Biden v Dump 1: If not now, when? If not us, who?

[jerphisch]

ACB has to quarantine after meeting with Lee: https://twitter.com/DelWilber/status/1312058948548202496

Man, I hope this doesn't slow down the confirmation process!

Seems like an awful lot of people testing positive in the last 24 hours were at her announcement event at the White House last Saturday. Based on the timelines that may have been the event where they all got it.

 

[Kepler]

Someone needs to do a deep fake cuck video of Biden and Melania. Instant aneurysm.

 

[Handyman]

When Even Politico Is Talking About Trumpers Flipping

In this volatile and unpredictable election cycle, pundits have obsessed over slices of the Republican electorate they believe could decide the outcome in November—the vaunted college-educated suburban women, for example, and less-educated blue-collar men. But there’s a group of voters, scattered across the vast American interior, that has gotten almost no attention at all and might be just as decisive in November. They live in states so reliably red that no one from either party generally pays them much attention. Nebraska went for Trump in 2016 by 25 percentage points and will almost certainly do so again this November; indeed, the last time the state voted for a Democrat, it was for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
But their distaste might be a telling indicator of why Trump is floundering in polls across the country. It isn’t necessarily about a policy or a broken promise, it’s about Trump as a person. Trump’s bare-knuckled personality—which was on full display at the Tuesday debate—has been his calling card. He has said things that no one else dares, and his base loves him for it. But for this group of former supporters, Trump’s personality has become his biggest liability.
I spent a monthin my home state trying to learn what Nebraskans believe is at the roots of defections like Dlouhy’s. Why are conservatives like her quietly questioning whether they can cast a presidential vote in good conscience? In so many ways, their views haven’t changed—they are still passionately pro-life, and they remain suspicious that Democrats will reach too far into their lives and pocketbooks. But they believe equally that their highest elected official must display a sense of decorum worthy of the White House.

Very simply, Trump offends a deeply ingrained culture of politeness and compromise that, until recently, earned Cornhuskers the very vanilla tourism slogan “Nebraska Nice.” They are generally not on the news screaming at protesters, waving confederate flags or brandishing firearms wildly. At its core, Nebraska Nice isn’t so much a syrupy sweetness but rather a shared aversion to petty and therefore unproductive conflict.

“These folks are not political ideologues. They march in the March for Life, they vote Republican, but they are not enamored by the kind of identity politics that Trump brings,” said Max Mueller, a classics and religious studies professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who has written about his personal struggle to live out his Christianity in a moment of heightened political division. “They just want things to get back to normal—in some ways like I do. We all want to get to a place where we don’t have to think about what the president does every day"

 

[Kepler]

So, corn-fed apolitical Thumpers who hated Hillary can stand Biden.

 

[Jimjamesak]

Seems like an awful lot of people testing positive in the last 24 hours were at her announcement event at the White House last Saturday. Based on the timelines that may have been the event where they all got it.

It’s almost like standing close together with no masks on is a terrible idea...

 

[dxmnkd316]

 

[Swansong]

Should I know who is circled?

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Trump is being taken to Walter Reid

 

[dxmnkd316]

Should I know who is circled?

Four of the people who just tested positive (Trump, Melania, Lee, Jenkins). Not pictured was Hope Hicks or Ronna McDaniel, probably not too far away.

This constellation of people who all test positive in <48 hours? Yikes. If I'm anyone else in that picture, I'm worried as hell for the next two weeks.

Edit: From a tweet reply:

Now add at least three members of the press who were in attendance. That’s makes nine.

A followup memo, just a few minutes ago, says "another member of our press corps tested positive today." This person was last at the WH on Saturday (the day of the SCOTUS event) and traveled on Air Force One for the PA rally that night. The journalist showed symptoms yesterday.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Yeesh

https://mobile.twitter.com/BrendanNyhan/status/1312136455473381377

 

[French Rage]

Yeesh

https://mobile.twitter.com/BrendanNyhan/status/1312136455473381377

What does that mean? That it's nowhere near tested and verified enough to take?

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

What does that mean? That it's nowhere near tested and verified enough to take?

Phase 3 can last years and ends in fda approval. Usually involves up to 3k or so patients in double blind study and it’s being compared to current treatments .

so it’s not fda approved for this use

 

[Swansong]

Four of the people who just tested positive (Trump, Melania, Lee, Jenkins). Not pictured was Hope Hicks or Ronna McDaniel, probably not too far away.

This constellation of people who all test positive in <48 hours? Yikes. If I'm anyone else in that picture, I'm worried as hell for the next two weeks.

Edit: From a tweet reply:

Gotcha. Thanks!

 

[Drew S.]

I wonder if Trump got a bad strain of it as it sounds like Hope Hicks is fairly sick as well. He likely has had it for a few days but I’m still surprised it has come on so fast compared to most folks.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I wonder if Trump got a bad strain of it as it sounds like Hope Hicks is fairly sick as well. He likely has had it for a few days but I’m still surprised it has come on so fast compared to most folks.

If it’s true he knew he had it before the debate, he needs to rot in jail

 

[Drew S.]

If it’s true he knew he had it before the debate, he needs to rot in jail

The timing is incredibly suspicious to say the least.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Next milestone is 10-12 days after symptoms appear. That’s the median time to ICU.

 

[Kepler]

Next milestone is 10-12 days after symptoms appear. That’s the median time to ICU.

So I am thinking he has been sick more than a week and has known it for 4-5 days.

 

[rufus]

I wonder if Trump got a bad strain of it as it sounds like Hope Hicks is fairly sick as well. He likely has had it for a few days but I’m still surprised it has come on so fast compared to most folks.

He is not the picture of health.

Besides being rather obese, I'm sure he's got multiple comorbities going on. Him going to the hospital may be just precautionary. Don't know. But he may have been sick for longer than the WH is letting on, and that delay in treatment may not have been helpful in this case.

Plus, he's old and in poor health. A Covfefe wet dream.

 

[Kepler]

He is not the picture of health.

Besides being rather obese, I'm sure he's got multiple comorbities going on. Him going to the hospital may be just precautionary. Don't know. But he may have been sick for longer than the WH is letting on, and that delay in treatment may not have been helpful in this case.

Plus, he's old and in poor health. A Covfefe wet dream.

And he had a crank as a doctor for decades. Can you imagine all the sh-t that's wrong inside him, not even considering his head?

This is like a 747 emergency landing on a 200-year old, termite-infested wooden bridge.

In the chasm below, the ice weasels wait.