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"Stunning news" in what fucking way? I'm shocked it took this long!

I don't believe it, and I won't until we see video, (not still pictures they could easily fake,) of him being intubated for a respirator and clearly near death.

He, and those around him, have no credibility. The fact that Trump is saying he has it statistically makes that claim very likely to be a lie.

I think this is an excuse to skip the second and third debate after his train wreck in the first one, and try for some sympathy vote.

(Sometimes I think we need an irony channel)

While I absolutely agree with your instincts here, in this case I'm actually inclined to believe him. This is a failure for him, and being a loser / failure is the worst thing in the world to a narcissist failson like him. I don't think he'd use this as an excuse unless he didn't have any better options. He could have claimed he'd had some other medical condition, or that only the first lady was positive but he was exposed and is quarantining based on medical advice, etc.

I think he's not only positive, but symptomatic. They're not going to be able to hide it if/when Pence takes over.

Him capitalizing "together" feels to me like a demand. I doubt Melania wants to be anywhere near the guy, especially when he's quarantining and even whinier than usual.

I hope you're right, but I've been conditioned to not believe a word he says, especially words he tweets.

It's not a failure if he can come out on TV every few days saying how much of a nothing burger Covid is, looking none the worse (I almost wrote "healthy"). That could be a triple win....no more horrible debates, show he's right that Covid isn't dangerous, and show his people how strong he still is by never showing symptoms, then he gets to play hooky from presidenting but still put on the Trump show from his bedroom. That is giving him a huge benefit of a doubt thinking he's capable of creating a plan, though.

Yeah, he's clearly not a planner to any degree. Or not a generally-successful one at any rate. I'm still pretty solidly convinced he didn't actually want to be president, meaning that winning the election was actually a failure. Which would be hilarious, if the joke was only on him rather than all of us as well.

You mention no more debates as a positive, but I was actually looking forward to the town hall one. Biden would have improved at handling full-on-crazy President Asshole, and Trump talking over / ignoring the questions from the people in the town hall would look SO much worse than being a dick to Chris Wallace. I can't imagine Trump's performance would have improved in any notable way, as he's not one for putting in the work OR admitting to any errors.

I think he will try to sue the government because they didn't protect him.

No more debates are a missed opportunity to show the world just how incapable Trump is, and that's a double edged sword.
While they would highlight Trump's infantile, out of control, ignorant personality juxtaposed with Biden's inability to remain completely unphased by a crazy man shouting nonsense at him for 90 minutes.
That may be good for the election, but is horrific for our international standing which is already at the lowest level in my lifetime.

It's apparently spreading through the Whitehouse like a California wildfire in an unraked national forest, and sounds like in the Senate too....at least one segment of the senate. Good thing for them it's just a hoax, one big nothing burger.
Reports are Hope tested positive Wed morning, but Trump still held an intimate fundraiser with top donors Wednesday evening knowing he had been exposed. Now, with his campaign out of money, he's put his biggest donors at high risk, and they are mostly elderly too, a high risk category.

Trump is in at least 3 high risk categories. Elderly, obese, and with heart conditions.

Two words seem to sum up the irony of the "nothing burger" president contracting and personally super spreading the virus that he's downplayed in every way since the outbreak......poetic justice.

Ya know it's got to be killing him. No TV appearances, no golfing, no rallies, no chopper talks...

That will be the torture he will have to endure.

So picturesque.

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Adding video to channels (Election, News, Politics) - requested by ant.

it's a shame that when president said he has tested positive for covid, the response for many was "what's his angle?"

not surprising for either incident or for the orangettes' "don't be mean to him" (like hill folk have no sense of irony) but this was...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/news-trend-watch/schadenfreude-20201002.

can say haven't found much schandenfreude in his deadly hubris or in his precarious situation but did find some dark humor from this...

https://www.betootaadvocate.com/world-news/fears-grow-for-trumps-ability-to-overcome-covid-19-as-an-obese-elderly-low-income-american1/

...that is fair game.

rather he loses the presidency, and recovers enough to face his trials, true place in history, and witness the steep fall off of the fat-head chasers. take his rightful place among the legacies of paterno, cosby and epstein.

Interesting how our resident token treasonous Trump sheep is absent from this thread.

Someone elsewhere said, "Is this proof that RBG just won her first case in front of God?"

I am now a firm believer of Karma.

This gave me a hearty laugh. Thank you.

Putin needs to get him a friend on here, he seems so lonely.