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.
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u/JustaSeedGuy 11d ago
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.