10-02-2020, 05:47 AM
(10-02-2020, 03:15 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(10-02-2020, 02:39 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: President on a ventilator? Not a good situation, and one that I cannot deny as a possibility. It would be nearly impossible to govern from a ventilator. We could have a succession even before the election. Trump has age and obesity as pre-existing conditions. I am surprised that he isn't diabetic.
Not that bad yet. He would still be in the early phase where is is symptomatic but still capable of working. A ventilator would lag by a few weeks. The next question will be if it is going around the White House, whether Pence catches it too.
I guess this being the second of October, it counts as an October Surprise?
There could be other "October surprises". Any debilitation of the President would be a serious disruption of the election. On the morbid stuff -- Herman Cain most likely contracted COVID-19 in Tulsa on June 20 and died 41 days later on July 30. Should such be the horrible schedule, then President Trump will live long enough to face Election Day -- but he could be dying or going into severe and irreversible debility.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.