All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[JCAll]

“Mild symptoms.” The downplaying of the President’s condition is becoming increasingly obvious.

He's only 'Mostly Dead'. And 'Mostly Dead' is still 'Slightly Alive'.

[JCAll]

Just waiting for the headline: “President hospitalized by Democratic hoax”

Worse than that, the top thing on my Twitter feed is fact checking sites reporting that Trump never called it a hoax at all.
Despite him saying it on camera, and all of us seeing it, and his supporters parroting it for literally the entire year.
This is really what we're doing today? I hate 2020.

[Revolutionary_Jack]

I really wasnt worried about Covid before. But now I am.

I mean if it can happen to a man who didnt believe in masks or social distancing what hope is there for the rest of the world?

Trump's luck is legendary and even that didn't spare him from the bug.

This is the end, my beautiful friend.

The days are bright and filled with pain
Enclose me in your gentle rain
The time you ran was too insane
We'll meet again, we'll meet again

[Tami]

Trump is finally getting what he always wanted, 24 hour news coverage all about him. All he had to do was not wear a mask long enough to catch COVID.

[GindyPosts]

Trump is finally getting what he always wanted, 24 hour news coverage all about him. All he had to do was not wear a mask long enough to catch COVID.

And him running the risk of death in the process.

[GozertheGozarian]

He's only 'Mostly Dead'. And 'Mostly Dead' is still 'Slightly Alive'.

He distinctly said 'to blathe. And as we all know, to blathe means to bluff.

[Robotman]

He distinctly said 'to blathe. And as we all know, to blathe means to bluff.

If Miracle Max got Trump’s corpse to say “true love” he’d be referring to himself.

[AnakinFlair]

They say you lose your sense of taste when you get COVID.

That's what happened to me, and I'm only slightly crazy.

Bad lighting or does he look pale?

It also doesn't match his suit in the Fox video ...

I hate that we live in a time we have to question the authenticy of EVERYthing ...

When he was walking to the chopper, then from the chopper to the cars at Walter Reed, I thought his hair looked decidedly grey and he was pale. I'm guessing he skipped the orange stuff today, and maybe he dyes his hair every day?

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[WestPhillyPunisher]

Trump's luck is legendary and even that didn't spare him from the bug.

In a normal world, Trump would never have made it past the first round of debates back in 2016, never mind won the damn election, or surviving all the **** he’s been through since Inauguration Day. I guess the butcher’s bill finally came due.

[Tami]

House votes to condemn right-wing conspiracy group after death threats against N.J. congressman

The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly Friday to condemn QAnon, the conspiracy movement whose posts led to death threats against Rep. Tom Malinowski.

Malinowski, D-7th Dist., was the lead sponsor of the bipartisan resolution against QAnon, whose followers claim without any evidence that President Donald Trump is fighting a global child-sex trafficking ring led by prominent Democrats and Hollywood celebrities. An anonymous figure, Q, allegedly posts coded messages promoting the baseless theory.

In his floor speech, Malinowski likened the QAnon conspiracy to the centuries-old attacks on Jews.

“It’s one of oldest lies in the world, the blood libel, and it always goes something like this, that there is a powerful secret group of people who just happen, many of them to be Jewish, and they’re trying to control the world and, for good measure, kidnapping our children," Malinowski said. “This is the central conspiracy theory that QAnon promotes today.”

The vote was 371-18, with 17 House Republicans and a Republican-turned-independent voting no.

[seismic-2]

The vote was 371-18, with 17 House Republicans and a Republican-turned-independent voting no.

Those 18 QAnon-supporting (or at least neutral) members of the House are probably tweeting to the Proud Boys right now, telling them to "Stand by".

[zinderel]

Just waiting for the headline: “President hospitalized by Democratic hoax”

Not quite the same, but at least one person is already spreading that Democrats deliberately infected Trump at the debate, sooooo...: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progre...smK7vHvE14wo1s

[InformationGeek]

Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina has been confirmed to have COVID. Like Lee, he too was at the nomination ceremony.

[KCJ506]

Great. Just great. My state may end up becoming a massive hot spot.

https://www.mlive.com/public-interes...b1eYJSIhn7SI_g

Amazing that even when Trump has it, people are still trying to say governors went too far...