Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[matheney2k]

No that explains it.

There's a robot in there somewhere moving the squishy bits around, and the last 4 years have been a livestream of Twitch Chat Plays POTUS.

That actually would explain a lot for the past 4 years that's for sure

[Benggaul]

Yeah, most of you have already seen it, but...

101,461 new cases; roughly 20k more than last Friday. Another day, another new record.

Illinois: 7,164 new cases (new record); 49 deaths
Texas: 6,819 new cases; 105 deaths
Fuck Florida.
Wisconsin: 5,096 new cases; 24 deaths
California: 4,889 new cases; 56 deaths
Ohio: 3,826 new cases (new record); 16 deaths
Michigan: 3,345 new cases; 12 deaths
Indiana: 3,163 new cases; 26 deaths
Minnesota: 3,154 new cases (new record); 19 deaths
Kansas: 2,877 new cases (new record); 20 deaths
Iowa: 2,823 new cases (new record); 10 deaths
North Carolina: 2,809 new cases; 49 deaths
Missouri: 2,794 new cases; 30 deaths
Tennessee: 2,608 new cases; 78 deaths (new record)
Pennsylvania: 2,499 new cases (new record*); 30 deaths
Colorado: 2,412 new cases (new record); 10 deaths
New York: 2,301 new cases; 12 deaths
Utah: 2,292 new cases (new record); 3 deaths
New Jersey: 2,036 new cases; 6 deaths
Kentucky: 1,937 new cases (new record); 15 deaths
Massachusetts: 1,582 new cases; 24 deaths
Arizona: 1,565 new cases; 16 deaths
South Dakota: 1,559 new cases (new record); 12 deaths
Nebraska: 1,495 new cases; 9 deaths
Virginia: 1,456 new cases; 7 deaths
Georgia: 1,377 new cases; 32 deaths
North Dakota: 1,353 new cases (new record); 13 deaths
Alabama: 1,347 new cases; 18 deaths
Oklahoma: 1,302 new cases; 20 deaths
Nevada: 1,232 new cases; 8 deaths
Arkansas: 1,162 new cases; 6 deaths
Washington: 1,102 new cases; 4 deaths
Idaho: 1,064 new cases; 11 deaths
Montana: 1,063 new cases (new record); 27 deaths (new record)
New Mexico: 1,005 new cases; 13 deaths (new record)
South Carolina: 1,003 new cases; 7 deaths

I may need to consider raising my threshold. That's 36 states over 1k and several are getting close. Montana is on there for the first time ever. Wyoming is halfway there. I might consider putting in the totals for Florida again even though they're undoubtedly false simply because they're back to admitting to numbers as high as they had in mid-to-late August. I've removed the asterisk from Iowa's record because they've now eclipsed their previous record even if you're counting the huge correction day. I've added an asterisk to Pennsylvania's because technically they had one day with higher numbers but it was a combination of two days' data.

I mean, what's to say? Shit is fucked. There's very little change from yesterday and outbreaks are running rampant throughout the bulk of the country. We're now a little under 20k higher than our previous peak back in the Summer and there doesn't appear to be any sense that it'll be stopping soon. Even if only 1% of cases are bad enough to be sent to the hospital that's still a thousand people a day--those resources are going to get stretched thin quickly, especially in more rural areas with less healthcare coverage. Trump's incompetence will kill a lot of people--again. And this time a lot of them are going to be his base. For some their last act before getting sick will be going to the polling stations on Tuesday to cast their vote for their own murderer.

988 is nearly a hundred more than last week and increases the total to 235,159. I expect it will be over 1k next Friday as the increase in cases from a couple weeks past starts bearing rotten fruit. As bad as this increase in cases is, the end result in the coming week(s) will be far more horrible. Texas hit 100 deaths again, a few states hit new records. More than half the states in the union have been reporting double-digit death totals nearly daily and that will only get worse as time goes on.

Related news:

Donald Trump Jr. says recent COVID-19 deaths are 'almost nothing.' More than 20K people died this month.--I posted this earlier in passing, but it bears repeating. That family are all remorseless, selfish assholes.
Coronavirus updates: US hits 9 million cases, faster than one per second--In the time it took you to read this report, if you read all of it, probably 50-100 more people contracted COVID-19.
COVID-19 Antibodies May Last Longer Than Researchers Thought--Because, again, we could use some good news.

Stay safe, folks.

[Nelinrah]

That can't be right, Trump said the pandemic was over.

[beanman12345]

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Read it all. That second to last thing 100 people now have covid reading your post really puts it into context. so sad. Donald Trump Jr is 0 steps removed from Kevin Bacon I guess

[Breccia]

101,461 new cases

Well as long as--

988 is nearly a hundred more than last wee

Son of a $130,000 whore.

[YUPPIE]

trump's run might very well end soon, so I feel like asking what you guys feel he did better than Obama, his predecessor

[Zaydin]

trump's run might very well end soon, so I feel like asking what you guys feel he did better than Obama, his predecessor

Jack shit.

Though ironically, Trump may well be the best thing to have happened for the Democratic party in a while if the election on Tuesday ends up following the polls and a blue tsunami occurs. Possibly two wave elections in a row in Democrats favor thanks to Trumps sheer incompetence and corruption.

[Machismo]

trump's run might very well end soon, so I feel like asking what you guys feel he did better than Obama, his predecessor

He pandered to white supremacists much better than Obama did.

[Felya]

trump's run might very well end soon, so I feel like asking what you guys feel he did better than Obama, his predecessor

Nazis... definitely the Nazis...

[Breccia]

Trump says the US is rounding the curve on COVID.

"You and like fifty people already posted that."

He said it again today in Wisconsin.

Ask @Benggaul how Wisconsin's doing.

[Felya]

He pandered to white supremacists much better than Obama did.

Oh please... how can you even understand he is pandering, when he speaks gibberish?

[postman1782]

trump's run might very well end soon, so I feel like asking what you guys feel he did better than Obama, his predecessor

Nothing, other than show that there is a lot more racist people in this country that I thought.

[YUPPIE]

i mean, doesn't it bother any of you through word of mouth trump will go down in history as probably the most controversial (and in a bad way) figure in US leader history, ecplising richard nixon? Normally leaders like to step out of office and leave behind an admirable legacy.

[Machismo]

i mean, doesn't it bother any of you through word of mouth trump will go down in history as probably the most controversial (and in a bad way) figure in US leader history, ecplising richard nixon? Normally leaders like to step out of office and leave behind an admirable legacy.

Well, that's what happens when one panders to white supremacists.

Why are you so upset that people don't take kindly to racists like Trump?

[Benggaul]

Y'all wanna stop feeding it?

[Fugus]

2021, days in, when they lose their majority, the ability of filibuster and cloture, and can't do anything to stop it.

Oh, you know if they lose all 3 houses, they are going to try and change the rules to make sure the minority can block as much as possible during the lame duck. Hopefully they can just ignore those changes and throw them out when they come in.

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trump's run might very well end soon, so I feel like asking what you guys feel he did better than Obama, his predecessor

He got the Republican party to expose who they really are and just how devoid of ethics and morals they have been this entire time. While they did it under Obama, Obama never called them on it and they lied and since things were going overall smooth his voters didn't really here anything to shake the lies.

With Trump, he shined a spotlight onto their actions and actually emboldened them to go further and actually got them to throw all the principles they claimed to have on the wayside to cling to him.

Trump revealed the rot and the racism in the Republican party far more than any black president for them to revolt against could do.

[Dontrike]

I don't buy into the whole "Melania body double" thing but I do have to say this Tweet in particular made me laugh. Plus, you know, I think we should get the information out there and let the people decide.

https://twitter.com/TheRealHoarse/st...512314880?s=20

Neither do I, but no way that's Melania, they have barely smiled at each other in the last four years no way that suddenly she's putting on that kind of act out of nowhere. Either they gave her 50 million to do it or it's a different person.

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Dude don't spread conspiracy theories like that, it's pretty obvious he's a zombie and is just decomposing. /s

Don't talk about zombies right now, I just watched "Zombie Strippers" and I'm numb from how boring and stupid it was.

[Benggaul]

Neither do I, but no way that's Melania, they have barely smiled at each other in the last four years no way that suddenly she's putting on that kind of act out of nowhere. Either they gave her 50 million to do it or it's a different person.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/me...p-body-double/

Personally I don't really give a damn if it is or isn't since it doesn't make a difference either way, but if it's not a fake I'd rather not give Trumpster dipshits any further ammunition to say "HA HA FAKE NEWS!" ad nauseum.

EDIT: I'd also like to put forward that due to her COVID-19 infection she was probably also put on some drugs that made her feel "20 years younger". Of course, those have run their course by now, but maybe she couldn't let go of that high...

[YUPPIE]

if trump was supposedly a bad guy or a villain all his life even before the presidency, I'm still wondering how people had more faith in him than Hilary to vote him into office

[Dontrike]

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/me...p-body-double/

Personally I don't really give a damn if it is or isn't since it doesn't make a difference either way, but if it's not a fake I'd rather not give Trumpster dipshits any further ammunition to say "HA HA FAKE NEWS!" ad nauseum.

I wouldn't say it doesn't matter, suddenly the first lady being replaced by a body double is pretty big. Does it affect the country in any way? No, but it shows something went terribly wrong and they are hiding it, either with her recovery from Covid or perhaps she left completely, won't come back, and therefore someone needed to play her for a bit.

Them trying to pass themselves off as a loving couple is one of the biggest lies Trump could tell, and that's saying something.