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.
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He probably lost at cards and owes someone money.
Naw. Everybody knows he doesn’t pay debts.
Incoming rom-com with this guy as his adopted nephew?
Keith Richards in an acting role?
Most likely way to go;
- FSB Defenestration
- FSB cyanide injection, Bohdan Stashynsky-style
- Assassination by foreign power
- Assassination by domestic freedom-fighter
- Assassination by debtor
- Natural causes from dementia.
He's just trying to distract us by still being alive! Lol
Honestly that's the worst thing he has done as a distraction
“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.
Not gonna lie, Meidas Touch is annoying.
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.
Yeah, that headline is real big talk for a newspaper who was convinced Saddam had WMD
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The Internet was convinced otherwise.
No we weren't. I've learned that there is no such thing as good news anymore.
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I wasn’t convinced I was pushing a narrative.
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 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.
Not convinced, just feverishly hoping.
He probably had Covid.
More likely, a prolapsed anus after his meeting with Putin.
Damn
You can't blame people for wanting to have hopes about good things.
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 mean he sounded like shit when I heard him, and he was almost definitely speaking from a reclined position.
I only believe his soul died long ago.
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