seems like The Markets'd be ELATED that the Reality-Denying 'reality' teevee "star" might take himself outta the picture long enough for the Planet to begin to Heal.

But from a certain nameless awe with which the mad assumptions of the mummer had inspired the whole party, there were found none who put forth a hand to seize him; so that, unimpeded, he passed within a yard of the prince's person; and while the vast assembly, as with one impulse, shrank from the centers of the rooms to the walls, he made his way uninterruptedly, but with the same solemn and measured step which had distinguished him from the first, through the blue chamber to the purple -- to the purple to the green -- through the green to the orange -- through this again to the white -- and even thence to the violet, ere a decided movement had been made to arrest him.

Good Morning Charles,
Yeah, I'm not too surprised Pres. Trump got COVID-19. He's a public figure like the PM of the UK, Boris Johnson among others. And he, Trump is in the thick of a campaign as well. That said, I do wish he and First Lady, Melania good health. We'll see how this plays out. 2020 is crazy all right.

Regarding economic news, I was surprised to read that the UR actually dipped to 7.9% Wow, that actually was a pleasant stat. Indeed, hardship & anxiety remain but the US is recovering slowly considering COVID-19. There's more testing so I'm not surprised to see more cases. And treatment has greatly improved since April. I believe the NYT reported 5 credible treatments. So, there have been some medical advances. I believe we should have a vaccine by Feb. next year too.

Stay healthy & sane Charles.

Dumb donny catching Covid will lead to one of two outcomes.
1 he recovers and continues to call the virus a "hoax" and starts calling those who have died of the infection "weak"
Or
2 he dies and his cult believe he was assassinated.

2020 can and will get crazier.

Hold on to your butts.

The coronavirus is gonna have to compete with the terminal syphilis bacteria currently fucking themselves to death in that toxic shithole between Tr666p's ears.

Apparently 45's announcement that he tested positive is his most liked and re-tweeted tweet ever, so I suppose he can take a little comfort in that?

It's only an assumption that Hope infected Donald.

Remember those two dudes who tried to pin bogus sexual assault claims on Mueller and Buttegieg last year? Looks like they got caught running a robocall scam trying to scare off Michigan voters from using absentee ballots. It's almost like the Republicans are doing the exact same thing they falsely accuse the Democrats of doing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/01/wohl-robocall-michigan/

Cool that they are able to blame this on the army. They just love grinding on Hope without a mask. Nothing could have prevented this. Not like you can order the army to do stuff.

Also cool that the president lies so much even his online boys aren’t sure he has it.

To quote another: it looks like RGB successfully argued her first case before g-d.

As for people celebrating Trump getting COVID. People can shove it up their asses if they don't like it. This so called president LIED AND MURDERED OVER 212,000 PEOPLE AND COUNTING.

He called it a hoax.
He told lies about it constantly.
He has incited a significant portion of the population to do nothing and cause more sickness and death.

He has said nothing at all to the families of all the dead.
He does not give a shit about anyone who has been sickened or died.
He is a total and complete psychopath.

Virus doesn't care.
Now he's got it.
How to explain that to all his minions?
How will they spin it?
How will they rationalize it?
What will they do if he dies from it?

I feel so much more for every single person who had no choice but to be around him that his depraved indifference got sick. How many secret service? How many of his hotel and golf property employees? How many staff members at the WH? How many people who will never be in the news? THEY DESERVE ALL OF THE EMPATHY AND COMPASSION AND CONCERN. Trump deserves nothing but contempt.

Karma's a bitch.

It's dangerously naïve to think that Prezinazi AntiChrist, his accomplices, sycophants, and enablers will ever be held responsible for the fascist terrorist attack they unleashed against Americans four+ years ago.

Our entire racist kleptocracy is set up to enable white male oligarchs to commit crimes with impunity and rub our faces in it; that's been blatantly obvious since Reagan sold weapons to the Iranians in a clear act of treason, for which he and his accomplices were perversely rewarded because most white people vote for racists, period. Our legal system is a huge fraud that's only competent at blowing up the lives of people of color.

And let's get real about the existing Democratic leadership: They're unreliable, pusillanimous cowards who're also compromised by the oligarchs and incapable of getting the job done. Their default setting is appeasement even after $hitler invaded Portland. Not all Dems, obviously, but until the leadership is replaced (Elizabeth Warren for Senate majority leader!), all we can expect is years on end of rope-a-dope as they try to follow laws, rules, and norms that the Republinazi party couldn't give a shit about in their national murder-suicide.

That said, VOTE DEMOCRATIC like your life depends on it--because it does--but the virus is our only Hope for any real justice.

Instead of having him quarantine, they should just put him in a straight jacket, strap a thick mask to his mug, then let him go about his business per usual. Without the ability to tweet, I'd imagine we'd discover him out on the corner of 17th and Pennsylvania Avenues screaming incoherent nonsense at strangers on the street by tomorrow afternoon.

@16: "As for people celebrating Trump getting COVID. People can shove it up their asses if they don't like it."

It's not that they don't like it, they just have a more elevated take on the matter. Big difference.

To each their own. Carry on dear.

Im going to keep an eye on Biden’s COVID status. I don’t think he or any of us are cleared from more “October Surprises.”

Only a matter of time until Dr. Nelson Salim is appointed as the new White House counselor for the Coronavirus response.

@12:

That classic deflection technique has been SOP for the GOP for decades: accuse the other side of doing what you're already doing in order to point the spotlight away from yourself.

@16:

To quote back to the rabble words they will probably now come to regret (although that would entail them having some sort of conscience, which is doubtful): "FUCK. YOUR. FEELINGS."

@19:

You should be apologizing to Shocking Blue, the group Bananarama covered...

@23:

In your case a "more elevated stance" still wouldn't scrape the underside of an ant walking across a deep-pile carpet...

Takeaways (forgive me I just sat in on a 3 hour neuropathology series of seminars and I need a nap right now):
1 - no way the SCOTUS nominee can have hearings now, period
2 - Trump is at far more risk than they admit, we even have the DEFCON planes up for first strike, it's way worse than they admit to you
3 - no, no vaccine until December/January for first line providers and we can't crank out and finish testing until March-July in any quantity no matter what lies they tell you, so it's going to be a bad winter get your flu vaccine now, wear a mask always, wash hands soap and water, and STOP COMPLAINING this is 200,000 or more dead Americans by Christmas we're talking about.

And VOTE AS EARLY AS YOU CAN!

oh and Trump has at least four co-morbidities, in case you didn't know, which at his age puts him in the 80% probability range, they will try to hide this as long as they can

"One day it will be gone, like a miracle"

They can put it on his tombstone.

@27 Ha ha! Or maybe Stella Immanuel, because a lot of people were talking very strongly about her a couple months ago. Turns out she was right all along about hydroxychloroquine!

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-coronavirus-trump-hydroxychloroquine-doc-stella-immanuel-20201002-eat6v3p5xjh2plutrrmr6ttscu-story.html

Idk guys, I think if trump as in good health he would be bitching on tv or playing golf. His staff is saying how its mild so he could be really fucked up.

@31 So now the keep government out of business crowd is back to supporting government interfering in business? It's really hard to keep up. A level playing field sounds like socialism.

2 more cases at the WH, though they're not saying who. They've notified all press who have been exposed.

Wow ... months of Trump/Repubs lying, hiding, denying about Covid, promoting white supremacy, fucking with the election, and essentially planning a coup .. Maybe, just maybe, the universe is stepping in to help us out.

In any case, I am praying/focusing my energy on Trump and family leaving the White House forever. Whatever form that comes in, I'll take it.

We might have two corpses as our choices to vote on....BTW Hope Hicks is pretty hot.

Today's numbers - over 213,000 deaths in this country.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

If tax breaks don't keep jobs in our state then increasing taxes will not move jobs out of our state. Tax amazon.

When you realize that asshole you've been giving your money to might have infected you with a deadly virus:

GOP donors ‘freaking out’ after coming close to Trump at fundraiser hours before his positive Covid-19 test

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/02/gop-donors-panic-after-coming-close-to-trump-at-fundraiser-hours-before-positive-covid-19-test.html

@57

RWs in my feeds are all saying, "Let's stay away from politics now. It's all gotten too toxic."

LMFAO. Too late, snow flakes!

@61 Fine with me. But the special cut-outs for Boeing have been part of the landscape here for as long as I can remember - and I remember Ivar Haglund making his own teevee commercials. Seems weird to blame them on Inslee.

Somebody's got hisself a new "office" over at Walter Reed Medical Center. ABC News was reporting increasing symptoms....

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Fuckers interrupted a baseball playoff game going into the bottom of the ninth inning for their update. He best be seriously ill.

@11 A very indignant (female) caller to C-Span this morning claimed Nancy Pelosi contracted the virus in China last spring, kept it a secret, and deliberately, repeatedly got close to Trump until he too was infected. The caller also worked Biden into the plot somehow, though I had lost her line of reasoning by then. "The Democrats will do ANYTHING to get him out!" she practically spat into the phone. It's amazing that the host managed to keep a straight face.

@71

Actually, unelected Senator Loeffler tweeted that we must make China pay for Trump being contaminated.

It would be hilarious if the Trump Death Cult ended up giving Thomas and Alito Covid, and so Biden gets to fill their seats. It will make expanding the court much easier.

Thank you, Charles. This is the best news I have heard / read about in 4 years.

Kiss my grits, MAGAs! Here's to the end of TRUMPVID-19.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

Boeing and Blue Origin management teams are astonishingly incompetent.

@69:

Don't forget the most expensive machine and the machine that goes "ping!" in case the administrator comes in...

@73 - I think you're describing Kelly Anne. Although it seems to be a popular look for the right wing ladies these days.

@11 Professor_Hiztory: I don't see any trolling comments from Doofy, yet. Did he test positive for TRUMPVID-19, too?

@33 Alden: For the WIN! That would be so fitting.We can only hope.

@50 xina: I share your disgust toward this nightmare GOP regime. Here's hoping the TRUMPVID-19 pandemic ends soon.

@74 -- Where's Hope
when you need her most?

You just made my wknd.
Thanks!

@74 Greenwood Bob: Thank you and bless you! You just made my weekend, too. :)