Trump

[PaulJ]

A haiku for our times.

Donald has Covid
The world waits with bated breath
Or are we giggling?

[Beany]

Trump:
"I have learned a lot about the corona virus, I did lots of book learning (more word salad)"

Also Trump:
"Right lads, lock me in a hermetically sealed car with the secret service, I'm going to go wave at some fuckwits"

I mean, you couldn't put this in a political comedy like The Thick Of It because it'd be lambasted for being unbelievable.

[Simon]

Those guys will have to quarantine now for 2 weeks. All for a bit of waving.

[Beany]

He went on a roid-rage tweetstorm this morning.

Trump twitter has been amazing for the last week and it looks like it's just getting more and more bizarre.

[GG.]

Corticosteroids (as opposed to anabolic) generally induce positive mood changes so the infantile rage is likely all him

[Beany]

It's really quite special.

[duncs500]

Space Force? I imagine it will be exactly like the TV show under Trump too.

[Swervin_Mervin]

Christ he doesn't look "great" in his video on the WH balcony does he? If this is him feeling better than he did 20yrs ago...

[ZedLeg]

That video of him coming back to the white house was bizarre. Proper tinpot dictator stuff.

[Rich B]

Ok, I believe he has it now, looking at his struggle to breathe properly...

[Beany]

In today's "you couldn't make it up"....

A few days ago in his all caps rant Twitter storm, trump said that the stimulus package was badly needed.

Then today, he unilaterally ended negotiations because the Dems want too much, and that when he is the re-elected, he'd implement a stimulus package, which isn't insane at all.

Oh, this also knocked >1% of the major US stock markets.

And now, he's quote tweeted an article where the main us financial bigwigs said that stimulus is needed, and it's better to overspend than underspend on it.




I, er....

....what?

[Beany]

Update, he's now saying stimulus bad.

There's a natsec briefing tomorrow morning US Time, might be the 25th Amendment at this rate

[mik]

What a spaffling gobsh1te.

[RobYob]

I need to wake up, I have to wake up, this can't be real.

Goes to watch The Matrix

[Beany]

What a spaffling gobsh1te.

Massive jump cut (with zoom change) in the middle of that, also much as thought people joke he looks like an Oompa Loompa, he really does.

Also he can't approve a drug for a company he name checked four times that has only been used on a few hundred people, has no full clinical trials, etc for widespread use. Also, that's socialism. Also, it's packed with juicy aborted baby stem cells!

[DaveE]

What a spaffling gobsh1te.

Massive jump cut (with zoom change) in the middle of that, also much as thought people joke he looks like an Oompa Loompa, he really does.

Also he can't approve a drug for a company he name checked four times that has only been used on a few hundred people, has no full clinical trials, etc for widespread use. Also, that's socialism. Also, it's packed with juicy aborted baby stem cells!

I don't think that's true? https://heavy.com/news/regeneron-monocl ... tem-cells/

[Beany]

Ah, you might be right. Clearly following Trump Twitter is affecting my ability to think critically.

Edit: Yup, you're spot on.

https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/was ... il-created

What’s more, a Regeneron representative told The Dispatch Fact Check that “Regeneron’s REGN-COV2 program did not involve use of human stem cells, embryonic stem cells or fetal tissue.”

[DaveE]

It's a minefield of misinformation from both sides.

As has already been said a million times, if people can't even agree on a common, shared truth, then we're all fucked.

Proper fucked.

Like the rabbit.

[Beany]

Turns out it's not quite as straightforward. Cells used in the process are immortalised cells from an abortion in the seventies.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/1 ... ssion=true

So whether you give a toss probably depends on just how evangelical you are. I'd probably go with 'well, not really' in terms of 'is it aborted tissue'.

[McSwede]

Proper fucked.

Like the rabbit.

I love the reference