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Coronavirus claimed a prominent victim in Washington on Monday. No, it wasn’t the President, of course. Instead, the China flu appeared to consume the sanity of Washington Post op-ed writer Jennifer Rubin.
Monday evening was a night of surreal political takes all over the place. Erin Burnett compared Trump’s return from Walter Reed with political rallies in North Korea. Joy Reid chose the more euphonic ‘Mussolini moment’. Jeb Bush’s former communications director (does any title better convey a lack of expertise than that one?) called it ‘the weirdest shit I have ever seen in my life.’
Thousands of responses would have landed in Cockburn’s Cringe Hall of Fame just a few years ago, yet on Monday, all of them were mere candles compared to the blazing sun of Rubin.
Two weeks removed from dropping the vestigial ‘conservative’ label on her Twitter profile, Rubin reacted to the President’s not-so-fatal case of COVID with an online episode for the ages. In a blistering 93-minute span, Rubin issued 34 original tweets, a pace of one tweet every two minutes and 44 seconds.
The rant began with a vow to investigate and punish the President’s doctors for the sin of letting a patient walk out of the hospital:
If he falls ill and relapses or infects anyone else his doctors will be responsible.
— Jennifer 'Punish Domestic Terrorists' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 5, 2020
Is there no one at Walter Reed with the nerve to speak out publicly to warn others and express they objected to this dangerous course of conduct? After election there's going to need to be a thorough review and AMA will need to consider discipline if appropriate
— Jennifer 'Punish Domestic Terrorists' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 5, 2020
Rubin then turned her ire to next week’s scheduled debate:
No way in HELL can debate commission allow Oct 15 debate to go forward. They will be responsible for exposing people to a deadly disease.
— Jennifer 'Punish Domestic Terrorists' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 5, 2020
If Trump is "able" to debate Biden must insist he be in a separate room. This is a constitutional crisis if Trump infects him. The Debate Commission should be held legally responsible if they hold this thing
— Jennifer 'Punish Domestic Terrorists' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 5, 2020
These thoughts had barely been published for Rubin was on to the next phase of her panic attack. Rubin, who based on her manner may not have left her bedroom since March, was soon demanding the total evacuation of the White House.
Imagine being a WH worker. Typhoid Mary is coming back and you are expected to come to work each day
— Jennifer 'Punish Domestic Terrorists' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 5, 2020
PLEASE remove Melania and Barron from the WH. Please.
— Jennifer 'Punish Domestic Terrorists' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 5, 2020
WH should be evacuated if he goes back.
— Jennifer 'Punish Domestic Terrorists' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 5, 2020
WH personnel, please do not endanger yourself. Call in sick for the next month. America will find you other jobs.
— Jennifer 'Punish Domestic Terrorists' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 5, 2020
By the end of it all, Rubin was reduced dreaming up bizarre conspiracy theories in her fried cerebrum only so she could vomit them forth for public consumption:
If Trump, say, was positive on Sept 26 at WH, he knowingly exposed Barrett's family, anyone in attendance and then exposed his opponent and Chris Wallace on the Tuesday. Couldn't be this insanely evil, could he?
— Jennifer 'Punish Domestic Terrorists' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 5, 2020
Don't we think Judge Barrett would want to know if Trump was positive on that Sat when her CHILDREN sat with Trump in Oval Office?
— Jennifer 'Punish Domestic Terrorists' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 5, 2020
[special_offer]
Congress might want to defund Walter Reed. It is a public health hazard.
— Jennifer 'Punish Domestic Terrorists' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 5, 2020
The climax came at 3:05, when Rubin said that the president’s decision to leave a hospital and recuperate at home was so dangerous, so unfathomable, so extreme, that the only rational response was a Cabinet coup d’état.
That @VP has no thought of activating Sect 4 of 25thA tells you everything you know about his spinelessness and defective character
— Jennifer 'Punish Domestic Terrorists' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 5, 2020
Having settled the matter of Mike Pence’s ‘defective character’, Rubin was soon inventing spinoff conspiracy theories, attributing sinister intent to his desire to sit in a chair.
