this is good news tbh

    Inevitable wasn't it?

    He can't divert attention from his actions in the pandemic now, can't go and hold rallies (unless he does, which is bad for him).

    If he can catch it with every advantage he's had - might make people in risk groups like he is think a bit about protecting themselves more than he did.

    He'll try and make himself look like a strong man if he gets over it or doesn't have symptoms, obviously, but getting a bit late now. He's a potentially ill man trying to get four more years when voting has already started. The only positive for him is the test.
    Depends how badly he or his wife is affected by it.

    If they stay asymptomatic or mild symptoms then it will hopefully remove a lot of the hysteria around C19 which can only be a good thing
    Herman Cain and 200,000 others would disagree with it being a good thing that the over 70s might continue seeing it as a non-issue.

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