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Presidential Debate season, let's stand strong together! (Trump thread #105)

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Roussette · 30/09/2020 10:01

Here we are!

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CaveMum · 02/10/2020 22:39

It’s too much to hope this might be a “Road to Damascus” moment for him, right?

ludothedog · 02/10/2020 22:40

On CNN there is a view of airforce one waiting for him. I wonder if he will be well enough to walk. I would imagine that he would if he could. If he is taken out in a wheelchair or stretcher we'll get a better idea of how ill he is.

PerkingFaintly · 02/10/2020 22:43

Hahahahahahaha. Sorry, Road to Damascus? Ahaha. Hahaha.

Remember, the conversion to belief in Jesus as the son of god happened to an apostle.

Trump thinks he is the son of God. Or, maybe, God the Father, 'cos that's a biglier gig, innit?

TheNorthWestPawsage · 02/10/2020 22:43

So it's not the flu then?

BruceAndNosh · 02/10/2020 22:47

@Roussette

Breaking news: Just on Sky Trump is being admitted into a private suite at Walter Reed hospital as a precautionary measure
Melania has said she's not running upstairs with bowls of soup
BruceAndNosh · 02/10/2020 22:51

@ludothedog

On CNN there is a view of airforce one waiting for him. I wonder if he will be well enough to walk. I would imagine that he would if he could. If he is taken out in a wheelchair or stretcher we'll get a better idea of how ill he is.
I suspect they will not alow press in close enough to get any shots of him.
StarcourtMall · 02/10/2020 22:54

Hi all! Been lurking for a few years. On CNN website 90 minutes ago it said they could treat him at the WH and would only move him to Walter Reed if he needed more serious treatment....and Melania hasn’t been moved. I think it’s worse than they’re letting on.

PerkingFaintly · 02/10/2020 22:55

People with Covid can go downhill very fast.

CaveMum · 02/10/2020 23:02

@PerkingFaintly

Hahahahahahaha. Sorry, Road to Damascus? Ahaha. Hahaha.

Remember, the conversion to belief in Jesus as the son of god happened to an apostle.

Trump thinks he is the son of God. Or, maybe, God the Father, 'cos that's a biglier gig, innit?

I know, I know! Guess I was clinging on to the forlorn hope there might be a shred of humanity left in him, but perhaps we should just focus on finding the last horcrux 😜
PerkingFaintly · 02/10/2020 23:05

Thinking this through politically...

From the point of view of many conservatives, Trump is expendable as of a few days ago when he nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

They've got what they put him in office for. They don't need him any more.

If he dies, there will be highly distasteful public – or at least social media – celebrating by some real people who (justifiably) loathe Trump, and by a good few shitstirring trolls for good measure.

Those celebrating will not include Biden or Harris, but the spectacle will cause a backlash against the Dems or against generic "leftiness".

The rightwing, which has been perfectly happy to see children taken from their parents and shipped all over the US to be incarcerated, and has been cheering on white men who travel to another state with a weapon to roam the streets and shoot random black people dead, will clutch its collective pearls and denounce the leftist cybersprites as the beyond the pale.

The Repugs get an election bounce. Though it's not clear right now who would end up president.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 02/10/2020 23:05

Welcome Starcourt! Since day 1 the WH has never told the truth so It's little wonder we're all Hmm.

PerkingFaintly · 02/10/2020 23:06

perhaps we should just focus on finding the last horcrux

Grin
PerkingFaintly · 02/10/2020 23:07

Uff, StarcourtMall I was circumlocutorily agreeing with you above.

BruceAndNosh · 02/10/2020 23:08

Biden campaign are pulling "negative" ads about Trump...

TheNorthWestPawsage · 02/10/2020 23:09

Spinning.
(NB I have no idea who Greg G is...?)

Greg Gutfeld is on Fox News saying Trump got coronavirus because he’s brave and he was “doing it for us.” Gutfeld says Trump “didn’t hide from the virus” because he didn’t “want America to hide from the virus.”
twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1312150374892019715?s=21

PerkingFaintly · 02/10/2020 23:11

Yep, BruceAndNosh, Biden et al have to go out there and give Trump hopes and prayers like they're the NRA the morning after a school massacre.

ludothedog · 02/10/2020 23:14

PerkingFaintly sadly I think you are right Sad

Or he is ill for sometime, the election goes ahead as planned, with Dems winning, and the repugs with Trumps militia do not accept the results claiming that it's not fair. Question is will they accept a peaceful transfer of power if their man is not there to stir emotions into a fever pitch?

BruceAndNosh · 02/10/2020 23:21

I'm sorry but I sniggered at the drug name Regeneron. So generic.
When I worked in clinical drug trials, every drug was nicknamed Placebo-lol

PerkingFaintly · 02/10/2020 23:27

They won't have to worry about transfer of power if the Repugs get a Covid bounce.

The Rs will win off the back of the Donald effect but not have to put up with the Donald any more. He will be replaced by someone thoroughly nasty and sadly efficient (Pence or a Pence-alike), and they'll devote every move to the blessed memory of St Don while no longer having to put up with mad uncle Donny shitting on the table between the courses. Plus, new name so 8 more years not 4.

Win win win win win.Sad

It's all very plausible, and horrible to contemplate.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 02/10/2020 23:29

So he walked to Marine One. (Unless it's his body double... joking) But do you remember the "Is it her?" Melania stories some time ago when people thought it wasn't really her with Trump.

Presidential Debate season, let's stand strong together! (Trump thread #105)
JamieLeeCurtains · 02/10/2020 23:35

How do you fake that wig?

Oh yeah ... wig.

GetTheDoorFrank · 02/10/2020 23:37

Donald just posted a video message on his twitter 5mins ago

AcrossthePond55 · 02/10/2020 23:44

Is he wearing a (gasp!!) MASK??

In other news, we have a diagnosed case of 'Scrotusitis' in our house. My DH has been diagnosed with stress related laryngeal paralysis. The doctor told him it's absolutely stress related and that he (DH) needs to find ways to stop being so stressed. DH has said that he is declaring himself a 'tRump-free zone'. He told me that he knows how he's voting and he doesn't need or want to hear about Scrotus' shenanigans. He said he only wants to hear 'happy' Scrotus news. These days there's not a lot of that around.

As a result, I have lost my best bitch-session-partner. And I'll probably be around the thread a lot more frequently.

BruceAndNosh · 02/10/2020 23:48

@GetTheDoorFrank

Donald just posted a video message on his twitter 5mins ago
No close ups, but he definitely didn't have his usual orange glow. Actually looked healthier without it!
TheNorthWestPawsage · 02/10/2020 23:52

Flowers Mr Across