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Silent3

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27. Trump supporters operate on the psychological level of shit-flinging chimpanzees

Reply to Windy City Charlie (Reply #16)

Sun Oct 4, 2020, 01:18 PM

Oct 2020

Sick = weak = bad

Never sick = healthy = good (screech loudly, pound chest)

Oh, sure, his supporters, hating to admit they were ever wrong about anything, would attempt to rally behind a comeback story, but serious damage will have been done.

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If he comes back soon, like a miracle, my spidey sense says it's all been a hoax. [View all] nature-lover Oct 2020 OP

I don't see how he gets a sympathy vote if he acts like he's not sick Walleye Oct 2020 #1

He will have faced the demon and prevailed. They'll buy it. nature-lover Oct 2020 #6

His cult will..the rest of us. NOT Thekaspervote Oct 2020 #8

Exactly. If he is really on dexamethasone, bamagal62 Oct 2020 #2

dump's been cured by Remdesiver and hydroxychloquine, etc. etc. etc. CountAllVotes Oct 2020 #3

Maybe it was all to plug Remesdivir Wicked Blue Oct 2020 #4

If that were the case, why say he took several other drug treatments in addition to Remdesivir ? Hoyt Oct 2020 #10

Trump had stakes in the makers of the cocktail he's taking. Qutzupalotl Oct 2020 #25

Sounds like he might have sold his holdings in 2017, that's how he made capital gains. Hoyt Oct 2020 #26

not a fucking hoax, the personal humiliation and mockery will never go away and ZERO sympathy beachbumbob Oct 2020 #5

I think it's the other way around Windy City Charlie Oct 2020 #12

nothing to suggest this going to happen outside of paranoria beachbumbob Oct 2020 #24

if it was all a hoax he can still catch it. even if he has it noone knows how immune he would become bullimiami Oct 2020 #7

Plus, it would mean everyone else in the Rose Garden was also faking... regnaD kciN Oct 2020 #17

I don't think the Rose Garden folks were faking, merely convenient for him to get it too. nature-lover Oct 2020 #22

It's a last-ditch effort to rally the cult dalton99a Oct 2020 #9

Yes, and it is what makes him relatable to his base. They are all victims of something too. nature-lover Oct 2020 #13

It allows Windy City Charlie Oct 2020 #18

+1. "The president VOLUNTEERED to take an experimental drug, and BEAT the nasty China virus!" dalton99a Oct 2020 #19

Gilead is at a five year low and is ripe for a quick bounce when the bell rings tomorrow Brother Buzz Oct 2020 #11

Hoax doesn't even make sense. It is QAnon level nonsense. Statistical Oct 2020 #14

Unless Windy City Charlie Oct 2020 #16

Even that doesn't work. Statistical Oct 2020 #20

Trump supporters operate on the psychological level of shit-flinging chimpanzees Silent3 Oct 2020 #27

I don't think it is a hoax - I think it was a standard drump administration f-up jimlup Oct 2020 #15

Will it take some high ranking repubs to die before the country seriously asks these questions? CrispyQ Oct 2020 #23

The only hoax is that he's doing well and improving. CrispyQ Oct 2020 #21