President Trump Is Alive. The Internet Was Convinced Otherwise.
nytimes.com
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.
Got it all wrong. The internet hoped.
Some say they still do
BlueAnon ran off on a rampage with conspiracy theories.
He's just trying to distract us by still being alive! Lol
Honestly that's the worst thing he has done as a distraction
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.
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"
I wasn’t convinced I was pushing a narrative.
“There’s always been this wishful-thinking industry around Trump’s health and Trump’s legal woes,” said Mike Rothschild, a journalist and author who studies conspiracy movements. “There’s been this far-left influencer sphere that is constantly pumping up the idea that Trump is about to go to prison or the walls are closing in.”
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.
Yeah, that headline is real big talk for a newspaper who was convinced Saddam had WMD
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.
Not gonna lie, Meidas Touch is annoying.
Yeah, we didn't know back when that law was just over.
The Internet was convinced otherwise.
No we weren't. I've learned that there is no such thing as good news anymore.
The face books and twitters
I don't think most people were convinced, but it was nice to entertain the thought.
If he actually had died, the resulting power vacuum would have been felt around the world within minutes.
That or he did die and they had to decant one of his spare clones out of a vat.
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.
What else would they have been tossing out the window in black trash bags?
He's still alive? Oh well, sending thought and prayers that the situation improves.
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.
You can't blame people for wanting to have hopes about good things.
Not convinced, just feverishly hoping.
He probably had Covid.
More likely, a prolapsed anus after his meeting with Putin.
Damn
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?
Maybe he was replaced with a robot body double...
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.
Hope is a powerful thing.
Would be great if that changed.
I only believe his soul died long ago.
I mean he sounded like shit when I heard him, and he was almost definitely speaking from a reclined position.
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.
He probably lost at cards and owes someone money.
Keith Richards in an acting role?
Once you understand more about JD Vance (and the tech billionaires that installed him) you wouldn't be as hopeful for the future as you are now. It won't get better after cheeto dies.
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.
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
Nah, he's a weakling specifically chosen by Trump because he's a weakling.
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?
Most likely way to go;