The final countdown to Election Day 2020 is on (Trump thread #106)

[GetTheDoorFrank]

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4037771-Presidential-Debate-season-lets-stand-strong-together-Trump-thread-105
Link to previous thread...
Here is to the next 10 pages of unexpected and more so unexplainable shenanigans of SCROTUS and co...

Reporting for duty 😊☝️

Anyone else humming The Final Countdown to themselves?

Just me?

Heffaloomia’s comment about the fly being a harbinger of death at the end of the last thread...my thoughts exactly. I suppose if it had been a movie there would have been signposts - a cut earlier on to the fly, buzzing noises in the background, the moderator swatting it - but for ad hoc unrehearsed, pretty perfect.

In position. Thread a week in the run up to the election?

Stocking up on
Not necessarily in that order.

And thanks GTDFrank

Hey, that went quick! I promise to try and post more ...

Checking in.

I see even Mitch McConnell is criticising the White House over their handling of the Covid outbreak.

Perhaps the worm really is starting to turn.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54472053

Thanks Frank for new thread.

Onward and upward, we're on the downhill slope, 25 days to go

Will the talk about 25th Amendment come to anything today?

Pence cancelling all his events in Indiana without warning, to return to WH, must mean something?
Is it 25th Amendment talk or does he have Covid?

We're all on a rollercoaster...

Thanks everyone.

McNinny's statement on Trump's health.

I don't think she can count. Trump returning to public appearances tomorrow, she calls it Day 10.
Does that mean he was diagnosed on the Wednesday?
Why Day 10?
I thought quarantine went on for at least 14 days.

I'll just leave this here. Trump's exact words on a phone call to Hannity. I'm very upset about the little fish 🙄😂

"California is gonna have to ration water. You wanna know why? Because they send millions of gallons of water out to sea, out to the Pacific. Because they want to take care of certain little tiny fish, that aren't doing very well without water." -- Trump

Just saw Conley has cleared him for public appearances from Saturday!
As far as I'm concerned that confirms that he definitely lied about when he first tested positive.

Donald Trump plans Florida rally on Saturday amid Covid test secrecy
The US president, who is still recovering from Covid-19, refuses to say if he has tested negative as he aims to revive his election campaign
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/09/donald-trump-florida-rally-saturday-covid-test?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

God, I go to sleep and wake up to discover that

Trump is doing a rally on Saturday despite not having tested negative
Mark Meadows hosted indoor wedding for 70 for daughter in May (contrary to guidelines) >Nancy Pelosi is 80 years old

The last one is hardly breaking news but to me it is the most surprising

Trump is guest hosting the Rush Limbaugh radio show today. 3.5 hours long. I think I may be busy. Shame

In the UK it's 10 days isolation from your own first symptoms, but 14 days from contact with someone else who has it.

If you go on to develop symptoms yourself, you then get another 10 days on top of the 14 days.

[Day 4 of my current isolation here. It's probably just a normal lurgy, but I can't get to a testing place, and apart from cancelling my cleaner – and the electrician for the second time – isolation is my normal life, so no point faffing around trying to get tested.]

The Regeneron antibody treatment / "cure" that Trump is offering "free to everyone", apparently current stock levels are around 50,000 doses.
Roughly the same number as Americans diagnosed with covid every day recently...

So, on the Hannity interviews. Did you guys hear Trump talking about 'Early Term Executions' - i.e. actually killing of babies AFTER birth?

That extract I listened to was off the scale.

@OVienna

So, on the Hannity interviews. Did you guys hear Trump talking about 'Early Term Executions' - i.e. actually killing of babies AFTER birth?

That extract I listened to was off the scale.

He's claimed this several times, claiming Biden supports late term abortions (ie after 24 weeks).... Which are very rare and normally only performed for severe fetal abnormalities or life threatening problems to the mother. Then he usually adds 'not only late term, post term abortions, which is execution after birth". He's fucking mental. It doesn't happen. Trump claims he's ProLife ( I don't think this is an ethical stance of his, its a political stance) but he has failed to mention that his new favourite drug cure is derived from Stem cells....

Trump is now the living embodiment of "if we did less testing, we'd have fewer cases"

We're f*ed aren't we...

www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/trump-dexemethasone-steroid-covid-andrew-leahey-1071822/

'Nashville songwriter Andrew Leahey was given dexamethasone to prepare for major brain surgery. It made him feel great — but he also lost his grip on reality'

Trump's drug of choice...

@BruceAndNosh I have never heard him use that term, early term executions. Like saying AFTER the baby is born they are going to kill it.

I know he has railed against late-term abortion. The Hannity interview seemed to be confusing that with putting a newborn down.

[quote OVienna]@BruceAndNosh I have never heard him use that term, early term executions. Like saying AFTER the baby is born they are going to kill it.[/quote]
It's certainly not the first time he's said that and he usually uses the term execution. He is definitely saying killing full term babies after delivery. Once he has a soundbite, he will repeat it, often verbatim.

Separately, he talked about Hope Hicks meeting military or their families who ignored social distancing, stating "they want to hug and kiss". Then used the same terms implying he had been infected by Gold Star families (the day after Rose Garden fiasco) who insisted on hugging and kissing HIM.

The more he repeats a lie, the truer it becomes to him.
(see also Michigan Man of the Year)

Okay, I'd missed the nuance of that. I thought it was a further nudge towards the oblivion of mental chaos he seems to be experiencing.

Yes, I have seen lots about the implication the Gold Star families gave it to him.

The more he repeats a lie, the truer it becomes to him. And also for his followers.