Trump 49: The Firehose of Fucknuttery—Now With Covid

[front hugs > duggs]

In theory (not sure if this will be a popular opinion or not), I'm OKAY that a President of the United States gets access to hospital and treatment that the majority of Americans wouldn't have access to. Because they are the leader of our country and it does create a crisis of the POTUS isn't in good health.

However, I'm NOT OKAY with THIS President of the United States (and Chris Christie, because, well, fuck him) utilizing resources and taxpayer money to then continue and pretend this isn't some serious pandemic. 

[Snarkasarus Rex]

See, I think he’s feeling better, but even his doctor says he’s not out of the woods. His doctors set the possibility of him being discharged yesterday so I’m not surprised it happened. But he’s not anywhere near back to normal yet. 

 

[Penny]

I would not be surprised if he goes back to the White House and throws a fit to go back to regular duties, including his rallies. I think they should have sedated him for at least a week. 

[Ozlsn]

1 hour ago, thoughtful said:

There are theories that Wilson actually had what my grandfather had - encephalitis lethargica, which was more likely to cause unpredictable brain damage than the flu. I don't think anyone will ever know for sure.

It was characterized by an acute stage, that, if it didn't kill the patient, passed. Some showed issues immediately after, some seemed recovered, but gradually sank into various states of lethargy, catatonia, rage, and just about any other possible symptom, mild or severe, that can be caused by a damaged brain.

I've hated to post too much about it, because people are already so scared, but I think about my grandfather's illness whenever people only talk about the short-term effects of Covid-19, or talk about recovery, immunity, and thinking that it does not affect younger people as badly as older ones.

We really don't know yet.

It makes me appreciate people who are too young to remember anything that affected the entire world like this, or who have never faced major tragedies, who are still willing to face reality and wrangle whatever difficulties it throws at them.

Nobody wants to face a "new normal" that stinks, when they had plans and hopes. But I know it is easier for someone with my personality, history and age than it is for many others.

And nobody will be more thrilled than I will be if Covid-19 disappears without long-term effects, and becomes just a paragraph in the history books, and a warning that something like this can come again any time.

What I find so weird about a lot of things right now is that a lot of what's going on right now - covid, the rise of authoritarianism - is so similar to events that happened within living memory. There are people who were old enough to remember the 1919 flu pandemic still living, there are more who remember the European events leading up to WW2. And their children and grandchildren (and great-grandchildren) know the stories - but frequently don't think that they are things that could happen again, to them. And that's without the unprecedented global challenges caused by climate change. I feel like a lot of people regard history as something that happened in black and white, completely unlike their own Technicolor world - that those people were somehow fundamentally different from them.

[onekidanddone]

This guy is worth a listen 

 

https://youtu.be/7iLtoQVzhKA

[onekidanddone]

Must be getting ready to leave the hospital. Am I obsessing too much?

This will give an idea of the location. Fuckwad had to leave in the middle of rush hour just to fuck things 

Spoiler

 

Edited October 5, 2020 by onekidanddone

[JMarie]

He just got released. He bounced his hand on the handrail (hope that gets cleaned later) as he walked down the steps, and gave a fist salute (Aryan fist?) and a thumbs up.

[Smash!]

Sarah Kendzior has a podcast called Gaslit Nation that's worth a listen. 

I second that. Altough I can only listen to it in small doses because it makes my blood boil. It’s scary she’s been right on everything Trump and the GOP so far.

[GreyhoundFan]

Maybe it will replace Plexus. I'm sure Jill Rodrigues would be happy to give him sales tips.

 

[JMarie]

11 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Maybe it will replace Plexus. I'm sure Jill Rodrigues would be happy to give him sales tips.

 

Or Shoshanna Easling 

[libgirl2]

Quick reminder of the Herman Cain timeline:

6/24: Attends Trump rally, maskless

7/2: Tests positive for Covid-19

7/10: Says he’s improving

7/15: Says his doctors seem happy

7/27: Says he’s really getting better

7/30: Dies

My friend who had covid was in the ICU said there is no way you get over covid and feel 20 years younger! He is an ass! 

Edited October 5, 2020 by libgirl2

[Don'tlikekoolaid]

This meme has been banned by social media.  But I grabbed a screenshot as soon as I saw it.  Wasn’t sure where to post it or if I even should.  I like it.  Mods please delete if nobody else does.

Spoiler

 

[libgirl2]

I shared this meme

 

 

[Dandruff]

3 hours ago, Snarkasarus Rex said:

See, I think he’s feeling better, but even his doctor says he’s not out of the woods. His doctors set the possibility of him being discharged yesterday so I’m not surprised it happened. But he’s not anywhere near back to normal yet.

Not that his normal is even remotely normal.

Suspect the hospital is thrilled to have him tf out of there.  Now they have to sanitize...

[closetcagebaby]

Today I can’t stop thinking about the White House staff (who are likely underpaid and do not have access to life changing healthcare) who are being exposed to this deadly disease due to the idiocy and cruelty of this president and his regime. It is so so so unfair.

[onekidanddone]

They are pumping him full of steroids which can really rev you up. Sometimes too much. I was on prednisone for a hurt shoulder and Yowzer!
 

I was basically awake for three days felling fucktastic. I was talking non stop there was nothing in the world I couldn’t do. By the end of day three I fell on the bed an told Mr. OneKid that I was losing my mind.  Dr prescribed a mood stabilizer and sleeping pills. I slept for the better part of 24 hours

From what I have read dear leader is on a much stronger steroid. So hang on to you hats ladies and gents.   We are in for a bumpy ride

[GreyhoundFan]

A good one from Dana Milbank: "Americans showed Trump compassion. He repaid us with contempt."

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Americans of all political stripes wished President Trump well in his battle with covid-19. Now he is repaying our compassion with reckless disregard and callous contempt for the well-being of anybody but himself.

Trump, announcing via Twitter on Monday afternoon that he was ending his hospitalization at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after three days, told Americans that the pandemic is no big deal. “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life,” he wrote. “I feel better than I did 20 years ago!” he added.

A more selfish man has never occupied his high office. He received a cutting-edge treatment, monoclonal antibodies, unavailable to virtually all other Americans. He received an antiviral, remdesivir, that is rationed for ordinary Americans. He required oxygen and steroids.

Yet Trump has the audacity to tell Americans the virus is no biggie. No doubt the families of the 209,000 dead are greatly reassured.

Trump, his doctors say, appears to be recovering. His administration, however, has had so many recurrences of old pathologies in the past four days that it looks like a terminal case.

Recklessness. The White House ceremony for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, held in violation of public health guidelines, has made the White House, Trump campaign and Senate Republican caucus look like a nursing home in the early days of the pandemic. On Monday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and various junior White House officials joined a list of the infected that includes Trump’s wife, his campaign manager, three Republican senators and several other senior Trump advisers.

Incompetence. Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, contradicted the president’s doctor about Trump’s prognosis. White House officials complain about a lack of direction. Meadows allies attempt Al Haig-like assertions that he’s running the government. “Where are the adults?” a former Secret Service member asked The Post after Trump jeopardized the lives of his security detail by forcing them to take him driving Sunday.

Lies. Trump’s White House physician destroyed his own credibility, misleading the public about the president’s health and omitting crucial information. “I was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, that his course of illness has had,” he explained when caught. Trump reportedly didn’t disclose his first positive coronavirus test and told one adviser who had tested positive, “Don’t tell anyone.” Even in the hospital he has deceived the public, with staged photos showing the illusion of business as usual.

Above all, we’ve seen Trump’s arrogant disregard for others. He and his lieutenants jeopardized the health of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and others at the debate when Trump’s family and aides broke the rules and took off their masks. He put supporters in Minnesota and donors in New Jersey at risk when he knew, or had reason to suspect, that he and those around him had been exposed.

The recklessness in the White House (McEnany, when she was supposed to quarantine, instead briefed reporters without wearing a mask) has spread the virus to journalists and members of the White House housekeeping staff (who’ve reportedly been told to keep quiet).

Biden respectfully pulled his negative ads after Trump’s diagnosis, but Trump is having Vice President Pence continue holding crowded, maskless campaign events, while Trump has been firing off all-caps tweets and political attacks from his hospital bed.

And of course there was Trump’s joyride to greet supporters outside Walter Reed, endangering health-care workers and the Secret Service. “Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater,” is how one attending physician at Walter Reed put it.

Trump, who once tweeted that a doctor who went out in public after a potential Ebola exposure “is a very SELFISH man,” has set a new standard for selfishness. And his appointees abuse their positions of public trust to validate the president’s contempt for others.

Sean Conley, the White House physician, wearing his white coat with other doctors outside Walter Reed on Monday afternoon, refused to say when Trump last tested negative — vital information to the Biden campaign and many others potentially exposed. “I don’t want to go backwards,” he said.

Conley also declined to say what quarantine controls would guarantee others’ safety at the White House. He refused to provide details about Trump’s lungs — crucial details four weeks before Election Day. He dismissed any concern about the man with the nuclear codes taking a steroid medication that can increase irritability and impulsivity and induce psychosis.

As for Trump telling people not to fear covid-19, Conley said: “I’m not going to get into what the president says.” If he were looking out for the American public’s well-being and not Trump’s political well-being, he would have given a different answer.

After the past four days, it’s fair to ask: Why should we care about Trump when he obviously doesn’t care about us?

 

[AnywhereButHere]

If it wears off and he collapses in front of his loyal subjects, do you think they’d believe in the virus then? 

[Audrey2]

1 minute ago, AnywhereButHere said:

If it wears off and he collapses in front of his loyal subjects, do you think they’d believe in the virus then? 

No, they would just blame Hillary, Obama, Biden, George Soros, antifa...

[sndral]

He’s out of the hospital & removed his mask...https://apnews.com/article/d39bd670e8a280b6283abcdfc91d4794

KellyAnne Conway also chose to announce she was positive to the press corp...wait for it...ta da...without a mask.

I have no words. My thoughts are with the 210,000 this administration has already killed and the next couple hundred thousand they intend to kill.

I guess most residents of this country are just collateral damage to these power/money junkies.

Edited October 6, 2020 by sndral
To add a thought.

[dawbs]

1 hour ago, libgirl2 said:

Quick reminder of the Herman Cain timeline:

6/24: Attends Trump rally, maskless

7/2: Tests positive for Covid-19

7/10: Says he’s improving

7/15: Says his doctors seem happy

7/27: Says he’s really getting better

7/30: Dies

My friend who had covid was in the ICU said there is no way you get over covid and feel 20 years younger! He is an ass! 

Don't forget, Herman Cain's twitter is still all about the trump train!

(wish I were kidding.  Explore his timeline)

 

[EmmieJ]

I've watched the short clip of Trump climbing the stairs at the WH, removing his mask, then wincing as he has trouble putting it in his pocket.  His breathing appeared labored.  I think he may follow in Herman Cain's footsteps.

[AmericanRose]

Everyone feels marvelous on steroids.

But no one, especially an obese man over 70, gets COVID and beats it in 3 days. ?

Edited October 6, 2020 by AmericanRose

[Snarkasarus Rex]

‘Herman Cain’s’ tweet actually made me LOL...”We hope for Trump’s recovery, but just in case he joins Herman, here’s his replacement” ?

[Cartmann99]

1 hour ago, onekidanddone said:

They are pumping him full of steroids which can really rev you up. Sometimes too much. I was on prednisone for a hurt shoulder and Yowzer!
 

I was basically awake for three days felling fucktastic. I was talking non stop there was nothing in the world I couldn’t do. By the end of day three I fell on the bed an told Mr. OneKid that I was losing my mind.  Dr prescribed a mood stabilizer and sleeping pills. I slept for the better part of 24 hours

From what I have read dear leader is on a much stronger steroid. So hang on to you hats ladies and gents.   We are in for a bumpy ride

So, if the idiot brigade lets Trump do a rally, the odds just went way up that he'll end up yelling racial and ethnic slurs while his fans cheer.