considering his ego, love of the limelight, sensitivity to his public image, etc., and that a short public appearance mocking the "haters and fake media rumors" would quickly put the story to rest - if nothing was wrong - suggests that something *is* wrong looking forward to finding out what it is
sadly, as full of resentment, lies, and bullshit as ever but verbal and not on death's door
Yeah i didn't let myself hope for the end or anything just because disappointment is too much to deal with for me right now. But I do think something happened along the lines of a decent TIA e.g. or something else with a recovery time more than like an hour or two. I don't think it was nothing
it looks to me that his inner circle or handlers are screening his media intake because he acted surprised when informed of the weekend speculation about his health
And i used to be the guy saying it's probably nothing the last few times we went around on this sort of thing (except the time he got covid because that was pretty intense). I'm happy to admit old guys with good health care last a long time, but I don't think this was nothing like other times
I can think of plenty of examples of dem & non-dem heads of government concealing health problems to varying degrees (Wilson’s flu & stroke; Churchill’s stroke; JFK’s Addison’s; Reagan’s neurodegeneration; Brezhnev, Andropov, & Chernenko) What examples are there of admirable openness & candor?
I don't understand why anyone thinks (or even pretends) that critical health information about world leaders (or candidates for such offices) would ever be freely given out by their staff
Even normal presidents concealed their ailments Wrt Trump approaching 80, he seems to be in age-related decline, and has some particular visible symptoms of…something, it’s just not clear what it is or how serious it might be (and to that extent ppl are probably wishcasting)
if enough people wish hard enough on carefully focused outcomes, it can warp the fabric of observable reality it's just quantum physics, really 😶