Trump Has COVID megathread (update 10/24: 2 Pence staffers test positive)

[Jay 🏳️‍⚧️]

If Trump dies, what are the chances that a sizable portion of his base writes in Trump instead of voting for Pence because they think that his death is a deep state hoax and he was actually betrayed by Mike Pence, a secret deep state agent, and thrown into a secret, max-security prison

Not many at all.

Trump dying/resigning/dropping out would be terrible news for Democrats. Pence is MUCH more tolerable to moderates simply because he is not Trump.

I think Biden would still beat him because of partisanship and because people have already started voting, but Pence would perform much better than Trump.

Of course, if Trump stays in the race then Biden wins in a landslide.

Moderates in the suburbs are well known for being in favor of evangelical anti-LGBT politicians that promote culture war nonsense in 2020

[Jay 🏳️‍⚧️]

https://twitter.com/FridaGhitis/status/1312119571105472512

Trump is considering undergoing experimental treatments. Definitely don't think this is as mild as he wants us to think

[Jay 🏳️‍⚧️]

Biden says inshallah less than 72 hours ago and now look at what's happened

[Jay 🏳️‍⚧️]

Not related to Trump. But...


https://twitter.com/benyc/status/1312183526201069568

Why only 10 days instead of 15? Because McConnell cares more about getting judges confirmed than not killing a building full of geriatrics including himself?

That's basically why, yeah. ACB's hearings begin in 10 days, so that's why Tillis and Lee are only going to self-isolate for 10.

Now if they get seriously ill. this changes things a lot.

[Jay 🏳️‍⚧️]

No joke, this could rip through the Judiciary Committee at the most inconvenient time imaginable for the GOP.

The current GOP senators that got infected are only quarantining for 10 days instead of the 14, because ACB's hearings begin in 10 days.

They are almost certainly going to pull out every stop to ensure that the Judiciary Senators quarantine for as little time as possible

[Jay 🏳️‍⚧️]

I saw a quote somewhere that RBG must've argued her first case before God. And she won.

NGL, this is probably the closest I've ever felt that perhaps there is some deity at work.

Biden said inshallah and allah did the rest

[Jay 🏳️‍⚧️]

Maybe the G-7 thing is real.   I spend lots of time here and even I don't know who would become PM if some happened to Trudeau or Johnson.

They would appoint an acting prime minister, usually the deputy PM or a cabinet official. When Boris went to the hospital for COVID, Dominic Raab, First Secretary of State, took over most of his responsibilities

[Jay 🏳️‍⚧️]

https://twitter.com/jonostrower/status/1312616578773446656

Not surprising the WH had a good ol' photoshoot. I still can't believe they had him sign obviously blank pieces of paper. Did they think no one would notice?

There is no way in HELL that the doctors would accept Trump just walking around various rooms, touching everything, and especially being maskless.

[Jay 🏳️‍⚧️]

Theory:

The videos and photos released today were staged and taken back on Friday before he left for Walter Reed. The EXIF data on the photo released today was manually edited to make it appear that it's recent when it actually isn't.