Me too! Especially when I flash back to January / February, when the Democrats couldn’t solidify behind a candidate or raise a dime or successfully execute a primary election and the big Trump re-election machine seemed to be an unstoppable behemoth.
And I’m starting to think that God is righteous. It’s starting to feel like God said “October Surprise? Hold my beer.”
But I don’t have to believe in God to see that this isn’t going to end well for Trump. I know a lot of people get mild cases of Covid, but people with mild cases aren’t hospitalized two days after they start to show symptoms. And the one thing I haven’t seen is people with cases serious enough to be hospitalized recover quickly. This disease has a lot of different trajectories, but the one Trump is on is usually a long ride.
I’m still not convinced it will be fatal, frankly, if any individual COVID patient had access to the level of care that Trump has I think they could’ve survived. His odds are really good. The one thing he could do to screw that up is ignore his doctors.
I’ve worked with support groups for people with terminal illnesses, and there’s something I’ve observed among successful, high achieving patients. You tell them they have a 20% chance of making it a year, and they interpret that as “I’m going to make it”. These people have always made into the top 20% in any competitive situations. They eventually learn that their privilege doesn’t count in this one arena and it’s a hard lesson.
That would be the scientific and common sense thing to do so of course this administration opposes it because of some kind of message that kind of bullshit would send.
WH rejected the offer because then an outside agency, with the potential to leak the truth (like it’s not gonna leak anyway–c’MON, Donny) would have facts such as when Trump last tested negative, when the likely exposure was to others, and who all of those others were. Trump would not be able to control the message/optics/PR. Can’t have that; he’s got an election to win!
We can agree that the administration sucks, but it also has to be pointed out that anyone who supports Trump at this point also sucks. I’ve tried lately to not be a fucking sociopath toward these people, but it’s hard to maintain humanity and show restraint - especially when their attitudes, from the beginning, have been pretty pathological.
For the next 1-2 months, I hope the economy craters. Sorry, but I don’t trust the average American voter enough to swim through the spin. I want the jobs market to crash so that the average person feels scared for his/her economic future.
Of interest: Rasumssen’s latest poll has Trump at -9 (45 approve, 54 disapprove). Rasmussen is pretty reliably the poll that has been the most favorable to Trump.
The further Trump falls behind in the polls, the closer he defeat he gets, the more vicious he will be. Trump’s life, his future as he can imagine it, is flashing before his eyes. He is a wounded, cornered lion. He will claw and bite like a mother fucker.
I don’t want Biden debating him. I’m dead serious when I suspect that Trump will try to infect him, his wife, Harris, and their entourage. They have to think like this. We’re not in normal America; this is like an “election” in a developing democracy and they’re running against a strongman - they have to approach it like this. They and we will all be sorry if they think of this election in any other way.
Quote of the day from GOP strategist Mike Murphy, who hasn’t been seen or heard of much lately, but got in this zinger about Trump’s debate performance: “He set himself on fire and pissed all over the set”
Edit: It says Bill Kristol, but he linked Murphy’s quote.
Totally agree. The next two should be cancelled. I don’t see what two more debates can possibly accomplish or contribute to this circus. It doesn’t matter what names trump and his flying monkeys call Biden. The smart thing is to avoid being in trump’s presence.
Well, President Dumbass has just stated that he looks forward to infecting everyone at the next debate. OK, he didn’t say that, exactly, but it’s certainly implied.
