the only mask-free person in the room, natch https://t.co/yEZ3rJgWAu
— bb ?? (@beebigelow) May 8, 2020
Trump: Katie, she tested very good for a long period of time and then all of the sudden today she tested positive… This is why the whole concept of tests aren’t necessarily great pic.twitter.com/iM9Xo3jddU
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) May 8, 2020
It is weirdly reassuring to know that being a thoroughly terrible person doesn't boost your immune system, I'll say that much. https://t.co/zKpopN4XzR
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) May 8, 2020
don’t worry about stephen miller, he will be fine. years of sleeping upside down in a cave has prepared his immune system https://t.co/QBL8mYdh44
— kilgore trout, multiyear slanderer (@KT_So_It_Goes) May 8, 2020
Coming soon to the White House gift shop.
“I went to the White House and all I got was this stupid t-shirt… and the coronavirus.” https://t.co/OVG0xTqEjD
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 8, 2020
Shot. Chaser. pic.twitter.com/pjdvcrRKgg
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 8, 2020
However…
Trump says of the elderly veterans he was with today without wearing a mask: "They're so pure, it will never happen, alright? They've lived a great life."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 8, 2020
Those poor veterans!
lamh36
Reposting this here because why not
Coronavirus found in semen of COVID-19 survivors; sexual transmission unclear, study says https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-mens-semen-survivors-sexual-transmission-covid-19/ via @CBSHealth
hells littlest angel
It never ceases to amaze me what an utterly shitty human being he is.
feebog
If Katie Miller is positive, it is likely her
naziroomate, er, husband also is infected. This weekend gonna be lit at the White House.Baud
@lamh36:
How would semen get into a person’s lungs?
Oh.
Poe Larity
So vampires aren’t really immune to everything?
MattF
No one tells The Stable Genius what to do— he decides for himself. And, at the same time, he is automatically free of any responsibility for the consequences of his actions.
Jay Noble
Trumps sounds likes Katie is simply an old pet or work horse who is now simply going to have to be taken out behind the barn and shot. “Katie, she tested very good for a long period of time . . .”
Eeek!
Spanky
Who in the White House do we want her to infect?
All of ’em, Katie! HAH!
Brachiator
Proving once again that when you sell your soul to the Devil, you got to watch out for the fine print.
Soprano2
We couldn’t be lucky enough for Stephen Miller to get a bad case of it, could we? Let’s just say I wouldn’t shed any tears if he died. Nazi fucker.
NotMax
FYI. (WaPo link)
He’d screw up a one-man pissing contest.
Roger Moore
The interesting thing to me: we know people can transmit COVID-19 before they have symptoms. Can they transmit it before they test positive? I would expect not, since the tests look for virus, and not enough virus to detect probably means not enough to infect, but it will be interesting to find out. I expect the level of paranoia at the White House to escalate even further than normal.
cmorenc
Let’s see how this plays out…in oh, about ten days to two weeks, which is the typical asymptomatic incubation period for COV. Of course, if Katie Miller and Trump’s valet turn out to be the lucky sort who remain asymptomatic even while infectious, this will only reinforce Trump and Pence’s conceit that they are somehow exempt from infection as superior-type beings – for a little while longer, until their own asymptomatic incubation periods are over…and then….??? could we possibly get lucky enough that one or the other of them get as sick as Boris Johnson did over in the U.K.? And even if so, would that experience really change their minds about anything, since their political calculation is that it’s in their electoral prospects interest to promote minimization of the threat of COV to the public?
HumboldtBlue
I hope they all suffer in agony.
Miss Bianca
Uhhh…what?
Honey Rona don’t give a shit, baby.
Erin in Flagstaff
@hells littlest angel: Shitty AND stupid. What a lethal combination.
MattF
@Roger Moore: It suggests here that viral reproduction and viral shedding from an infected carrier are two different processes. So, it’s an open question.
Brachiator
@Baud:
Jokes aside, I thought the conclusion would be more that if you are married or living with a partner, self-quarantine for 14 days might also mean settling in for some “self-abuse.”
Ilieitz
@Spanky: Is Millers wife really white? She looks mixed to me. //
laura
I’m going to spend a bit of time thoughts & prayersing about pence and trump dying while ventilatored. Alone, scared, drowning in their own skin sacks.
dmsilev
He thinks of the virus as a moral judgement. So far, it’s no big deal because only trash-people (the poor, minorities, etc.) are getting sick, and Good People Won’t Get Sick.
Mary G
The stenographer is getting cranky:
cmorenc
@HumboldtBlue:
Trump and company have succeeded in infecting progressive-minded people with such hateful ill-will that we actually wish for and would deliciously enjoy the schadenfreude of their intense physical suffering from COV.
dmsilev
@Mary G: She’s probably just a bit miffed at losing out on the scoop.
mrmoshpotato
One of the greatest generation should’ve punched Dump. What a traitorous, orange, Soviet shitpile!
Spanky
@cmorenc: Yes. And?
Brachiator
@dmsilev:
WTF?
Redshift
@Soprano2: As always, “I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” (Apparently not actually a Mark Twain quote, but Clarence Darrow wrote something close to it.)
Ruckus
@dmsilev:
I’d bet it’s actually because he doesn’t give a fuck about anyone but himself and those he’d like to have think highly of himself. And that would be the rich, of which he thinks he’s one.
dmsilev
@Brachiator: ‘Some of you may die. That’s a sacrifice I am prepared to make’
Gin & Tonic
@Redshift: There are some I’d read with glee, frankly.
germy
These dogs made me laugh. And I usually don’t laugh at dogs:
Cacti
So, the internet sleuths at Biden Brigade may have uncovered a bombshell about one Tara Reade:
Charged with check kiting three days before her alleged termination from Biden’s office.
Pic 1
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Zzyzx
@lamh36: I figure that if someone is in a position where that is an issue, they’ve already likely gotten themselves exposed.
danielx
@Soprano2:
Sorry, Mr. Miller, but you will have to be “quarantined” to, uh, “prevent the spread of infectious disease”. It’s something your forebears knew all about, those few who survived it.
*Miller is Jewish. “Preventing the spread of disease” was the excuse the Nazis used for herding Jews into ghettoes.
Charluckles
@NotMax:
Trump did tell us he was too busy to prepare for the coronavirus. Building a dock was more of a priority.
CaseyL
The fact that none of these walking human stains have actually gotten ill yet is, to me, proof that they’re being secretly dosed with all sorts of preventive/ameliorative therapies that no one else knows about, or are experimental.
Wasn’t there a report that T* bought a 2-year supply of remdesivir for himself?
Shalimar
I just discovered on Wikipedia thst Katie Miĺler was born on October 4th in both 1991 and 1994. If she wants to change her birthdate to appear younger, she needs to do in the text too, not just the topline.
Citizen Alan
@cmorenc: Yes. Your point?
CaseyL
@Cacti: Yeah, I posted about that in an earlier thread. The consensus was that it would not considered credible until one of the major news outlets (the same ones pushing the Reade story) picked it up.
rikyrah
@lamh36:
yuck
Cacti
@CaseyL: Same DoB too. So the odds of it being someone else are very small.
gene108
@Cacti:
Does nothing to prove or disprove her allegations
It’s the sort of character assassination to caste doubts on a victim, we wanted to move away from.
**************
I don’t have strong opinion on the issue. I doubt we are going to be able to prove beyond any doubt, if her recollection is correct.
We will always have a segment of the population that’ll think Biden did it. There’s no stopping that now.
CaseyL
@Cacti: I agree. I’m hoping the reason the MSM hasn’t gone with the story yet is they’re trying to vet it, rather than just ignoring it.
ETA: No, this is not character assassination. It is directly pertinent to Reade’s story, because if she was fired for having a record of fraud, her claim that she was fired or quit over sexual harassment is pure, 100% bullshit. In fact, the conclusion is that her claim to have been fired or quit due to sexual harassment was a lie to cover up the real reason.
Elizabelle
@Cacti:
County of San Luis Obispo, CA office confirms records were expunged. There was a case, and the case number dovetails with some earlier research. Charge was check fraud, a misdemeanor. No word on disposition of charges.
It is Tara Reade’s birthdate. (Looks like 2-26-1964. Public record, and helpful in assessing more information about her.)
planetjanet
OMG, that first tweet, where Katie Miller was at a PPE delivery event. That was at the Woodbine nursing home here in Alexandria, Virginia. There have been 107 cases in that zip code and the testing rate is 25% positive. She had to walk into a hot zone without a mask.
Citizen_X
So, it’s fine if they die now for your vanity? Fuck you.
Elizabelle
I have scandal fatigue. Who are other false claimants who have ended up in even more trouble once they reared their head? Skeletons came tumbling out. In public. It’s amazing to me that some people run for office with this stuff in their past.
Non-politician Michael Avenatti comes to mind. John Edwards. But who else? What do you jackals remember?
Cacti
@gene108: Actually, it does a lot to disprove her allegations, Ivan.
She said she was fired as retaliation and that she was blacklisted for being a whistleblower. Goes to credibility.
Duane
@MattF: Perhaps coronavirus will hold Trumpov accountable. Won’t wear a mask, won’t isolatate after a known exposure. The jackass is asking for it. He’s done (or not done) more than enough to deserve it.
Elizabelle
@gene108: It proves there was a court matter. How it turned out, and the specifics, not there.
I don’t think this is character assassination. I think it is verification. That is far different.
And gene: isn’t it possible that we have more than one victim here?
HumboldtBlue
This SNL commercial skit is even more relevant today.
Elizabelle
@HumboldtBlue: Wow. That is perfect. Prescient.
The Thin Black Duke
@Citizen Alan: I think the ‘point’ is we’re not supposed to hate the people trying to kill us. Yeah, it doesn’t make sense to me either.
Morzer
So Plague Rat One is now ranting about how we don’t need no stinkin’ vaccine and the corona virus is just going to disappear like magic. Meanwhile, 76,000 people are dead from his Great Patriotic War on America. I am increasingly amazed that an enraged mob hasn’t dragged his carcass out of the White House already.
As for Tara Reade, nothing would surprise me less than the idea that she got fired from Biden’s office for kiting checks.
Nora
Clearly Trump does not begin to understand what testing is all about. You could test negative over and over because you didn’t have the virus, and then you get the virus and you test positive. This seems simple enough even for an ignoramus like him to understand.
Anya
Coronavirus continues to kill all the wrong people.
Another Scott
@Roger Moore: There was a study in China about oral (as opposed to respiratory) transmission of the virus. Don’t quote me on the details, but my recollection is that people were found that had the virus in their feces but did not have it in their respiratory tract (and had no respiratory symptoms). So, yes, you can be negative in swab tests and still have the virus in your body.
NOTE: the study said nothing about whether people having the virus that way were infectious to others’ respiratory systems. And the other studies about toilets spraying bacteria and all the rest all over the bathroom don’t say anything about people getting COVID-19 that way either. The best evidence we have says that people get COVID-19 from close contact (touching, coughing) from other infected people.
tl;dr – It’s complicated. Cover your nose and mouth and wash your hands!!
Cheers,
Scott.
The Thin Black Duke
@Anya: Wait.
debbie
@HumboldtBlue:
Heh, definitely still a great ad.
Brachiator
@Another Scott:
And don’t stick your head into toilets.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Pepsi Twist: Nursing homes are a virus hot spot. It’s quite possible for even a 90 year to have the virus and not show any symptoms.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Come on, sex is person to person contact. If it can spread by shaking hands it certainly can spread by embracing.
Bill Arnold
@Baud:
Or nasal passages. Lots of ACE2 expression there.
Or eyes, though that remains speculative (just one case study and not definitive, that I know of.)
Skepticat
In that case, he, Dense, and most of his administration all should be very (physically) ill right away. C’mon, karma!
And if any of those pure veterans die, please may we charge him with murder?
Suzanne
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
You’re so old-fashioned.
So between Dense making his idiotic statement about not wearing a mask so he can look people in the eye, and the shrieking about free speech, I really think they think this is all BDSM stuff…. they think these are blindfolds and ballgags.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Shyamalan level plot twist; it was the Secret Service all along!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/secret-service-coronavirus-cases-white-house-concerns-221444492.html
Problem with Trump living in a 1%er paradise fantasy is he doesn’t see all the little people that makes it possible as humans that can be infected themselves.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
All these people around Dump would be Covid free if they only listened to him and injected bleach
artem1s
Hmmm, now that Dence’s staff is full of plague carriers, I wonder if germaphobe Dump will start thinking about replacing him on the ticket again. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if he loses the talibangelicals over the plague?
Fester Addams
@CaseyL:
As likely, I suppose, as the theory that God simply doesn’t love us that much. Now, if Pence and Trump do get very sick with the ‘rona then I guess I’m going to have to start shopping for a religion.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Florida likely under count virus deaths by 100%
Short answer Florida man only dies from the virus if he dies in the hospital.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/found-unresponsive-home-grim-records-191911462.html
This begs the question; how do the GOP plan to fix the virus death numbers when they are already bad after getting fixed?
Another Scott
@CaseyL:
It could be Bakker’s colloidal silver. Maybe??
There’s that name again. Hmm…
“How can I forget you when you won’t go away!!”
Cheers,
Scott.
Sally
@mrmoshpotato: Seventy five years ago those guys were killing Nazis. Are they out of practice, or what?
Sm*t Cl*de
@Citizen_X:
Fighting on the Western Front was such a great experience.
dopey-o
@Redshift: twain said “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a note saying I approved of it.” Or words to that effect.
low-tech cyclist
Hey, let’s not insult bats like that! I’d much rather spend a day exploring a cave frequented by bats than spend an hour with Stephen Miller.