But would she listen?

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“Wear your masks. Don’t listen to our idiot fucking president.”

Once inside the venue, [having arrived too late to be tested,] the Trump party were approached by a white-coated doctor, who asked them to put on face masks, but they refused, NBC reported.

… down the street from UD: Bethesda’s Walter Reed Hospital. (Around here, we all grew up calling it the Naval Medical Hospital.) The place is directly across from NIH, where UD’s father spent his career studying (among other things) BCG’s effect on cancer. BCG is now considered one of the more promising covid therapies.

On Trump: Absolutely no surprise here. You spend your days and nights surrounded by crowds of strangers during a pandemic. You’re elderly. You’re under a lot of stress. You lead a relentlessly active life. You refuse to wear a mask.

I mean, you have go to characters like Adrian Leverkühn, who “goes out of his way to catch syphilis,” to approach the intensity of self-destruction.

Sources cited by The New York Times say the President was already lethargic on the way back from Thursday’s  New Jersey event, and that he fell asleep on Air Force One on Wednesday night when returning from a rally in Minnesota.

They’re both currently reaping the personal rewards of cruelty, shamelessness, arrogance, and ignorance. And since the disease they recklessly invited to overtake them is insanely contagious, they are sharing those rewards with the rest of us.

“Most of the [ultraorthodox] community had it already, so we’re not so worried.“

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“Most people had it way back,” [Tzvi] Rosenberg told The Daily Beast, enjoying a cigarette unmasked a few feet from a similarly unprotected friend. “… We’re not wearing right now, because we’re smoking.”

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[M]any in the community believed in the Trump-touted … treatment of hydroxychloroquine…

[One man] approached his wife in synagogue and warned her … that masks cause COVID-19 infection.

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One man walking through Williamsburg provided the simple explanation. 

“We all had it already,” he said of COVID, not stopping long enough to give his name. 

An 18-year-old walking nearby said the same.

“I had it already and my community had it already,” he said…

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No major Hasidic rabbis in New York City have been seen wearing masks. In fact, photographs of large indoor gatherings — weddings, large prayer services and tisches, gatherings in which the rebbe sits at the head of a table surrounded by followers — have circulated on local news sites and social media.

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[M]ost of the rabbis themselves had the virus earlier this year and believe they have immunity.

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To some, the disregard for masks is evidence of an outlook in which everything in life is up to God.

“I don’t sense a lot of fear,” an administrator at a network of clinics in Williamsburg said. “I think there is a fatalistic attitude, like if it’s meant to be, I’ll get sick.”

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And Trump’s epitaph? UD takes it, with a small alteration, from Larry Kramer’s great play about AIDS, The Normal Heart:

Being defined by [the president’s cock] is literally killing us.

In his swagger lies our doom.

A Yale psychiatrist who has repeatedly raised questions about President Trump’s mental health argued that Tuesday’s debate against Joe Biden should never have been allowed to go forward.

Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist at Yale School of Medicine and the president of the World Mental Health Coalition, said in an interview with Salon that Trump lacked the basic “mental health” to participate in a presidential debate…

She told Salon that the media’s shock at Trump’s disastrous performance was the result of a years-long problem that has gone ignored far too long...

‘[P]eople can see how [my colleagues and I] predicted, almost with uncanny timing, what would happen if we failed to contain the psychological dangers of the president. It has now spread into social, cultural, civic and geopolitical dangers, just as we said.‘

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If there are two more debates, UD thinks we should be prepared for Trump to disintegrate so desperately during one of them that he pulls out a Glock and shoots himself in the head.

Get used to it. Just one more gift to you from the man of the hour.

The briefing descended into chaos from there with [Kayleigh] McEnany trying to answer questions reporters fired at her, both sides talking over the other repeatedly.

Sing along with the president.

He went away and you hung around
And bothered me every night
And when I told you to take a drug test
You said things that weren’t very nice

My boyfriend’s back and he’s Rudy Giuliani
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back)
You better watch your back cuz he loves his little Donny
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back)
He’s telling everyone because he knows you have dementia
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back)
Go on back to the demo-rats that sent ya

………

You bombed the Twin Towers and your wife is really ugly
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back)
Dementia Care wants to make you safe and snuggly
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back)
George Soros told me that you’re actually a Jew
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back)
The covid virus was brought here by him and you
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back)

……..

You’re a big man now but he’ll cut you down to size
(Wait and see) My boyfriend’s back he’s gonna save my reputation
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back)
If I were you I’d take a permanent vacation
(Hey-la, hey-la, my boyfriend’s back) Yeah, my boyfriend’s back (La-day-la, my boyfriend’s back)
Look out now, yeah, my boyfriend’s back (La-day-la, my boyfriend’s back)
I could see him comin’ so you better get a runnin’ alright now (La-day-la, my boyfriend’s back)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (La-day-la, my boyfriends’s back)
My boyfriend’s back now (La-day-la, my boyfriend’s back)
Know he’s comin’ after you because he knows you’re a Jew now (La-day-la, my boyfriend’s back)

But we have seen his like before.

…. to God’s ears.

The original Genius of the Carpathians came to know that crowds can turn against you.

Now it’s the turn of America’s Genius of the Carpathians.

Stick to NASCAR rallies in Alabam’, lad. Washington DC + the halls of justice is not a good look for you. Though you might have some work to do in Alabam’ too — what’s with that unmanly mask?

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“[F]ar more people hate him than love him.”

LOL.

UPDATE, 4:32 AM: GRAB JENNIFER GRIFFIN BY THE PUSSY! OFF WITH HER HEAD!

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“Trump’s insistence that he would never say anything disparaging about a military veteran or the military more generally is belied by, well, facts. In 2015, shortly after he had officially entered the 2016 Republican presidential race, Trump said this of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain: “He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” McCain was shot down and kept captive by the North Vietnamese for more than five years. The wounds he suffered as a result of the torture he endured during his captivity left him unable to raise his arms over his head — among other maladies — for the rest of his life.

In the wake of Gold Star father Khizr Khan’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2016 — in which Khan suggested Trump had never sacrificed anything in life — the billionaire businessman suggested that Hillary Clinton’s speechwriters had actually written the speech and that Khan’s wife, who stood silently by her husband, was not allowed to speak. As for Khan’s claim that Trump had never sacrificed, the Republican nominee responded this way: “I think I’ve made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard. I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures.”

Following the death of US Army Sgt. La David Johnson in Niger in 2017, the slain soldier’s wife (and a Florida Democratic congresswoman) said that Trump had told her on a phone call that her husband “knew what he had signed up for.” Trump denied the claim.

Last fall, Trump referred to his former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, a highly decorated Marine, as “the world’s most overrated general.”While campaigning in Iowa in November 2015, Trump said, “I know more about ISIS than the generals do.”There’s more — much more — but you get the idea. Trump has in the past been willing to critique military veterans as well as prisoners of war.

Now, that is not proof — at all! — that he said and did what The Atlantic piece alleges. But the context here is not favorable for Trump.”

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As the illustrious spectacle of twenty-first century American politics rolls on.