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She should have hammered that Trump avoided taking the test before the last debate because he knew he likely had it and since they won’t be honest about his testing may have tested positive before the debate.

Pence moderating this shit now.

Holy shit. “Well thank you but I’m going back.”

Again just letting him go on and on.

Just gonna let him keep going...

The media needs to run with this. Clearly the Trump admin doesn’t want to say when he got his last negative test because it’s not a good answer for them. Start making FOI requests. Start filing lawsuits. Make as much noise about it as possible. Even if it goes nowhere, legally, the fringe voters need to hear that trump knew he was exposed and either avoided taking a test, or already knew it was positive. They arrived at the debate late on purpose to avoid having to take a test so that they could willfully try to expose Biden to covid.

Edit: meant to quote 406w30th

Unlikely because they’re all being tested and treated immediately. Instead of not being tested until days after getting symptoms and then being told to stay home unless it gets bad. Its the worst case scenario for the general population of the country. They see a bunch of the admin test positive and then recover. Then they are told it’s no big deal. So when they start to get symptoms they are convinced they can just fight through it at home despite being 325 lbs and diabetic, and then end up with lungs looking like crushed glass and neurological symptoms lasting who knows how long.

It’s an absolute crime that anyone has to wait in a line like that to vote.

On one hand, I get that. My thought on it is that they (Fox News) already have a caprice audience. What do they gain by taking their praise to such fanatical levels. maybe the thought is that it breeds loyalty. Like, if they are seen as being most favorable to Trump within the fox family they gain some stickiness with the viewers. And I guess fox really has that figured out where they’ll give you whatever flavor you want, from constant praise to the faux critical eye that in the end comes to the conclusion that Trump is always right. But I dont feel like that really explains the ridiculous level that it gets taken to. I understand it from the perspective of Joe Truckdriver in Fulton county Pa. It’s easy to explain the psychology of the bottom rung rural white trying to convince themself that there are classes of people below them. Those people will buy whatever Fox News is selling them, regardless of the rhetoric surrounding it. I think this might start to get at it a bit. If the man gets built up to a point of absolute and total infallibility, it eliminates any seeds of doubt in relation to his fuckups before they can start to germinate. We’re talking about a sophisticated media empire. There are brilliant strategists behind it. I can’t imagine that it wasn’t a conscious decision to mythologize Trump to such an extreme nature. I just can’t immediately see the payoff. Like I said before, it seems on the surface like it would only alienate the fringes without any measurable gain in the base. Like I said up-post, Cletus in Bedford is easy to explain away. He’s too dumb to understand and too racist to care if he did. What gets me is the smart, educated, urban and suburban conservative. How do they not look see this bombastic rhetoric for what it is and lose interest? How can that person not see that their being lied to with something so obvious, and then not question the legitimacy of other more subtle points being made.

I saw an interview with Bernie the other day where he said as much without saying it when asked about the way Biden talked about him in the first pres debate. “Look, Joe and I have different opinions on some things, but we both agree on the common ground of removing the existential danger in the White House.” Or something to that effect. He gets it.

That clip highlights something that has been bothering me about how Fox News and the like speak about trump. Maybe it’s just the first time I’ve been paying this close attention, but I can’t remember any mainstream media exalting a president like they do with Trump. And I just don’t understand it. I get talking up your guy. But I don’t understand the desire to build him up to such mythical standards. He doesn’t just work hard, he works harder than anyone who has ever lived. He’s not just fighting covid, he’s fighting it with a fervor that no one else can muster. And not only do I not get the desire to do it, I don’t see how it’s not plainly transparent bullshit. Even if the man worked hard, why say he has a work ethic that the rest of us can only dream of? It’s so over the top that, at least at the fringes of their target market, it has to turn some people off. it comes off as goofy North Korean style propaganda and I don’t fucking get it.

His financial disclosure in 2017 reported capital gains from Gilead.

This was always the most likely outcome. Guy gets tested daily. The second it’s positive he’s pumped full of drugs that ordinary people can’t get, has a team of 9 doctors attending to only him. No surprise he pulls through. The rest of the country: If you think you have covid, stay home until you can’t breathe. Fuck this guy.

He knows HCQ was bullshit. He told his docs to do whatever it takes to clear it up as quickly as possible. Regardless of how serious his case is, “throw everything you have at it. I can’t go out like this.”

65-74 year olds is 8% 75-84 year olds is 18% Trump is 74, fat, and likely has at least 2 or 3 other pre-existing conditions. I think he’s probably got a 10% chance of dying from it. He’s white and has the best doctors in the world. Those two things shave a little off the mortality.

7 days a week through Election Day.

Ah, gotcha. It’s the first year it’s been an option so I haven’t heard anything about if there will be any numbers released. I’d expect not. All of the counties are required to at minimum accept absentee ballots at their main elections office but counties are allowed to open additional offices as well as stay open outside of their normal hours and on weekends if they choose to. Hopefully Philly can run up the score early. Edit: Philly has 7 locations right now with another 10 opening as they get staff trained up.

Those won’t even be counted until Election Day. It’s just “early in-person absentee” voting where you request, complete, and return an absentee ballot all in one step. So those are paper ballots that will be sealed in their envelope until 8 am Election Day.

His team flat out said they wanted to do that. They said they watched previous debates and looked for ways to get him stuck and stumbling like that.

We all know that Santorum is there to act as a foil and it was clear as day that from the moment they started the segment that he was aghast at having to try to find positives in Trumps performance.

He’s giving his base what they want.

And like magic, my registration was approved today.

Called a couple more times today and finally got through. The lady I talked to sounded frazzled and seemed like she had answered my question many times recently. Their staff of 11 people is completely overwhelmed by the number of voter registration applications and said that repeated database crashes have further hampered them. She said they’ve gotten over 15,000 applications but didn’t specify the time frame. For reference that’s a little over 1% of the population of the county. She said they have to have them all processed by October 18th so they’ll do whatever it takes to get it done by then.