October 10, 2020

"I could be one of the diers" - Donald Trump

The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event

Donald Trump was on the phone, and he was talking about dying. It was Saturday, October 3, and while his doctor had told the outside world that the president’s symptoms were nothing to worry about, Trump, cocooned in his suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, was telling those close to him something very different.

“I could be one of the diers,” he said.

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Nine months into the pandemic and one month away from Election Day, the president considered for the first time that the disease killing him in the polls, threatening his political future, might just kill him, too. On the phone he remarked sarcastically, “This change of scenery has been great.”

He asked for an update on who else in his circle had contracted the virus, though he expressed no regret, no indication that he understood his own decisions could have led to the infections. Unable to process the irony of his own misfortune, he tried his best to find the Trumpiest spin. Looked at one way, he was having the greatest and most important illness of all time. He had the best care in the world, and he raved about the virtues of the drugs the doctors had him on, including dexamethasone, a steroid pumping up his lungs that can induce euphoria. He was awed by the wonders of modern medicine. He said he was feeling really good, and it didn’t sound like he was lying. Then he admitted something scary. That how he felt might not mean much in the end.

“This thing could go either way. It’s tricky. They told me it’s tricky,” the president said. “You can tell it can go either way.”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/donald-trump-covid-19-white-house.html

October 10, 2020

Trump, lagging in polls, pressures Justice Dept. to target Democrats

Trump, lagging in polls, pressures Justice Dept. to target Democrats and criticizes Barr

President Trump publicly pressured the Justice Department on Friday to move against his political adversaries and complained that Attorney General William P. Barr is not doing enough to deliver results of a probe into how the Obama administration investigated possible collusion between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.

The delayed report is “a disgrace,” and Trump’s 2016 Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, should be jailed, Trump said in a rambling radio interview, one day after he argued on Twitter that his current Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, is a criminal who should be barred from running.

Three weeks before the election and trailing Biden in polls nationally as well as in key states, Trump is issuing a new torrent of threats and demands for federal action against Democrats, including former president Barack Obama, that go beyond his familiar and often erroneous claims of wrongdoing by his perceived political enemies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-barr-durham-russia/2020/10/09/05ed9842-0a40-11eb-a166-dc429b380d10_story.html

October 9, 2020

Schmidt: "None of us will ever work in Republican politics again"

Steve Schmidt on the Lincoln Project

"None of us will ever work in Republican politics again," Schmidt tells Stahl. "We joke that-- like some of the explorers who came to the new world, they were incentivized by the captain when he burned the ships…"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republican-strategists-the-lincoln-project-donald-trump-60-minutes-2020-10-09/

October 8, 2020

Call Now! CALL NOW !! REGENERON !!!

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1314297485318217728

October 8, 2020

Trump on Kamala Harris: 'She's a Communist. A monster.'

Trump calls in for rambling and ugly post-hospital interview

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And he lobbed accusations against Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, that edged into the realm of Joseph McCarthy.

"She's a communist. She's not a socialist, she's well beyond a socialist," he said, going on to make false, fear-mongering claims that Harris wants to "open up the borders to allow killers and murderers and rapists to pour into our country."

He twice called Harris, the first woman of color on a major party ticket, a "monster."

The appearance shoved aside any coverage of Wednesday evening's vice presidential debate. And it seemed to solidify the impression of a candidate in deep distress about the state of his campaign.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/08/politics/trump-covid-fox-interview/index.html

October 7, 2020

Trump: 'I think catching Covid was a blessing from God'

"'I think it was a blessing from God that I caught it". Actual quote.
.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313959702104023047

October 6, 2020

Where have I seen that on-the-balcony salute before?

A: Every damn meglomatioc dictator, left to right, from Stalin to Pinochet, including this guy -

October 6, 2020

OMFG

a new low. even for him.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313267615083761665

October 5, 2020

COVID is The Fountain of Youth, the Elixir of Life.

"I feel better than I did 20 years ago!"
-Donald J. Trump

Don't be afraid. Try it yourself. What have you got to lose.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313186529058136070

October 4, 2020

SNL: Ruth Bader Ginsberg tribute