Cancel everything. Better safe than sorry. Broadway World tells us:

Richmond Triangle Players has released the following statement announcing the cancellation of its production of “The Second Coming of Joan of Arc”, original scheduled to run in-person and streaming through October 10, 2020.

“After weeks of rehearsals and steady preparation to open our production of The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, we discovered a great number of views and opinions expressed by and endorsed on the playwright’s personal Facebook page that, after intense investigation and research, we believe to be transphobic.”

So it takes “intense investigation and research” to decide that the playwright’s opinions are transphobic? And even then it’s only their belief? And for that they think it’s worthwhile canceling a play after weeks of work by a number of people?

When have women ever been favored with this level of anxious research into possible misogyny? Ever? The most indisputable rank stinking misogyny gets dismissed with a wave of the hand, or a laugh, but perceived “transphobia” is a reason to mess with a lot of people’s work and livelihoods and artistic pleasure. It’s crazy.

This decision was not made frivolously or lightly, and comes after days of serious and thorny discussions. Our actor and creative team had put together a beautiful production that was ready to open. But now more than ever before, Richmond Triangle Players must use its leadership voice to stand in solidarity with our trans siblings, especially at a time when marginalized voices must be heard louder than before.

Unless the marginalized voices belong to women. Those can be ignored entirely, and canceled at will. The playwright, of course, is a woman, Carolyn Gage. This wouldn’t have happened if she were a man.

The Postmillenial comments:

Staging a play is no small undertaking. It is costly, there are a lot of people involved, and a great deal of time consuming prep on the part of actors, director, designers, tech personnel, marketing people, fundraisers. There are meetings that have to be attended, rehearsals scheduled and planned, lines learned, blocking notated. It is a laborious and involved task to put a show together. There’s even this old theatrical phrase that says “the show must go on.” All of that to say that the cancelling of a show isn’t a decision made lightly.

Unless there’s an opportunity to squawk “Transphobia!!”

H/t Sackbut

Originally a comment by iknklast on Shame and fear of damnation.

It has taken decades of therapy and hard work to overcome the intense feelings of shame and fear of damnation that she said marked her childhood.

This. So much this. I have been out of Christianity for over 40 years, and I still deal with this nearly every day. It is like shards of glass stuck in your brain. No matter how much you know on an intellectual level that these are fallacious beliefs, that you are not a bad person, you still respond to certain things in the way you have been trained to respond. I have been trying to root out those shards of glass in many years of therapy, and when I think I have gotten them all, I leave therapy, sigh with relief, and go about my business. Until a new one shows up. And the wounds fester. They become infected. They ooze pus into your whole being that can consume you if you don’t have the strength or support to resist.

In addition, people like me, like Barrett, are raised to believe everyone else is wrong. I moved past that, thanks to falling into a set in high school that helped me examine my beliefs. Barrett has not moved past that. You should not put someone on the SCOTUS if they have such a view, if they cannot listen to other arguments without having already decided they are wrong. That is dangerously dogmatic.

I would be perfectly happy if the Catholic contingent on the court decreased until it was just Sonia Sotomayor. She is one who appears to be able to keep her religion and her work separate. The rest? Not so much.

This again:

From the article:

More than 500 students and alumni at Oxford have come together to sign an open letter condemning “two professors with a history of transphobia”.

The letter expresses disappointment and distress over the controversial appointment of professors Selina Todd and Senia Paseta to lead a new programme on Women’s Equality and Inequality at the Oxford Martin School. Accusing the Martin School of ‘tacitly sanction(ing)’ the views of Professor Todd and Professor Paseta, the signatories raises concerns about a “hostile and exclusionary environment”.

Blah blah blah blah. This is the new “left” now: the chief enemy is women.

You already know this, but: they are not phobic. Saying that men are not women is not phobic. Disobeying orders to say that men are women is not phobic. Refusing to pretend to believe a nonsense claim is not phobic.

Professor Todd, a member of Women’s Place UK, has previously criticized the LGBT rights charity Stonewall for failing to “support academic freedom of thought” and presenting “anti-scientific claims… as objective fact”.

That’s not phobic. It may or may not be accurate but it’s not phobic.

In 2018, Professor Todd also shared a petition calling on the British Film Institute to remove transgender activist Munroe Bergdorf as a speaker at its women’s summit.

That’s not phobic.

Imagine someone – say, Nikole Hannah-Jones – called on an organization to remove Rachel Dolezal as a speaker at a BLM summit. That would not be phobic.

Professor Todd has repeatedly denied allegations of transphobia, instead describing herself on her website as a “gender-critical feminist”. She claims that, on the issue of self ID, ‘months of research’ led her to the conclusion that “to support transpeople’s rights… would harm the rights of women, because so often what is being asked for is free access to women-only spaces”.

That’s not phobic.

Professor Paseta has also attracted criticism. In 2018, she joined Professor Todd in an open letter to the Labour Party, which called on then-leader Jeremy Corbyn to “uphold their right to sex-segregated spaces”. The letter went on to denounce the terms ‘TERF’ and ‘cis’ being used to describe women.

Still not phobic.

Just one giant platform, that’s what.

The BBC leans heavily on one side of the scale again.

LGBT rights campaigners have criticised World Rugby’s decision to prevent transgender women from competing at the highest levels of the women’s game.

Some have, and others have praised it.

LGBT charity Stonewall says it is “deeply disappointed” with the decision.

“The proposals were based on hypothetical data modelling that has little relevance to the questions of fairness and safety in rugby that the policy review sought to address,” said Stonewall chief executive Nancy Kelley.

Don’t be schewpid. Men are bigger and stronger than women, so letting them play on women’s teams is not fair as well as not safe. Parents don’t call for evidence before telling Joe age 14 to stop beating up Jane age 14; they know it’s not fair.

“Important policies like this should be based on robust, relevant evidence and work closely with trans people playing in the sport.”

What about the importance to women? Eh? What about that? Why are we always supposed to put men who say they are women first and women nowhere?

Transgender men remain permitted to play men’s contact rugby union, but the sport’s governing body says a review of its existing guidelines had concluded that “safety and fairness cannot presently be assured for women competing against trans women in contact rugby”.

And why is that? Because of human sexual dimorphism. Everybody knows that, but we’re supposed to ignore it or even lie it out of existence now.

Thus we are reminded why intense religious cults are not benign.

Rebekah Powers was 11 when members of her faith group, the People of Praise, gathered around as she sat on a chair and laid their hands on her to pray. Powers’ sister had shown a gift for speaking in tongues, a defining trait of the followers of the small charismatic Christian community, and Rebekah was expected to do the same.

She couldn’t do it.

“I couldn’t get it, and I stayed there an hour and a half before they gave up and finally said, ‘You just have blockage. You need to just work on your sin and be more open,” she said.

There. That’s why. She was eleven. “Sin” is not real.

She left the group when she was 18, i.e. old enough that they couldn’t force her to stay.

It has taken decades of therapy and hard work to overcome the intense feelings of shame and fear of damnation that she said marked her childhood. The Christian faith group, based in South Bend, Indiana, dominated every aspect of her early life, she said.

There. That’s why. Those feelings are poison, and it’s evil (and if you like “sinful”) to force them on helpless children whose brains aren’t yet developed enough to resist adult indoctrination.

And one of the adherents of that nasty cult is the nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It’s such a profound, searching insult.

Democrats have already stated that neither Barrett’s Catholic faith nor her membership in the People of Praise – which has never publicly been discussed or disclosed, but has been examined in press reports – will be raised in their questioning of the nominee.

But it should be. It absolutely should be.

It should be but it won’t be because we have this squeamishness about questioning religions, plus we know Republicans will play the “they hate God!!!” card for all it’s worth.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader who is seeking to confirm Barrett before the end of October, has nevertheless said that media reports and some remarks by senators about a newly discovered public statement by Barrett in opposition to Roe v Wade, were “disgusting attacks” on faith. He said they risked a return to the “tropes of the 1960s”, when it was feared by some anti-Catholic bigots that John F Kennedy would act in the interest of the pope instead of the US.

Like that.

It’s not mere “bigotry” to worry about the role of Catholicism in a nominee’s thinking. Some people can rigidly separate their religion from their work, but others can’t. We shouldn’t just assume that everyone can and will, nor should we necessarily take their word for it that they will.

But Powers, who is one of a handful of former People of Praise members who contacted the Guardian to describe their difficult experience in the group (using her married name), and some religious scholars who have studied charismatic Christian communities, say Barrett’s membership in this specific religious community does raise legitimate questions. They want to examine how views that are integral to the group’s core beliefs – from its treatment of women to the separation of church and state – might influence her. They are also distinct from most mainstream Catholic faith.

Of course her membership raises questions, and so does the more common or garden membership in a religion. “Ordinary” Catholicism adamantly opposes abortion; we get to question that.

“We were Catholic, but the Catholicism was on the side. Our life, all of our friends, all of the randoms who were living in our household, were the [People of Praise] community. It was God,” she said. “The brainwashing and the groupthink, the female subjugation of being there to serve and listen to your spiritual head. It was so devaluing. To me, it instilled such problems.”

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Thomas Csordas, an anthropology professor at the University of California San Diego who has studied the issues around communities like People of Praise, said it was wrong to focus attention on whether the group could be a considered a “cult” in the spirit of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple. It was much more appropriate, he said, to examine what he called the “intentional community” of People of Praise and its nature of being “conservative, authoritarian, hierarchical, and patriarchal”.

Those qualities all march together. They’re bad qualities.

Massimo Faggioli, a professor of theology at Villanova University, said that even if senators declined to question Barrett about her faith, the issues deserved to be aired in other forums because groups like People of Praise, he said, does reject a secular view of separation between church and state.

“I don’t think we should put her Catholicism on trial, but the Catholic conservative legal movement is putting liberalism on trial. They want to change a certain understanding of the liberal order of individual rights, and that is coming from the religious worldview of Catholic groups,” he said.

The religious worldview which is also a political worldview. They’re far from apolitical. It’s Francoism updated.

Trump will be far away from the crowd.

The White House communications director, Alyssa Farah, says that today’s address from Donald Trump will be short and to the point. Although, as many of you will have noticed, brevity is not exactly the president’s strong point.

Neither is getting to the or making a point. There is no point, there’s only a surging mephitic sea of exclamations.

“The President’s at a great distance, he’s gonna be up on the balcony and very briefly address the supporters there,” Farah told reporters at the White House on Saturday.

But “the supporters” will be in a crowd. See the problem there?

If reports that 2,000 people have been invited to watch the president’s address are true, that seems a large crowd – and a lot of Covid-19 risk – for a few words on law and order.

Quite so. Now if it were 30, and they were all widely spaced, it might not be so bad, but otherwise…it’s a very bad idea.

In the blizzard yesterday I missed this one:

Oh did he.

Yes he did.

The Girl Bot tweet is from 2018 but sure whatever.

Max Boot elaborates:

Trump’s henchman Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe is trying to further this mendacious narrative by declassifying selective snippets of intelligence — including suspected Russian disinformation. These “revelations” are then breathlessly hyped by Fox News as if they were Watergate II and robotically repeated by Mike Pence in the vice-presidential debate.

The problem is that this makes no sense to anyone who — unlike the president — doesn’t spend all day binge-watching Fox “News.” And those viewers are already voting for him.

The Fox addicts are a lock; the sane people not so much.

Lindsey Graham refuses to get a COVID test before he debates Jaime Harrison. Now why would he do that? Because he has it or suspects he has it?

A debate between incumbent Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and his Democratic challenger, Jamie Harrison, scheduled for Friday night was cancelled after Harrison demanded both candidates be tested for Covid-19 before the debate and Graham refused, leading the organizers to replace it with separate televised interviews.

Why refuse? Remember when people couldn’t get a test? Why would anyone refuse?

Last week, Graham said he tested negative for the coronavirus after President Donald Trump announced his Covid-19 diagnosis. Three senators, two of whom are on the Judiciary Committee, which Graham chairs, have tested positive for the coronavirus. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) were both at the Rose Garden ceremony for the nomination for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Several other members of Congress, members of the administration and top military officers have since tested positive or decided to self-quarantine.

But Graham refuses to get a test. Huh.

Aw Don wanted to go out and play again but it seems that being hospitalized with the covid just a few days ago means you can’t do that immediately.

President Donald Trump will remain at the White House this weekend, people familiar with the matter said, after he said he wanted to hold rallies in Florida and Pennsylvania despite questions over the stage of his recovery from Covid-19.

Covid shmovid; he wants to play.

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Trump “will be clear to go” on Saturday, when “he wants to talk to the American people.” There are medical tests underway to ensure he doesn’t transmit the virus when he returns to the campaign trail, she said on Fox News, adding that she’d conferred with White House doctor Sean Conley.

Who can’t be trusted. White House doctor Sean Conley has been refusing to answer some questions and giving implausible answers to others; he can’t be trusted.

Trump’s filling the void of not hitting the campaign trail by doing a series of lengthy interviews with conservative talk shows. He spent two hours in a radio interview with Rush Limbaugh on Friday afternoon. The president’s campaign billed it as “the largest virtual rally in radio history.”

So, as always, Trump does little or no actual work, but instead spends his time either tweeting or talking bullshit.

The president is later scheduled to appear on conservative radio host Mark Levin’s show and later Tucker Carlson’s Fox News television show.

So, that’s happy happy, but he loves having a crowd all around him screaming approval. He misses that.

Trump blathered at Rush Limbaugh for a few hours just now, because obviously he has nothing more important to do.

Towards the end of the radio broadcast, Limbaugh remarked that the president’s stamina was proof he had recovered from the coronavirus.

“The president’s status with COVID-19 is pretty solid,” Limbaugh declared, adding: “Not once during the hour and 42 minutes has the president been stumped, has he not known what he’s wanted to say.”

Oh please. Trump always knows what he wants to say, which is it doesn’t matter what, because the point is to prevent others from talking. We’ve watched him do it a million times in those “press briefings” – the way he holds out his pudgy little hand like a traffic cop when a reporter tries to get him to answer the actual question instead of bullshitting. He’s never at a loss for words, because he’s perfectly happy to say the same thing three times.

Informed of an Axios report that that the DOJ investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation would not be released before the November election, Trump expressed shock and frustration.

“It’s a disgrace,” he said. “If Bill Barr made that statement, I would be very disappointed in him.”

Right? Bill Barr is supposed to be in his pocket. What the hell, man?

Trump also had some choice words for Iran:

Steroids make you say “fuck” on the raydeeoh.

There’s standing in solidarity with and then there’s the other thing.

StonewallUK means they stand in solidarity with men who identify as women who will feel shut out of women’s rugby. They do not mean they stand in solidarity with women who feel shut out of women’s rugby because playing against men will be too dangerous. They also ignore the fact that men who identify as women will not be shut out of men’s rugby. Their solidarity is reserved for men who want to be able to play on women’s and men’s teams, and not for women who won’t be able to play at all because playing against men is too dangerous. Everything for men, nothing for women – what could be more progressive?

But it’s not about “inclusion.” Nobody is saying trans people can’t play rugby. World Rugby is confirming that people with male bodies can’t play against women. Rugby is a bruising contact sport; it’s not safe for women to play against male bodies. Why can’t StonewallUK think about the women for a change?

Trump’s spiraling mania is causing “concern” among people who don’t want a feverish lunatic in control of the codes.

President Donald Trump‘s increasing political desperation is raising concerns about his judgment following his aggressive Covid-19 treatment and as suspicion mounts that the White House is not telling the truth about his health.

It’s not just “suspicion” though – we know for a fact that the White House is refusing to answer some key questions, like when Trump’s last negative test was. We know the White House is not telling the complete truth about Trump’s illness, even if we don’t know for sure that they’ve told lies.

He is pressing his aides to clear him to return to the campaign trail as soon as this weekend though White House aides refuse to say when he received his last negative test for coronavirus. In a day of chaos Thursday, Trump repeatedly shifted his position on a new plan for a virtual second presidential debate and suddenly decided to back negotiations over a coronavirus economic rescue package he had killed off earlier in the week. His actions suggested a campaign in disarray as he trails Democratic nominee Joe Biden by double digits only 26 days from Election Day.

They also suggest a trump in disarray. He was stupid and malevolent going in; adding steroids and maybe fever on top of that gives you a raving murderous clown.

Trump’s official physician, Navy Cmdr. Dr. Sean Conley, declared that the President would be fit to return to public engagements on Saturday after completing his treatment. But questions remain over when Trump got sick, who he might have infected and if he is still contagious. And twice in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News on Thursday night, the President declined to say whether he has tested negative even as he said he might try to hold a rally in Florida as soon as Saturday night. While he spoke with Hannity, Trump had to pause his sentences, audibly clear his throat and cough at least twice.

The stonewalling by DOCTOR Sean Conley is really pissing me off. He has no business doing that.

During an appearance on the Rush Limbaugh radio show Friday, Trump claimed that the monoclonal antibody treatment he received from Regeneron is “more than a therapeutic, a cure.”

When in fact it’s the steroid that’s making him feel so good, which he interprets as “cured.” Does he really think it’s the brand name antibody treatment, or is he getting a kickback from Regeneron? Another open question.

“He is not well. We would not want any other person on the planet to do the things he’s doing this soon after knowing they’re infected,” Rick Bright, the ousted director of the government office involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine, told CNN’s Jake Tapper Thursday on “The Lead.”

…

“It’s very dangerous. He’s in charge of a lot of things, makes a lot of important decisions for our country and the world, actually,” said Bright, who spoke out publicly after resigning from the National Institutes of Health this week. “If he’s not in the right sound mind to make decisions rationally, then he could be very reckless for the country and the world.”

What I keep saying. He should be chained to a bed.

Juana Summers at NPR:

President Trump referred to California Sen. Kamala Harris as “this monster” in an interview on Thursday, a continuation of his pattern of attacking Black women with demeaning insults. The president has previously reserved the term “monster” for terrorists, murders and major natural disasters.

…In a telephone interview on Thursday morning on the Fox Business Channel, Trump referred to Harris as “this monster that was onstage with Mike Pence, who destroyed her last night, by the way.”

“I thought that wasn’t even a contest last night. She was terrible. I don’t think you could get worse,” he added. “And totally unlikeable. And she is.”

Uh huh. And what is “unlikeable” code for? Ball-busting bitch, aka woman who talks and acts like an adult rather than a simpering seductive fantasy-girl.

Speaking to reporters in Arizona, Harris declined to comment, other than to call Trump’s remarks “childish.” But Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden did respond, calling the comments “despicable” and “so beneath the office of the presidency.”

“It’s obvious he has great difficulty dealing with strong women, great difficulty,” Biden added, as he praised Harris’ debate performance.

No kidding. He’s so unnerved by Angela Merkel that he threw candies at her.

The president has a history of ridiculing and denigrating political opponents, often by the use of nicknames. But when speaking about women and particularly women of color, Trump’s comments take on a different tone.

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Last year, the president said that Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts should “go back” to the countries they came from. He has called Rep. Maxine Waters of California a “low-IQ individual.” He has clashed with female reporters of color and called a former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman “that dog” and a “crazed, crying lowlife.”

Mister Likability knows what he likes.

Amanda Hunter, research and communications director at the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, said these types of gendered attacks are often directed toward female candidates because it calls their likeability into question.

“We know from our research that likeability is a non-negotiable for women candidates — voters say they will not vote for a woman they do not like, but they will vote for a man they do not like,” Hunter said.

The challenge there, though, is that voters often have trouble explaining what being “likeable” means to them. And the notion itself is ri[f]e with gendered expectations.

Tell me about it.

Women mustn’t be decisive, argumentative, knowledgeable, assertive. That’s not Womany, therefore it’s not Nice. Women are supposed to be deferential, hesitant, warm, supportive. Hillary Clinton comes across as knowing what she’s talking about, which is good in a man but terrifying in a woman.

“She’s not allowed to do what Joe Biden did on the debate stage and tell Donald Trump to shut up,” Shropshire said.

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“Imagine if she had,” Shropshire said of Harris. “The ridiculousness that we would have seen, not only from the Republican Party, but others as well. They would have declared that she was hysterical, that she was rude. It would have come from all sectors.”

Damned if you do damned if you don’t.

Really?

Too easy! Give us something more difficult!

Explanation: that’s a male porny idea of “woman.” It’s not ours.

Last night’s news, but I just need to pin it down.

This is late evening on a day when it was all over the news that a group of wacko-right vigilantes were planning to kidnap Michigan’s governor Gretchen Whitmer. She’s a Democrat and a woman and she takes the necessary precautions during a lethal pandemic, so naturally the bully boys plan violence against her, and Trump cheers them on.

This is Trump defending all Americans? Shouting stupid abusive lies about Whitmer on Twitter?

Also notice that hideous “My Justice Department” – it’s not his. It’s ours, it’s not his.

Not to mention ordering Whitmer to let the virus run rampant in Michigan.

CNN reports:

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Thursday that attacks lobbed at her by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign after authorities announced they foiled a plot to kidnap her “tells you everything you need to know” about the difference between the President and Joe Biden.

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Following the announcement [of the arrests] by federal and state officials, Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller lambasted the governor, who had tied Trump’s rhetoric to the plot in earlier televised remarks, saying she “wakes up everyday with such hatred in her heart” for Trump.

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Whitmer said that she’s asked the White House and Republicans in her state to decrease the level of inflammatory rhetoric they put out that she said helped spark the alleged plot.

And they’ve responded by increasing the level of inflammatory rhetoric they put out.

H/t What a Maroon

Ominous signs.

A top Republican senator has said that “democracy isn’t the objective” of America’s political system, sparking widespread outrage at a time when his party has been accused by Democrats of plotting voter suppression and questioning a peaceful transition of power in November’s election.

He did say that.

Of course, how liberty, peace, and prospefity are defined will be up to the undemocratically selected Rulers, so the 90% of us on the bottom might not fare all that well.

His democracy tweet immediately prompted alarm, including from a number of former government officials.

Frank Figliuzzi, former FBI assistant director, tweeted: “‘Democracy isn’t the objective’. Our suspicions are confirmed.”

Walter Shaub, former director of the US office of government ethics, said: “People of my grandfather’s generation knew what to do about fascists. Now a member of Congress is urging us to join them. I wonder what made you hate America so much.”

Oh that’s easy. America is a mongrel country. That’s why Hitler hated it too. It lacks that all-important virtue, purity.

This is some ominous shit right here.

Some concerns:

Just days after being prescribed a powerful cocktail of drugs to treat his coronavirus infection, President Trump returned to the Oval Office on Wednesdayas he delivered a barrage of incendiary tweets that referred to a “treasonous plot” and “coup” against him.

Trump’s behavior, which included tweets about ending negotiations with Democrats over an economic stimulus package and then more tweets about resuming those negotiations, appeared erratic even by his standards and raised questions among some medical professionals about the effect of the treatment on his mental state and whether it impacted his ability to govern.

And not just among medical professionals! Among complete amateurs too! Trump’s behavior raises very pressing questions among me for instance.

Similar drugs, known as corticosteroids, have also been linked to a wide range of other psychiatric symptoms, including anxiety, depression, and various cognitive difficulties, said Dr. Jacob Appel, a psychiatrist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.

“Doctors would want to keep a careful eye on any patient using dexamethasone to make certain that he is not behaving erratically or displaying mood or memory symptoms,” Appel said.

You’d think! But that doesn’t seem to be happening. At all.

“The president’s own doctors would be wise to monitor all of his actions, public and private, including Twitter postings, to determine whether there is a possibility of psychosis,” he said. “If they have any significant concerns, then direct evaluation by an independent psychiatrist would certainly be appropriate.”

Indeed. But instead we have Sean Conley saying what Trump tells him to say. It’s not very confidence-inspiring.

“The president this morning says, ‘I feel great,’ ” wrote Conley, who provided no additional information about Trump’s treatment, including whether he is still taking dexamethasone or other medication.

Yes we know what he says he feels but we kind of hoped you would probe a little more deeply than that.

While Trump may betolerating the drugs without psychological impact, it’s important that he designate someone to evaluate him and empower them to take action if they determine he is impaired, Wynia said.

Yeeeaaah that’s not happening.

NPR explains about the dexamethasone:

Dexamethasone is an anti-inflammatory drug used for a range of ailments, including arthritis, kidney, blood and thyroid disorders and severe allergies. The drug is on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines and is also used to treat certain types of cancer.

Earlier this year, a large clinical trial in the U.K. found that giving dexamethasone to patients hospitalized with COVID-19 reduced their risk of dying. Patients were given 6 milligrams of the drug for 10 days.

The study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine in July, found the drug cut mortality by a third among severely ill COVID-19 patients who were on ventilators, and by a fifth for patients receiving supplemental oxygen. It was found not to have any benefits for patients with mild illness, and there was some evidence of potential harm.

Which confirms that Trump does not have a mild case. He clearly thinks he’s flat-out cured, and he’s in for a rude awakening.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America now recommends giving 6 milligrams of the drug for 10 days to critically ill COVID-19 patients on ventilators and those requiring oxygen support. But it recommends not using the drug on people with mild illness who do not require supplemental oxygen.

But Trump did require supplemental oxygen. He’s sicker than he thinks.

There are known side effects, including psychiatric ones.

“Anything from feeling like you’re on top of the world … your arthritic aches and pains of age just melt away, you have lots of energy,” she said. “There may be some grandiosity.”

Boom! There’s our boy. He’s grandiose Like Nobody’s Ever Seen Before without dexamethasone, and with it he’s manic like a beachball.

The drug can also cause agitation, insomnia, and even psychosis, Gounder said….

All these side effects point to the need to monitor people on these drugs carefully, she added.

Especially, she said in a tense whisper, when the people on the drugs can launch the nukes.

If the president’s physicians prescribed him the recommended dose, Trump will finish his course of treatment early next week.

Sweet. He’s only got four or five days when he might go all General Jack D. Ripper on us. Fabulous.

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