{"id":27182,"date":"2020-10-03T08:48:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T15:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=27182"},"modified":"2020-10-03T10:34:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T17:34:32","slug":"mogul-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=27182","title":{"rendered":"Mogul Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, I don’t think he’s faking it. It’s not a 4th dimensional blow-Biden-out-of-the-water\/prove-it’s-a-hoax chess move. Occam’s razor: the simplest explanation is the likely one, and the simplest explanation is that Donald Trump really has contracted the coronavirus, probably from Hope Hicks, and so has Melania and a steadily-widening circle of people who shared air with her over the past few days and weeks.<\/p>\n

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They’re already calling it the Rose Garden Massacre<\/a><\/strong>. Talk about an October surprise! It’s not one I particularly welcome, despite my loathing of Trump and everything he represents. We’re living in interesting times, and as the ancient Chinese keep telling us, that’s rarely a good thing.<\/p>\n

Will Trump’s illness cast a wrench in the works of the election? I think the wrench, in the form of Trump poisoning the waters with lies about fraudulent mail-in ballots and threats to send thugs to intimidate voters at polling places, has been chewing up the gears for some time already. Honestly, how much worse can things get?<\/p>\n

Well, okay, probably pretty worse. What do I know?<\/p>\n

My personal takeaway is, holy shit, COVID-19 really is<\/em> highly contagious! Look at the speed with which it’s spreading among Trump’s crowd. We really do<\/em> need to be afraid of it. We really do<\/em> need to isolate, and mask up when we can’t. We really do<\/em> need to avoid crowds, and stay the hell away from those who won’t wear masks. We’re watching the virus run rampant in real time among the most closely-watched group of people in the world.<\/p>\n

If this doesn’t bring the threat home, what will?<\/p>\n

*Mogul: Secret Service code name for Donald Trump.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re watching the virus run rampant in real time among the most closely-watched group of people in the world. If this doesn’t bring the threat home, what will?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[3032,2024],"class_list":["post-27182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-politics","tag-covid_19","tag-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27182"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27200,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27182\/revisions\/27200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}