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smoobles
Sep 4, 2014

He will die of old age

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PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Honestly a Trump that loses the presidency seems even more likely to stay on steroids. As president if he becomes a raving drug addict sooner or later someone's going to wrangle him in no matter how toady his inner circle is, if he's a private citizen no one will give a poo poo.

my logic is that whatever company that made regenaron/ Page Industries will no longer have a reason to give da supa science treatment to a loser/useless tool.

no matter how desperate he is.

desperate

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

Railing Kill posted:

I read a tweet yesterday that said something like, "Trump"s arguments must be working on me because I am not definitely voting for Hilary Clinton or Hunter Biden this year." It's amazing how Trump seems to have this one skill--manipulating the media--yet he frequently bungles even that fairly often because he's stupid in so many other ways. He's still prosecuting the 2016 campaign every time he mentions Clinton. You would think he'd have a better grasp on how to dick with the media about Biden. It's a stark reminder that he's not even very good at what he's supposed to be good at, and that he barely won (and lost badly in the PV) in 2016. He"s not a puppet master. He's a loving idiot, and now he's also on drugs that impair his judgment.
He keeps bringing up 2016 because he knows in his fetid heart that he lost the popular vote. Sure, he won the election, but Trump craves public validation more than anything, and he has proof that Americans did not want him as president. So he just tries very hard to spin enough lies about 2016 to one day fool himself.

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

Pants Donkey posted:

He keeps bringing up 2016 because he knows in his fetid heart that he lost the popular vote. Sure, he won the election, but Trump craves public validation more than anything, and he has proof that Americans did not want him as president. So he just tries very hard to spin enough lies about 2016 to one day fool himself.

He's a pathological liar. He believed his lies from the start.

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Honestly a Trump that loses the presidency seems even more likely to stay on steroids. As president if he becomes a raving drug addict sooner or later someone's going to wrangle him in no matter how toady his inner circle is, if he's a private citizen no one will give a poo poo.

An old right wing blowhard juiced up on drugs? Hell, he'll probably get his own radio show.

Isomermaid
Dec 3, 2019

Swish swish, like a fish
Up next on Fox: Uncle Donald's Actionable Libel Hour

Railing Kill
Nov 14, 2008

You are the first crack in the sheer face of god. From you it will spread.

Isomermaid posted:

Up next on Fox: Uncle Donald's Actionable Libel Hour

I'm imagining an inverted version of the show "Blackmail!" from Monty Python. The longer you watch Uncle Donald's Actionable Libel Hour, the more you can sue him if you're the lucky at-home contestant. But don't wait too long! The Statute of LimitationsTM is only as long as the segment, which could end at any time when Uncle Donald"s meds wear off.

Pants Donkey
Nov 13, 2011

Would Trump even get the booby prize of Fox News contributor? I think even Fox realizes he’s too unhinged for his own show, especially after his loss.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Pants Donkey posted:

Would Trump even get the booby prize of Fox News contributor? I think even Fox realizes he’s too unhinged for his own show, especially after his loss.

OAN would probably be the place if he doesn't revive the old dream of his own cable channel.

Jealous Cow
Apr 4, 2002

by Fluffdaddy
https://twitter.com/fox12oregon/status/1318550037635469315

Kaiju Cage Match
Nov 5, 2012





I'm sorry that lung cancer was diagnosed with a terminal case of Rush Limbaugh.

Jealous Cow
Apr 4, 2002

by Fluffdaddy

Kaiju Cage Match posted:

I'm sorry that lung cancer was diagnosed with a terminal case of Rush Limbaugh.

Not my joke, unfortunately, but:

I wonder if he hates his lungs now that he knows they’re black.

SalTheBard
Jan 26, 2005

I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!

Fallen Rib

Jealous Cow posted:

Not my joke, unfortunately, but:

I wonder if he hates his lungs now that he knows they’re black.

:vince:

Railing Kill
Nov 14, 2008

You are the first crack in the sheer face of god. From you it will spread.

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

OAN would probably be the place if he doesn't revive the old dream of his own cable channel.

Trump has never run anything with any success, ever. That is, if you don't count repeatedly declaring bankruptcy to get out of debts or deliberate grifts like Trump University. He's never run an actual business with any measure of success for more than a few years. I say all this because it would be amazing to see him get into a crowded and dying cable TV landscape and completely eat poo poo. It's difficult for people who are actually good at business to succeed in cable these days. His failure in such a venture would be quite a spectacle. And then he would die of old age. :allears:

CommunityEdition
May 1, 2009
He’s hard enough to keep on message when that message is supposed to be for his own direct benefit. Who’s going to risk putting him on air? He won’t rehearse, he’s hilariously bad at interviews, he goes off script constantly.

DarklyDreaming
Apr 4, 2009

Fun scary

CommunityEdition posted:

He’s hard enough to keep on message when that message is supposed to be for his own direct benefit. Who’s going to risk putting him on air? He won’t rehearse, he’s hilariously bad at interviews, he goes off script constantly.

This would make him the most prestigious member of the youtube anti-sjw community

PT6A
Jan 5, 2006

Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane

CommunityEdition posted:

He’s hard enough to keep on message when that message is supposed to be for his own direct benefit. Who’s going to risk putting him on air? He won’t rehearse, he’s hilariously bad at interviews, he goes off script constantly.

When he's on air he can spew his ridiculous nonsense and his base will eat it up. They don't have to appeal to anyone else, his base is more than enough to create a lucrative market for gold and dick pill commercials.

Douchebag
Oct 21, 2005


My aunt died of lung cancer in July and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone except Rush Limbaugh.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

If only anyone knew that smoking for 30 years would give you lung cancer. I’m sure he never mocked people for dying of preventable disease or treated information about the dangers of smoking in an unserious manner.

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
running a cable channel would be burning money, Oprah burns money but still has a ton of rev form her legit good biz stuff, Beck burned his money and could have become a king maker if he didnt didnt huff his own farts and think he could have Bender Casino his own better FN.

Sydney Bottocks
Oct 15, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 21 days!

PhazonLink posted:

running a cable channel would be burning money, Oprah burns money but still has a ton of rev form her legit good biz stuff, Beck burned his money and could have become a king maker if he didnt didnt huff his own farts and think he could have Bender Casino his own better FN.

I think the mistake a lot of these idiots that eventually become too toxic even for Fox News (and who go "I'll just start up my own thing") tend to make, is that the majority of old people that constitute the Fox News viewing audience, generally park the TV on that channel and leave it on there all day and night long, as they doze off and on during the course of the day. They're not gonna seek out Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck or whatever other talking head that used to be omnipresent and is now gone; the audience will just watch whoever is still on there, and they'll pretty quickly forget about whoever it was that left.

PT6A
Jan 5, 2006

Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane

Sydney Bottocks posted:

I think the mistake a lot of these idiots that eventually become too toxic even for Fox News (and who go "I'll just start up my own thing") tend to make, is that the majority of old people that constitute the Fox News viewing audience, generally park the TV on that channel and leave it on there all day and night long, as they doze off and on during the course of the day. They're not gonna seek out Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck or whatever other talking head that used to be omnipresent and is now gone; the audience will just watch whoever is still on there, and they'll pretty quickly forget about whoever it was that left.

True. We should investigate how Fox News managed to become that specific flavour of background noise both in public and in private, and then take steps to ensure it never, ever happens again.

Tomberforce
May 30, 2006

PT6A posted:

True. We should investigate how Fox News managed to become that specific flavour of background noise both in public and in private, and then take steps to ensure it never, ever happens again.

Sky News in Australia is busy doing exactly the same thing here now.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

PT6A posted:

True. We should investigate how Fox News managed to become that specific flavour of background noise both in public and in private, and then take steps to ensure it never, ever happens again.
Small business owners and franchisee operators as a group are some of the chuddiest assholes you've ever met. One of the most common rules in their fiefdoms is that if there isn't a particular sports game that everyone wants to see at any given time, then the TV in the bar or waiting room or whatever needs to be on Fox News. They all independently came up with this rule because they're chuddy assholes - there is no conspiracy theory or grand plan to it. I wouldn't be shocked if a bunch of them have upgraded to OANN lately, but I haven't been in the States for a few years to verify.

BigFactory
Sep 17, 2002

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

If only anyone knew that smoking for 30 years would give you lung cancer. I’m sure he never mocked people for dying of preventable disease or treated information about the dangers of smoking in an unserious manner.

I haven’t listened to rush in forever, but I’m sure he’s not too sympathetic to hunter Biden’s drug addiction, while conveniently ignoring all the time he spent in Walgreens parking lots paying cash for shopping bags full of Vicodin.

Fritz the Horse
Dec 26, 2019

... of course!
crossposting

There is still hope, friends...

I'm just now listening to the most recent TWiV and a very interesting tidbit: Trump is very likely not immune to COVID-19 reinfection. This is based on information from Fauci passed to a reporter and then to Daniel Griffin that Trump did not have any antibodies of his own when he was given Regeneron antibody cocktail. Since his own immune system had not yet mounted a response when he was given the antibody cocktail and steroids, it's likely he will not develop much natural immunity. He'll still have some artificial immunity for a while from the Regeneron cocktail which has a halflife of maybe 20 days.

What I'm saying is it's entirely possible he catches covid a second time. He believes he's immune and so won't bother with any precautions (he wasn't really before). But he's probably not.

It's going to be truly beautiful if he's one of the few confirmed cases of covid reinfection and gets sick again sometime in the lame duck.

edit: link to video timestamp where it's discussed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IjXzadiNaA&t=733s

Fritz the Horse fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Oct 21, 2020

Lead out in cuffs
Sep 18, 2012

"That's right. We've evolved."

"I can see that. Cool mutations."




Lead out in cuffs posted:

I think the more interesting science is going to be tracing all the people he and top Republicans gave it to. Technically it wouldn't be too hard. While nobody is going to release Trump and co's NP swabs, I'm pretty sure you could recruit enough pissed-off relatives and/or frontline staff from the Capitol.

I feel like there's be political fallout though.

million dollar mack posted:

They're not doing contact tracing on the president (because then he would have to admit that he was sicker for longer than he's said). So of course donnie will blurt that out in a few days time.

So I thought I should elaborate a bit on what I meant here. Scientists are sequencing the everloving gently caress out of SARS-CoV-2. NCBI has nearly 30,000 cases deposited already, and there are megaprojects around the world each aiming to sequence hundreds of thousands more. By the time we get to the end of this pandemic, there will be literally millions of sequenced cases, including at least hundreds of thousands from the US. And that's almost certainly going to be public data with accompanying county-level location information.

At that point, although challenging, it would almost certainly be technically feasible to trace out a clade of SARS-CoV-2 emanating from the Rose Garden/Coney-Barrett superspreader event, and from Trump's travel schedule before and after hospitalisation. You don't need to do contact tracing on the president. You just need someone with enough technical knowledge and the motivation to dig into the public data. And it's almost certainly just a matter of time before this happens. Hell, I might take a stab at it once more data is available.

Mr Interweb
Aug 25, 2004

Fritz the Horse posted:

crossposting

There is still hope, friends...

I'm just now listening to the most recent TWiV and a very interesting tidbit: Trump is very likely not immune to COVID-19 reinfection. This is based on information from Fauci passed to a reporter and then to Daniel Griffin that Trump did not have any antibodies of his own when he was given Regeneron antibody cocktail. Since his own immune system had not yet mounted a response when he was given the antibody cocktail and steroids, it's likely he will not develop much natural immunity. He'll still have some artificial immunity for a while from the Regeneron cocktail which has a halflife of maybe 20 days.

What I'm saying is it's entirely possible he catches covid a second time. He believes he's immune and so won't bother with any precautions (he wasn't really before). But he's probably not.

It's going to be truly beautiful if he's one of the few confirmed cases of covid reinfection and gets sick again sometime in the lame duck.

edit: link to video timestamp where it's discussed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IjXzadiNaA&t=733s

i'm still holding out for hope. SOMETHING is gonna happen to him soon. i just know it

Shooting Blanks
Jun 6, 2007

Real bullets mess up how cool this thing looks.

-Blade



Antifa Turkeesian posted:

OAN would probably be the place if he doesn't revive the old dream of his own cable channel.

OAN, Newsmax, or he takes over for Rush Limbaugh. Comedy option: RT

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

Mr Interweb posted:

i'm still holding out for hope. SOMETHING is gonna happen to him soon. i just know it

does winning an election count as something happening to him?

Seven Hundred Bee
Nov 1, 2006

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1320219253258289152

Jet Jaguar
Feb 12, 2006

Don't touch my bags if you please, Mr Customs Man.



So is Pence still head of the task force or is that Jared now?

Either way, not the greatest look as Donnie goes on a whirlwind superspreader tour.

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

https://twitter.com/gvravel/status/1321896125264220162?s=20

I wonder if Trump's starting to burn out.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Theoretically, if Pence were incapacitated for some reason, would they force Trump to call off events so as to minimise the security (and helicopter crash) risk potentially leaving us with President Pelosi?

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Theoretically, if Pence were incapacitated for some reason, would they force Trump to call off events so as to minimise the security (and helicopter crash) risk potentially leaving us with President Pelosi?

no way trump cares enough about that to stop

Murgos
Oct 21, 2010

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Theoretically, if Pence were incapacitated for some reason, would they force Trump to call off events so as to minimise the security (and helicopter crash) risk potentially leaving us with President Pelosi?

"Good of the country" is an imaginary concept to him and he believes his power is absolute. So, he's not never going to stop campaigning.

Name Change
Oct 9, 2005


Murgos posted:

"Good of the country" is an imaginary concept to him and he believes his power is absolute. So, he's not never going to stop campaigning.

I would 100% expect Trump rallies to continue after he is out of office.

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!



Sodomy Hussein posted:

I would 100% expect Trump rallies to continue after he is out of office.
Homeboy's gonna counter-program against the inauguration.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
Considering the rona is still going to be roaring along in Jan 2021 Trump will finally get his wish where his inauguration will have a bigger crowd than Biden.

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Solkanar512
Dec 28, 2006

by the sex ghost

Nessus posted:

Homeboy's gonna counter-program against the inauguration.

How? He’s going to be on a helicopter.

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