I mean, I wasn't particularly convinced. but i was PARTICULARLY hopeful.

also, him being alive doesn't mean he hasn't had some sort of medical event, etc.

Got it all wrong. The internet hoped.

“There’s always been this wishful-thinking industry around Trump’s health and Trump’s legal woes,” said Mike Rothschild, a journalist and author who studies conspiracy movements. “There’s been this far-left influencer sphere that is constantly pumping up the idea that Trump is about to go to prison or the walls are closing in.”

Actually pretty sure the fucking assholes who kept chanting "tRuSt tHe pRoCeSs" were the centrist pro-business democrats and the people who thought Merrick Garland wasn't absolutely fucking this all up.

Further, him deserving to go to prison is why people were fucking hopeful that he would.

Anyway, at least the idea that can "trust the process" is finally dead and fucking buried where it should have been thirty god damned years ago.

But seriously, how long is the NYT gonna sanewash this shit and act like Trump isn't an abusive criminal who has successfully abused the system to put himself above the law? Now literally comparing the need to put a criminal like him behind bars and bar him from running for President to fringe conspiracy theories. What a crock of shit.

The Internet was convinced otherwise.

No we weren't. I've learned that there is no such thing as good news anymore.

I wasn’t convinced I was pushing a narrative.

I wasn't convinced and I don't think the internet was either. Listen, people are a bit desperate for some good news right now. However, I will admit that I was indeed shining and polishing my crab emoji. Just in case.

I don't think it's so much "believed" as "hoped."

Specifically, people hoped that the staggeringly dangerous and destructive deranged megalomaniac currently destroying the US had died, since at this point, in a world in which virtually none of the politicians, government officials or journalists who are actually in a position to do anything to at least slow the US's Trump-led sprint to neo-feudalism can be bothered to lift a finger, him dying is about the only hope we billions of ordinary prople have.

But of course, the NYT is at the forefront of the journalists who can't be bothered to actually demonstrate any principles or integrity, so all we get from them is this bit of sycophantic pabulum.

Not convinced, just feverishly hoping.

He probably had Covid.

Damn

What even is this article? It’s a rambling history of Trump’s medical woes as some sort of chastisement to “the internet” for hoping he had died? It’s clearly sort of the Times again sucking up to Trump, but in a weird way that doesn’t make sense?

You can't blame people for wanting to have hopes about good things.

Would be great if that changed.

Hope is a powerful thing.

I mean he sounded like shit when I heard him, and he was almost definitely speaking from a reclined position.

Maybe he was replaced with a robot body double...

I only believe his soul died long ago.