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

[Mecegirl]

So Trumps new campaign manager. Bill Stepien has tested positive for covid. It just keeps going and going.

[Gray Lensman]

What are the American courts like at seizing assets?

I half think he’ll have a jet ready waiting to take him to Mother Russia.

Aggressive at it if you don't have enough to fight back even without charges, pathetically weak of you have enough to fight it, even with a criminal conviction.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Invincibility punctured by infection: How the coronavirus spread in Trump’s White House

I’ve seen video clips of the super spreader soirée which included Droopy Dogg Barr chatting with Conway. After news dropped last night about her having come down with the virus, I’m sure he raced to his doctor like Usain Bolt to be tested this morning.

[babyblob]

I love how last night Fox news said there will be thousands of people outside Walter Reed supporting Trump and praying for him. This morning there was a huge crowd. All of six people.

[Tami]

BREAKING … SEN. RON JOHNSON has Covid. 3rd Senate Republican to test positive

[Ragged Maw]

I was talking to a friend who's a high school social studies teacher today and she said that while she doesn't wish death on Trump, she does hope he suffers enough from Covid to learn something, because he only seems to learn things when they effect him directly. So maybe if he feels what Chris Cuomo felt or what Ali Wentworth felt when they went through it, maybe he'll realize just how serious it is.

Oh, I wouldn't be surprised if he (along with his associates) understood enough to protect himself better. But will he start applying that kind of effort nationwide for the rest of America's citizens? That's the million dollar question.

[worstblogever]

BREAKING … SEN. RON JOHNSON has Covid. 3rd Senate Republican to test positive

While he's not on the Senate Judiciary Committee... he will be required for the GOP to get 50 votes for a confirmation. With Collins and Murkowski already "no", they could only lose one more vote and still get across the finish line. No Johnson, Lee, or Tillis would leave the GOP only at 48. Even if Collins bailed in the final vote right now, they're still short one.

And as far as someone saying, "Well they show up sick, then."

The Congressional Sgt. at Arms is tasked with keeping all members of Congress safe. If someone tries to enter the chamber for a vote while sick, would it be wrong of Sen. Chuck Schumer to point out they were jeopardizing the health of the other 90+ members who aren't sick, and ask the Sgt. at Arms to remove them like a common MAGA twit from a Costco?

Because right now, we're talking legitimately about the line of succession being jeopardized by handling this irresponsibly. And while the GOP wants to run roughshod over all reason, rules, and Democratic norms, they're literally going to kill themselves and others in an attempt to steal a Supreme Court seat. It's beyond ghoulish, it's insane.

[Revolutionary_Jack]

Because right now, we're talking legitimately about the line of succession being jeopardized by handling this irresponsibly. And while the GOP wants to run roughshod over all reason, rules, and Democratic norms, they're literally going to kill themselves and others in an attempt to steal a Supreme Court seat. It's beyond ghoulish, it's insane.

Someone somewhere should speak solemnly to Mitch McConnell:

What profiteth a man if he screwed the pooch but lost his d-ck in the process?

[Ragged Maw]

So Trumps new campaign manager. Bill Stepien has tested positive for covid. It just keeps going and going.

On that note - Friendly reminder to everyone here: If you have a friend, associate, or loved one whom you know has more-or-less regularly been going to social hotspots (I don't care if it's just a hip restaurant) , stay the **** away from that person for the time being. Cause if the goddamned WHITE HOUSE with all its fancy safety measures couldn't detect who was compromised by the beer virus until it was too late, then I'm not banking on myself having a better "radar" in my laundry closet somewhere, let alone any of you fellas'.

[Tami]

While he's not on the Senate Judiciary Committee... he will be required for the GOP to get 50 votes for a confirmation. With Collins and Murkowski already "no", they could only lose one more vote and still get across the finish line. No Johnson, Lee, or Tillis would leave the GOP only at 48. Even if Collins bailed in the final vote right now, they're still short one.

And as far as someone saying, "Well they show up sick, then."

The Congressional Sgt. at Arms is tasked with keeping all members of Congress safe. If someone tries to enter the chamber for a vote while sick, would it be wrong of Sen. Chuck Schumer to point out they were jeopardizing the health of the other 90+ members who aren't sick, and ask the Sgt. at Arms to remove them like a common MAGA twit from a Costco?

Because right now, we're talking legitimately about the line of succession being jeopardized by handling this irresponsibly. And while the GOP wants to run roughshod over all reason, rules, and Democratic norms, they're literally going to kill themselves and others in an attempt to steal a Supreme Court seat. It's beyond ghoulish, it's insane.

I'm not certain, but they might be able to vote remotely or by proxies.

[Amadeus Arkham]

Mitch McConnell refuses to say if he's recently been tested for COVID-19

[shooshoomanjoe]

On that note - Friendly reminder to everyone here: If you have a friend, associate, or loved one whom you know has more-or-less regularly been going to social hotspots (I don't care if it's just a hip restaurant) , stay the **** away from that person for the time being. Cause if the goddamned WHITE HOUSE with all its fancy safety measures couldn't detect who was compromised by the beer virus until it was too late, I'm not banking on myself having a better "radar" in my laundry closet somewhere, let alone any of you fellas'.

My sister in law threw a party for my niece's bday. I didn't go. Several People got infected, including my sister in law's mother and her brother in law who later died of COVID complications. Worse still, she went out of state to attend a baseball tournament that my niece's were in (this was when she felt ill but before she received her COVID infection.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I'm not certain, but they might be able to vote remotely or by proxies.

I could be wrong, but I thought Moscow Mitch nixed voting remotely. But, if things get desperate and he finds himself coming up short on votes, he’ll do an immediate 180 and allow it. As for Republicans showing up sick, yeah, they will, I have no doubt they’ll put their health and the health of everyone else at risk to vote in person.

[Mister Mets]

LOL. Seriously, as if the GOP didn't look ghoulish enough announcing they were replacing RBG the literal hour after she died?

Now they're gonna send people infected with a deadly disease into the Senate to potentially kill a bunch of other old-as-dirt senators.

"C'mon guys, we have to die for the cause of overturning the ACA and denying women their bodily autonomy!"

Senate Democrats can say that they will agree to a two week delay, with the understanding that at least 51 Republicans were going to vote for ACB barring some kind of major scandal, and that they won't criticize any post-election vote, as it is important not to use people's health as a political cudgel.

Otherwise, the typical Republican Senator will conclude that a small risk to their health is worth the addition of an originalist/ textualist judge to the Supreme Court, rather than a Biden nominee who believes in different neutral principles.

[Mister Mets]

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I don't even get her argument.

How is it fake if the people who claimed it to be fake are the ones that got sick? The very perspective doesn't even make any sense.

This would also be an argument that Democrats are taking more precautions against getting sick, or spreading the illness.

Barely two weeks ago conservatives were celebrating the death of RBG.

Conservatives here?

And frankly, we're all hoping Trump eventually recovers, that way he can live long enough to go to jail for tax evasion. He needs to experience some justice before some virus takes him.

That's not every liberal, and certainly not every liberal poster in this board.