From Grand Old Party, to Southern Strategy, to Watergate break-in, to MAGA, to COVID.
I have decided that I don’t wish the President to become very ill. I don’t want anybody to suffer but I would like him to experience enough symptoms to take it seriously and to acknowledge that it is not just like the flu. Therefore, I am hoping that the only symptom he gets is loss of sense of smell (and maybe some bad diarrhea for a few days). Let him be annoyed but not seriously ill.
What’s the point of the diarrhea if he loses his sense of smell?
From this chart of today’s DJIA activity, can you point to when Biden made his announcement?
Maybe he should get sick to the degree that he and Malania share a ventilator. He thought the sharing of ventilators was an innovative success. I’m sure he’ll love it.
LOL!
He needs to be ill enough so that he can’t claim that Covid is no big deal and masks are silly and we should open everything back up all the way in spite of the evil Democrats who are trying to ruin this country.
So you approve if, in fact, Trump is faking this news. You would consider this “brilliant” for the president to lie about something this important, to destabilize the country (military forces are now on alert), all for his own and the Republican’s gain.
And you then project this abhorrent thought onto Biden, who you assume would have done the same, if only he had thought about it. Because it’s hard to think that anyone would act in a responsible manner, and put country first.
This really does sum up today’s Republicans. Party over country indeed.
In general, not being on the campaign trail is bad for you.
In Trump’s case, he does better when others are out there acting as oracles, translating his words. When people hear the original, from his mouth words that generally drops his polling.
Between that and the rally and the flag effect, the only two good courses (in terms of Biden’s win odds - and no other meaning) are that Trump heal quickly or die. Lingering in the middle is probably bad.
CNN is reporting that Amy Coney Barrett already had COVID in summer, and recovered.
I think the opposite. Trump lingering in ill health until January is what I’m hoping for. If he’s quite ill, but remains in office and remains on the ticket, it keeps his stupidity and mishandling of COVID front and center, and it keeps the Republican campaign and strategy in uncertainty and disarray with nowhere really to go. I think it’s a certainty he loses. And it makes it somewhat less likely that he’ll have the energy or inclination to cause harm to the country - either through meddling in the election results, or through causing petulant harm as a lame duck.
If he dies quickly, or is so gets so ill that he is quickly replaced on the ticket, we have Pence (or conceivably Romney), and still a month to go. They are still likely to lose at the top of the ticket, but it’s much more out of left field, so I feel there’s more uncertainty there.
Your post about Barrett reminded me that the latest polling dip for Trump and GOP candidates coincided with the announcement that they intend to go forward with her nomination.
Wondering if they a) make that same connection and b) might reconsider in light of polling data. Her nomination is probably tanking not only Trump’s chances but the Senate’s.
You can track them on ADSBExchange.com. There are two flying as of my time of posting, YELOW07 and PUMP08.
I don’t know, I think it’s wishful thinking that the demise of Trump will suddenly transform the Republicans into ethical people who care about the wishes of the people. I think she’ll be confirmed.
What I do hope is that we get a decisive outcome with the Senate going to the Dems, and they don’t shy away from packing the court. I don’t think packing the court is the end of the game, rather it makes clear that the game must change. The Dems have to have the will and the mandate undertake some fundamental reforms to preserve democracy in this country.
I’m neither approving nor disapproving of the tactic, merely commenting on its brilliance. You’ll notice nobody is talking about his taxes anymore.
Oh, sure, why not? As long as drinks the bleach sarcastically.
“Nobody”?
What kind of blows my mind is the markets. The president announced he has a potentially life-ending disease and the markets’ have basically said “Meh. Whatever.”
The market has been assuming Trump is not going to win and essentially sees this as no change. It needed the reassurance that Biden tested negative though.
I’ve never bought into this line of BS, and I’ve heard it from both liberals and conservatives. Trump is not brilliant. He never has been. All those times when he supposedly distracted us were due to one or both of the following:
-
Trump has a short attention span. He gets bored easily, especially with topics he doesn’t really understand. He turns his attention elsewhere, which inevitably means he says something stupid and outrageous, not as a distraction but because he’s always saying stupid and outrageous crap.
-
News keeps happening. One news story bumps the previous one onto page two, and Trump says something stupid and outrageous about the new story.
Despite the mythology, he’s really not all that bright.
But, can you point out where on this chart Biden announced he didn’t have the Rona?