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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
He has my Thoughts and Prayers.
The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -FighteerI'm worried Trump as a passionate germaphobe will order the world destroyed by nuclear weapons so it burns as his pyre.
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And that STARTED as a joke.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Should they be putting a Designated Survivor in isolation?
"Enshittification truly is how platforms die"-Cory Doctorow@minseok42, from what I gather, Pelosi (3rd in line) hasn't been exposed to the Hope Cluster(TM). So in the short term, things are fine even in the worst case scenario.
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President Harrison died of pneumonia (or something similar) after just 31 days in office.
Edited by Rationalinsanity on Oct 1st 2020 at 2:34:24 PM
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Nah. The real damage from this would be from being quarantined during the campaign, meaning no more rallies. And he lives for that shit.
Assuming he stays quarantined, of course.
Bolsonaro got COVID and he's still kicking, right? I suspect Trump will survive as well.
Edited by Eschaton on Oct 1st 2020 at 10:44:51 AM
This is the first election I'm old enough to vote in.
No matter who I pick, I'm not walking out of it with a smile.
But out of curiosity should Trump and/or Biden be incapacitated due to COVID, what would happen?
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"

Are the White House and the cabinet following social distancing precautions? Some other high ranking officials might get infected as well
"Enshittification truly is how platforms die"-Cory Doctorow