10-06-2020, 09:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-07-2020, 08:58 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
I have been recently watching MSNBC most nights. Today seemed a fairly eventful night. A few items.
An hour before the stock market closed, Trump tweeted a stop to the COVID stimulation bill working through Congress. This immediately caused the stock market to take a pretty big dive. Apparently, somebody talked sense into him and he has flipped on the issue, but there were a bunch of people scratching their heads. This was a particularly bad move politically.
Nancy’s reaction was less outrage for the American people and more to wonder aloud if the drug treatment being given Trump for the virus was effecting his mind. This was a major theme for the night. One of the guest doctors reminded the audience of what they might have felt like when they took the oral steroid version common for inflammation. I know I did once. You feel like Superman, ready to go out and mow lawns and reroof houses. Trump’s medication is the same only worse, an intravenous version that produces the same effect but exaggerated. My sister had a similar problem, and during the steroid dosage wanted meat. The steroids are mind altering. The low oxygen levels are mind altering. COVID itself is mind altering, impeding one’s mental acuity including the ability to judge any loss of mental acuity. In short, Trump is a bit crazy and that assumes generously that when he is normal he is normal. The drive around Walter Read is fairly consistent with the pattern, the need to go out and do something.
The not quite spoken thought is that the cabinet should remove him temporarily.
Meanwhile Pence reportedly saw Trump in the Oval Office two days before Trump developed symptoms. This could easily have made him contagious at the time. Thus, Pence could go through the same thing. Hopefully he will remain non symptomatic, will not require anywhere near the same level of treatment.
It was noted that about 3/4 of Americans thought a next round of COVID relief was more important that the Supreme Court appointment.
Another segment confirmed Dave’s noting of polls now showing Biden over Trump in the vicinity of 15%.
An hour before the stock market closed, Trump tweeted a stop to the COVID stimulation bill working through Congress. This immediately caused the stock market to take a pretty big dive. Apparently, somebody talked sense into him and he has flipped on the issue, but there were a bunch of people scratching their heads. This was a particularly bad move politically.
Nancy’s reaction was less outrage for the American people and more to wonder aloud if the drug treatment being given Trump for the virus was effecting his mind. This was a major theme for the night. One of the guest doctors reminded the audience of what they might have felt like when they took the oral steroid version common for inflammation. I know I did once. You feel like Superman, ready to go out and mow lawns and reroof houses. Trump’s medication is the same only worse, an intravenous version that produces the same effect but exaggerated. My sister had a similar problem, and during the steroid dosage wanted meat. The steroids are mind altering. The low oxygen levels are mind altering. COVID itself is mind altering, impeding one’s mental acuity including the ability to judge any loss of mental acuity. In short, Trump is a bit crazy and that assumes generously that when he is normal he is normal. The drive around Walter Read is fairly consistent with the pattern, the need to go out and do something.
The not quite spoken thought is that the cabinet should remove him temporarily.
Meanwhile Pence reportedly saw Trump in the Oval Office two days before Trump developed symptoms. This could easily have made him contagious at the time. Thus, Pence could go through the same thing. Hopefully he will remain non symptomatic, will not require anywhere near the same level of treatment.
It was noted that about 3/4 of Americans thought a next round of COVID relief was more important that the Supreme Court appointment.
Another segment confirmed Dave’s noting of polls now showing Biden over Trump in the vicinity of 15%.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.