[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #836 Trump zegt ja tegen corona

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Op zaterdag 3 oktober 2020 11:26 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Ik denk dat ze stiekem een gat in de lucht zouden springen als ze het met Pence mogen doen.

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Op zaterdag 3 oktober 2020 11:45 schreef speknek het volgende:
Ik zei dat inderdaad ambigu, delen van de Republikeinse partij zullen ongetwijfeld blij zijn als ze eindelijk verlost van hun gijzelnemer zijn (andere delen zitten dan weer zo ver in de Cult dat ze subiet hun machtsbasis kwijtraken).

Het Republikeinse publiek, wat vooral op de Trump persoonlijkheidscultus stemt, zal toch even moeten slikken of ze uit postume sympathie voor een Gristelijke engnek stemmen die het hoofd van de corona respons team was, waar Trump dan uiteindelijk aan dood gegaan zou zijn.

Overigens zit Trump aan de remdesivir. Een redelijk goed werkend medicijn die normaal wel alleen aan de zware gevallen gegeven wordt, en hier nergens verkrijgbaar is. Ik denk wel dat hij het overleeft.

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Op zaterdag 3 oktober 2020 11:45 schreef speknek het volgende:

Het Republikeinse publiek, wat vooral op de Trump persoonlijkheidscultus stemt, zal toch even moeten slikken of ze uit postume sympathie voor een Gristelijke engnek stemmen die het hoofd van de corona respons team was, waar Trump dan uiteindelijk aan dood gegaan zou zijn.

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Op zaterdag 3 oktober 2020 11:34 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
Trump's campaign manager is ook besmet.

Gaat lekker daar.

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Op zaterdag 3 oktober 2020 13:17 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Y'all got any more of them updates?

Verslavend wil dit soort nieuws momenten Zit elk uur te checken of er niet wat meer bekend is over zijn gezondheid.

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So Now Trump Has Earned Your Trust? A Note of Covid Caution from Michael Moore....
There is one absolute truth about Trump: He is a consistent, absolute, unrelenting, fearless, and professional liar. A serial liar. A factually proven liar. How many lies now has the Washington Post proven in these four years? 25,000? A lie at least twice during every waking hour? Think of all the bad people you’ve known in your life. Even the worst ones you couldn’t say that about.
So why on earth would we believe him today? Has he earned your trust now? No. Yet, we’re decent enough to not want him to be sick, to wish him well, and maybe just this once give him the benefit of the doubt because why would he lie about this?
That’s not the question. The question we — and yes, I mean you, too, the media — the only question we really need to be asking is this: Why would Trump all of a sudden just start telling the truth?
All of you, my friends, have been saying for four years, “Trump’s a liar! Trump is a liar!” Why would you believe him now? He very well may have COVID-19. In fact, let’s assume he does. Of course he has it! Does that make him not Trump? I’m certain Mussolini came down with the flu one time. Pinochet and Franco would catch a cold every now and then. Margaret Thatcher must have had a migraine or two. None of them suddenly became nice or did good things - or started telling the truth - because they got sick. Jesse Helms with a runny nose was still Jesse Helms.
But Trump has a history of lying about his health. His longtime New York doctor, Dr. Bornstein, admitted a few years ago that Trump dictated his perfect “doctor’s letter” during the 2016 campaign. Then there was the White House doctor who said Trump could live “200 years!” What about his lying about that emergency trip to Walter Reed “to complete his physical?” Trump also has a history of lying about his opponents’ health (like when Hillary fell ill at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony, or what he’s now been saying about Biden’s health).
So we must be skeptical. We must always remain skeptical when it comes to Trump. He may have it. But it’s also possible he’s lying. That’s just a fact.
But why would he lie about this? What would he have to gain? I mean, it looks bad that he’s called it a hoax for seven months, and he totally mismanaged the government response — and now he has it? Doesn’t it look terrible that he’s spent months downplaying wearing masks, dismissing social distancing, holding large rallies filled with elderly, at-risk supporters and even killing his own supporters like Herman Cain? And doesn’t this go against his brand of always projecting (and exaggerating) his own strength, his health, his genetics, his virility? Yes. This is all true. He would not want to admit he‘s come down with a hoax.
But — he’s losing the election. And he knows it. It’s not 2016. He was hated in 2016, but he’s hated even more now. Millions of Americans are ON FIRE and on the verge of serving him up a major league ass-whooping and a record landslide defeat.
So he needs - badly - to totally change the conversation about this campaign.
And he just has.
Democrats, liberals, the media and others have always been wrong to simply treat him as a buffoon and a dummy and a jackass. Yes, he is all those things. But he’s also canny. He’s clever. He outfoxed Comey. He outfoxed Mueller. He outfoxed 20 Republicans in the GOP primary and then did the same to the Democrats, winning the White House despite receiving fewer votes than his opponent. He’s an evil genius and I raise the possibility of him lying about having COVID-19 to prepare us and counteract his game. He knows being sick tends to gain one sympathy. He’s not above weaponizing this.
He’s been lying about how soon a vaccine will be ready. What better way to hammer home that lie then by directing a saga in the final weeks before the election that culminates in the release of this “vaccine.”
The NY Times tax story was horrible for him. As was The Atlantic story about him calling American troops losers and suckers. There are a dozen more of these stories coming in October. Just last night, The New Yorker detailed how his campaign finance director (and Don Jr’s girlfriend) was fired from Fox News for....well...behaving like a typical Fox News host by sexually harassing her assistant and forcing Fox to pay a $4 million settlement to that assistant due to her behavior. And also, last night, there was CNN playing an audio recording of Melania talking shit about children separated from their parents at the border — AND talking shit about Christmas. Christmas!
These stories are about to be a daily occurrence. However, they may get less airtime and be less damaging since Trump and FLOTUS are now “sick” and supposed to be in our thoughts and prayers.
But most dangerously, HE MAY USE THIS TO PUSH FOR DELAYING/POSTPONING THE ELECTION. The constitution does not allow for this, but he doesn’t give a f*ck about the constitution. He and his thug Attorney General Barr have no shame and will stop at nothing to stay in power. He may even use this as an excuse for losing.
Then there’s this:
He may use his Covid as a pretext to drop out of the race and move Pence to the top of the ticket. Pence would temporarily become President, and then Pence could pre-emptively pardon Trump for all of his crimes.
Again, though, he may have COVID. He probably does. But never, ever, ever take him at his word and never, ever, ever underestimate his survival skills or the depths of his deception or his evil.

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Op zaterdag 3 oktober 2020 13:27 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Het is nog nacht / vroege ochtend in de VS. Bovendien gaan er wel een paar dagen overheen voordat duidelijk is hoe het ziektebeeld van Trump zich ontwikkeld waarschijnlijk.

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Op zaterdag 3 oktober 2020 13:17 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Y'all got any more of them updates?

Verslavend wil dit soort nieuws momenten Zit elk uur te checken of er niet wat meer bekend is over zijn gezondheid.

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Op zaterdag 3 oktober 2020 13:29 schreef Lord-Ronddraai het volgende:
Ik zag een goede post van Michael Moore langskomen
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SPOILER

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Op zaterdag 3 oktober 2020 13:43 schreef Toby56 het volgende:
Deze column was geschreven voor de laatste ontwikkelingen; niettemin (volgens mij) toch lezenswaardig.

https://www.theguardian.c(...)diagnosis-maga-virus

[...] The very last thing Trump would wish to imply is that his life is worth any more than the lives of all those people who were dying when he was joking about masks, joking about Joe Biden and masks, joking about Biden being practically dead ... to say nothing of all those times past when he joked about Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia, or had his proxies joke speculatively that she had suffered a stroke, or was afflicted by dysphasia, or had secretly suffered a serious brain trauma … I’m sorry, I’m running very low on space here. The point is, this is what he’d WANT – because he loves the lulz. Please honour him thusly.

Anyway, as Trump pointed out last week, the virus “affects virtually nobody”, and has currently only affected 200,000 American nobodies to death. [...]

Een interessante vraag is natuurlijk: wil je net zo diep zakken als Trump zelf?
Of, als je nu eenmaal een empathische persoonlijkheid hebt, wens je hem toch beterschap?