Post Axp05UoRiJpgdBStkG by mavu@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #Axo4XfEYlbzFicPHMG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-02T20:23:05Z
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Eh. He's probably fine, but the white house may have hid some "major medical incident" from the press. Which is annoying. We have had a print interview (extreme puff piece) and a phone interview. Some people say Trump sounded sick in the audio, but I found him as unpleasant and incoherent as I always do... which is to say fine. It is suspicious they can't do video. What is going on?It's all very secretive and panicked. Reminds me of Biden.
(DIR) Post #Axo5QfXxIzfEcFhv16 by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-09-02T20:33:01Z
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@futurebird A site I often like to navigate to before checking the news in the morning. https://istrumpdead.com/
(DIR) Post #Axo5jXxFkx5qZWXdsu by icastico@c.im
2025-09-02T20:29:40Z
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@futurebird I watched his press conference today and he was cognitively compromised without a doubt. His baseline of rambling is so rambletastic that it is hard to see, but he was losing the thread within individual clauses of sentences and clearly doesn’t know what his administration is doing. Why the press core allows his non- answers to stand unchallenged is beyond me. My suggested headline would be “Trump’s rambling at press conference keeps questions of declining heath alive”
(DIR) Post #AxoCz16gLpif0aH9zU by graydon@canada.masto.host
2025-09-02T21:57:41Z
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@futurebird Someone late in their eighth decade who was in the ICU with COVID about five years ago who is today showing signs of cognitive decline is nigh-guaranteed to be experiencing very fast cognitive decline.This hasn't soaked into the public consciousness yet, but the literature is not ambiguous. And since this value of "cognitive decline" is not too far off literal brain rot, well. Thereabouts of more merciful than rabies.
(DIR) Post #AxoE7MvVD4bIx4apA8 by johnzajac@dice.camp
2025-09-02T22:01:23Z
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@graydon @futurebird I do feel like there's this attitude in the United States that's like "surely the magical ~*Medical Technology*~ of the vast and all-powerful Empire can keep Presidents alive no matter how sick or old they are! SURELY!" Basically, if it were *anyone else* but the President of the United States, we'd all be pretty certain the dude is gonna cark it sooner rather than later. But for some reason, because he's POTUS, we just can't fathom it.
(DIR) Post #AxoE7Nc2eud150UnT6 by johnzajac@dice.camp
2025-09-02T22:02:48Z
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@graydon @futurebird It would be extremely gratifying to watch Trump decline precipitously and then die ignominiously while the entire P2025 effort collapses under a shattered economy, and JD Vance struggles to make appearances without getting pelted with rotten vegetables.
(DIR) Post #AxoE7ODGQWP0wRuWUC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-02T22:10:22Z
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@johnzajac @graydon The wicked have a way of hanging on sometimes, perhaps they believe in hell and know that if anything awaits them after they die it won't ever be as good as being alive.
(DIR) Post #AxoFZj7aNosPqnKZkW by graydon@canada.masto.host
2025-09-02T22:26:44Z
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@futurebird The wicked do, but on the numbers generally available for post-COVID decline, an implausible amount of hanging on has already happened.@johnzajac
(DIR) Post #AxoK9nEcxxFeqm4ssq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-02T23:18:05Z
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@apophis I don't have many charitable thoughts for Mr. Biden but I do think it would be a nice little thing for him to creep into a state funeral.
(DIR) Post #Axp05UoRiJpgdBStkG by mavu@mastodon.social
2025-09-03T07:07:52Z
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@futurebird At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy nut, deepfaking the voice of someone is pretty easy...(Yeah, unlikely, but i wouldn't put it past those people to try a stunt like that.)