Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Orange Joe]

Nope. Trump got his SCOTUS picks. Any attempt at making measures--like a mask mandate--punishable in any way will be appealed and struck down.

You also assuming the SC doesn't grow a couple spots.

[Benggaul]

You also assuming the SC doesn't grow a couple spots.

Which would be lovely but would take time to happen--along with the process needed to fill them, by which time a vaccine might finally be more widely available.

[beanman12345]

idk maybe one or two of the conservative justices would vote for the obvious choice but even if they do, it would require police to enforce, and good luck with that in many places.

[Orange Joe]

Which would be lovely but would take time to happen--along with the process needed to fill them, by which time a vaccine might finally be more widely available.

Seems it only takes about 1 month and 10 days to fill a seat.

[Benggaul]

Seems it only takes about 1 month and 10 days to fill a seat.

It technically took the GOP only 4 days the last time. And as I've said before, it only requires two or three votes. One from the Committee to pass the nom to the floor. One to stop the hearings and proceed to the vote. One final vote. It could be knocked out in a well-planned afternoon, really.

But given what we've seen of Dems in the House/Senate they're more likely to stand on ceremony and listen to the concerns of the other side and draaaaag it out. Because they never learn their lesson.

EDIT: Plus, say you want to expand the court to 13 (one for each circuit court as originally intended). That's 4 more judges plus the time it would take to pass the measure to expand the court in the first place. Assuming Biden made this the VERY FIRST thing he did it would still be nearly half a year before it was set...by which time vaccines should (hopefully) be available.

This is all, of course, assuming Biden wins and the Dems win the Senate, neither of which are sure things right now.

[nonameelf]

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/...esearchers-say

Linking Fox for the Trumpeteers.

The economic recession started in February, before any covid lock downs took place. Trump killed the Obama economic growth.

[Adam Jensen]

Motherfucker.

On topic but less morbid: the Gov. of Georgia bails on his final debate to instead rally with Trump.

And in this headline I found from two weeks from now, the Governor of Georgia has been released from the hospital following their COVID treatment.

Can you blame him?

He's still at the burn unit recovering from the can of whoopass Jon Ossoff opened upon him.

[Zaydin]

Motherfucker.

On topic but less morbid: the Gov. of Georgia bails on his final debate to instead rally with Trump.

And in this headline I found from two weeks from now, the Governor of Georgia has been released from the hospital following their COVID treatment.

David Perdue isn't the governor of Georgia; that's Brian Kemp.

Still hilarious that Perdue is running away with his tail between his legs though.

[Adam Jensen]

The viral clip from the last debate of Ossoff demolishing Perdue clearly shows why he’s running away.

Brave Brave Sir Perdue bravely ran away away
When Ossoff reared his handsome head, Sir Perdue bravely turned his tail and fled
Brave brave brave brave Sir Perdue

[Benggaul]

Hey, good news, @Breccia. Donny Jr. says that COVID-19 deaths are down to almost nothing!

I swear nobody in the Trump family better ever get within punching distance of me.

[Ripster42]

I think there used to be medical reasons as well (better for arthritis?) but from what I can tell the jury is out on whether or not that's actually true.

Cold weather hurts old joints especially for inactive people. I don't know if it's "better" as far as prognosis goes, but it's certainly less painful.

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Reposting this:

So apparently one of the sources for the smears the GOP are using against Hunter Biden? To borrow a phrase from @Breccia, they don't exist.

Literally: The supposed source for a 64 page dossier on Hunter Biden does not exist, a man claiming to be named Martin Aspen; his profile image appears to have been generated by an AI, the company he claimed to work for before his current job says no one by that name ever worked there and no one with his name lives in Switzerland and the company that he claims to work for, Typhoon Investigations, doesn't appear to exist, either.

Given the level of effort put into this particular hitjob, it smacks of a Russian disinformation campaign yet again.

At least this fake intelligence firm was smart enough to use fake pictures instead of pictures of famous actors.

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That can't possibly be right.

To be clear, it doesn't mean 1/2 the state is infected, it means 1/2 the people who think they got the rona are infected.

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You can wear any mask you want.

Unless it's a mask with a political message, you're going to the polls, and your state has a law against campaigning at polling places.

[Breccia]

To be clear, it doesn't mean 1/2 the state is infected, it means 1/2 the people who think they got the rona are infected.

And I still said even that couldn't be right. And several people cited it. And wow, was I fucking horrified. Almost as horrified as I'd be if someone said a thousand death was next to no--

Donny Jr. says that COVID-19 deaths are down to almost nothing

Fuck this whole family.

[Ripster42]

And I still said even that couldn't be right..

Yeah, pretty bonkers.

[Breccia]

Trump postpones a NC rally until Monday because wind.

"Look, I had people nearly freeze to death, and some pass out from heat exhaustion," Trump didn't say but I'm pretending he did. "Seriously, I'm one earthquake away from having Captain Planet, Thrall and/or Aang show up and kick my ass."

[Kaleredar]

Trump postpones a NC rally until Monday because wind.

"Look, I had people nearly freeze to death, and some pass out from heat exhaustion," Trump didn't say but I'm pretending he did. "Seriously, I'm one earthquake away from having Captain Planet, Thrall and/or Aang show up and kick my ass."

He was probably more afraid of the wind being a portent of a teenager and her little dog dropping a house on him.

[alexw]

And even then some of the measures he tries to implement will be ignored by Trump supporters because "fuck that guy!" Count on it.

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I'm sliiiightly optimistic that we won't hit a new national record in terms of deaths because treatment has advanced significantly since the dark days of March/April. That said, the record is around 2.7k and there's a lot of room between 1k and that number.

The issue isn't the treatments but what happens when hospitals go past full capacity.

Because if hospitals are swamped and can't take any more patients then it doesn't matter how good their treatments are.

You still won't be getting them.

[Kiri]

He was probably more afraid of the wind being a portent of a teenager and her little dog dropping a house on him.

Or maybe it's just a bad day for his hair. Or rather, the hair staying ontop of his head. He has a chance to survive Avatars and houses, but if he was revealed to be bald, his followers would probably desert him.

[Skulltaker]

You also assuming the SC doesn't grow a couple spots.

I keep reading this over and over. Is this a meme, or is this a possibility?

Or maybe it's just a bad day for his hair. Or rather, the hair staying ontop of his head. He has a chance to survive Avatars and houses, but if he was revealed to be bald, his followers would probably desert him.

Every day is a bad day for Trump's hair, be it fake or not, it has to exist on top of his head.

[Kiri]

I keep reading this over and over. Is this a meme, or is this a possibility?



Every day is a bad day for Trump's hair, be it fake or not, it has to exist on top of his head.

But what if the hair is a parasite that latched onto his head and has been controlling him ever since?

[Nellise]

To be clear, it doesn't mean 1/2 the state is infected, it means 1/2 the people who think they got the rona are infected.

I think there's a problem with how states are reporting positivity rates because they're not doing things the same way. Illinois seems to report all tests done, even for people who already had a previous test, but the number of cases is only new cases (1st positive test). But Wisconsin seems to report the first test for new people, not repeated tests, which makes the reported positivity much higher. Both are reporting the new cases the same way, but Illinois reports a lot more tests being done than Wisconsin since WI isn't including all the repeated negative tests for a person (they do have this data on their covid website though).

To see what I'm talking about in Illinois, the data for my region is here: https://ccdphcd.shinyapps.io/covid19/. If you go to the 2nd chart you can change the options for how tests are reported (all people vs all tests). The recent positivity rate nearly doubles if you only look at the people version.