ASON : Back in the saddle (22 snippets about 45's health).
A snippet of news
Illustration by my ten-year old son. / J.X.I. Long ©2020
The very short version is this :
Dear President had COVID over the weekend.
We don’t actually know exactly when he got it…
…and we don’t actually know if he’s clear.
He’s back on the job though.
The job that requires him to fire people on Twitter, write up his own health physical summaries, and encourage everyone to make reservations at the golf courses around the world he still has a vested interest in.
He took off his mask to give a big smile and big thumbs up to all his supporters across the country as he prepared to board Marine One.
A bunch of the White House higher-ups surrounding him have also gotten COVID.
He is tweeting a great deal about the importance of not letting COVID run your life.
This may not be the most wonderful statement to the families and friends of the 200,000+ in the U.S. who have died, so far, and who do not have access to the top medical teams in the world coupled with all of the cutting-edge experimental treatments available to virtually no one else.
He still thinks masks should be worn, unless he doesn’t feel like it.
He frequently (most of the time) doesn’t feel like it.
He is still planning to debate Joe Biden next week, despite extremely mixed messages from his physician and medical team about the chronology of when he got it, what the specific state of his health is, and what precautions are being taken in the White House to protect others.
There is conjecture - conjecture slowly being backed up by evidence - that the daily coronavirus tests Trump was taking, allegedly, were not daily tests. They may have been more like one every 2-3 days.
The idea being that as long as everyone around him was being tested vigilantly, he should be fine.
He is currently down somewhere between 10-16 points to Biden in the polls. According to him, this is fake news.
If the polls had him up 16 points on Biden, I am guessing that he would consider this news to be very unfake and reliable. In fact, I am guessing it would be the most truthful and most best news ever given out by the media.
He has decided to pull out of any negotiations with Democrats about a stimulus package until after he wins the election. To be clear: his statement is not “if” he wins. But “when” he wins.
He has also made clear, preemptively, that if he loses, then there was massive fraud. Because there is no possibility he could lose. And this is why, as a true patriot, he must encourage Americans to not vote…or to at least vote twice. And to block any attempt at legitimizing mail-in balloting. Because mail-in ballots are fraudulent. This is according to his reliable gut instinct, as well as evidence that any intelligence agencies have been unable to find.
According to him, China, along with Democrats, radical socialists, antifa, and Portlanders, are the real election threat. Or threat of some type.
At the first debate, he gave the chauvinist, violence-promoting Proud Boys their new mission statement : “Stand back and stand by” when asked if he was willing to condemn white supremacy groups.
He is losing badly. Losing at the election coming up, and losing at being a good person. Which means he’s wounded, cornered, and extra-dangerous.
Keep a copy of the Constitution handy, get your ballot in early, and make your voice heard that whoever loses this election must accept the results.
May this country and world be blessed.
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