Did anyone see the footage of Biden today? He looked quite ill, with glassy eyes and blotchy skin. Maybe someone forgot he needed TV makeup? This was not a good look when everyone is worried about who is sick and who is not.

I am worried about him too but from what I saw/viewed this was one of his better interviews lately if the Stephanopoulus interview is the one to which you referred? He is struggling and maybe Dems want a puppet whom they can control? I have no clue but if the loony AOC runs amok and Pelosi cedes to her, well, I shudder to think what will happen in the US...

And we thought the Coronavirus is was/scary? Wait until someone like AOC gains control!

Really? AOC worse than coronavirus? At least she would have listened to scientific and medical experts.

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The Premier of Newfoundland & Labrador was caught off record commenting on Donald’s seizing of medical equipment destined to Canada (and latin america)

You remember when a town of 10,000 took home 6,000 mostly Americans who were refused entry into the US after 11 Sep. Something that was repeated throughout Canada from coast t coast.

Well the Premier was astounded that friends would be treating friends in this way.

Prime Minister Trudeau has promised not to retaliate, although he observed that many of Detroits’ Drs, Nurses and health care workers commute from Canada every day.

Bar Steward.

AOC is a long way down the food chain.

Let's hope Marton!

She is. She's just a first-time senator. And yet she's got Trump petrified. She even rated a mention from Trump in his petty, juvenile letter to Schumer the other day. There has never been a thinner-skinned, more vulnerable president than Trump.

Member of the House of Representatives. Two year term. Senators are there for six years. Pretty sure she‘ll be Re-elected though.

Being a compulsive (or in Trumps case 'Pathological' would be the more appropriate term) liar 90% of the time doesn't mean that you can't or won't tell the truth 10% of the time, or that when you do tell the truth people are not able to realise this from the context of the situation and their own knowledge.

Pathological liars like Trump lie when they want to deflect attention from something, or when they don't know something, or when it's basically just in their general interests, for whatever reason, to lie; even if anyone listening immediately knows it's a lie, which in Trumps case is the vast majority of the time as he is so blatant, unconvincing and uninformed.

I think it is very clear Urs, from your gazillion similarly confusing posts on similar topics, that an understanding of the finer points of human behaviour in general is not in your repertoire of skills.

Right, apologies. Also right about re-election.

I'd say Trump is a compulsive liar rather than pathological, from what I understand of the terms. Either way his dangerous lunacy is going to cost thousands of lives. Surely the same folk suffering now can't re-elect him, can they?

As I said, you're trying to deflect.
Sure, that's just not the point. You can't take a liar's words as the truth merely because it supports your opinion. That's simply self-contradicting.

Not if they're dead.

Jokes aside, Trump has sort of gotten his act together and is sort of coordinating a response. He's set a "goal" limit of 100-200k fatalities from the disease. If the number comes in at the lower limit or below that then he'll be in a pretty strong position. Biden meanwhile is sidelined self-isolating at home.

Trump is worried about the economy and now that he's awake he'll try to make sure it gets back to business as usual ASAP.

From what I've seen, Trump supporters do not waver and neither do Trump haters. Both camps are firmly set in their beliefs, with a small number of people in the middle ground.

I think the election will hinge on whatever new things pop up between now and then, how the economy fares, and who Biden chooses as a running mate.

Or if one of them dies of old age before the election.

That makes absolutely no logical sense.

If a pathological liar tells the accepted truth about something, then its still the truth and can thus support an opinion. A pathological liar does not only lie... especially when he is like, you know... The President Of The Unites States.

I was wondering about that. Should Trump die from corona, who will run? (I'm not talking about the rest-time, when the vice president takes over).

If Trump dies from anything while in office, Pence takes over.

The Republican national convention is planned for August. If Trump died before that, the delegates to the convention could choose to throw their support behind Pence as the R nominee, and probably would. Others could also pop up and express their desire to be the nominee but I doubt they'd gain much traction.

If Trump wins the election again (thus becoming president-elect) but dies before Jan. 20, 2021 the 20th amendment provides for the vice-president elect to take the office.

You can google this stuff all day - there was widespread speculation in 2016 about what could happen given the ages of Trump and Clinton. That's the same today, with the ages of Trump (74 in June) and Biden (77).

..and a bonus info for all parties interested. If the vice president also becomes incapacitated, the speaker of the house will take over.

Trump fans' worst nightmare - President Pelosi.

here we disagree. Trump hasn‘t even sort of gotten his act together. He‘s just got people of varying competence doing the heavy lifting. Or lifting. If anything, as soon as he opens his mouth, it‘s one (or more) steps backwards.