Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[NoiseTank13]

On the good drugs tonight

Honestly won't mind that happening. Mount Rushmore is quite frankly rape of the American Indian's land.

[Azadina]

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Trump in a nutshell right now, really.

Didn't expect him to so openly admit he's a criminal. Not a day goes by where his antics doesn't manage to surprise me.

[Thepersona]

On the good drugs tonight

i mean, would you settle for the racist mount rushmore instead?

[beanman12345]

How much trouble is Trump in?

He's still leading "lock her up" chants in 2020.

That's how much trouble he's in.

The "sherriff of america," agree's to lock her up, and yet....

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Trump in a nutshell right now, really.

Just find asylum in the Ecuador Embassy. Get him a cat too.

[Draco-Onis]

Just find asylum in the Ecuador Embassy. Get him a cat too.

My bet is Russia or the Saudis sadly for him though both of these countries would sell him up river once he proves to be a liability. I doubt a president Biden would let him just run considering he is a national security risk.

[Belize]

We can only hope

[Benggaul]

71,687 new cases; over 10.5k more than last Friday.

Texas: 5,791 new cases; 98 deaths
Illinois: 5,103 new cases (new record*); 52 deaths
Wisconsin: 3,861 new cases (new record); 21 deaths
Fuck Florida.
California: 3,107 new cases; 65 deaths
North Carolina: 2,684 new cases (new record); 36 deaths
Minnesota: 2,290 new cases (new record); 13 deaths
Indiana: 2,283 new cases (new record); 23 deaths
Michigan: 2,206 new cases; 15 deaths
Ohio: 2,140 new cases; 17 deaths
Missouri: 1,939 new cases; 27 deaths
Kansas: 1,805 new cases (new record); 21 deaths
Iowa: 1,790 new cases (new record*); 17 deaths
New York: 1,728 new cases; 10 deaths
Pennsylvania: 1,683 new cases; 31 deaths
Georgia: 1,609 new cases; 64 deaths
Utah: 1,496 new cases; 8 deaths
Oklahoma: 1,472 new cases; 11 deaths
Colorado: 1,312 new cases (new record); 10 deaths
Kentucky: 1,311 new cases; 4 deaths
Nebraska: 1,286 new cases (new record); 12 deaths
Alabama: 1,212 new cases; 30 deaths
Virginia: 1,183 new cases; 20 deaths
South Carolina: 1,147 new cases; 8 deaths
Mississippi: 1,116 new cases; 8 deaths
Idaho: 1,094 new cases (new record); 6 deaths
Arkansas: 1,015 new cases; 20 deaths

At some point I may have to establish a new cutoff just to spare my RSI from the typing. That's 27 states with over 1k new cases today. Fucking Nebraska and Idaho?! Good grief. The Dakotas are creeping ever closer as well. New Mexico came within a couple hundred after their new record of 812 today. Texas is creeping back up close to 6k. Florida is lying their asses off. Fuck Florida. The "new records" with a star are for states that had a higher total previously but that total was due to a correction. The last time we hit 70k was back at the end of July. It's entirely possible we'll hit 80k next week if this trend continues. Tomorrow is typically a lower-count day as things start winding down for the weekend, but depending on how ramped up testing is--because it NEEDS to be seriously ramped up with these spikes--we might still see some new records. Positivity is fucking nuts in most states right now.

928 deaths, so nearly 1k again, puts the total at 223,644. Florida continues topping the list, though Texas was right on its heels today. 26 states had double-digit death totals today.

Related news:

4 coronavirus treatments, including remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, flop in large WHO study--FOX "News" source, so, take that as you will.
A rare Covid-19 complication was reported in children. Now, it's showing up in adults.--"Send them to school!"
Feds planning now to get coronavirus shots to nursing homes--No word yet on whether or not CVS and Walgreens are aware of this plan. Trump has a habit of just making up shit. We'll see.

Stay safe, folks.

[Edge-]

71,687 new cases; over 10.5k more than last Friday.

Jesus, I hate that we appear to be trending back up...agaian.

Appreciate the updates as always dude.

[Benggaul]

Jesus, I hate that we appear to be trending back up...agaian.

The US as a whole has been trending upwards since mid-September. The past two weeks it's been much more dramatic.

If it's any consolation California is still managing to remain relatively flat so far.

[Breccia]

928 deaths, so nearly 1k again

It loks like the 7-day average is going up.

[Benggaul]

It loks like the 7-day average is going up.

Still fairly flat, actually. Last week on Friday it was 909. I do expect it to start going up in a week or two, though.

[Zaydin]

According to Forbes, Trump doesn't owe 421 million dollars in debt. Instead, he owes at least one billion dollars in debt.

[DingDongKing]

According to Forbes, Trump doesn't owe 421 million dollars in debt. Instead, he owes at least one billion dollars in debt.

That is not under-leveraged. I can't speak precisely towards what the gearing ratios for his organisation would be without analysing a set of draft accounts at least, but I would be inclined to say that his debt service coverage ratio and debt-to-equity ratio are in an extremely unhealthy position. Unless a miracle happens, he's going to be in some serious shit come 2022-2024. Which is probably why he's so desperate to hold onto power.

[Dontrike]

How much trouble is Trump in?

He's still leading "lock her up" chants in 2020.

That's how much trouble he's in.

Considering he tried the whole emails thing again with E-mails 2: E-lectric Boogaloo it really goes to show that Trump has been desperate for four years.

[Breccia]

Welcome to Iowa. This sign is real.

An group of Iowa farmers has put up a billboard ahead of the president’s Wednesday night rally in the state, directing people towards the “Trump Covid superspreader event”.

The billboard was positioned directly opposite Des Moines airport, where his hangar rally will be held.

Iowa Rural America 2020, an anti-Trump group of “farmers, agri-business professionals, former elected officials and community leaders” paid for the billboard as a warning.

Chris Henning, a member of the steering committee, said in a press release that everyone should “be worried about a President who was in the hospital with Covid last week and who now wants to pack thousands of Iowans into an airport hangar".

“This is the height of irresponsibility. We saw what happened in the Rose Garden. Why should the President be allowed to bring that kind of super-spreader behaviour into Iowa, particularly when our cases are rising?” he said.

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So Factcheck.org got a hold of Trump's town hall and, oh jeez, just read this.

In an Oct. 15 town hall on NBC News, President Donald Trump made false and misleading claims on the coronavirus, the economy and more:

• Trump was wrong when he said a recent study found “85% of the people who wear masks catch” the coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says this interpretation of its study is “incorrect.”
• The president baselessly claimed the U.S. is “rounding the corner” on the coronavirus pandemic. But cases are rising across much of the country.
• The president warned of mail-in ballot fraud, but the examples he offered were cases of mistakes, not intentional fraud.
• Trump falsely suggested restrictions his administration placed on the deferred deportation program for so-called Dreamers were due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Trump again claimed Biden would raise taxes on “everybody” when two recent estimates figure 80% would see higher after-tax incomes — in effect a tax cut.
• Trump repeatedly exaggerated his economic record, at one point inflating peak employment during his term by 7.5 million jobs.
• The president declined to disavow the conspiracy theory QAnon, saying he knows “very little” about it. We can’t say what he knows, but he has repeatedly shared Twitter posts from accounts that espouse its conspiracy theories.
• In speaking about the coronavirus pandemic, Trump inaccurately boasted that the U.S. is “a winner” on excess mortality. It’s not.
• He said: “We’ve also brought down the price of Obamacare.” Premiums on average have gone down in the past two years, but that was after a double-digit hike the year before.
• Trump argued his administration “saved 2 million people” during the COVID-19 pandemic. But that’s based on an estimate for deaths that assumes zero mitigation measures and individual behavior changes.
• The president falsely claimed Michigan was in the midst of a lockdown. The vast majority of the state’s businesses are open, as are churches and many schools.
• Trump, again, falsely said he was the “only one” who wanted to put travel restrictions on China to address COVID-19.
• Trump falsely claimed that the Obama administration had spied on his campaign. A federal investigation found no evidence of illegal spying.

Of course they reference and cite sources, but at this point Trump is mostly just repeating the same lie over and over.

[Felya]

i mean, would you settle for the racist mount rushmore instead?

There already is one (I know it would be funnier to just link the ol’ Rushmore... but...):

[Kaleredar]

There already is one (I know it would be funnier to just link the ol’ Rushmore... but...):

Someone really needs to buy or lease or contract out or whatever the left-hand side of that rock face there and chisel in an even bigger carved relief of Lincoln flipping them all off whilst high-fiving Obama.

[Thepersona]

Someone really needs to buy or lease or contract out or whatever the left-hand side of that rock face there and chisel in an even bigger carved relief of Lincoln flipping them all off whilst high-fiving Obama.

I'd settle for having someone with a spine ordering the dismantling of said monument, tbh

[Kaleredar]

I'd settle for having someone with a spine ordering the dismantling of said monument, tbh

Bah, I want the score inscribed in stone.

For decades the "the south will rise again!" yokels installed statues of confederate soldiers and leaders in southern towns to "remind black people of their place."

With the long overdue removal of them I say we put up a few "we kicked your confederate asses" monuments up in the south to remind any would-be confederate sympathizers of the real score in that altercation.

[pathora44]

"Maybe I'll have to leave the country. I don't know." -- Trump on what could happen if he loses to Biden"

I have to believe the Secret Service wouldn't let him leave the country with all the nation security secrets he has. Like the agents would be on the plane as Trump is frantically loading the plane trying to book it to Russia or SA and they would tell him he isn't allowed to leave the country.