TRUMP GOT COVID

Seems like we may need a thread on this

Don't worry, Donald. Alot of people say it's going to go away. It will go away. It's like a miracle, it's going to disappear.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/cO39srN2EUIRaVqaVq/giphy.gif

If he died from it, Alanis Morrissette could do a new version of that song about it, and no one could complain about her misinterpreting words.

Just want to say good morning everyone :)

Isn't it night-time over there?

we all realize that if he does die his twitter account will 100% guaranteed be herman cained

Yes just a message to everyone waking up in 5 or 6 hours

Perhaps @THEHermanCain can recommend experienced doctors.

if he dies the correct procedure is to seek out a successor to run his twitter feed in the same way they pick a new Dalai Lama

It's 9am here, so the good morning wishes were appropriate for me. :)

good day frogbs:)

and tuomas :)

thoughts and prayers up for a swift and definitive resolution to president donald j trump’s illness

we all realize that if he does die his twitter account will 100% guaranteed be herman cained

somehow every day i increasingly look forward to his death

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, October 1, 2020 11:57 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i did it

I WUZ THERE

when i found out trump had covid, i was playing a game about endlessly trying to escape hell

xp thank you for your service brad

Why is he announcing it? Unless he was actually sick he would surely hide it? Either that or he's faking it. Regular got it but not symptoms there's no way he'd announce

https://www.theonion.com/when-youre-feeling-low-just-remember-ill-be-dead-in-ab-1819584806

Donald Trump mocks Hillary Clinton over her pneumonia outbreak pic.twitter.com/feHjV6cLDa

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) October 2, 2016

4 years ago today

Are people not concerned about the "sympathy vote" - however undeserved?

lmao at this sentence from the NY Times article

Mr. Trump received the test result after one of his closest advisers, Hope Hicks, became infected, bringing the virus into his inner circle and underscoring the difficulty of containing it even with the resources of a president.

I feel like Trump publicly downplaying this for 6 months and letting 207000 people die might suppress the sympathy vote a little

smash cut to Trump slagging off Biden for not wearing a mask, at the horrendous death toll...idk, I feel the sympathy aspect is overplayed here

*for wearing

it makes no sense at all, but my confidence in the us public to have sane, rational reactions to events disappeared somewhere around the Brett Kavanaugh hearing

Obv stoked for this but also worried he gets a mild case, which is the most likely outcome

Obv stoked for this but also worried he gets a mild case, which is the most likely outcome

If its a mild case does SuperTrump announce this to the world?

Kind of amazed it took this long tbh.

Obv stoked for this but also worried he gets a mild case, which is the most likely outcome

If its a mild case does SuperTrump announce this to the world?

― anvil, Friday, October 2, 2020 12:34 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Unlikely to even be symptomatic yet,likely caught it in past week

20 years ago today I was awake in the middle of the night too so I could be one of the first in line to but Kid A and scoop up a sweet limited edition poster.

I’m only half awake rn so I have nothing clever to add here

Are people not concerned about the "sympathy vote" - however undeserved?

If he died soon I think it would be bad for the Democrats.

I mean getting mild covid didn't exactly work out badly for Bolsonaro but he wasn't in the middle of an election campaign at the time.

The Trump family were sat in that debate hall without masks, chances are they've all got it, and maybe some people on the Biden team as well.

He'll say anything to get out of another tv debate

Bolsonaro gets covid once every 6 weeks, no one pays it any attention

I'm not much bothered by the risk of sympathy vote but am worried that prospect of President Pence might add a few more votes. What are the election rules if he actually dies before Nov 3 anyway?

Amy Covid Barrett

Asshole’s popularity tends to rise when he’s not visible, so it could help him

xps:
How Stuff Works: What Happens if a Presidential Candidate Dies?

Before the Electoral College meets: new candidate chosen by party. It doesn't have to be the vice-presidential candidate.
Before inauguration: covered by succession rules under 20th amendment. VP-elect becomes President-elect.

Seems bizarre outcomes are possible, eg: Trump loses the popular vote but has an edge in the electoral college, dies before the Electoral College meets, the GOP puts Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz on the Electoral College ballot, and if their electors are faithful or Biden has unfaithful electors, someone who wasn't on any 2016 ticket could get in. One would hope that would be the death knell for the Electoral College...

Great article about some such bizarre-outcome possibilities:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/

my thoughts and prayers going out to that poor virus right now

Kate Garraway - Did you have an instinctive reaction when you heard Donald Trump had contracted coronavirus?

Dominic West - "Well I did slightly leap in the air with joy when I heard"#GMB pic.twitter.com/d2tqM3zyhR

— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) October 2, 2020

Aside from poetic justice, isn't this actually terrible news? If he's lying, which could be the case, and could be covered up easily, he could make a "miraculous recovery", further enabling his fantasy 'everything is fine' narratives. If he is sick and survives, he'll sail to victory on a sympathy vote. If he is sick and dies, another Republican will sail to victory on a sympathy vote (and a de-energized left who are already only voting for Biden begrudgingly).

Has anyone ever won on a sympathy vote?!

Sympathy isn’t doing it for Boris, who had a baby on the way at the time as well and was a lot more popular than Trump.

who votes for someone because they're ill?

People who were going to anyway

We all knew he had it bad. I’m pissed off by this revive of that moment & the reminder that we could have been spared the whole lame duck period & subsequent insurrection if he had just done the reasonable thing & kicked it.

Remembering that period, when COVID in the US was taking off like a rocket & all anyone was talking about was “The severity of the pandemic is Trump’s fault and WHY won’t he & the cons just wear a damn mask” & when he got the Vid it was like THIS IS WHAT YOU SOWED, NOW REAP
and the disappointment when he did not in fact reap, which took the wind out of the anti-Trump momentum — just a bit, but enough to notice.

Fuck you, Donald Trump.

Since this is the active Trump thread rn:

One America News aired this "tribute" to Donald Trump, featuring solemn piano music and a poem by Rudyard Kipling. This is not from an opinion show; it's from a news hour. pic.twitter.com/YmCKGHmnVq

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) February 11, 2021

And this:

this is a real ad running on Newsmax pic.twitter.com/FRZUpueQGl

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 11, 2021

It's a big race to that bottom, but Huckabee might just have claimed the title for "Most Pathetic Trump Toady"...

"Mike Huckabee's education company" four words that make no sense when placed in that order.

here's an improved version of the If video

They made it exceptionally easy to change the tone of the video pic.twitter.com/tWUEfZrx6t

— David A Bliss 🌹 (@davidallynbliss) February 11, 2021

and the disappointment when he did not in fact reap, which took the wind out of the anti-Trump momentum — just a bit, but enough to notice.

Fuck you, Donald Trump.

yes but we're only 20 days out of office and he a) is still too busy pissing his pants to appear in public and b) might yet face tens or hundreds of years in prison. chin up!

damn i wish pence had a dagger in his hand, that would be a perfect ending. but, no surprise he is the biggest cowardly wuss of all time.

"Mike Huckabee's education company" four words that make no sense when placed in that order.

wonder if he has any materials on how to care for dogs

Ok, I had a go too, very obvious thing to do, but it fits very well

Sorry, I had to do this. It does fit even better than expected though. pic.twitter.com/CyrZQzKeZL

— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) February 12, 2021

gotta project it on 16mm while flapping the film with yr fingers

I read that that "Free" Huckabee Kids Guide to Trumpism actually requires automatic payments from a credit card, so all in all, a pretty apt way to pass your legacy as sheep for right-wing fleecing on to your children.

aw, i was gonna order some copies to scan and post.

man it wouldve been so cool if he died, but on the other hand the storming of the capitol was pretty momentous too

idk what Kipling poem they used (I have a guess but I'm not going to click on it), but I'm guessing it wasn't this one:

I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?

It was the one that began "There once was a man from Nantucket."

ah, a classic.

you're correct about the robbing and the gwb alignment for sure

They used If, because they are fucking basic but i'm sure you knew that

The stupidest thing about that If/Trump video is that it was billed as a "tribute to his accomplishments", but the video clips just showed him walking around in various places, waving vaguely at either people or trees or walls - it wasn't always easy to tell -, with zero hint of any accomplishments of any kind. They didn't even show his big beautiful border wall. Apparently his great accomplishment consisted of walking and waving without tripping over his feet.

the thing that really made my heart sink was after Trump got Covid a whole host of cable/late night hosts from Chris Hayes to Stephen Colbert to basically everyone on CNN said something to the effect of "we wish him and Melania a speedy recovery"

maybe it was just for appearances and to not play into the "evil liberals want Trump to DIE!" narrative but it still was sickening. the man is singlehandedly responsible for getting a quarter million people killed. he's made life worse for pretty much everyone on the planet. you spend every night telling your audience what a soulless monster he is. if there was ever a person who deserved a long, painful covid death, it's him.

you have to wonder if he'd got reelected would more people have got the jabs?

dang i didn't mean to bump this what am i doing over here

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pandemics-public-health-coronavirus-pandemic-f6e976f34a6971c889ca8a4c5e1c0068

let's take this negligent genocidal fuck-up seriously this november

this was still the best trump day

surely the 5/30/24 NYC jury is just jealous of mr. trump's success

He could die in the next few days.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/15/liz-truss-tweets-photo-of-her-and-trump-at-mar-a-lago

Is she a virus

she killed the queen

tbh the pic already looks like a frame from weekend At Bernie's
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/52d961456d3694836cea0b0700c3f07de01de216/0_0_753_602/master/753.jpg

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/52d961456d3694836cea0b0700c3f07de01de216/0_0_753_602/master/753.jpg?width=620&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none

idk, JD Vance killed the pope, and he's around Trump all the time

He could die in the next few days.

sorry to burst your bubble, but he looks like an old man because he is an old man. nothing about this photo is new or interesting in terms of his revealing something about his current state of health. if anything, it tells me the odds of his dying in the next few days are an extremely unlikely.

he could die in the next few days because he met liz truss, not because he looks like a corpse in the photo

If Trump were 96 instead of about 80, I'd be more eager to believe it.

Aimless, just go with the joke, plz.

It is very unlikely the genie misheard "12 inch pianist". In this thinkpiece I will

No I really believed that trump was about to die as a direct result of meeting liz truss so I appreciate mr logic steering me right with a healthy note of scepticism

Think we need ChatGPT to weigh in here

liz truss is too irrelevant to serve as a load-bearing component for topical humor

Aimless, just go with the joke, plz.

― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 February 2026 bookmarkflaglink

Is this what pleading with the Terminator feels like?

I am a learning computer

xps article is full of comedy gold tho

At home in the UK, meanwhile, Truss has been trying to get her own club off the ground and has been accused of wandering the premises of London’s exclusive club 5 Hertford Street in search of members to poach for her rival operation.

stunned that this clearly capable, competent person is struggling to cohere her vision of a piss-up in a Nazi brewery

so Britishers is Liz truss really taking a hard right turn and not reading the room or is she really reading the room or is it not a hard right turn and she’s always been this way?

also, I would like to hear your thoughts on who Trump thinks she is

opening up new pork markets in Maralago

Theories I've heard

* she thinks she's thatcher and he's reagan
* she's got some kind of public humiliation kink
* she is a credulous idiot

so Britishers is Liz truss really taking a hard right turn and not reading the room or is she really reading the room or is it not a hard right turn and she’s always been this way?

she's one of those Tories who was anti-Brexit until Brexit and then she went uber-Brexit (and iirc she was libdem at college, and her parents are ashamed of her). She's an opportunist, but I also think she's a fascist, and she is definitely a moron. She is incredibly weird, just a uniquely alienating person in her public persona and behaviour, beyond the typical Tory norm. She has the personal manner of the most unpleasant pigeon in the flock, twitchy and odd. I sometimes wonder if this hard-right turn is because she's rather be notorious for being a Nazi than as the shortest-in-office, most-disastrous PM the UK ever had. But actually it's likely that she's an opportunist fascist, and, as CaAL above suggests, she's the Temu Thatcher for your shop-soiled Reagan knockoff, who also has a public humiliation kink and is also a credulous idiot.

There was some weird sex gossip about her while she was PM that I'm not gonna repeat because it was gross and felt a little misogynist and also it makes me sick in my mouth when I remember it.

Still managed to mention it though

right.