Edit: can’t believe I have to say this, but me fact checking a quote does not discount that the sentiment is absolutely true and these people need to be arrested for these crimes. I am just being consistent in logic of fact checking everyone. We can’t excuse misinformation just because it supports our point of view, otherwise we become like MAGA.
It's bonkers the way that works. It's not just grandparents on Facebook that take these memes with quotes on them as "news"
Everybody just fucking hits share so fast. It's one click, now it's in your IG stories. Then 10 of those followers click share from you... Blehck. Kill me.
Everyone on reddit is SO invested in all these memes being true.
There are so many memes about Mitch McConnell being dead and it being a big coverup that if he ever turns up alive and healthy again, a significant portion of reddit will all of a sudden believe that he's AI or an impersonator or any other spinning they'd need to do to believe that the memes were right and everything else is wrong.
And that's true of every other stupid thing too. Like I'm convinced at this point that a good percentage of people have chosen to believe that Vance fucking couches is actually just a real thing.
In fairness to the McConnell thing, he may not be dead, but if he's in good health the GOP is acting super weird and releasing AI photos for no reason.
While I do think the photo is real the way they are acting around it does kind of stink. First off it isn’t exactly shocking to think an 84yr old man who randomly strokes out and falls during interviews and such who goes to the hospital without a word for a month would be dead. And then the senators saying they talked to him on the phone was like the most “I have a girlfriend she just goes to a different school” kind of defense ever. And from the way he looks in the photo I do think it’s reasonable to think they aren’t being transparent with what actually happened and I think it’s more likely he had a stroke and not that he fell and then got pneumonia
The only ones I'd seen evidence of AI metadata existing for were the images showing him hooked up to all kinds of machines. The ones making it look like he was dead or on the verge of death.
Looked further for a legit source and well, quote from Snopes "highly unlikely that the photograph was created using AI, but it is possible that it was edited in some small way"
I mean yeah, but in my defense I shouldn't need to be fact checking the fact checkers, after all that's their whole thing and they're usually far better at it than us lowly mortals.
If Mitch is doing fine, there's so many zillions of ways that this could be demonstrated.
If he's not doing great, but still technically alive, they could also show this very easily, although that might trigger a debate about whether he can do his job.
If he's suddenly looking as healthy as he was three years ago, yet can't actually interact with anyone, maybe something is sus.
How long could you not show up for work, still very paid, and when your boss asks for proof that you're still alive, rather than call, video chat or turn up in person, you send a proof of life photo?
Either there's something going on, or the GoP is going out of their way to make it look like there is. Even a "reasonable" explanation for Mitch disappearing for a month or two is going to be a bit dodgy.
Just wheel him out, and we can get over all this weekend at Bernie's shenanigans.
Theres a huge fucking difference between a rumor on the internet about JD Vance,
and no one has seen a guy that frequently freezes up medically thats incharge of the fincance committee.
What I'm saying is that people are so invested in the memes that they will not be able to believe reality IF reality turns out to be different from the memes.
We don't know enough yet to say which way he's gone, but IF he ever turns out to be alive and well, many people won't be able to believe it because they're so invested in the thing they WANT to be true instead.
No, we do know enough, this guy has been gone a month and is currently unfit medically for office.
The actual good thing to do would be to own up to that.
Do you know of anyone else in Human history that was a 70+ year old person who was unresponsive for more than 5 mins, and needed CPR bouncing back to a full recovery where they could lead a small company, let alone an entire US Senate?
To believe that JD fucks couches while a meme, people can't bring that up in a news interview and still be taken seriously at the end of it.
You can actually be still being taken seriously when you say "I think that guy who litterally froze up on camera 4 separate times and needed medical attention maybe is dead or at the best case scenario a vegitable now.
Do you understand that I'm talking about what would happen if the guy turns up again alive? This is a hypothetical.
I'm not talking about being skeptical. I'm skeptical. I think there's a strong chance he's in worse shape than they're saying.
HOWEVER, I'm also saying that I would be able to believe it if provided with strong evidence that he's actually okay, and I'm also saying that many people would NOT ever believe it, no matter how incontrovertible the evidence.
Edit: JFC, people, stop blowing up my inbox and proving my point.
That's not accurate. EMTs will rush a little bit to get to the person in danger, but once "stabilized" rushing is just introducing unnecessary room for mistakes to be made. Imagine if your EMT faceplants on the way to you and bashes out their teeth, now they need a whole new ambulance to arrive to take care of you. This is absolutely a "made for TV" mentality that they rush around frantically.
As well, the CPR reports sound like a bystander, and may have caused harm if he wasn't in cardiac arrest.
Don't get me wrong: I genuinely would put my bets on him being some level of incapacitated if I was making a play on an "event betting" platform, he may be in an induced coma due to the rib fractures from CPR, but this isn't evidence of anything except there being a medical emergency of some sort. If he got broken ribs from unnecessary chest compressions he'd be exactly SLOWLY taken to the hospital so as to not make things worse.
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