Shield Us

By Zamboni

The Biden-Harris campaign just announced that Joe Biden has tested negative for COVID-19 for the third time since the Presidential debate in Cleveland. This is good news, but Biden's not out of the woods yet. We'll feel better if he keeps testing negative through the coming week.

Meanwhile, we haven't been able to contain our rage at Benedict Donald endangering our candidate by spewing saliva at him for 90 minutes on Tuesday. And we hope Kamala Harris can borrow South Carolina Senate contender Jaime Harrison's plexiglass shield when she and Mike Pence debate this week. (Harrison's shield was not only hilarious, but considering how recklessly the GOP has been acting, very smart.)

Perhaps Trump's and the Republicans' cavalier attitude toward infecting people is all America can expect, considering how badly they've screwed up the pandemic. But wouldn't you think that they'd want to at least protect themselves if they're letting the peasants die? Au contraire: White House staff, Trump donors and campaign people who are worried about exposure have been left adrift, not getting any information or guidance on what to do next, reports The Wall Street Journal (which we note is not exactly a wild-eyed, liberal paper).

According to the Journal, Trump had a rapid COVID test that came back positive, after which he needed a second, more reliable one. And he went on FOX "News" and attended his New Jersey fundraiser in the meantime without saying a word. He "also asked one adviser not to disclose results of their own positive test. 'Don't tell anyone.'" One source, identified as "an administration official," said he'd heard nothing from the West Wing and was resorting to "Twitter and TV." 

There's more. New York magazine reports that the larger White House staff is in an uproar. "Since this whole thing started, not one email has gone out to tell employees what to do or what’s going on." And Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt and their fellow Lincoln Lads have tweeted that they're hearing directly from members of Team Trump. "There is real panic and rage at Trump and the leadership of the White House and campaign," Schmidt said. "There was a mutiny at the campaign. People will not, and should not, show up for work."

All that was before Trump took his obnoxious little joy ride at Walter Reed today. And there's just one month until Election Day.

We cats are never overconfident — we're Democrats, after all. But it really sounds like Trump World has descended into Titanic-level chaos. Can we spend the next four weeks keeping our candidate healthy and our voters turning out? Will the election be safe from Vladimir Putin and the Proud Boys? Is there a plexiglass shield strong enough to protect America from the threat of Trump? We cats HISS.