Trump tests positive for COVID

Oops I totally didn't mean to hit "funny" in my reply. Oh well I will leave it.

What the True Believers are peddling this morning:

Jesus fuck he's not Thor, for fuck's sake.

At this point, I think it is a matter of “when” and not “if” a major GOP figure is taken down by COVID (and Herman Cain does not count as major)

Whoa whoa whoa

If he isn't major then he's minor

And a male minor is called a boy

So you just called a grown black man "boy"

And as we all know,

I'm glad that we booted him when we did. there has never been a bigger shitstirrer I've come across online, and that includes Enterpriser.

Ohhhh, if Trump croaks, I'm gonna be Ben Affleck Batman branding people level mean to those people.

Must... resist... urge... to... dance... happy... dance...

...Ah, fuck it.

I am convinced that Enterpriser is (maybe "was" I hope he died in a fire somewhere along the line) dangerous...he is/was a stalker and capable of rape. GTurner is fucking nuts, but I don't think he would hurt anyone.

Sanjay Gupta said that indications are Trump tested positive on Tuesday, they gave him the experimental drug because he was asymptomatic to keep him from developing symptoms and then when that failed they sent him to Walter Reed. I suspect that we won’t know the full story until he’s out of office, if then.

Anyone else notice how it stopped being the "China virus" the second Trump caught it?

Y'all spend too much time perusing social media or something. It's not a conspiracy, he has it. It's surprising to me that he didn't contract it way beforehand given his flagrant idiocy about the contagion and taking precautions against it. I don't wish the guy death even though I disagree with him on practically every level, but come on. Dude's an idiot and a child and a *complete* antithetic vermin to what most people hold dear, but what did one of our vaunted members once say? "Every man's death diminishes me" or something like that.

The quote is from John Donne, and deaths that are the result of other people's actions - drunk drivers, world leaders who start wars of self-aggrandizement, presidents who lie about the dangers of COVID-19 (in addition a lifetime of egregious indifference to anyone but himself) - are tragic.

Deaths that are the result of deliberate, petulant disregard for others - drunk drivers, world leaders who start wars of self-aggrandizement, presidents who lie about the dangers of COVID-19 - remove those individuals from the gene pool, but that's the only diminishment.

Donne wrote that essay at the same time he was dancing attendance on Elizabeth I and his child-bride was churning out one baby a year (12 altogether, though several died in infancy). Grandiose thoughts from a rather self-absorbed individual. But the prose stands on its own.

I don't want the schmuck to die. I want him to live with the consequences of his stupidity. But unless he suffers serious long-term effects, he won't. First press conference out of the hospital, he'll be telling us how he "beat the China flu."

I had forgotten what it was like to go a day or two without a trump tweet that made everyone cry.i

Not true at all. Some people's death totally makes my world better. The idea that every man's death diminishes someone is fucking absurd anyway. What about some guy way over in china on some farm who really never went anywhere or effected you. You are going to tell me when he died you felt a loss? Because if that is the case, dumbfuck, it just happened hundreds of times while you were reading this so you better get on that greiving train because this is 2020 mr melting snowflake.