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Also now testing positive: the president of Notre Dame University (who was also at the SCOTUS nomination event), and several reporters from the WH press pool.
Testing negative: Biden and Pelosi.

Plenty of recent photos of Conway talking at far less than 6 feet distance with Bill Barr, both unmasked.


So what happens if your entire Cabinet is sidelined? Also, it's going to be some goddamn delicious schadenfreude if Trump wipes out half his henchmen because they just had to have a little political theater for the SCOTUS pick.

even in this confused fake democracy where the points aren't real and the rules don't matter the democrats get low voter turnout.

Well yeah....democrats are the "socks with sandals" of political parties. Sure, they might be inoffensive for the most part and even comfortable in private, but they're embarrassing as fuck in public.

Guys, guys...you're missing the important part here. Which is that NC Senator Thom Tillis has now also tested positive for COVID.

I'm feeling spoiled, I mean my birthday isn't even for a few weeks yet.

Curious to see if there's a transmission pattern among Republicans in Washington now. Maybe Trump's plan to drain the swamp was to be a Trojan horse and infect himself with a virus that disproportionately affects old people, after turning basic hygiene practices into a political shibboleth, thereby ensuring maximum exposure among Republicans. Now *that* would be some serious fucking 5-D chess.

EDIT: Also Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)...Lee and Tillis are both on the Judiciary Committee and were both at the event where Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett. An event which also, I believe, included...Mitch McConnell.

I'm still waiting for someone to get transhumanist as their top pick.

We need Descan in here, that should do it.

EDIT:
90% democratic
89% green
89% socialist
86% peace and freedom
81% transhumanist
14% lolbertarian
2%   republican
2%   constitution

So anyways....rather than engage with "just the tip" eugenics-lite, let's revisit the electoral numbers I posted about 2.5 weeks ago and see how they've shifted, shall we?

Using the same category of "safe" as a 7-point or greater differential, there have been no changes to the list of safe states for either side, save one exception:
Minnesota (was D+5) is now polling an average of D+9.4, a pretty whopping 4.4 percent shift in two weeks. This may be partly a statistical artifact as older polls drop out of the average. In any case, we can confidently give Minnesota's 10 EVs to Biden, which brings us to 227-108 with 37 states accounted for.

Of the remaining "swing" states:

Alaska (R+3, 3 EV, Trump) - unchanged
Arizona (D+5.7, 11 EV, Trump) -- now D+3, a change of -2.7
Arkansas (R+2, 6 EV, Trump) - unchanged
Florida (D+1.2, 29 EV, Trump) - now D+1.1, a change of -0.1
Georgia (R+1.3, 16 EV, Trump - now D+0.3, a change of -1.6 and a flip
Iowa (R+1.7, 6 EV, Trump) - now D+0.5, a change of -2.2 and a flip
Michigan (D+4.2, 16 EV, Trump) - now D+5.2, a change of 1.0
Nevada (D+4, 6 EV, Clinton) - now D+5.3, a change of 1.3
North Carolina (D+0.8, 15 EV, Trump) - now D+0.5, a change of -0.3
Ohio (D+2.4, 18 EV, Trump) - now D+3.3, a change of 0.9
Pennsylvania (D+4.3, 20 EV, Trump) - now D5.7, a change of 1.4
South Carolina (R+5, 9 EV, Trump) - now R+5.7, a change of 1.4**
Texas (R+3.5, 38 EV, Trump) - now R+3.2, a change of -0.3
Wisconsin (D+6.4, 10 EV, Trump) - now D+5.5, a change of -0.9

**should be noted that the polls are all over the map on S. Carolina. A poll this week from Quinnipiac has it at R+1, while another this week from CBSNews/YouGov has it at R+10.

So overall what we see is a few close races getting closer (AZ, FL, NC, TX), one relatively strong Dem lean weakening (WI), one relatively weak Dem lean strengthening (OH), three relatively strong Dem leans strengthening (MI, NV, PA), and two weak Rep leans flipping (GA, IA). The lack of change for AK and AR are because of a lack of poll data. It would be really interesting for someone to run some new polls there and see if they've followed Georgia and Iowa in sliding 1.5-2 points toward Biden. Which might be enough to flip Arkansas and at least make Alaska too close to call. The fact that the EVs at stake are so low probably explain the lack of polling interest.

I'm sticking by my earlier calls, with the exception that I'll put Arizona and Georgia back in play, which gives us 8 swing states and a tally of 237-170.

To win, Biden needs to pick up 33 EVs, Trump needs 100.

Arizona (D+3, 11 EV)
Georgia (D+0.3, 16 EV)
Florida (D+1.1, 29 EV)
Michigan (D+5.2, 16 EV)
Nevada (D+5.3, 6 EV)
North Carolina (D+0.5, 15 EV)
Ohio (D+3.3, 18 EV)
Pennsylvania (D+5.7, 20 EV)

Once again, Biden can win with Florida and literally any other state. But he also has numerous ways to win without Florida. If he just takes Michigan and Pennsylvania (where he's up by over 5 in both), he wins. If he somehow takes Georgia and North Carolina and Nevada (maybe Trump shits on grits and Biden complains about the Midwest being boring as fuck), he still wins.

Trump on the other hand, has to win at least 6 of 8. Even if he takes the largest five (FL, PA, OH, MI, GA) that only gets him to 99. Which leaves Biden NC, NV and AZ and 32 votes, and yes you guessed it -- a 269-269 tie. It's essentially impossible for Trump to win without taking at least one of the upper Midwest states (PA, OH, MI) and for each one he loses, he basically needs to win two of the others. It would technically be possible for Trump to lose Florida and win the election by taking all the rest of the states, but that's incredibly unlikely.

The interesting bit is that these polls only run up to 9/30, so they don't really capture any movement due to the debates or Trump's COVID diagnosis. Should be a *very* interesting next couple of weeks as we capture the effects of those events in new poll data. It might get more chaotic, or it might be the nail in Trump's coffin. A national 2-point shift would be enough to all but guarantee a Biden victory, and potentially flip TX, AR, and AK. Which could run the final EC margin up to something like 359-179, which would almost but not quite edge out Barack Obama's victory margin in 2008 (365-173).

FAKEEDIT: Oh, and if Quinnipiac is right and SC is actually more like R+1, then a 2-point shift would flip it as well, and Biden's win would actually trump (no pun intended) Obama's 2008 win, at 368-170.

Kansas is a poor choice for an underground base.

The bedrock is porous limestone, and the water tables tend to be fairly shallow.  All those derelict missile bases have filled in with water.
Any such installation would have to have regular maintenance crews sent to them to assure that the sump pumps are working, as failures would result in flooding.

What you really want to say, is that he has been installed in the Cheyenne Mountain installation.  That's inside a mountain, far above a water table.

No, Yucca Mountain! All the talk about nuclear waste was just a cover story to keep people away, and they've been working on it for decades.
EDIT: Also explains why Harry Reid was so opposed to the project, since he was one of the baby-eating lizard Jews or whatever the fuck it is they're supposed to be. And why Trump was so vehement about the Democratic governor of Nevada when he was there recently.

Man, I wasted an opportunity by not getting in early on the whole Q thing and engaging in some fucked-up worldbuilding.

Oooh! Apparently the new Q talking point is that Trump actually isn't sick, this was orchestrated to move him to "a secure location" so that the widespread arrests of the Deep State can begin. XD XD XD

God, Qtards are almost adorable at this point. It's like watching a kid angrily declare that Santa Claus is real and feverishly concocting explanations to allow that belief to continue, even as their logical brain is putting the pieces together and realizing with sickening certitude that they've been had. The key difference being that kids don't usually barge into pizza parlors with an AR-15 looking for Santa Claus.


EDIT: One of the bits of evidence is that he ended his tweet announcing his positive result by saying "We will get through this TOGETHER!" which they cast their oracle bones and gematriya about and with a brilliant bit of deduction, realized that TOGETHER = TO GET HER (i.e. Hillary Clinton). I mean, you can't argue with that.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akzx3g/qanon-believers-think-trump-got-covid-on-purpose-because-of-course-they-do

Prez debate ZOOM meeting!!

DEMAND IT!

(lol!)

In all honesty, that might be a better format. Then the moderator has a mute function. And the image of Trump soundlessly ranting and flailing his tiny hands while Biden lays out substantive policy proposals would be sublime.

EDIT: Wow, I feel even better about putting that walking foreskin on ignore now. "Low-value individuals" indeed.