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Trump and Melania test positive test positive for Covid 19

I wonder if mask compliance rates have increased since Trump's diagnosis. Has anyone seen any news articles about researchers asking that question?

I would guess that at least some people who said that masks were stupid might reevaluate that position, based on news accounts of lots of people catching the virus, possibly at a Supreme Court nomination party. Of course, the True Faithful will somehow reconcile their beliefs and come up with some rationale why they still don't matter, but will at least some measurable number of people rethink their positions?
 
Of all the people who should be wearing one at the moment it is Trump given they tend to stop transmission more than stop infection
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Missouri GOP tweeted
@MissouriGOP
President Trump has Covid and he's still made more public appearances today than #HidenBiden. twitter.com/bennyjohnson/s…
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The same people who want to shut down Biden's campaign will vilify him when he does appear in public.

Trump's need for public adulation may have gotten him sick in the first place. Plus it gave him more opportunities to spread the virus.
 
cullennz said:
Of all the people who should be wearing one at the moment it is Trump given they tend to stop transmission more than stop infection
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Right. If he'd worn one he could have avoided spreading it to other people, but helping other people is a concept Trump can't get his head around.

Same with my idiot nephew. He had to be shamed into pulling his mask up yesterday when his 96-year-old grandmother was sitting right there. Fortunately my niece confronted him but it should never have happened. What is wrong with people?
 
Minoosh said:
Right. If he'd worn one he could have avoided spreading it to other people, but helping other people is a concept Trump can't get his head around.



Same with my idiot nephew. He had to be shamed into pulling his mask up yesterday when his 96-year-old grandmother was sitting right there. Fortunately my niece confronted him but it should never have happened. What is wrong with people?
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Americans will probably vote him back in again though.

Which would be pretty funny for a bit
 
cullennz said:
Americans will probably vote him back in again though.
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You may be a couple of years behind with the news, because they probably won't in spite of a system stacked against Biden.

Remember as well, that if US had our rules, he would never have won in 2016, let alone this year.

Right now, he's a 3:1 underdog and I don't see his Covid diagnosis changing anything at all.
 
Fidelio said:
It's never been that hard for me.
1. Fast talking yankee con man that my sainted Mama warned me about.
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That still puzzles me a bit about Trump. He is the epitome of the cliche of everything white rural southerns hate and fear.

A fast talking lying Yankee con-man billionaire from New York City living in a gold plated castle who was born with a silver spoon who has no traditional family values and never goes to church and disregards his marriage vows to trade up for younger and younger trophy wives and secretly pays off strippers for sex and has gazillions but pays no taxes and curses in front of children and has never worked an honest day in his life and is only concerned with himself.

Trump is the quintessential Republican bogeyman. Yet...here we are.
 
DevilsAdvocate said:
That still puzzles me a bit about Trump. He is the epitome of the cliche of everything white rural southerns hate and fear.

A fast talking lying Yankee con-man billionaire from New York City living in a gold plated castle who was born with a silver spoon who has no traditional family values and never goes to church and disregards his marriage vows to trade up for younger and younger trophy wives and secretly pays off strippers for sex and has gazillions but pays no taxes and curses in front of children and has never worked an honest day in his life and is only concerned with himself.

Trump is the quintessential Republican bogeyman. Yet...here we are.
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He’s living the dream.
 
acbytesla said:
I'd argue he has never been very good at lying. Almost all of Trump's lies are easily seen through by any rational being.

This is what I don't get about Trump supporters. Nobody is using even the least bit of critical analysis.
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The lies are only easily seen through if you aren't busy using your mental faculties to make whatever he says seem clever and sensible. It is very strenuous. It is much like the Stockholm syndrome in many ways.
It is much easier to do in a crowd of your peers, which explains why people go to the rallies. You need the crowd to confirm that what comes out of his mouth makes sense. Much like in church. This state of mind would be difficult to maintain alone, but nowadays you are never alone. You can always go online for confirmation.
 
Sideroxylon said:
He’s living the dream.
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I think that is a very large part of it. He is everything that they hate, but also everything they want to be. He is terrible, but a hero. They dream "Make me like you! Make the county like you!"

But it is a bit bizarre. It is weird how it works out. There is some strange flip. Some breaking point.

It is more complex than any one thing. But it is strange. I certainly don't fully understand it.
 
cullennz said:
No idea.

You lot are the ones going on about him signing things when he obviously isn't.

He could be writing any thing for the staged photo
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No I was merely commenting on the uses of a sharpie, and made the joke it is used to alter weather forecasts. Then you got defensive and mentioned he might be using it like a serious person would, because you MUST PROTECT THE PRESIDENT!
 
angrysoba said:
No I was merely commenting on the uses of a sharpie, and made the joke it is used to alter weather forecasts. Then you got defensive and mentioned he might be using it like a serious person would, because you MUST PROTECT THE PRESIDENT!
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Lol

I couldn't give a toss about the US President.

The world does not revolve around the US. It is just a funny watch
 
cullennz said:
Lol

I couldn't give a toss about the US President.

The world does not revolve around the US. It is just a funny watch
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And yet you can't resist returning to orbit around Trump to whine about anyone saying anything remotely negative about him. Any reason for that?
 
angrysoba said:
And yet you can't resist returning to orbit around Trump to whine about anyone saying anything remotely negative about him. Any reason for that?
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Because some of the criticism is so stupid because it is now fashionable it deserves feedback.
 
Elagabalus said:
Hah! Hah! I don't stand for nuthin'. Look at all those phuktards being passionate about something?! Did they ever change the world?! Did women ever get the right to vote? I mean, did they really?!!
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Yes they did. Funny enough the first place they got it is my country.

And it was cool.

The main chick who did it here was quite instrumental in getting it in England as well which is largely forgotten.

I get you think you are passionate over a bloke who will probably be a footnote in history in a month or two
 
cullennz said:
Yes they did. Funny enough the first place they got it is my country.

And it was cool.

The main chick who did it here was quite instrumental in getting it in England as well which is largely forgotten.

I get you think you are passionate over a bloke who will probably be a footnote in history in a month or two
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What? What? He's history in a month or two? I thought he's going for a second term? What happened to that assessment?

ETA:There's that predictability thing again. How did I know that you would go for the total blow off routine?!!
 
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Just out of interest what does typing in italics supposed to portray.

I am not much of a twitter or other thingey user?
 
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