I just read that Pence’s press secretary has tested positive for Covid 19 (joining a Trump valet in this status). She’s apparently asymptomatic. I’m ashamed to admit that my first reaction was to cackle, though I immediately realized that was wrong, and I stopped. I don’t wish illness on anyone, but I do hope this news scares the bejeezus out of Pence, Trump, and the toadies and lackeys in their inner circle.
Since both Pence and Trump have been out in public mask-free, it seems like it would be a bit of a PR problem if they tested positive, no? Do you think if either one tested positive but was asymptomatic, we’d ever hear about it?
I’m guessing the only reason the news would be revealed would be if they realized it could not be effectively kept secret. Otherwise, it would be kept secret under the guise of “national security.”
Given that Trump and Pence have both made a big stinking’ deal out of why they don’t have to wear masks, I think a tiny little cackle is warranted. They’re leading by example and they’re dangerous.
As far as whether the public would be notified if Pence or Trump gets sick, normally I’d say “yes”. With this administration, I’d say Pence, maybe, Trump no. In both cases, I think an official notification would be entirely superfluous, since the entire building would be stampeding to leak the news to the first member of the press they could find.
Oh hell, I wish Trump and Pence would both keel over and die tomorrow.
It’s painfully clear that Trump’s absence of leadership has caused the death of tens of thousands of Americans already, over and above what had to happen. And it will cause the death of tens, maybe hundreds of thousands more, before next January 20 if, as is to be expected, he serves out the rest of this term. Trump is not going to change: he is not going to become any better of a leader in this crisis than he’s already been. The bodies will continue to pile up.
So yes, I wish for him to die. I wish he would have a heart attack on his gold-plated toilet tonight. Pence would be a terrible President, but it’s hard to imagine that he’d be as bad at non-managing this crisis as Trump is.
But I could be wrong about that. So ideally they’d both die of the coronavirus quickly and nearly simultaneously, so that there wouldn’t be time to nominate and confirm a new veep per the 25th Amendment before they were both dead, and President Pelosi could take the reins.
I don’t want people to die. But AFAIAC, Trump is a mass murderer on the loose. He needs to be stopped, and the only way to do that is to remove him from office. He’s not going to resign, his Cabinet is not going to invoke the 25th, and the Democrats are too chickenshit to impeach him over the growing pile of American corpses. So if his death is the only way he can be stopped from killing thousands of others, then fuck yeah, I want him to die.
I guess they might try, but I think we’d find out. This isn’t North Korea; the president or VP can’t just disappear from public events for two weeks without explanation, and too many people would have to know the real reason for it not to leak out.
I guess they might try, but I think we’d find out. This isn’t North Korea; the president or VP can’t just disappear from public events for two weeks without explanation, and too many people would have to know the real reason for it not to leak out.
And such a laughable one, in light of this administration’s unbroken record of candor about the president’s health and opposition to secrecy, even in matters that could reflect unfavorably upon the president and his chances for reelection. Hide his illness? That’s some QAnon-level crazy right there.
I literally think you do not understand the plain language definition of conspiracy theory; and instead are confusing it as a synonym for “someone said something that I don’t like.”
I don’t see how it would be possible to keep that under wraps. Someone will leak it, plus how long until the press figures out why all these people in the White House are testing positive? And once it came out that Chump was positive, and they recall him meeting everyone without a mask including all those 90-something WWII veterans yesterday, that’s going to be a major shitstorm.
You are mistaken. “They wouldn’t tell us if the President had the virus” is just as silly as the other theories that are routinely debunked on this board. Heck, promulgating some of the said “theories” are banned, by the rules.
For sure. But let’s remember that Trump’s first instinct is always to lie. Even about ridiculous things that are easily found out, like that comment the other day where he claimed that he never said that COVID wasn’t a big deal, which is of course quickly followed by news clips of him saying a few weeks prior that it is just like a little flu.
That Trump would attempt to lie about something and then be caught in his lie isn’t a crazy idea. It has happened literally thousands - maybe tens of thousands - of times during the last three years.