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Friday, October 09, 2020

This, about that, about Trump: "Fellow Republicans exhibited increasing frustration with the president’s casual approach to the virus that has now infected not just himself and the first lady but two dozen other high-ranking officials, campaign aides, advisers and GOP senators who attended White House events. Pelosi said she planned to introduce legislation Friday creating a commission on presidential capacity to review the health of a commander in chief under provisions of the 25th Amendment providing for the temporary transfer of power to the vice president in case of inability to discharge the duties of the office. 'Crazy Nancy is the one who should be under observation' Trump replied on Twitter."

 

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"Crazy Nancy" does not fit. "Nasty Nancy," "Canny Nancy," "Scheming Nancy," "cryptoRepublican Nancy," are a few adjective-noun pairs that work to a degree. 

But not crazy.

Beyond that, Trump criticizes Barr for not indicting Obama and Biden.

Beyond that, he has bats in his belfry and needs to be Penced into non-dangerous mode per the 25th Amendment. Exactly as Pelosi says.

This headlining is from NYT reporting, (per a Strib carry), about the man and his urge to FOX trot against his perceived enemies. The man is worrisome. He needs attention, in the direction Pelosi suggests. 

Surely Mike Pence would not disagree. Wouldn't you like to be listening as a fly on the wall on his head while he and aides discuss it?

__________ UPDATE_________

More Strib, this an AP carry, a thread of brief items, where from mid-item, quoting:

6:25 p.m.

Joe Biden is pitching an economic message as he campaigns in Arizona with his running mate Kamala Harris, telling a union crowd that President Donald Trump "looks down on" working Americans.

The Democratic presidential nominee told a masked, socially distanced crowd at a Phoenix area union training facility on Thursday that the country "deserves a president who understands what the American people are going through. Who sees who you are, what you want to be."

A key part of Biden's closing argument ahead of the Nov. 3 election is to pitch Trump as only pretending to care about the working-class voters that propelled his 2016 victory.

He blasted the Republican president for walking away from congressional negotiations for a new pandemic relief package and for asking courts to strike down the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Biden said those moves will hurt millions of workers and small businesses.

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6:20 p.m.

[...] Joe Biden and Harris are campaigning together Thursday for the first time since their nominating convention in August, and they chose Arizona to highlight the critical new battleground.

Harris introduced Biden by continuing to blast President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, just as she did in her debate Wednesday night against Vice President Mike Pence.

Harris says Trump's "refusal to contain this virus is what has wreaked havoc on our economy."

Early voting began this week in Arizona, and Democrats believe population growth and Trump's sliding support among suburban voters make the GOP-leaning state a pickup opportunity.

There is a coherent Democratice message, Republicans may call it a lie, but when a statewide newspaper owned by multi-millionaire Republican former Minnesota state legislator and sports franchise owner Glen Taylor, carries two items as above, Brunhilde is singing, last aria, curtain closing.

_________FURTHER UPDATE__________

Minnesota blogger Gary Gross has posted this Breitbart video hoax:


Not only a Covid spreader. A manure spreader. This BS from the 2016 campaign promisor who said back then that he had a health plan better than Romneycare, no detail, actually no plan, four years have passed, no plan, only cheap words with no legitimate action, none, zero. 

As to this medical treatment the spieler per that Breitbart video spiels, the opening linked item of this post closes:

“I felt pretty lousy,” Trump said. But, he added, “I’m back because I’m a perfect physical specimen and I’m extremely young.” He once again played down the severity of the disease. “Now what happens is you get better,” he said. “That’s what happens, you get better.”

White House aides privately expressed concern about whether the president’s animated mood in recent days stemmed from the dexamethasone steroid he is on. Doctors not involved with the president’s care said it could have a significant effect on a patient’s behavior.

Dr. Negin Hajizadeh, a pulmonary/critical care physician at Northwell Health, noted that the majority of COVID patients receiving dexamethasone are on mechanical ventilation and in a state of induced coma, so they do not exhibit any behavioral side effects. But, she said, large studies show that generally 28-30% of patients will exhibit mild to moderate psychiatric side effects like anxiety, insomnia, mania or delirium after receiving steroid treatments, and about 6% may develop psychosis.

“When we prescribe steroids we warn our patients: ‘This may cause you to feel jittery, might cause you to feel irritable,’ ” Hajizadeh said. “We will tell family members, especially for our older patients, ‘This may cause insomnia, this may cause changes in eating habits and, in extreme cases, mania and impaired decisionmaking.’ ”

Yes. The Yogi Berra criterion is met. For this snake oil salesman:

It's over.

And - Steve Timmer awards another Spotty, COVID-19 related, Minnesota politics related rather than national in focus, and a well-earned Spotty it is. The focus: Yet another Republican ineptitude/indifference icon needing to be swept out of DC along with Trump.