10-02-2020, 06:03 AM
(10-02-2020, 04:22 AM)Isoko Wrote: Eric,
If there is anything that has the potential to win Trump another turn, it is him catching the virus which is ironic in a weird way. The reason for this is that if you follow the public responses, there has been utter hatred from the opposition, hoping that he dies where as the average Joe has been more like "wow, this is disgusting, I wish the president well."
Biden has to come out and take off the attack dogs. He has to denounce strongly the radical left. If he does that, he can safely win the white House. Its the only thing keeping him from securely reaching it.
The mass death from COVID-19 has shown the President a fool. COVID-19 is rarely a quick kill. Should Trump be doomed, then the election will be between Joe Biden and Mike Pence, for all practical purposes.
In no way is it ironic that Donald Trump gets the virus. Many thought, more precisely, that the virus would get him. He did much wrong, promoting and appearing at super-spreader events. Maybe one can be lucky appearing where the virus is once or twice. Enough times drives the chances up. It's like STD's in practice: one fling might not hurt, but have fifty and you have a very high chance of getting it.
Consider another proposition: drunk driving. The person who says "Ossifer, I only had a couple'a beersh" has probably had four (cops tell you that the cop can usually figure that the person has had twice as many as he says, which fit me one time. Twice zero is of course zero. I was delirious from excess heat and thirst, and I seemed much more sober after I had a drink -- of water). Anyone who drives drunk denies the likelihood that a high BAC will greatly increase the chance of a collision.
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.