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Post by Kimby on Sept 30, 2020 23:23:52 GMT
I hope Biden wins the election. It will help rebalance the world imo. I agree with Bixa that Bernie Sanders would have made an excellent candidate and would have given Trump short shift in the debates...but what do I know. ‘Muricans are so afraid of Socialism that Bernie could not have won enough moderates and independents to win the election. And he’s old and curmudgeonly.
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Post by questa on Oct 1, 2020 21:22:05 GMT
Marvellous word...sums up a whole paragraph.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 2, 2020 5:07:57 GMT
So, he finally tested positive.
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Post by mossie on Oct 2, 2020 6:56:54 GMT
Perhaps he is not fireproof any more.
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Post by lugg on Oct 2, 2020 7:04:49 GMT
Fake news ?
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Post by lagatta on Oct 2, 2020 10:43:11 GMT
After his partner in crime Bolsonaro! I don't believe in diseases as divine retribution; they are simply biological reactions, but admit that I found it funny in both cases.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 2, 2020 10:46:12 GMT
Well, Boris beat them both and was even in intensive care.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 2, 2020 12:28:51 GMT
Unless....its a ploy to get out of more debates and to foster a sympathy vote?
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Post by Kimby on Oct 2, 2020 13:16:24 GMT
Trump spewed particles in Biden’s direction almost non-stop for 90 minutes on Tuesday night. If Biden suddenly tests positive, and Trump KNEW he was COVID positive when he showed up to “debate”, can he be charged with attempted murder? Asking for a friend.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 2, 2020 14:28:02 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 3, 2020 7:16:47 GMT
There's a BBC article that interviews a few people and raised the point that if/when Trump recovers - "he's going to pull out and broadcast to his followers that Covid-19 is nothing to worry about, and even at his age he got through it." Scary thought if that happens, but also concerning is the attitude shown by a mid-sixties female Trump voter who says various things like - "But my brother also caught it and he said he's had flus that felt worse." And "I think that's just the way a virus works - it has to infect a certain number of people before it's going to go away." ..... "I don't think anybody really knows that much about the virus." Which to me translates as, it's not so bad, ignore it and it'll go away. www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54392768
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Post by whatagain on Oct 3, 2020 9:20:50 GMT
All hope is not lost. He went from 'we are ok' to 'he has mkld symptoms' to being hospitalized. Next ?
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 3, 2020 10:55:48 GMT
PLease make it a ventilator.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 3, 2020 11:28:14 GMT
I don't see why he was injected with experimental antibodies. Wasn't there a bottle of bleach available?
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Post by Kimby on Oct 3, 2020 13:27:34 GMT
He’s getting remdesivir now, but is not on supplemental oxygen. So they say.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 3, 2020 14:02:20 GMT
A blowhard like that should need as much oxygen as he can get.
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Post by monetsmum on Oct 3, 2020 14:02:42 GMT
^^ What everyone else said and...........poetic justice!!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 3, 2020 15:27:58 GMT
Is it wrong to hope he gets really sick? It is isn't it? Thing is...you KNOW that if Joe Biden got it instead of Trump he would lay into the guy and use it to his advantage.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 3, 2020 15:59:03 GMT
I realize this sounds wimpy and superstitious, but in the middle of a pandemic I don't want to incur whatever kind of karma there is for wishing covid on anyone.
Also, I don't want to divert my energy for fervently wishing to see him charged, tried, and taken away in the orange jumpsuit.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 3, 2020 19:33:02 GMT
I'm cracking up over what a friend of mine just posted elsewhere ~ First you lose your sense of taste. How would he know?
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Post by monetsmum on Oct 3, 2020 20:29:01 GMT
That's a cracker bixa!
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Post by questa on Oct 3, 2020 23:32:09 GMT
Don't you think it is just a bit TOO convenient, to get the disease one month out from the election? As one who remembers Watergate and the Pentagon Papers and the "Five O'Clock Follies" I'd rate this as chicken feed to to the professional liars of the White House.
Here is a person who thought he couldn't lose, but he is making a bigger fool of himself at every chance. Remedy...Time out. Remove him from public sight and the possibility of more blunders.
Go for the sympathy vote. There are still voters wavering, and a weakened but "ready-to-serve-POTUS" picture is worth a thousand words.
Confuse the opposition. Whether Trump is really infected or not does not matter, as long as it is believed he is. I don't know but can imagine that Walter Reed has the best security facilities in the country.
If Trump is really ill, is he fit enough to hold office after just one month's treatment? If he is not ill then who wants to have a coward for a leader for four years?
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Post by lagatta on Oct 3, 2020 23:41:49 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 4, 2020 19:55:27 GMT
So, they're almost certainly letting him loose tomorrow? Interesting.
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Post by htmb on Oct 4, 2020 20:07:21 GMT
I wouldn’t bet the apartment on it. The anti-viral he is taking is a five day course and supposedly must be administered in the hospital. Whether the medical area in the WH would be sufficient remains to be seen, but it appears to many citizens that news out of the hospital is being manipulated just like we’ve seen over the past 4 years. It’s all about appearances and a show of "strength." The man’s a con, pure and simple.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 4, 2020 20:14:40 GMT
Well, obviously the official medical information was complete bullshit, but the POTUS can force as many people as he wants to move the medical services to the White House and pretend that all is well.
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Post by htmb on Oct 4, 2020 21:11:58 GMT
Yep. Just like Superman.
Kerouac, if he goes home tomorrow, I’ll owe you a beer the next time I’m in Paris (assuming we both remember and I actually get back there one day).
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 4, 2020 21:14:56 GMT
I'm wondering what might happen to warrant a bottle of champagne (in spite of the fact that I don't like champagne).
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 4, 2020 22:21:49 GMT
I missed that before and it's absolutely wonderful! “Louis the Hotel” Re: Thug-o leaving the hospital ~ a friend just phoned me in outrage to say that when he left, he went in a motorcade that made a circuit of the hospital so he could wave to his well-wishers. Now everyone in the car with him has to be quarantined. As far as the length of his course of treatment ~ since we now know that he had tested positive well before it was announced that he had, it's possible he had started the course before going to the hospital. Since the White House has a bowling alley, movie theater, digitally futuristic situation room, etc., it probably has a pretty fancy first aid station, too.
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Post by htmb on Oct 4, 2020 22:38:30 GMT
He circled the hospital, waved at fans, and then returned to the hospital.
Bizarre
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