Posted on 10/02/2020 3:44:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
By now you've heard that President Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus. The president shared the news just a few hours after we got word that one of his top aides, Hope Hicks, had tested positive. Most folks are wishing the pair well, or saying prayers for them before they go to sleep tonight. President Trump is a high-risk group for COVID hospitalization, given his age and weight. But, as you can probably (sadly) expect, his critics are either smirking, or outright celebrating the scary diagnosis.
"I hope nothing but the worst for him," one Twitter user wrote.
"He deserves all that comes to him," said another.
He downplayed it and said it is what it is. I hope nothing but the worst for him.— Morehouse (@art_morehouse) October 2, 2020
I wish him nothing. Shame on him and shame on anyone that thinks he’s owed any mercy. He’s responsible for so much damage. He deserves all that comes to him.— Drew Zimmerman (@wdzimmy) October 2, 2020
Student gun control activist Cameron Kasky posted an Instagram video of himself laughing at the diagnosis. And there's apparently a whole thread of Tik Tokers who are sharing their own bliss.
TikTokers have begun to react to the news pic.twitter.com/vT6PGwtqnX— Home Depot Skeleton (@TaylorLorenz) October 2, 2020
See below for some more outrageous responses, including those who suggested that the president had it coming.
The president of the United States is arguably the most protected person in the world. Guarded by the best security, treated by the best doctors. He lives an insulated existence. That Donald Trump contracted this virus is a testament not to its strength, but to his carelessness.— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) October 2, 2020
This COVID test is the only positive thing Trump has ever done.— Charlotte Clymer ?????? (@cmclymer) October 2, 2020
I don't think his story is going to have a happy ending.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 2, 2020
A White House reporter then asked this "serious" question.
Serious question — Will POTUS call in to Fox & Friends tomorrow to calm the markets, and, everything else? #COVID19 #Trump— Mike Valerio (@MikevWUSA) October 2, 2020
Now, because I refuse to believe that all humanity is lost, here are the responses from a few of Trump's loudest and most prominent critics that surprised me.
Best wishes to President Trump and the First Lady. Whatever one thinks of his policies, I hope we can be civil, avoid snark, seek lessons and wish them both a swift recovery.— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) October 2, 2020
God bless the president and the first lady. If you pray, please pray for their speedy and complete recovery — and for everyone infected, everywhere.
This virus is horrific and merciless — no one would wish its wrath on anyone.
We must get its spread under control. Enough.— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) October 2, 2020
Get well soon, Mr. President and Melania.
When Trump takes Office this next election, I hope he razes the social media companies! And open them wide to defamation actions, as well! May as well dox the names of those who decide when to block content!
I recall reading that 60% of the attendees at the Minnesota rally were NOT republicans.
Well I’ll just be eamned...
Rachel Maddow actually posted THAT???
Hell just froze over.
I’m pretty sure that wss a pig that just flew over the house...
Even so, I have to give her credit for having at least a shred of human decency. Probably just a tiny shred, but it’s there...glad to see her take the high road...once...
No political gamesmanship there, no sir-eeee.
The difference is, they are enemies of THIS country, its beliefs, its strengths, its greatness, etc.
You are falling victim to the senseless analogy that compares the “far” left to the “far” right! The left are those who destroy, hate the Constitution, the military, the police, butcher babies, believe in a bastardized version of a deity, and so on. In contrast, the “far” right are God-fearing, love this country, respect the Constitution, the blue, a strong military, freedoms, etc. And don’t respond with any “perspective” crap.
One of THEIRS gets the diagnosis?
That’s when you will observe their ‘appearance’ of concern and gravitas. But, not until.
I don’t agree.
I showed great restraint when Mccain died...the equivalent for me of when Hillary kicks the bucket.
>>I would BET that he got COVID from a DEMOCRAT at the DEBATE!!!
https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/germ-warfare/Content?oid=3092
Germ Warfare
Dan Savage Goes Undercover to the Iowa Caucuses and Gives Gary Bauer the Flu Bug
by Dan Savage
...I’m the only new volunteer to walk through the door in quite some time, apparently, so campaign staffers don’t quite know what to do with me. Only after 10 or 15 minutes of asking around does Andy, a young Bauer staffer, direct me to the phones.
...Pretending you feel fine when you’ve got the flu is exhausting — and I have the flu in a big way. On my flight to Minneapolis, I felt this itch in the back of my throat. By the time I got to my hotel in Des Moines, all I could do was get undressed, crawl under the covers, and stay in bed for two days. On day three, still sick as a dog, I decide to get up and do my job. I’m relieved when the Bauer folks stick me in an out-of-the-way cubicle, where unobserved I can allow myself to look as miserable as I feel...
I catch Gary Bauer on MSNBC. “Our society will be destroyed if we say it’s okay for a man to marry a man or a woman to marry a woman,” he says. Seeing Bauer go off about gay marriage reminds me of something he said back in December, when the Vermont Supreme Court came out for same-sex marriage: “I think what the Vermont Supreme Court did last week was in some ways worse than terrorism.”
In my Sudafed-induced delirium, I decide that if it’s terrorism Bauer wants, it’s terrorism Bauer is going to get. Naked, feverish, and higher than a kite on codeine aspirin, I call the Bauer campaign and volunteer. My plan? Get close enough to Bauer to give him the flu, which, if I am successful, will lay him flat just before the New Hampshire primary. I’ll go to Bauer’s campaign office and cough on everything. Phones and pens. Staplers and staffers. I even hatch a plan to infect the candidate himself; I’ll keep a pen in my mouth until Bauer drops by his offices to rally the troops. And when he does, I’ll approach him and ask for his autograph, handing him the pen from my flu-virus-incubating mouth.
While I make calls, I overhear Bauer’s press secretary calling reporters and letting them know that Gary will be having a press conference at a cemetery at 3:30 p.m., at the grave of a fetus found in a ditch. Gary will give his usual complaint about the coarsening of our culture — standing on a child’s grave for emphasis. While I dial, my eyes drift over the pieces of paper pinned to the wall of my cubicle. A photocopied “thought for the day” catches my attention. “Remember, when someone annoys you,” the thought reads, “it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown. But it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and SMACK THE &&&HOLE UPSIDE THE HEAD.” Hmmm. A little coarse, I think to myself, chewing my pen.
...I’ve got work to do.
I go around the room licking doorknobs. They are filthy, no doubt, but there isn’t time to find a rag to spit on. If for some reason I don’t manage to get a pen from my mouth to Gary’s hands at the conference, I want to seed his office with germs, get as many of his people sick as I can, and hopefully one of them will infect the candidate. I lick office doorknobs, bathroom doorknobs. When that’s done, I start on the staplers, phones, and computer keyboards. Then I stand in the kitchen and lick the rims of all the clean coffee cups drying in the rack. I grab my coat and head out...
...It’s freezing cold and windy. Waiting for Gary, I take my pen out of my pocket and put it in my mouth. This is it, my one shot at the candidate. I chew the pen, cracking the plastic shaft. Gary arrives, toddles up to the podium, and makes some brief remarks about Red China. As he steps away, I step toward him.
“This is my son,” I say, handing him a photograph. “Can I have your autograph?” Bauer gives me an odd look; I need to give him a little more. “I talked his mother out of aborting him. You’re my hero, Mr. Bauer.”
He looks at me with his little bug eyes, and breaks into a wide smile. “Good for you,” Gary says. “That’s wonderful.”
He takes the picture, and I pull the pen out of my mouth and hand it to him. Score! My bodily fluids — flu bugs and all — are all over his hand! When he tries to sign, no ink comes out. Gary looks up at the cameras and says, “Looks like everything is frozen.” He grabs a poster and scribbles on it to get the ink flowing, then signs the picture. He hands me my pen, and starts to walk toward his van. He stops to answer a reporter’s question, and I see him run a finger under his nose. Perfect.
I didn’t need to lick all those doorknobs after all.
https://www.salon.com/2000/01/29/savage_reaction/
The firestorm over “Stalking Gary Bauer”
Salon readers lash Dan Savage — or laugh with him.
SALON STAFF
JANUARY 29, 2000 10:00PM (UTC)
Last week Salon sent writer Dan Savage to Iowa to cover the presidential primary caucuses. While there, he came down with the flu. The story he filed — a feverish, compelling and disturbing account of how candidate Gary Bauer’s crusade against gays drove him to try to infect Bauer with his flu — was not what we had in mind.
Nevertheless, after reviewing the story carefully we decided to run it...
Right-However no one here is the ‘same’ as well known, public officials and Politicians in this country.
As individuals, we do not have the high-profile rank, assuring us a ‘bully pulpit’. What we say and think are NOT at all the same as what elected public figures say and think.
With public personalities, and especially those people who constantly presume to lecture all of us about ‘ethics’ and proper conduct, there is a duty to behave with respect and gravitas about this kind of thing. THEY enjoy rank and attention, because they are representatives of their constituents.
We are not representing the country or any ‘constituents’…we are private citizens, so if we say something unkind or unfair, it’s between ourselves and our conscience. It’s on us as individuals.
The Liberals, long ago abandoned traditionally civil and cordial language which was required of government officials and I think almost second nature for real professionals throughout the country and in all fields. It’s been a long time coming and I am old enough to have seen it develop over time.
Liberals have eagerly and arrogantly cultivated this ghastly descent to the gutter. THEIR coarse language and unseemly conduct are increasingly objectionable and out of place, yet they constantly demand better from everyone ELSE.
No…Liberals have failed in the basic requirement for any ‘representative’ of the American people. I would openly censure any representative of MINE, if he/she behaved that way.
Then you haven’t paid attention to when people have died. Some around here get viscous.
Again-we are private citizens who do not represent voters.
Oh, wait. Never mind.
The kind of trash you hear from “Liberals” when speaking ill of someone they don’t like demonstrates to me how dark, vile, hate filled and demonic is their “Liberalism”. Anyone carrying around all that darkness within them is not in a good place, with themselves or G-d.
And that’s not about Nancy or Biden or Hillary-that’s about her husband. Just what do you think this person-or others-would say about them! You’re delusional. They can’t even be civilized about her husband during her illness-you expect them to be civilized during Nancy’s? Lol. Think again.
"Finally some great news for a change."; "BOUT DAMN TIME YOU OLD GHOUL"; "yes, but I’ll take any great news, however tardy."; "Finally some good news."; "About GD Time!!! Good riddance!"; "Embalm, cremate, bury at sea. Take no chances"; "Would a wooden stake, properly applied of course, be in order?"; "Can I get a ding dong? I know, that’s so mean."; "Hallelujah!!!!"
Yeah - nobody would be unkind here....lol
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