What has Trump done to this country?

CNN Poll: Biden expands lead over Trump after contentious debate and President's Covid diagnosis

(CNN)Joe Biden's advantage over President Donald Trump has expanded and the former vice president now holds his widest lead of the cycle with less than a month remaining before Election Day, according to a new nationwide CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.

Among likely voters, 57% say they back Biden and 41% Trump in the poll that was conducted entirely after the first debate and mostly after the President's coronavirus infection was made public.

Infected Trump re-shoots entrance into White House with camera crew

CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports that President Trump was seen reshooting his entrance into the White House without a mask after returning from Walter Reed medical center where he was treated for coronavirus.

Now, order everybody else who gets covid to suffer in silence, the number of infections among the WH staff and republicans must be kept from the public, The lie and criminal stupidity must be supported and hidden from view, as does the shame.
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Timeline: How Did COVID-19 Spread Through The White House? | NBC News NOW

As COVID-19 cases continues to spread throughout the White House, it’s worth retracing how we got here. NBC News Now Correspondent Simone Boyce lays out the timeline.

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Infected Trump re-shoots entrance into White House with camera crew

CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports that President Trump was seen reshooting his entrance into the White House without a mask after returning from Walter Reed medical center where he was treated for coronavirus.

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kellyanne was touching her face and shaking hands..bet you Bill Barr gets it and dies that fat fvck.

schuylaar said:

kellyanne was touching her face and shaking hands..bet you Bill Barr gets it and dies that fat fvck.

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topcat said:

Many people say hope.

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After Donald Trump's deranged balcony address, we're all gasping together

The president tells us he beat coronavirus like a man: the kind who takes all the best drugs and leaves everyone else exposed

A rare moment of unity in the US election, as Donald Trump marked his return to the White House by gasping along with his detractors. On Monday night, the president puffed up the front staircase of his residence, his face coated in several more gallons of paint than the front elevation of the building. “Don’t let it dominate your lives,” he panted of the virus, a bad case of which tends to dominate your death.

Yet there he was, this hideous kink in the arc of history, giving the most dangerous balcony performance since Michael Jackson had his baby crowdsurf off one. The American people are all Blanket now.

As for the optics, “deranged balcony address” is certainly a look – but not one that tends to end well. How might this version turn out? Unfortunately, it’s not a question Trump’s attention span equips him to answer. His reference points for the form are the occasional three minutes of historical documentaries he’s forced to watch while searching his stomach-folds for the TV remote. It feels like he switches over to Fox News before discovering how a whole series of 20th-century balcony stories ended.

Still: don’t call him Wussolini. He beat this illness – which he still very much has – like a man. One of the really manly ones, who takes all the best drugs and leaves everyone else exposed and misled and unprotected. Even so, early reactions to the gasping spectacle suggest the move could only have backfired more if Trump had ascended the front steps via a hastily installed stairlift carrying a pack of adult diapers.

Once he’d wheezed through the unpleasantries, all that remained was to remove his mask and set about infecting any remaining staff yet to be exposed to his droplets. Think of Trump as the 83rd Airborne, parachuting his deadly particles deep into butlers’ respiratory systems. He won’t give you a Purple Heart, but he might give you purple lungs.

Alas, it’s disappointing to find potential victims failing to feel grateful for the opportunity. One current secret service agent assigned to the first family’s detail expressed frustration, telling CNN: “We’re not disposable.” Two housekeeping staff have already tested positive for the virus. As the events of the past week show, the president’s respect for human life is so low that he is willing to send an entire army of servants into 14-day isolation or worse in order to keep up a steady stream of trans-fats being fed to him. Dying in the line of duty used to mean taking a bullet for the president; it could now involve taking him a Diet Coke. Thank you for your drinks service.

As for how Trump spent the rest of his evening, I assume it was straight on to the monstrous leader’s WhatsApp to josh with the other bros about how they kill their underlings. RocketmanKim loves a firing squad, Vlad69’s a huge chemicals guy, but Trump just clears his throat while being brought his fourth burger of the day. Boom! “I cough on them like a bitch! When you’re famous you can do that.”

Face it, he’s absolutely bossing the likes of Kim and Xi and MBS in the fantasy evil-doer leagues. It’s not that the other guys don’t have lethal motorcades and abysmal interiors taste and balcony addresses and death cults and doctors who mislead the world. But doing them in a democracy – well, that makes it triple points.

Speaking of physicians who really need to heal themselves, what a striking misinformation campaign it’s been from presidential medic Sean Conley, who has been continually obfuscating about Trump’s condition since calling his symptoms “mild”, only for even the White House to contradict him. For me, that’s the new low. Of course, we now expect the president of the United States to lie as default – to tell us black is white, or up is down, or to claim he never said something he’s on camera saying. But for a professional and senior doctor to mislead apparently without remorse shows how necrotic the body politic has become, from the very top down. The lying, the reality-denying is not a one-off case – it’s the other epidemic.

In fact, it’s kind of amazing that conspiracy theorists have lined up so supportively behind Trump, when he’s really the most convincing proof yet of all their worst fears. The Man really is lying to them, he really is wicked, and he really does want to kill them. The damning evidence is right there in front of everyone. Only, instead of begging Oliver Stone to make a film about it, they want to give Trump a second term.

Like me, you probably hate to see a conspiracist wimp out of their beliefs just when it’s coming up roses for them. It’s as if the moon landing hoaxers were signing over their life savings to Nasa, or the flat earthers booking a round-the-world ticket. So come on, guys – back yourselves! After all, if not now, then when?

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Infected Trump re-shoots entrance into White House with camera crew

CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports that President Trump was seen reshooting his entrance into the White House without a mask after returning from Walter Reed medical center where he was treated for coronavirus.

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At what time is the re-shoot? That video looks like fake news to me, look at the thumbs down.

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WINNING!!!

MAGA!!!

150 Books Show How the Trump Era Has Warped Our Brains
COVID-19 craziness. Toddler tantrums. Unnerved staffers. What the lunacy in the Trump White House

I blame Michael Wolff.

Not just for the typos and minor errors littering Fire and Fury, his early-2018 best seller on the chaos coursing through the Trump White House. Not only for the dubious renditions of reality his book offers. (“If it rings true, it is true,” Wolff said in an MSNBC interview about the book, a standard as journalistically appalling as it is perversely apropos of the times.) Not even for the unsupported suggestion—which the author casually drops into his epilogue—that Donald Trump and then–United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley were carrying on an affair. Haley had become a “particular focus of Trump’s attention, and he of hers,” Wolff writes, adding that the two had been spending “a notable amount of private time” together aboard Air Force One. (When not enough people picked up on the hint, Wolff drew attention to the supposed liaison in a television interview: “Now that I’ve told you, when you hit that paragraph, you’re going to say, ‘Bingo.’”)

No, I blame Wolff above all for setting a template for so many Trump books to follow—a template that former White House aides, administration officials, and even journalists far superior to Wolff have emulated to varying degrees, consciously or not. Fire and Fury featured so many stunning moments from the first nine months of the Trump presidency that even meticulously reported accounts of this White House in the years since have devolved into a contest for the most explosive, chyron-ready anecdotes—anecdotes that, while shocking in their specifics, have grown entirely commonplace in their regularity.

Since 2015, as a book critic for The Washington Post, I’ve pored over some 150 books on the Trump era, trying to keep pace with the intellectuals, journalists, insiders, partisans, and activists grappling with the turmoil it has wrought. Among all the dissections of the white working class, debates over immigration, and polemics on the fate of American democracy, perhaps the most popular subgenre has been the Chaos Chronicles—those books that document the actions of the president and his aides, and reconstruct the major controversies of the Trump White House.

Reading through the Chaos Chronicles, we learn that Trump and a White House staffer sat in the president’s study and compiled a list of enemies serving in his administration. We discover that Trump mused about building a moat with alligators at the southern border to fend off immigrants. (Yes, alligators. And yes, a moat.) We realize that senior aides steal sensitive documents off the president’s desk, hoping he will forget about them (which he does). We are told that multiple senior officials almost quit at the same time (but didn’t). We learn that Trump and the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, exchanged letters so gushing that a reporter deemed them “almost romantic” in their prose. (“I’m the only one he smiles with,” Trump told Bob Woodward of his pen pal, in Rage.) And we watch as the president struggles to read portions of the Constitution out loud, stumbling over the words and complaining that they sound—metaphor alert!—like a foreign language to him.

David Frum: Trump made a bag bargain with Woodward

I believe it. I believe all of it and more. That’s the trouble with writing about the Trump White House, and reading about it too: The lunacy is appalling yet unsurprising, wholly unpresidential yet entirely on-brand. The president’s COVID-19 diagnosis and hospitalization last weekend are a perfect distillation of Trumpian chaos, packed with misinformation and contradiction, national-security risks and constitutional implications, and all with the man himself commanding every last speck of attention. When he needs oxygen, so do we. When his temperature rises, the nation’s does too.

The authors of the Chaos Chronicles strive for memorable imagery to distill the events they’re recounting: It’s a devil’s bargain! A team of vipers! It’s a nervous breakdown! It’s the White House as a pinball machine, or as an Etch A Sketch—no, wait, as a Tilt-A-Whirl! Yes, the mayhem is integral to the Trump story, and the deployment of outlandish symbolism is understandable when one is describing an administration that gives off a reality-show vibe, that feeling, as James Poniewozik puts it in Audience of One, “that you were watching a thing that you were not supposed to be able to see on TV—and yet here it was.”

Trump, of course, has loathed the Chaos Chronicles since the beginning. “I turn on the TV, open the newspapers, and I see stories of chaos—chaos,” the president complained during a White House news conference less than a month into his term. “Yet it is the exact opposite. This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine.” No, it is the exact opposite of the exact opposite; on this score, the scribes of the Trump era are more credible than the president. So Trump goes on Twitter tirades about these books, only boosting their sales and confirming their narratives. For publishers, a Trump tweetstorm is a key marketing objective.

Yet White House chaos is not the full story, and it should certainly not be the main story. While well-sourced reports and insider memoirs provide a vital historical record, the books that tell us what the chaos means and why it matters are most needed, even if not always the most memorable. When the fire dies out and the fury subsides, what is the true American carnage wrought by and in the Trump White House? If these volumes are any indication, it is the decline of America’s preparedness for truly complex crises—ones that can’t be intimidated on Twitter, wished away as “fake news,” or redrawn with a Sharpie. It is the remaking, to lasting detriment, of the limits and powers of the American presidency, and the degrading of our expectations for—and devotion to—public service. And it is the erosion not of personal decorum or policy process, though there is plenty of that, but of the democratic values to which the country should aspire.
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I see Donald called off the covid relief negotiations until after the election, vote for me or starve until the end of January. On another somber and dangerous note, I see the entire joint chiefs of staff are quarantining except for one. I wonder who exposed them to covid? Perhaps the same desperate and broke moron who knowingly exposed over 200 of his biggest donors? Hey, he needed the money. Maybe the same sociopath who busted out of the hospital while infectious and on experimental therapy, I hope he got goat antibodies and grows a fucking set of horns. Observing his heroic pose and puffing salute from high on the Truman balcony some wag labelled him Wussolini, or Mussolini if you prefer, he was a fascist too.

Donald fucked up everything he ever touched, he's managing his own publicity and campaign too, how's that working out? Donald never wanted to win in 2016, it was suppose to be a marketing ploy, this time he wants and needs to win and the results are apparent. It's life in prison for Donald and life or death for Americans. Donald's trajectory took him from the penthouse to the White House, and it will also take him to the clubhouse, the courthouse and then the big house, where his ballistic arc will end in a massive explosion of shit and a smoking crater.

Watch this shit fest ....

It's coming apart at the seams folks, the propane tanks in the roaring dumpster fire are going off in mushroom clouds of fire and the flaming debris is shooting out of the top as it approaches the curb at the bottom of the hill and the brick wall beyond the sidewalk at high speed. Donald is chained to the front of the dumpster screaming and struggling all the way to the wall.

Jesus what a show, the ringmaster of chaos center ring in the greatest show on earth, elephants are walking the high wire with out a net and jumping through rings of fire as Donald cracks the whip. Terrified placoderms are being shot out of cannons onto the street. The voting public are aghast with their mouths agape at the spectacle, they put on their masks, vote early and drop the ballot off if they can with a mixture of fear and anger, intimating voters with tyrannical threats and fear always backfires, in a free democracy.

If you are with Donald, you had better be all the way, be prepared to "stand back and stand by", Donald will be asking for your sacrifice. He will want it all too, every last drop of suckers blood and every dollar he can get to avoid prison. If he losses badly enough on election night, running to Russia can't be far from his mind, a Pence pardon won't help, it would be ruled corrupt and doesn't cover state charges, they might now include second degree mass murder or manslaughter, as well as the NY state financial crimes.

CNN Poll: Biden expands lead over Trump after contentious debate and President's Covid diagnosis

(CNN)Joe Biden's advantage over President Donald Trump has expanded and the former vice president now holds his widest lead of the cycle with less than a month remaining before Election Day, according to a new nationwide CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
Among likely voters, 57% say they back Biden and 41% Trump in the poll that was conducted entirely after the first debate and mostly after the President's coronavirus infection was made public.

Trump and his supporters will do as much damage to system as they can., after he loses.. Says he'll pass a bill for aid after he wins.. That means no check for the back rent, no check for anything.. He and his family should face the courts after he's out of office.. As long as he can pardon them they'll never get what's coming to then.. That's about the only satisfaction to be gotten.. Fix it so he can't pay any of his debts. without losing everything..

mytwhyt said:

Trump and his supporters will do as much damage to system as they can., after he loses.. Says he'll pass a bill for aid after he wins.. That means no check for the back rent, no check for anything.. He and his family should face the courts after he's out of office.. As long as he can pardon them they'll never get what's coming to then.. That's about the only satisfaction to be gotten.. Fix it so he can't pay any of his debts. without losing everything..

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Trump's eviction moratorium ends at the end of the year, though Donald might cancel it earlier as revenge for an election loss. Joe will be faced with millions of homeless, desperate, formerly middle class people on the street and the economy either collapsed or about to. A banking crises would be a disaster, if the banks freeze up, it could be awhile before your bank card works, provided you have any money, ditto for credit cards. After the election Donald will have but one concern, his own ass, nothing else, nobody would trust Donald with a couple of trillion for a bank bailout anyway.

Something big coming today.