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White House poker. Biden trumps Trump. (Trump thread #115)

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TheNorthWestPawsage · 01/12/2020 13:39

Here it is.
Thanks @BruceandNosh for the title.

And still we persist.

Previous thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4084369-Figures-Don-t-Lie-But-Liars-Do-Figure-Trump-thread-114?msgid=102240605#102240605

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Phoenix21 · 07/12/2020 09:19

Conspiracy alert!!!

He has been sweating like an athlete for two weeks, his son was diagnosed last week, doesn’t it take 2/3 weeks on average for it to be bad enough for hospitalisation.

I reckon he has been sick for a while and suppressed test information or didn’t test.

Thus spreading it all over the gaff.

Remember, these bastards think it’s flu.

FridayNightAtTheBronze · 07/12/2020 10:16

I've just seen Jon Ossof's debate (with an empty podium) and he is fantastic. What a great speaker. I hope he wins.

Can see him becoming president one day.

Grrrpredictivetex · 07/12/2020 10:24

@FridayNightAtTheBronze

I've just seen Jon Ossof's debate (with an empty podium) and he is fantastic. What a great speaker. I hope he wins.

Can see him becoming president one day.

Where was the other candidate?
DGRossetti · 07/12/2020 10:28

@FridayNightAtTheBronze

I've just seen Jon Ossof's debate (with an empty podium) and he is fantastic. What a great speaker. I hope he wins.

Can see him becoming president one day.

I thought the SOP in such cases was to send your Dad ?
EveryoneRevealsThemselves · 07/12/2020 10:33

Where was the other candidate?
@Grrrpredictivetex Perdue refused to take part as Ossof absolutely owned him in the previous debates, plus more information has come out since about his corruption and Ossof would have asked him some very difficult questions.
Ossof’s Twitter is bang on here:

Perdue's handlers won't let him debate because he could incriminate himself on the Cardlytics emails, the submarine stock trades, or the Regions Bank deal —that alone is disqualifying.

EveryoneRevealsThemselves · 07/12/2020 10:37

Also on the case of Rudy, just like Trump, there’s something particularly awful about someone who has gone out of his way to behave inappropriately in a pandemic and deliberately risked getting and spreading the virus, who will now receive the best therapeutics and care in the world that is completely off the table for the rest of us and our loved ones.
I don’t have words for how angry that makes me.

DGRossetti · 07/12/2020 10:40

@EveryoneRevealsThemselves

Also on the case of Rudy, just like Trump, there’s something particularly awful about someone who has gone out of his way to behave inappropriately in a pandemic and deliberately risked getting and spreading the virus, who will now receive the best therapeutics and care in the world that is completely off the table for the rest of us and our loved ones. I don’t have words for how angry that makes me.
Typhoid Rudy.

Sorry:

#typhoidrudy

FridayNightAtTheBronze · 07/12/2020 10:44

Grrrpredictivetex

He just didn't show up. As a PP said, he was probably afraid of incriminating himself. Also, he has debated with Ossoff previously and been destroyed.

DGRossetti

I thought the SOP in such cases was to send your Dad ?

Grin
PerkingFaintly · 07/12/2020 10:53

I thought the SOP in such cases was to send your Dad ?

Ouch!Grin

Grrrpredictivetex · 07/12/2020 11:17

Thanks @EveryoneRevealsThemselves

OhLittleBoreOfWhabylon · 07/12/2020 11:37

@FridayNightAtTheBronze

I've just seen Jon Ossof's debate (with an empty podium) and he is fantastic. What a great speaker. I hope he wins.

Can see him becoming president one day.

I've just been reading about him and I agree. He's very impressive.
Roussette · 07/12/2020 11:55

Yes I agree. There's two or three who are wonderful orators and have a handle on facts, I hope they have a place in the new Administration (although I admit I don't know how all this works)
Also rate Beto O'Rourke and Mayor Pete Buttigieg. The latter wiped the floor with Fox News under pressure

EveryoneRevealsThemselves · 07/12/2020 11:59

I also agree with how impressive I think Jon Ossof is. The fact that the initial election results between him and Perdue (a truly old school, racist and corrupt GOP member) were tight enough to need the run-off is incredibly depressing.

EveryoneRevealsThemselves · 07/12/2020 12:01

Anyone wanting to watch the original debate between Perdue and Ossof watch from 40
Secs here. It’s mind blowing.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=AhWq-QqCoPI

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 07/12/2020 12:40

Phoenix21
Conspiracy alert!!!
He has been sweating like an athlete for two weeks, his son was diagnosed last week, doesn’t it take 2/3 weeks on average for it to be bad enough for hospitalisation.
I reckon he has been sick for a while and suppressed test information or didn’t test.
Thus spreading it all over the gaff.
Remember, these bastards think it’s flu.

That was exactly my thought as soon as I heard he had got it.

I will admit to a side-order of "that brown stuff running down his face was Covid escaping from a hostile environment: he is more poisonous that it is", but I didn't think that seriously.

lionheart · 07/12/2020 13:10

Going to ignore the RG stuff ('if you can't say anything nice ... etc'):

edition.cnn.com/2020/12/07/politics/biden-health-team-coronavirus/index.html

lionheart · 07/12/2020 13:26

They are who they say they are ...

edition.cnn.com/2020/12/06/opinions/trump-loss-republicans-authoritarianism-obeidallah/index.html

DGRossetti · 07/12/2020 13:27

[quote lionheart]edition.cnn.com/2020/12/06/politics/william-barr-considering-leaving-office/index.html?utm_term=image&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_content=2020-12-07T01%3A41%3A02&utm_medium=social[/quote]
The source confirmed that Barr is not happy with Trump, writing that Barr "is not someone who takes bullying and turns the other cheek!"

Who wrote that ? Trump himself ?

Sorry the exclamation mark at the end is just ludicrous and signals that everything else that precedes it is a crock 'o shite.

Prediction: Barr will not "leave office". He'll be there till the end, or Trump will fire him.

EveryoneRevealsThemselves · 07/12/2020 13:47

Personally I’m very cynical about the reports of Barr “thinking about stepping down”. It’s deliberate propaganda in case of Trump firing him. Probably via Twitter.

DGRossetti · 07/12/2020 13:50

@EveryoneRevealsThemselves

Personally I’m very cynical about the reports of Barr “thinking about stepping down”. It’s deliberate propaganda in case of Trump firing him. Probably via Twitter.
Well if he's fired, he has the excuse it's because he had the balls to talk about resigning (without actually doing it) to make his next appointment politically acceptable.

And if he isn't fired he's OK isn't he ?

AcrossthePond55 · 07/12/2020 13:52

You know, Typhoid Mary was confined to North Brother Island for the rest of her life because she wouldn't stop spreading Typhoid. She was there from 1915 until her death in 1938. Rudy seems to be spreading Covid in the same way so.........

It's a thought.

AcrossthePond55 · 07/12/2020 13:57

Oh, tin foil hats on, everyone?

DH says he thinks Rudy doesn't have it at all. He says he thinks they've got him 'locked up in the WH basement' because of his bizarre and increasingly erratic behaviour in dealing with the lawsuits. I think he's saying it tongue in cheek.

giletrouge · 07/12/2020 14:28

@AcrossthePond55

Oh, tin foil hats on, everyone?

DH says he thinks Rudy doesn't have it at all. He says he thinks they've got him 'locked up in the WH basement' because of his bizarre and increasingly erratic behaviour in dealing with the lawsuits. I think he's saying it tongue in cheek.

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