U.S. President Trump and Melania test positive for COVID-19

[Silurian]

So how long before the push from the right to postpone the elections?

[Jingthing]

People are saying this is a shock but I'm not sure I get that. Given the way he has behaved it was predictable. The only real shock should be the timing. Logically this was more a matter of when rather than if.

[bendejo]

Well, he managed to dodge further debates.  If this whole thing has any truth to it at all....

Courting a sympathy vote, perhaps?

 

What if he dies before the election?  If they bump up Pence as the candidate (which I doubt, there would be a stampede of contenders) it could be a GOP victory, as Pence is just an empty suit conservative rubber stamp.

 

 

[Jingthing]

As mentioned on BBC Biden will be concerned as well. He was recently on stage for a long time with 45 distanced but maskless. There was a lot of loud talking. Yes remarkably its certainly possible that the president’s spray infected his challenger.

[mthomsen111]

1 minute ago, bendejo said:

Well, he managed to dodge further debates.  If this whole thing has any truth to it at all....

Courting a sympathy vote, perhaps?

 

What if he dies before the election?  If they bump up Pence as the candidate (which I doubt, there would be a stampede of contenders) it could be a GOP victory, as Pence is just an empty suit conservative rubber stamp.

 

 

I don't see how this plays well for him. He didn't follow the guidelines set his how own advisory group. He mocked others who did.

[Odysseus123]

12 minutes ago, John Drake said:

Yeah, just like Pericles in the midst of the Peloponnesian Wars.

Please,I am not having a go at you but History (a harsh mistress) must be served...

Pericles died in the early years of the Peloponnesian War of the plague-apposite  is it not?)

The middle part is generally considered to be (approx) the Sicilian Expedition of 215-213 BC.-Nikkias and Alkibiades being the chief offenders.

 

It is generally quite difficult to draw direct parallels with ancient times but the current Potus does strike me as a sort of Kleon..

 

May I recommend  Victor Davis Hanson's 'a War Like No Other' to all those who cannot even remember 1939-1945* and would wish other wars upon us?

 

1938 if you are Chinese...

[Jingthing]

3 minutes ago, bendejo said:

Well, he managed to dodge further debates.  If this whole thing has any truth to it at all....

Courting a sympathy vote, perhaps?

 

What if he dies before the election?  If they bump up Pence as the candidate (which I doubt, there would be a stampede of contenders) it could be a GOP victory, as Pence is just an empty suit conservative rubber stamp.

 

 

I think it would definitely be Pence.

[Cod Face]

21 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Point taken but Pence is an extreme case. He has lost all dignity. Then there is the bald faced hypocrisy of him being such a pious man of God brown nosing the most immoral and corrupt president in American history. 

What?  How has Pence "lost all dignity"?

 

"...the most immoral and corrupt president in American history". 

The funny thing is you cannot back up that assertion rationally or empirically.

 

When you use the term "brown-nosing" don't forget that brown-nosing is every VP's and every potential VP's job, it's nothing peculiar to Pence, take the supremely hypocritical Biden and Harris, respectively, as examples.

[PremiumLane]

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

I pray for those insensitive folks who rejoice at the suffering of others. Their Karma will be in the red.

a Crass fan saying this about Trump, well I never....

[Pravda]

Chances that trump is trolling? 

[steelepulse]

Looks like Thaivisa has found the golden ticket.  Start any news headline with Trump, and you're sure to get thousands of eyeballs on the pages and said old geezers blood pressure boiling.  

[ChouDoufu]

24 minutes ago, polpott said:

Save it. His wife and kids will be bickering over the inheritance as we speak.

inheritance?  weren't details of his tax records leaked......he's nearly bankrupt with about $450 million in debt coming due soon, along with pending criminal investigations in new york and elsewhere?

[dastakantattaka]

1 hour ago, polpott said:

I think its Trumps karma way in the red. Payback time.

Karma, of course.... And the karma of 30 mln other people who've been discovered so far. In reality, the number is around 10 times higher, and 99% of whom will recover.

 

That's not bubonic plague to call it karma.

 

He's gotten sick? He'll recover, as well as 99% of people.  The end of the story.

Edited October 2, 2020 by dastakantattaka

[cmarshall]

5 minutes ago, bendejo said:

Well, he managed to dodge further debates.  If this whole thing has any truth to it at all....

Courting a sympathy vote, perhaps?

 

What if he dies before the election?  If they bump up Pence as the candidate (which I doubt, there would be a stampede of contenders) it could be a GOP victory, as Pence is just an empty suit conservative rubber stamp.

 

 

If he were to die or become unfit to run then the Republican National Committee would choose a replacement candidate which would certainly be Pence, since he is the only one available who has also been nominated by the last R convention.  The RNC would also name a VP candidate.  Biden's victory would be assured.

[Dumbastheycome]

I guess the  White House is going to become a closed shop for some time ! 

How  many persons now to isolate ?

Look forward to last comments from Trump's ever so dutiful Press Secretory !

[Emdog]

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

I pray for those insensitive folks who rejoice at the suffering of others. Their Karma will be in the red.

Trump has done plenty of that. Looks has his karma has cashed in

[2 is 1]

Have nobody thinking what can be possible (slightly possible) If Donald not make it and he has infected Biden.Who also cant manage the election! One possible is that Pence and Harris are in election for president!

[Cod Face]

13 minutes ago, pegman said:

Not for morbidly obese 74 year olds

True but maybe it'd be an idea for you to check the actual meaning of "morbidly obese" if you're referring to Trump.

[Bender Rodriguez]

1 hour ago, orchis said:

He can start injecting bleach now.

good one

 

but in your flu vaccine there is FORMALDEHYDE ... same / worse than bleach

[Pilotman]

24 minutes ago, John Drake said:

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

I did. 

[dastakantattaka]

2 minutes ago, Emdog said:

Trump has done plenty of that. Looks has his karma has cashed in

I saw somene spell coffee this morning. I guess that's his karma cashed in.

Edited October 2, 2020 by dastakantattaka

[Jingthing]

2 minutes ago, dastakantattaka said:

Karma, of course.... And the karma of 30 mln other people who've been discovered so far. In reality, the number is around 10 times higher, and 99% of whom will recover.

 

That's not bubonic plague to call it karma.

 

He's gotten sick? He'll recover, as well as 99% of people.  The end of the story.

Not 99 percent of obese people his age. 

[Dumbastheycome]

1 minute ago, Cod Face said:

True but maybe it'd be an idea for you to check the actual meaning of "morbidly obese" if you're referring to Trump.

Ok. Amend that to morbid and obese.

[Eric Loh]

Just now, dastakantattaka said:

Karma, of course.... And the karma of 30 mln other people who've been discovered so far. In reality, the number is around 10 times higher, and 99% of whom will recover.

 

That's not bubonic flague to call it karma.

 

He's gotten sick? He'll recover, as well as 99% of people.  The end of the story.

Some of those who recovered have brain problems and messed up their organs and those are in the younger age group.  

[dastakantattaka]

Just now, Eric Loh said:

Some of those who recovered have brain problems and messed up their organs and those are in the younger age group.  

Yes, some. What's the percentage, though?

 

Anyone can recover with some problems from any desease whatsoever, even from cold. So what?

[Phoenix Rising]

34 minutes ago, polpott said:

Save it. His wife and kids will be bickering over the inheritance as we speak.

Well, according to his tax returns it seems they will be fighting over a mountain of debt.

[Neeranam]

3 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Not 99 percent of obese people his age. 

The only way your horse could win if is Trump dies. Not even the crooker H could beat Trump so Bigot Biden certainly couldn't.

[DrTuner]

Asymptomatic I suppose. There's a 99% plus chance they'll go through it without much bother. Biden folks can't rejoice yet.

[Lacessit]

Opens a whole can of worms, such as how does Trump campaign from quarantine? How many of his contacts have acquired coronavirus from him? How does he shout if he can't breathe? What medication is currently being administered?

May you live in interesting times seems to have an exponential factor nowadays.

[Morch]

51 minutes ago, Cod Face said:

Relax, Thaivisa celebrants, he's caught a virus that's proved to be slightly less dangerous than the flu.

 

Over 200,000 Americans dead.

Relax, Says poster.