President Donald Trump's staunchest fans are so bent on taking hydroxychloroquine they're sharing recipes for making their own.

Tell everyone you're taking it. Even if you're not. Say you're taking it via enema. A high colonic with a twist of lime. You're bathing in it. Say you're having clothes made with fibers soaked in HCQ. Name your dog HCQ. Tattoo it on your forehead. Drive these idiots nuts.

Tom Nichols: "Since his first day as a presidential candidate, I have been baffled by one mystery in particular: Why do working-class white men--the most reliable component of Donald Trump's base--support someone who is, by their own standards, the least masculine man ever to hold the modern presidency?"

"The question is not whether Trump fails to meet some archaic or idealized version of masculinity. The president's inability to measure up to Marcus Aurelius or Omar Bradley is not the issue. Rather, the question is why so many of Trump's working-class white male voters refuse to hold Trump to their own standards of masculinity--why they support a man who behaves more like a little boy."

Yeah that, plus he uses more makeup and hairspray than all their female relatives combined AND

the White House put out a statement from the president's doctor saying that their medical team had determined the benefits of hydroxychloroquine "outweighed the relative risks."

But commenters on social media couldn't help noticing one thing the letter did not contain: An actual confirmation that the doctor prescribed hydroxychloroquine for the president.

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I don't believe it.  He's to fond of himself to take a dangerous untested drug into the drug and alcohol free temple that is his body.   But he would totally tell his followers to take it if it made money for him.

Some analysts have been predicting he would turn on his supporters once it was clear he was losing.  Turn on them for not being loyal enough to save him.

Trump Calls Leading In Virus Cases a `Badge of Honor'

May 19, 2020 at 5:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 83 Comments

President Trump said the United States having the most coronavirus cases in the world is "a badge of honor," CNN reports.

Said Trump: "I don't look at that as a bad thing. I look at that, in a certain respect, as being a good thing. Because it means our testing is much better."

This was a pretty big story

CDC tracks cluster of coronavirus cases in rural Arkansas to church, raising alarm on religious gatherings

And there is this

The Coronavirus Invades Trump Country

May 22, 2020 at 7:47 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 31 Comments

Axios: "For the last four weeks, counties newly designated as having a high prevalence of coronavirus cases -- meaning at least 100 cases per 100,000 people -- were more likely to have voted for President Trump than Hillary Clinton in 2016, according to a recent analysis by the Brookings Institution."

And these

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 is doing nothing to help Republicans, and me, get re-elected on November 3rd. Sure, there are some truly GREAT people on Fox, but you also have some real "garbage" littered all over the network, people like Dummy Juan Williams, Schumerite Chris...

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....Hahn, Richard Goodstein, Donna Brazile, Niel Cavuto, and many others. They repeat the worst of the Democrat speaking points, and lies. All of the good is totally nullified, and more. Net Result = BAD! CNN & MSDNC are all in for the Do Nothing Democrats! Fox WAS Great!

Seriously ill Covid-19 patients who were treated with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine were more likely to die or develop dangerous heart arrhythmias, according to a large observational study published Friday in the medical journal The Lancet.

Researchers analyzed data from more than 96,000 patients with confirmed Covid-19 from 671 hospitals. All were hospitalized from late December to mid-April, and had died or been discharged by April 21.

Retail sales of the anti-malarial drug President Donald Trump has promoted as a potential coronavirus cure -- and claims to be taking himself -- have been soaring.

The drug, hydroxychloroquine, has been around for decades but was thrust into the spotlight this spring when Trump began mentioning its name dozens of times during coronavirus briefings. While it had not been approved for this use, and still hasn't, he urged Americans to "try it."
Amid the growing public attention on the medication, its sales doubled from March 2019 to more than $50 million in March of this year,

Half the Accounts Tweeting on `Reopening' May Be Bots

May 22, 2020 at 7:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 55 Comments

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have discovered that much of the discussion around the pandemic and stay-at-home orders is being fueled by misinformation campaigns that use convincing bots.

Said professor Kathleen Carley: "We're seeing up to two times as much bot activity as we'd predicted based on previous natural disasters, crises and elections."

State-level tracking of COVID-19 in the United States

Biden is now talking about a bolder presidency, with ambitions stretching beyond the restoration of pre-Donald Trump normalcy.
And there is a growing sense in Democratic circles, particularly among the progressive wing of the party, that there is one sure way to show he means it: Make Elizabeth Warren his running mate.
The Massachusetts senator has mostly been regarded as a vice presidential dark horse more likely destined, if progressive dreams were answered, for a top cabinet position. But that calculation could be shifting as the factors influencing Biden's decision evolve in the face of a mushrooming catastrophe. Over the past month, the pair have forged a deeper personal connection, following the death of Warren's brother, and begun to sharpen their focus on common political ground as Biden publicly shifted on an issue that famously divided them nearly two decades ago.
Joe Biden's running mate list is shorter than you might think -- for now, at least
Joe Biden's running mate list is shorter than you might think -- for now, at least
Biden spent much of the Democratic primary locked in on a pledge to revive decency in American political culture. Warren ran on a call for "big, structural change" that launched her to the top of the polls in the summer of 2019, but didn't translate into success this year. The heart of Biden's appeal remains steady, but as the coronavirus fallout deepens, he has also begun to telegraph a desire to strike out with a more ambitious policy agenda -- a political enterprise, in scope and scale, that many Warren allies believe she is uniquely qualified to shepherd through the mazy, grinding gears of government.

New York Times: "In October, President Trump declares a state of emergency in major cities in battleground states, like Milwaukee and Detroit, banning polling places from opening."

"A week before the election, Attorney General William P. Barr announces a criminal investigation into the Democratic presidential nominee, Joseph R. Biden Jr."

"After Mr. Biden wins a narrow Electoral College victory, Mr. Trump refuses to accept the results, won't leave the White House and declines to allow the Biden transition team customary access to agencies before the Jan. 20 inauguration."

"Far-fetched conspiracy theories? Not to a group of worst-case scenario planners -- mostly Democrats, but some anti-Trump Republicans as well -- who have been gaming out various doomsday options for the 2020 presidential election. Outraged by Mr. Trump and fearful that he might try to disrupt the campaign before, during and after Election Day, they are engaged in a process that began in the realm of science fiction but has nudged closer to reality as Mr. Trump and his administration abandon longstanding political norms."

You may have seen this yesterday

Trump mulls forming panel to investigate anticonservative bias on social media: report

Turns out that might be because he is about to be banned from Twitter

Brzezinski says she arranged call with Twitter CEO to discuss banning Trump

She used the word libel
Not a lawyer but it sounds close to me.  Even republicans are begging him to stop.

please stop.  It's killing us.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) called on President Trump to stop promoting "the completely unfounded conspiracy" theory regarding the death of an intern for MSNBC "Morning Joe" anchor and former Florida lawmaker Joe Scarborough.

The president on Sunday morning urged his followers in a tweet to read an article from conservative website True Pundit, which claimed evidence showed foul play in the death of Lori Klausutis, 28, in 2001.

"Just stop," Kinzinger responded said. "Stop spreading it, stop creating paranoia. It will destroy us."

Question for you.  I have been reading some think Trumps behavior will continue to get worse as his fortunes fade and he becomes more angry and bitter.  Mentioned before the thing I read comparing him to Hitler in the final days when he turned on his followers for not being strong enough to give him victory.

But the question.  They say, Trump himself has said, he can do pretty much anything and he has the ultimate get out of jail free card.  He thinks he can pardon himself.  He believes it.  Aparrently he's been told this.