Sunday Reads: Memes and More
Posted: October 4, 2020 | Author: JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx | Filed under: Afternoon Reads, COVID19, Donald Trump, open thread |38 Comments
The orange turd, receiving his experimental treatment after testing positive for the Covid 19 virus.
Before we get to the comedy relief, here’s some newsy updates that will peak your interest:
Dr. Conley, who was appointed as President Trump’s physician in 2018, is a doctor of osteopathic medicine https://t.co/E222zgIWdd
— Lauren Wolfe (@Wolfe321) October 4, 2020
Keep that in mind…
Dr. Conley: "I didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction and in doing so it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasn't necessarily true."
My Q: How would providing facts steer the course of Trump's illness?
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) October 4, 2020
When asked why he offered such a rosy assessment of Trump’s status yesterday, Doctor Conley admitted he wanted to convey the “upbeat attitude” of Trump’s medical team.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 4, 2020
Asked why he didn’t tell the whole truth about supplemental oxygen yesterday, Dr. Conley said he was trying “to reflect the upbeat attitude of the team.”
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 4, 2020
Why do these Walter Reed doctors give these fawning preambles about Trump like the stooges at his cabinet meetings?
— Frank Rich (@frankrichny) October 4, 2020
BREAKING: Doctor says President Trump was treated with a steroid on Saturday after second 'transient' drop in oxygen levels. https://t.co/LofsIBWHPo
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 4, 2020
The big lede from Sean Conley is that Trump is now on dexamethasone
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) October 4, 2020
Sanjay Gupta says doctors at Walter Reed are throwing "the kitchen sink" at Trump, feeding him 3 different "serious" medications, one of which is experimental in nature. He suggests this is far more serious than what Conley is letting on.
— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) October 4, 2020
Trump will kill him
The guy is talking about his own illness – extreme emotional distress
— ☇RiotWomenn☇ (@riotwomennn) October 4, 2020
So Trump is pissed at Mark Meadows for revealing a grain of truth.
Soon he will send out a group of actors, dressed up as doctors, to brief the world that he is recovering magnificently and ran 5 miles this morning.
— NEWSNOTES💙 (@ReportsDaNews) October 4, 2020
If I start right now sending good wishes to every American who has had COVID-19, and I spend 30 seconds on each, it will take me 714 years to get to Donald Trump.
— Mark Sumner (@Devilstower) October 4, 2020
Cleveland Ordinance No. 556-2020: “No person in the City of Cleveland shall fail to wear a facial covering at all times…when being in any indoor location that is not a residence”
But sure, keep telling us how you’re the party of law and order. https://t.co/0iiXbOi0i5
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) October 3, 2020
As the author of Fantasyland, I’m mortified I learned only today that Trump’s White House physician is not an actual MD, but an osteopath.
— Kurt Andersen (@KBAndersen) October 3, 2020
To help Donald Trump get the full COVID-19 experience, let’s make sure he loses his job and is evicted from his home next month.
— Jordan Zakarin (@jordanzakarin) October 2, 2020
This thread here:
The photos released by the WH tonight of the president working at Walter Reed were taken 10 minutes apart at 5:25:59 pm and 5:35:40 pm ET Saturday, according to the EXIF data embedded in both @AP wire postings that were shared by the White House this evening. pic.twitter.com/EzeqIkGdf7
— Jon Ostrower (@jonostrower) October 4, 2020
🦠 Every time Trump said he was tested regularly for #COVID19…or tested every week…or every day…was probably another lie.https://t.co/XzlnbAw3WJ
— Ali Adair #DoTheRightThing 🇺🇸🌎🔥💦🌪️ (@AliAdair22) October 4, 2020
New reporting: “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had a contact tracing team ready to go, according to multiple sources, but had not been asked to mobilize” https://t.co/DGfb9eGLpR
— Fenit Nirappil (@FenitN) October 4, 2020
The White House is supposed to be in charge of tracing contacts at Trump's events in recent days. It appears they've done…virtually nothing. Great reporting by @abbyabrams & @LissandraVilla https://t.co/0fS7eBUPjF
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) October 4, 2020
Sources: Trump had heart palpitations on Friday, a possible negative side effect of Regeneron antibody treatment. His fever reached 103. And a G7 ally wonders if he’ll appoint Ivanka president instead of Pence. My latest:
https://t.co/ND8zVtyodU— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) October 3, 2020
“Without Jennifer Jacobs, a dogged Bloomberg reporter who broke the story about Hicks’s illness, the world might still be in the dark about the sickness sweeping through the West Wing and the highest levels of our government. “ https://t.co/QcmDu7jfg9
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) October 3, 2020
Countries who have fewer COVID cases in last 24 hours than those diagnosed with the virus who have been around the President:
– Belgium
– New Zealand
– Singapore
– Sweden
– Taiwan
– Thailand
– VietnamThis is Trump's Plague!#RoseGardenMassacre
— Mrs. Krassenstein (@HKrassenstein) October 3, 2020
And still, the idiots persist:
that’s not how masks work though.. https://t.co/Nj8y2dzvpR
— Wes Unruh (@WesUnruh) October 4, 2020
I mean, if republicans want to go full-on super-insecure performative masculinity and stop wearing seat belts or motorcycle helmets and smoking more and licking door handles and stuff so as not to be all girly, I can see the upsides for the country in the long run. https://t.co/6ew9i1a35e
— NotNecessarilyHat (@Popehat) October 4, 2020
Point to be made:
We're paying a lot of attention to Trump's case, but the US just recorded the most daily COVID-19 infections in nearly 2 monthshttps://t.co/8YKUt3M5lM
— Jay Cannon (@JayTCannon) October 3, 2020
There was a debate last night:
Lindsey got DRAGGED! 👏🏽 pic.twitter.com/N7JLn8fSig
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) October 4, 2020
View this post on Instagram@fortunefeimster, I believe the clinical term for that rhymes with “deckless runt.”
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And I will leave it at that.
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And also, it should be mentioned:
This goes without saying…of course.
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What’s really silly is that excessive crowd of white coats behind Conley. Purely for show. Also, where are the essential nurses and respiratory techs in their scrubs?
And I was thinking yesterday…not a single woman in the group.
He knew he had it yet insisted on going out without a mask thus becoming a super spreader.
I have zero sympathy. None. To be that careless, that indifferent is a whole new universe of arrogance and stupidity.
Will be so thankful when this lying fool is gone!
Sanjay Gupta’s analysis of Trump’s condition is telling. I trust his opinion. Trump is very sick. If he survives, he is likely to have serious lasting health problems and be unable to serve as president.
I think we need to prepare for Pence as the Republican candidate. I am not looking forward to that. Pence is disciplined, ruthless and smarter than he appears to be. He knows how to play the long game. He has been waiting for a chance to become president since he was a young man growing up in Columbus.
Pence is a fanatical end timer. I would not trust one with the football.
Pence is so very unpopular and unlikeable, even with magats. Nobody likes an unctuous boot-licker.
Well, Pence can assume the office under the 25th amendment, if it is invoked, but I am unaware of any mechanism for his name to magically appear on any ballot. Without his name on the ballot, I do not see Pence “winning” in November or becoming s candidate. His tenure, if it happens at all, would be very limited unless we enter the twilight zone.
The 168 members of the RNC can vote to choose another candidate. That is the mechanism. It might not be Pence. But it is quite possible.
And a replacement Republican presidential candidate doesn’t need to be the name on the ballot since voters in fact vote for electors, not candidates.
I believe it is too late for the RNC to vote to change the name on the ballot, although it may not be too late on some states. People have already voted on ballots that cannot be retroactively changed. It is true that the electors may be able to support Pence, but the house needs to certify.
We have entered the Twilight Zone. It’s a badly written episode. Let’s hope it’s over soon.
Good job, MM. Appreciate the tweets.
I do have to say that osteopath doctors in my experience are good, more a holistic approach.
Yes, I don’t understand the implications that D.O.s are incompetent. They’re equivalent to M.D.s in every place I’ve practiced. I think it’s an expression of the M.D. “major deity” complex. The problem with Dr. Conley is not the type of doctorate, but his lies and obfuscations.
My point being, he is not an expert in corona viruses… when you have press conferences on say shooting victims, you have surgeons giving press reports…not chiropractors. Not that I am saying osteopaths are chiropractors…but my point being, there are special doctors for specific occasions.
Yes, an infectious disease or pulmonary doc is who’s needed with covid-19. Not a general-medicine doc.
I most definitely agree with you on the lying part. 💜💜💜
look at this level of disgusting behavior …
OMG
Have you been using the block editor JJ? They’re forcing us mostly to use it now. So was wondering how writing today went for you?
I’m still using classic editor via the WP app. I don’t know what I will do when I have to switch over. That is why most of my post are links only. I have so much trouble with WordPress.
Well, we have to switch or pay $283 for it as a plug in. So, whatever you doing today worked. We’ve got the blog charge this month as it is and I don’t feel like adding that much for a max of 2 years of support when that is all we would use. It’s kind’ve a hot mess right now to use the blocks as far as I’m concerned though although you can get the classic tool bar up for you.
JJ, you can still use classic in the block editor. You have to choose the classic block. But I can’t figure out how to put in tags.
“Expected lung findings,” uh-huh. Does this mean they expected to see covid-19 ‘ground-glass’ appearance showing pulmonary damage and did find this? So much vagueness in what they say.
I think it means the expected damage to his lungs. At least that is what several doctors said on Twitter.
I suspect “expected findings” means the lungs do not look good.
They are still not revealing when the last negative test for the President took place.
It is important that they are hiding this. It is likely that the President discovered he was sick and thought he could hide it. But when did he know?
What we know is that the President began experiencing symptoms at least as early as Thursday and most likely Wednesday. Working backwards, that suggests that he was infected between September 24 and October 3.
He could have been ill — and known it — for a lot longer than we have been told. And he knowingly put people at risk — maybe a lot more people than previously thought.
Yes I think he was hoping to hide it. He only admitted it right as his symptoms broke out, bigly.
Don’t know how I got off by a week: I should have written that the days between Sept. 17 and Sept. 26 are the likely infection dates for the President, based on his symptoms.
The President is a lunatic to expose the Secret Service members to a deadly illness, so that he could get an ego boost. This should be criminal.
Dump heading back to WH? I bet he bullied them into it. Doctors can’t be happy.
So he just jeopardized his secret service agents for a photo op. Back at Walter Reed.
I have no idea how sick Trump is, but I don’t think the fact that he is on 3 major treatments that are usually reserved for those that have severe symptoms is not necessarily definitive. Knowing Trump, he is likely demanding that he be provided cutting edge treatment, no holds barred, regardless of medical necessity. And his doctor appears to be yet another person who is easily intimidated by you know who and despite being a medical professional, would go along with it. He didn’t look good, however, without his bronzer.
I am loving the gay men taking over the hashtag ProudBoys. So creative.
Nobody has any faith that we are getting the truth out of the Administration. I am seeing competing conspiracy theories, “he is faking”, “he is really sick and they are covering up” but bottom line, the “Wolf who cried boy” has finally seen his lies obliterate the concept of credibility.
We have no idea WTF is happening but Whatever(TF) It is IT’S A LIE!
Kayleigh McEnany tested positive for the coronavirus this morning. They’re dropping like flies.