I would be quite happy with a much smaller effect. If he got just a little light headed (yeah, yeah, I know) and had to steady himself by holding onto the podium. Started to speak gibberish (yeah, yeah, I know) and the moderator paused the discussion to ask Trump if he felt ok. If something like that happens, it will own the next 3-4 news cycles ... in a bad way for Trump.

Does right wing extremism always come with this kind of stunning ignorance?

More nonsense from Dr Conley today, claiming Trump aced a pulmonary function test, the kind you blow into. All the docs behind him nodded in agreement. :rolleyes:

If 80+ percent buy into it, is it really extremism?

yes.

If everyone jumps off a bridge, it's still stupid.

"He described the COVID-19 coin as the last in a series illustrating "President Trump's ascendance over and defeat of the deadly COVID pandemic virus."

Um..

Trump is more or less in Charlie Sheen "tiger blood" territory since his steroid treatment. Generally known as stark raving mad.

Which is why getting us to a post fact world where "Jumping off a bridge is stupid" is "just... like your opinion man" is so important to the Right.

And why keeping a somewhat objective larger picture in mind should be important for everyone else. Extremism should be treated as referring to some relatively objective criteria, otherwise, the extremists on the right would happily get to the point where moderate right is being called extremist left.

Trump Tweets

I am looking forward to the debate on the evening of Thursday, October 15th in Miami. It will be great!

FEELING GREAT!

Thought there was a 14-day quarantine for people with Covid-19 symptoms :confused:

I guess the rules don't apply to the President, but how does Joe Biden best try to ensure that he doesn't contract Covid-19 from the Super Spreader ?

Taser.

Oh, great, he's going to get even more of his own people killed. Trumpkins will consider this pwning the libs.

At last check, a person is supposedly usually only to be treated as contagious for the first 10 days after a positive test. So there's that bit of "hopefully it'll be okay." The 14-day bit is more that symptoms/positive tests normally start showing in that window after exposure, if one is infected.

Trump Tweets

The Fake News Media refuses to discuss how good the Economy and Stock Market, including JOBS under the Trump Administration, are doing. We will soon be in RECORD TERRITORY. All they want to discuss is COVID 19, where they won’t say it, but we beat the Dems all day long, also!!!

Trump Tweets

REPEAL SECTION 230!!!

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, provides immunity to online platforms from civil liability based on third-party content and for the removal of content in certain circumstances.
Dear Infected Leader wants to sue twitter over tweets he doesn't like and for those of his own that are deleted.

I wonder if he realizes that that would mean all of his fascist voters would be kicked off all social media.

Trump Tweets

Mini Mike Bloomberg, who made a fool of himself on the Dems debate stage when Elizabeth Warren & the others simply took him apart, is going “crazy” trying to buy his way back into the Liberal Democrat’s hearts. His Florida ads are lies. I am much better for SENIORS than Sleepy!

Trump Tweets

Did anyone get to see that absolute “Joke” of a Town Hall interview that Joe Biden did with Concast @NBCNews, hosted by Lester Holt? What a disgrace to our Country that FREE public airwaves can be used that way. All SOFTBALLS. A big FIX. Time should be paid by the corrupt DNC!

Twitter freezes Trump's account after he doxxed a New York Post journalist.

He's just pissed because he whiffs on every single pitched by a FOX sycophant; he couldn't even bunt the white supremist softball Wallace tossed him in the debate.

How many times has it been frozen now for breaching their rules?

Right now, Trump reminds me of someone with bipolar disorder in a full manic episode.

Roid Rage.

Well, if he doesn't get his tweety box back quick, he's gonna go all Tom Cruise on the WH furniture.
And some of that stuff is too old and delicate to handle his fat ass. [emoji20]

That ain't all...

'Don’t be afraid of Covid’: Fist-pumping Trump returns to White House without mask, downplays pandemic despite diagnosis

That's like Spongebob being on a drug with side effects of giddiness and jaundice.

Ideally your oncologist has both experiences. At least there are lots of doctors who say getting a serious illness and being on the other side of the labcoat made them better doctors. One such

https://www.theguardian.com/healthca...-better-doctor

Of course this is really a digression and not relevant to Trump grandiose claims of being adequate.

My thought exactly. "I'm not ill. I've never felt better in my whole life! Get me out of here!" The absurd motorcade. The incoherent CAPS LOCK TWEETS. :D

Noticed how Trump hasn't mentioned the Trade Deficit in months?
It's pretty close to being the highest it's ever been.

Great. Trump just ordered a stop to any stimulus bill talks. The Dow is plummeting.

Trump Tweets

Nancy Pelosi is asking for $2.4 Trillion Dollars to bailout poorly run, high crime, Democrat States, money that is in no way related to COVID-19. We made a very generous offer of $1.6 Trillion Dollars and, as usual, she is not negotiating in good faith. I am rejecting their...

...request, and looking to the future of our Country. I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election when, immediately after I win, we will pass a major Stimulus Bill that focuses on hardworking Americans and Small Business. I have asked...


...@senatemajldr Mitch McConnell not to delay, but to instead focus full time on approving my outstanding nominee to the United States Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett. Our Economy is doing very well. The Stock Market is at record levels, JOBS and unemployment...

...also coming back in record numbers. We are leading the World in Economic Recovery, and THE BEST IS YET TO COME!

CNBC Now tweeted
@CNBCnow
BREAKING: Dow falls 400+ points to fresh session low after Trump terminates stimulus talks

I can't help but wonder if anyone around the president personally profited from the tweet he posted that predictably caused stocks to suddenly sink.

I would check Jared's brokerage account. Trump pulled the same crap with the trade deal talks.

Jared might be smart enough for that, but not Trump. He's just setting fire to the ship because they might not let him be captain next time.

Fair enough - he's so tough he proved Covid is just a touch of the 'flu and there's no need for stimulus.

Get back to school and work, you slackers!

Classic Trump: don't pay the peons, get that judge through because it will help me personally.

Nah, it's the great drugs.

Not Trump writing this. DEFINITELY not Trump. Way too long for Mr Twitter-bug. He can barely maintain a thought this long, let alone write sentences.

Also, it flies in the face of objective reality. The stock market is falling, not rising (unless someone failed to point out it is actually record LOW levels??). Which suggests this tweet is by someone else and aimed at Trump to distract and make him feel better about his recent horrendous decisions.

I wonder if Trump thinks he is going to lose,and ,in the great tradition of Adolf Hitler has adapted a scorched earth policy to leave Biden as big a mess as possible.
Of course this latest move might very well cost the GOP the Senate, but Trump might well want to pull down the GOP as punishment for not b eing sufficently loyal to him.
And, yeah, this latest makes so little political sense that I am now buying into the "his mind has been impaceted by all those steroids" school.