In the world of presidential health, distrust and speculation run so rampant that even Mr. Trump’s online assurance that he was fine was immediately explained away as part of a cover-up.
In the world of presidential health, distrust and speculation run so rampant that even Mr. Trump’s online assurance that he was fine was immediately explained away as part of a cover-up.
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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 111 pts · 350d
I mean, I wasn't particularly convinced. but i was PARTICULARLY hopeful.
also, him being alive doesn't mean he hasn't had some sort of medical event, etc.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 350d
Blade9732@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 350d
He probably lost at cards and owes someone money.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 350d
Naw. Everybody knows he doesn’t pay debts.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 350d
Incoming rom-com with this guy as his adopted nephew?
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 349d
Keith Richards in an acting role?
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 350d
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 350d
He has to hold a coalition together to get anything done.
Vance was a net negative on the campaign and has the charisma of a cummy sock. He'll be the first to get the knife when they come out.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 350d
Salvo@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 350d
“Sock” or “sofa”?
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · -1 pts · 350d
How dare you, cummy socks don't deserve that baseless attack.
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 13 pts · 349d
JD “whatever makes sense” Vance couldnt build a cult following if he tried. He has zero, it not negative, charisma
Its worth saying he doesnt need one to get into power, but at the same time no one would turn a blind eye to his actions based solely on bias like they do with Trump. He has no chance of placating the MAGA party whatsoever if they turn on him for any reason. Not to mention that everyone knows hes a weird little gremlin, even his supporters
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 349d
JD Vance is an expert in pleasing his master. Pleasing the people is not the goal.
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 350d
Nah, he's a weakling specifically chosen by Trump because he's a weakling.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 350d
Agreed. Pence didn't get the second run because he showed actual backbone when democracy was actually on the line. Vance is a little bitch boy yes-man.
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 350d
I think it was more that Pence realized Trump couldn't pull off that coup, so he wasn't gonna stick out his neck for him. If he wasn't VP then, I have no doubt he'd support Trump up until the present day, even if he has the same misgivings all ambitious right wingers have. People like him never allied with Trump because they like him, but because he wins against Democrats and politically destroys rival Republicans.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 349d
He was Thiel's and Musk's "gift" to Trump.
handsoffmydata@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 349d
Are any of us really waiting for it to get better at this point or do we just want to have to stop paying rent/going to work?
Salvo@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 350d
Most likely way to go;
devolution@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 350d
Got it all wrong. The internet hoped.
SoloCritical@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 350d
Some say they still do
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -7 pts · 349d
BlueAnon ran off on a rampage with conspiracy theories.
BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 349d
Qanon conspiracy theories: the Liberals are running a pedophile ring out of one specific pizzeria to harvest adrenochrome to extend their lifespans!!!
BlueAnon conspiracy theories: a 79 year old man with waning energy and health symptoms has died!!!
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 349d
Did you see the dozens of body double posts?
BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
Nah, I spent the weekend touching grass
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 58 pts · 350d
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 350d
He's just trying to distract us by still being alive! Lol
Honestly that's the worst thing he has done as a distraction
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 33 pts · 350d
Actually pretty sure the fucking assholes who kept chanting "tRuSt tHe pRoCeSs" were the centrist pro-business democrats and the people who thought Merrick Garland wasn't absolutely fucking this all up.
Further, him deserving to go to prison is why people were fucking hopeful that he would.
Anyway, at least the idea that can "trust the process" is finally dead and fucking buried where it should have been thirty god damned years ago.
But seriously, how long is the NYT gonna sanewash this shit and act like Trump isn't an abusive criminal who has successfully abused the system to put himself above the law? Now literally comparing the need to put a criminal like him behind bars and bar him from running for President to fringe conspiracy theories. What a crock of shit.
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 349d
Yeah, that headline is real big talk for a newspaper who was convinced Saddam had WMD
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 349d
Long ago, someone observed that the system won't save you. That's what it's there for.
And it'll certainly not save you from the system.
devolution@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 350d
Not gonna lie, Meidas Touch is annoying.
Nougat@fedia.io · 0 pts · 350d
Yeah, we didn't know back when that law was just over.
IHeartBadCode@fedia.io · 27 pts · 350d
No we weren't. I've learned that there is no such thing as good news anymore.
whiwake@lemmy.cafe · 0 pts · 350d
The face books and twitters
Stovetop@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 350d
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 350d
Six people posted tongue in cheek stuff mocking what the conservatives did when Biden wasn't constantly in the news and suddenly news articles are saying the whole Internet was convinced.
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 350d
What else would they have been tossing out the window in black trash bags?
5in1k@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 349d
I wasn’t convinced I was pushing a narrative.
WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 349d
I don't think it's so much "believed" as "hoped."
Specifically, people hoped that the staggeringly dangerous and destructive deranged megalomaniac currently destroying the US had died, since at this point, in a world in which virtually none of the politicians, government officials or journalists who are actually in a position to do anything to at least slow the US's Trump-led sprint to neo-feudalism can be bothered to lift a finger, him dying is about the only hope we billions of ordinary prople have.
But of course, the NYT is at the forefront of the journalists who can't be bothered to actually demonstrate any principles or integrity, so all we get from them is this bit of sycophantic pabulum.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
don't forget "wanted to see if he could be goaded into doing something to harm himself and his followers just to prove something stupid"
purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 350d
I wasn't convinced and I don't think the internet was either. Listen, people are a bit desperate for some good news right now. However, I will admit that I was indeed shining and polishing my crab emoji. Just in case.
Boddhisatva@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 349d
psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 350d
Not convinced, just feverishly hoping.
Drumz@lemmynsfw.com · 8 pts · 350d
He probably had Covid.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 349d
More likely, a prolapsed anus after his meeting with Putin.
loaf@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 350d
Damn
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world · 5 pts · 349d
You can't blame people for wanting to have hopes about good things.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 350d
What even is this article? It’s a rambling history of Trump’s medical woes as some sort of chastisement to “the internet” for hoping he had died? It’s clearly sort of the Times again sucking up to Trump, but in a weird way that doesn’t make sense?
masterofn001@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 350d
Maybe he was replaced with a robot body double...
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 4 pts · 350d
No, the robot double was in the Epstein files and completely innocent nice uncle Trump just turned up after the evil robot double broke. Unfortunately the robot double completely disintegrated and left no traces. Just in case it should also be pardoned.
FaceDeer@fedia.io · 3 pts · 350d
Hope is a powerful thing.
Chozo@fedia.io · 3 pts · 350d
Would be great if that changed.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 350d
I mean he sounded like shit when I heard him, and he was almost definitely speaking from a reclined position.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d
I only believe his soul died long ago.