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Who should have been banned?

It’s not a it good side. It’s about the edit. The audio. No reason to use a jump cut other than the guy couldn’t get through 10 seconds without coughing. He is very sick.

What’s conspiratorial about good? He couldn’t get a clean take in a 10-second shoot. Something is very wrong with him.

He’s a pitcher with a 92 MPH FB and a marginal breaking ball. He can hang around for a little bit, but there’s nothing that he does exceptionally well. Glad we got something for him on the way out.

I’m more concerned about the lack of decency that gave rise to a pandemic that we tried to cure with magic, Lysol, hydroxychloroquine, and lies.

Fake news. Too much truth for you. He’s lying to the public about the nature of his condition. The evidence is circumstantial, but it’s there and it is stark.

Klein is stiff. Agreed. They went right after him. I think we miss J Phillips’s pressure, too. (Different issue; we’re talking run here, but still a salient point.)

Very snowflake-y of a bunch of MAGA, is it not?

Seems like the President is struggling with COVID-19. Let’s review the salient information: 1. Friday sees him sent to Walter Reed as a “precautionary measure.” BS. He has outstanding medical care available to him at his residence. There’s no need to go to a hospital “on spec” unless the situation is more dangerous than the public has been told. 2. On Friday, a President obsessively concerned with image and television ratings shoots a hamfisted video saying he “thinks” things will turn out well. Bad lighting, no mic, odd setting (probably the WH residence; not the Oval Office). Apparently he does not have the time or strength to do such a thing as put on a “lav” mic or take a better shot. 3. He is taken to Walter Reed by helicopter. Seems strange, given that it’s a short ride and he took the car for his prior WH health event. 4. Then the helicopter sits there for about half an hour before Trump can take the short walk to get in. Obviously this is a dog and pony show; he wants to convey strength by walking to the chopper. But doesn’t interact with the media on the way out (uncharacteristic for him, to be sure). Strange. 5. Strangely silent on Twitter and Fox & Friends that day. Would be easy for him to call his pals at Fox and explain that he’s doing fine, has a mild case, the virus is a hoax, he gnawed on hyroxycholorquine and is feeling better, etc. But doesn’t do it. 6. Then it turns out that he actually received supplemental oxygen on Friday as well as a “compassionate use” treatment. Odd that POTUS receives an unproven treatment that theoretically could do more harm than good. Does not sound like a mild case of COVID. 7. Goes to Walter Reed, then stays basically silent on Saturday, save for a couple of “dog and pony” images that the Internet quickly recognizes as staged (signing a blank piece of paper - a metaphor for his presidency, if ever there was one; metadata shows images taken about 10 minutes apart in time in different rooms). 8. But here’s the big tell. The video from Saturday was about 10 seconds long, and it had to be edited (likely to eliminate a cough). How hard is it to reshoot a 10-second video? Not hard at all. The simple solution if the subject coughs during the take is to re-shoot. But they didn’t re-shoot. Was it because they couldn’t? Speculation, but with an image-conscious president it seems likely that they would have done another take to get it “right” if he was capable of getting through 10 seconds without coughing. 9. Saturday tells us that POTUS also gets dexamethasone. Skips right past the hydroxychloroquine and Lysol and brings in the big guns reserved for moderate to severe cases of COVID. Not good. Fits with the bad blood oxygen information and news that he was on supplemental oxygen. 10. Feeling better this morning. Tweet storm. Usual nonsense. But this is after stupid parade on Sunday (another dog and pony show) that needlessly put Secret Service at risk so he could convey an image of health. Why not call Fox & Friends? Is it because he can’t do it without hacking up a lung? That’s the speculation here. Something definitely is up with this guy. He may well go back to the WH today or tomorrow. But that doesn’t mean he’s out of the woods. And it doesn’t mean that he hasn’t had serious COVID complications that he has concealed both from the public and those with the power to catalyze use of the 25th amendment. How a guy on dexamethasone and struggling with COVID can keep the nuke codes is beyond me. But these are the times in which we live. Discuss.

Hoax.

This.

A metaphor for this presidency of ever there was one.

Hoax.

Irony. That's what I think of you, micro man! What a bunch of a-holes. They even treat their whale donors like trash. Elect a clown, get a circus, I guess.

Hoax.

Hoax. You’re in the cult. Enjoy the Kool Aid.

Hoaxx

It is what it is.

Yeah what a *****. Runs to Walter Reed because of the hoax virus. Should be ashamed of himself.

Do you beat the S&P?

Not the best way to be my financial adviser. You’re already behind the eight ball because you can’t beat the S&P.

Hoax.

Our president was attacked, right? Apparently you don’t love the president if you don’t support punishing China. Sad. Your Trumper pals are going to be pretty upset with you. Much less time, intellectual standard bearer. Much less time.

Looks like Trump skipped a call today. Wimp. He works for us, and he needs to get his quarter-pounder enhanced butt back to work. So do the sycophants who work for him. The virus is a hoax, they say, so get back to the west wing and keep on messing stuff up. What a bunch of losers. Rule #2, fake esquire.

Enjoy your musket, sir.