Sunday, October 4, 2020

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What to Know About Sean Conley, the White House Physician
Allyson Waller and Christina Morales, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 53 minutes ago
Dr. Conley, who was appointed as President Trump’s physician in 2018, is a doctor of osteopathic medicine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteopathic_medicine_in_the_United_States
It is Medicine.  Do not demean the practitioners.
 
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Trump’s Covid-19 Symptoms Are Said to Be ‘Very Concerning’
Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago
The president’s medical team refused to provide critical details and left open the impression that he was known to be sick a day earlier than previously reported, forcing them to later backtrack.
 
Donald Trump is sick.  He belongs in isolation for everyone's health.
 
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With Trump Sidelined, His Campaign Promises MAGA as Usual
Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago
A campaign whose fund-raising, events and messaging have all been driven by President Trump says it will stay the course while he’s off the campaign trail.
 
The weather will get colder.  
There will be less noise in the streets.
There will be no money for relief. 

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A White House Long in Denial Confronts Reality
Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago
The infections were a byproduct, former aides said, of the recklessness and top-down culture of fear that President Trump created at the White House and throughout his administration.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death
Orange perhaps? 

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74 and Overweight, Trump Faces Extra Risks From ‘a Very Sneaky Virus’
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago
The president has boasted of his health and is sure to receive the best possible care, but he carries a number of risk factors as he begins his battle with Covid-19.
 
Pence is competent.
 
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Why a Pro-Trump Town No Longer Sees Him as a Rescuer
Emily Flitter and Maddie McGarvey, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago
Portsmouth, Ohio, was facing hard times when our reporter spent a week there leading up to Election Day 2016. She went back to find the town rebounding, and loyal to President Trump. But its residents no longer tie their fortunes to him.
 
I am trying to see this response as a religious revival.
 
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Virus Diagnosis and Secret Texts Upend a Critical Senate Race in a Single Night
Catie Edmondson, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 hours ago
The Senate race in North Carolina was engulfed in chaos after the incumbent tested positive for coronavirus and his challenger admitted to exchanging romantic texts with a woman who is not his wife.
 
Cal Cunningham would have my vote.
 
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Trump’s Covid News Meets a Landscape Primed for Mistrust
Sarah Lyall and Reid J. Epstein, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 hours ago
A president who rose to fame — in business, on TV and in politics — on an archipelago of exaggerations finds himself facing a public skeptical of his account of his own health.
 
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/04/world/trump-covid-live-updates
 
The Republican party is known to lie.  
Let us know Trump tests negative.
 
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Trump Hospitalized With Coronavirus
Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 hours ago
The president was flown to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where officials said he would stay for several days. Aides said Mr. Trump was experiencing coughing, congestion and fever, symptoms that worsened through the day.
 
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/04/world/trump-covid-live-updates
 
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McConnell Delays Senate’s Return as a Third Senator Falls Ill
Catie Edmondson, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 5 hours ago
Senator Mitch McConnell postponed the Senate’s return for two weeks but said lawmakers would continue confirmation hearings as planned.
 
Can you say quorum call?  Of course you can.
 
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Poll Finds Voters in Two Crucial States Repelled by Trump’s Debate Behavior
Nate Cohn, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 6 hours ago
Biden is ahead by seven points in Pennsylvania and five points in Florida, according to the Times/Siena survey.
 
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/
 
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The President’s Illness Is Yet Another Dividing Line in the Trump Era
Jennifer Medina and Trip Gabriel, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 6 hours ago
In a different moment, a stricken leader might have rallied people behind him. But President Trump’s health crisis is filtered through the partisan lenses that divide Americans on seemingly every issue.
 
I would not morn Donald Trump.
 
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Following Falsehoods: A Reporter’s Approach on QAnon
Kevin Roose, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 12 hours ago
Kevin Roose, a Times tech columnist, has watched the baseless conspiracy theory grow from fringe internet subculture to mass movement, carefully calibrating his coverage along the way.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
 
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Open Thread
Ian Welsh, Ian Welsh - 13 hours ago
As usual, use the comments for topics unrelated to recent posts. (That means no comments about Trump and Covid, please.) 
 
Sooner is better.    As soon as you can is best.
 
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Trump Tests Positive for Coronavirus: This Week in the 2020 Race
Astead W. Herndon and Annie Karni, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago
A year of surprises had its biggest one yet — a coronavirus diagnosis for President Trump that has thrown the White House and the November presidential race into flux.
 
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/04/us/trump-vs-biden
 
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/
 
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The Busy Week When the President Met the Virus
Michael D. Shear, Maggie Haberman and Kenneth P. Vogel, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 20 hours ago
He disparaged masks, encouraged big campaign crowds and employed an often-unreliable test to keep him safe. All the while it turned out the virus was nearby.
 
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/04/world/trump-covid-live-updates
 
Taking a test is not a prophylactic.

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Pence Tests Negative for Virus and Will Debate With Harris Next Week
Michael Crowley and Annie Karni, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 21 hours ago
With President Trump’s positive coronavirus test, Vice President Mike Pence will take on a more prominent campaign role and represent him at events.
 
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/04/world/trump-covid-live-updates
 
Pence seems to be a null representative.
 
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What if Trump Can’t Run? Many Steps Are Clear, but Some Are Not
Nicholas Fandos and Nick Corasaniti, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago
The Constitution says the vice president is next in line if the president dies or can no longer serve, but things get murkier from there.
 
"The Constitution and the law are clearest in instances when a president dies or must resign from office. The 25th Amendment states: “In case of the removal of the president from office or of his death or resignation, the vice president shall become president.”" 

The office remains filled until a sucessor is sworn in.

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As Trump’s Diagnosis Spooks G.O.P., Pelosi Projects Optimism on Stimulus Deal
Emily Cochrane and Jim Tankersley, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the president’s positive coronavirus test could change the dynamic and produce an agreement on additional pandemic relief, but a compromise remained elusive.
 
Pelosi will not get a presidential signature.

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What Now?
Lisa Lerer, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago
The conventional wisdom, from a political perspective, is that President Trump’s diagnosis will hurt his re-election chances. But there’s so much we don’t know.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/

More can be known.

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