Scrutable

Grumble wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 5:36 am I hope to feel very sorry for his family

Vertigowooyay wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 6:58 am

Bewildered wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 6:52 am Ok this was worth coming back in for, seeing as I have been waiting for it since March.

Please die, please die, please die...

..this utter shitshow just continues with a different malevolent face.

Vertigowooyay wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 6:58 am

Bewildered wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 6:52 am Ok this was worth coming back in for, seeing as I have been waiting for it since March.

Please die, please die, please die...

No. Because if that happens, Trump is effectively beatified, Pence romps in on November 3rd and this utter shitshow just continues with a different malevolent face.

lpm wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 7:44 am Old, male, obese, and f.cked up by all the adderall and other sh.t he takes.

No way dies he get this mild. If he does, I'm demanding a refund from karma.

Grumble wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 6:49 am

bjn wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 6:24 am I have never wished death on anyone, and I’m trying really hard not to do so now.

A severe case followed by long COVID would do the job as well. And prolong his suffering. If he hadn’t been so dismissive of the science around this pandemic I wouldn’t be feeling quite this way, even though I don’t think I’d be wishing him well somehow.

snoozeofreason wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 6:55 am I'm keeping my schadenfreude in check, because I am not sure this is good news. There are two ways in which this could work well for Trump. The first is that, even at his age, he might experience only mild symptoms (or be able to pretend that they were mild). That will just add weight to his dismissive comments about the virus. The second is that he might experience more severe symptoms and that this might earn him a sympathy vote from right-leaning Americans. That wouldn't be logical, but there are right-leaning Americans who are none too bright. There's a good chance that some left-leaning Americans will audibly wish death or serious illness on him, which will help him (if the US is anything like the UK, then there plenty of left-leaning Americans who are none too bright as well).

Martin_B wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 6:34 am I know some people have said that they will do anything to avoid the next televised debate, but this is a bit extreme.

jimbob wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:02 am

Martin_B wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 6:34 am I know some people have said that they will do anything to avoid the next televised debate, but this is a bit extreme.

I was actually wondering about that. After all, it is well within this White House's ability to lie. And they might be hoping for some sympathy.

Yes it probably is real, and certainly is plausible, but I'm open to the idea that this time it is a FAKE VIRUS.

Blackcountryboy wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:56 am I just don't trust that man, I will believe he has Covid if he dies.

Martin_B wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 7:59 am

snoozeofreason wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 6:55 am I'm keeping my schadenfreude in check, because I am not sure this is good news. There are two ways in which this could work well for Trump. The first is that, even at his age, he might experience only mild symptoms (or be able to pretend that they were mild). That will just add weight to his dismissive comments about the virus. The second is that he might experience more severe symptoms and that this might earn him a sympathy vote from right-leaning Americans. That wouldn't be logical, but there are right-leaning Americans who are none too bright. There's a good chance that some left-leaning Americans will audibly wish death or serious illness on him, which will help him (if the US is anything like the UK, then there plenty of left-leaning Americans who are none too bright as well).

This ^^ !

I can't believe that he'd come up with trying for the sympathy vote (not that I don't think he's manipulative enough, more that he's too macho) but he might get it anyway, and he only needs a few % to swing in certain states, plus news like Texas trying to limit the number of places a mail-in ballot can be returned to (so how is it mail-in?) and trying to put another conservative on the Supreme Court bench, and he could steal enough of a lead on election night to cause chaos that the Supreme Court rules him the election winner before all the mail-in ballots have been counted.

(Seriously, why do mail-in ballots take so long to count?)

murmur wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 9:10 am And...Cue the calls to suspend the election 'cos it's not fair to Little Donnie.

I'm having a really hard time not giving in to my unhealthy tendency to schadenfreude...Sod it! Suffer, you fat f.ck! Have a worse case of Covid than The Sister did.

dyqik wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:04 am

PeteB wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 7:59 am I think fatality rate for a 74 year old man is 3->4 %. Most likely asymptomatic or mild case, but significant chance of it not being.

And probably diagnosed before symptoms manifest, allowing very careful monitoring etc.

El Pollo Diablo wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:05 am Don't forget he's obese as well. Guardian reckons that raises the risk by just under 50%, so he's got around a 6% chance of dying.

Grumble wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 9:11 am

murmur wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 9:10 am And...Cue the calls to suspend the election 'cos it's not fair to Little Donnie.

I'm having a really hard time not giving in to my unhealthy tendency to schadenfreude...Sod it! Suffer, you fat f.ck! Have a worse case of Covid than The Sister did.

His term expires, but then again so does everyone else’s.

lpm wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 9:16 am If Putin says he's not going to hospital, he's not going to hospital.

Little waster wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 7:10 am Get well soon* Donald, mate.







*well slowly and painfully but definitely don’t die, I want you to witness the coming Blue Avalanche and have to own it and everything that follows.