Journal damn_registrars's Journal: Is Trump's Covid19 diagnosis itself a hoax? 21
Before you discard this into the tinfoil hat realm, realize that Trump has a documented history of lying to physicians. One particularly glaring example of this is his own height; if he was actually 6'3" (which we have photographic evidence proving he is not) then that means he grew ~2 inches in his 60s which would be indicative of a severe health problem that needs attention.
So if someone is a pathological liar (Trump) who has a political agenda (re-election) and is trying to push several conspiracies pertaining to a disease (Covid19), it doesn't take much to envision a situation where said pathological liar would fake contracting said disease. There is a lot for him to gain in the process:
So if someone is a pathological liar (Trump) who has a political agenda (re-election) and is trying to push several conspiracies pertaining to a disease (Covid19), it doesn't take much to envision a situation where said pathological liar would fake contracting said disease. There is a lot for him to gain in the process:
- If he recovers quickly at his age and poor health he can say the disease is "overblown"
- He could choose to use the recommended isolation time for the disease to skip the next debate
- He can also use it to blow off any other engagements that are not helpful to him pushing for reelection
We know that he's not against throwing people under the bus to further his own agenda, either - regardless of their qualifications and professions.
Of course it's fake (Score:1)
No different than anything else about him. Chances are the gag will work.
Three hundred million people, and all of you had to put these two on the ballot.
Trump v Biden -- Boy! Does that speak volumes!
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LOVE AND KISSES,
Red
No way! poor imitation...
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apparently it's back now
:-) yes it is [slashdot.org]
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I'd be much more surprised if slashdot told us why it went away and came back.
Communication is not a strength of his supposed forum of communication.
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You really shouldn't dwell on such trivialities, but if you insist, I'm sure you'll get your money back...
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The more things change the more they stay the same. I disappear due to some... uh... legal entanglements... and I come back and what do you know, you're still a catastropic dumbass.
Besides, who else other than the one and only, proprietor of the original fab four, the roaster of the slashdot circle (jerk), the one guy who didn't fuck off to multiply or wherever else those dumbasses went...
And who else know that the LOVE AND KISSES bit was initially a spoof of that Ethelred dumbass? I'
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GODDAMMIT I FORGOT HOW TO TYPE.
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you're still a catastropic dumbass.
Welcome back!!
Stop by Soylent some day
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I know all about Soylent Green being people.
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But they're people with good taste, and ten mod points every day, and it's not beta...
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I'll check it out. I've been out of the loop for a while.
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https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoylentnews.org%2F [soylentnews.org]
Not a bad place to set up shop. And if you like unicode, well, to each his own...
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Slow Down Cowboy!
Slashdot requires you to wait longer between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment.
It's been 12 seconds since you hit 'reply'.
Ah, good to see slashcode is still written by monkeys.
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That's how it survived for 23 years, with over 20 years of fairly solid archive storage, it could be worse. Besides, what else is there to do other than sit on the patio and play backgammon against the machine?
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Ah, good to see slashcode is still written by monkeys.
A decade or two ago, perhaps. Aside from the recent disappearing act of the AC feature it's hard to find evidence that the code has been written at all, by anything, in the past decade. This site is only slightly up to date than the Space Jam page [spacejam.com].
lol (Score:2)
Anything is possible at this point, and I wouldn't bat an eyelash if it turned out that it was a hoax.
Trump has made it so we really can't trust anything that comes from the White House or administration, especially anything medical in nature.
I think it's probably legit though, because these gold-plated fuckups couldn't engineer a hoax like this without blowing it and being exposed through their own incompetence.
And if it's true then I'm fine with it, because if anyone in this country deserves to get sick w
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I think it's probably legit though, because these gold-plated fuckups couldn't engineer a hoax like this without blowing it and being exposed through their own incompetence.
I certainly can't prove this to be a hoax, and if it is there is nearly zero chance that anyone could prove it any time soon. Which is both the problem and the advantage (the latter to them of course). Trump's medical records are protected information; we can't get them through FOIA or anything else. If he had one test that came back positive, why would anyone in his orbit ever test him again? At that point all you need is one intentionally faulty test result and you can pull off the hoax. Of course
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Why do you think they are "fuckups". From my point of view, things are running pretty smoothly, if you are trying to destroy civilization for personal profit, and maybe to keep the mob off your back. The last 50 years that led up to this has been a fairly steady gradient, and now the graph does that "hockey stick" thing, and over the cliff we go!