I don't think it's too far fetched at all to entertain the idea that Biden didn't catch COVID, that the story was fabricated to allow a clean transition to a new candidate. The magnitude of lie and manipulation isn't shit relative their other tactics.
If one assumes all politicians are selfish, evil liars until proven otherwise and understands the processes of the system then one can often predict the future. And, most everyone will hate them for it until they're dead.
Every word out of the farting orange clown's mouth is a lie and your panties are in a bunch over whether or not Biden has/had COVID? The guy lied for 4 god damned years about an election being stolen. You're worried about the reason he dropped out of a race that everyone said he was too old for in the first place so he could transition the job smoothly? Lol.
The magnitude of the lie? Hahahah. Jesus.
Dude, you really gotta take a step back and rethink your life and get some perspective. You're gonna be one of those "hustlers"/"go-hards" that works 40 years for the same company at the same position without taking a sick day or vacation day. When you retire instead of a bonus or lifetime recognition award they're gonna give you the same company branded coffee mug and lens cleaner rag they give out at trade shows.
Spot on - those lense cleaner rags aren’t going to give themselves away.
This is called a red herring.
What you are doing is a red herring. I assume because you have no rebuttal.
Why do people love conspiratorial thinking so much? Do you know how many people would have to be in on this? And how many you'd have to trust not to blab? And how hard it would be for them to keep a huge secret? Even if you were right about predicting the future (and you're not), someone would have to gamble on all of this. You ever notice how with very few exceptions crazy shit like this doesn't fail and come out - which statistically should happen all the fucking time unless everyone is supremely competent.
Sorry, friend, but no this is completely far fetched and if you'd ever worked for the government you'd fall over laughing at the idea. If anyone was this good, they sure as hell don't work for the government.
Human minds evolved to spot patterns. This was very useful for identifying predators and prey back in the savannas of Africa.
Now people can put a pizza in the oven and use that powerful pattern matching to imagine incredibly stupid bullshit like this guys take above.
Why do people love conspiratorial thinking so much?
Because the well reasoned ones are often proven true in a few decades. During Trump we had truth in months. But, typically the President can follow the script.
Do you know how many people would have to be in on this?
Four: controller, media content, doctor, and spouse.
Do you know how easy it is to deceive the masses? Neolibs aren't nearly as far ahead of the MAGA cult as they like to believe.
Covid was never even part of the conversation. No one cared. You'd think someone who could mastermind this brilliant plan could also predict no one would fucking care.
It's not some brilliant plan. It's really fucking simple: Provide a dignified excuse to break tradition and break the opposing narrative. The dignity of the Office must be preserved.
I once quit working for the feds as a data analyst to be a subcontractor. Then, as soon as I had another anchor client, I kicked them to the curb mid-project.
.dev? You've disposable income. Ante up, then.
It's not some brilliant plan
It's not a plan at all. It's some nonsense a couple idiots online dreamed up.
Biden didn't mention COVID when he withdrew.
.dev? You've disposable income. Ante up, then.
I'm in the Midwest, not Silicon Valley, and I've been out of work for four months. My retirement savings is all but gone. I'm not in a position to ante up, but if you have any leads on a lead/senior Java (or anyone willing to give me a chance on something else) dev position believe me I'm all fucking ears.
After I got good at one thing I got good at another. My work situation got much better as soon as I brought those two things together. It took three to have control over which projects I worked on.
But, right now, none of that matters. You can't invest into five or six years from now while you're worried about tomorrow.
I don't have a lead and I'm not sure how I can help. But, if you've an idea of how I can assist, now or in the future, HMU.
I appreciate that, genuinely. I'll be fine. I'll find something. I'm working in picking up AWS now. Probably have to get better at a front end framework. I haven't done front end since Bootstrap was a thing, other than code reviews.
Because the well reasoned ones are often proven true in a few decades
Ok, but what about this one?
Its also not too far fetched for him to catch covid. I've caught it twice in the last 12 months despite boosters and meeting much less people and being responsible. For me, it was a sniffle, for him probably a good deal worse and he might have realise his physical fitness is worse than he thought, especially after the debate and the reaction to it. Nothing like some illness to show us were not infallible, even when potus.
Its also not too far fetched for him to catch covid.
I agree. My point is that humans greatly overestimate that which favors themselves. We don't know the truth. We may never. And, the masses are severely underestimating the probability that it's one big lie.
It's not that I don't care about you personally. But, your personal anecdote is far from the data required to back your claim. I'm not asking you to dig up data. I already know the media isn't reporting the epidemic anymore. It just doesn't make much sense to support your statement in that way.
I think the better question is: Why does it MATTER if it was a lie or not? Who exactly got harmed if Biden needed an excuse to back out to save his own ego? Whether Biden actually had Covid or not changes almost nothing
It matters to them and others like them because if Biden and the Democratic party were lying about Biden having Covid it's a really lame soundbite Maga turds can use to rationalize all of the hypocritical lies and nonsense Rebublicans spout whenever they open their mouths.
Even though deep down they know, they can't admit it to themselves because their entire personality hinges on being Maga (as you see with all of the tacky shit they wear and buy to make their homes a joke) and if they accept the reality that Trump and his cultists are pieces of shit it means they are pieces of shit, and that's an even harder pill to swallow than the fact Trump attempted a coup.
"Trump lied about being involved with Project 2025? Oh yeah? Well Biden lied about being sick!!!"
Because being involved with destroying democracy and making it possible for a lot of people to die by Isreali-style genocide is the same as lying about having a cold, even if Biden was lying.
What's next? Taking multiple weeks of time off from performing Presidential duties running America multiple times to go play golf?
Oh, that was Trump.
Our government lies to us regularly. But, the people won't even accept the possibility of a small one such as this. They've got to walk before they can run.
And those of you focussing on whether or not covid was an excuse/lie are on the extreme other end of the isle when the details of whether or not he lied about Covid make absolutely ZERO difference on the current situation. People in power lie, holy shit, life shattering revelation there!
So, the tactics you decided to go with were repetition and minimization? At least do this stupid thing well. Learn your logical fallacies and make more purposeful use of them.
Lmao username checks out I guess
This is projection.
My personal anecdote was not proof. It was letting you know that its common without data.
I dont thinknit was a lie. If it was, it was a pretty pointless one.
Youre clutching at straws and when you are askibgbfor evidence, but not asking, while spouting conspiracy theories, you don't make a good argument for anything.
I appreciate that you responded eight days later.
Federation issues it seems. I am getting your response now, another 7 days later.
A week delay makes meaningful participation impossible. As I'm on .world, my best guess is that a solution is best initiated by your instance's moderators. If you've not already then you should find the means to report.
The problem is world, I understand. Its too full. So its slow to federate with all others.
Thanks, but I prefer the concept of distribution, so happy to converse with all the other instances rather than just world.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev to 
I don't think it's too far fetched at all to entertain the idea that Biden didn't catch COVID, that the story was fabricated to allow a clean transition to a new candidate. The magnitude of lie and manipulation isn't shit relative their other tactics.
If one assumes all politicians are selfish, evil liars until proven otherwise and understands the processes of the system then one can often predict the future. And, most everyone will hate them for it until they're dead.
Every word out of the farting orange clown's mouth is a lie and your panties are in a bunch over whether or not Biden has/had COVID? The guy lied for 4 god damned years about an election being stolen. You're worried about the reason he dropped out of a race that everyone said he was too old for in the first place so he could transition the job smoothly? Lol.
The magnitude of the lie? Hahahah. Jesus.
Dude, you really gotta take a step back and rethink your life and get some perspective. You're gonna be one of those "hustlers"/"go-hards" that works 40 years for the same company at the same position without taking a sick day or vacation day. When you retire instead of a bonus or lifetime recognition award they're gonna give you the same company branded coffee mug and lens cleaner rag they give out at trade shows.
Spot on - those lense cleaner rags aren’t going to give themselves away.
This is called a red herring.
What you are doing is a red herring. I assume because you have no rebuttal.
This is called projection.
Can't wait for gaslighting!
He totally went there elsewhere in this thread 😂
Username checks out.
Why do people love conspiratorial thinking so much? Do you know how many people would have to be in on this? And how many you'd have to trust not to blab? And how hard it would be for them to keep a huge secret? Even if you were right about predicting the future (and you're not), someone would have to gamble on all of this. You ever notice how with very few exceptions crazy shit like this doesn't fail and come out - which statistically should happen all the fucking time unless everyone is supremely competent.
Sorry, friend, but no this is completely far fetched and if you'd ever worked for the government you'd fall over laughing at the idea. If anyone was this good, they sure as hell don't work for the government.
Human minds evolved to spot patterns. This was very useful for identifying predators and prey back in the savannas of Africa.
Now people can put a pizza in the oven and use that powerful pattern matching to imagine incredibly stupid bullshit like this guys take above.
Because the well reasoned ones are often proven true in a few decades. During Trump we had truth in months. But, typically the President can follow the script.
Four: controller, media content, doctor, and spouse.
Do you know how easy it is to deceive the masses? Neolibs aren't nearly as far ahead of the MAGA cult as they like to believe.
Covid was never even part of the conversation. No one cared. You'd think someone who could mastermind this brilliant plan could also predict no one would fucking care.
It's not some brilliant plan. It's really fucking simple: Provide a dignified excuse to break tradition and break the opposing narrative. The dignity of the Office must be preserved.
I once quit working for the feds as a data analyst to be a subcontractor. Then, as soon as I had another anchor client, I kicked them to the curb mid-project.
.dev? You've disposable income. Ante up, then.
It's not a plan at all. It's some nonsense a couple idiots online dreamed up.
Biden didn't mention COVID when he withdrew.
I'm in the Midwest, not Silicon Valley, and I've been out of work for four months. My retirement savings is all but gone. I'm not in a position to ante up, but if you have any leads on a lead/senior Java (or anyone willing to give me a chance on something else) dev position believe me I'm all fucking ears.
After I got good at one thing I got good at another. My work situation got much better as soon as I brought those two things together. It took three to have control over which projects I worked on.
But, right now, none of that matters. You can't invest into five or six years from now while you're worried about tomorrow.
I don't have a lead and I'm not sure how I can help. But, if you've an idea of how I can assist, now or in the future, HMU.
I appreciate that, genuinely. I'll be fine. I'll find something. I'm working in picking up AWS now. Probably have to get better at a front end framework. I haven't done front end since Bootstrap was a thing, other than code reviews.
Ok, but what about this one?
Its also not too far fetched for him to catch covid. I've caught it twice in the last 12 months despite boosters and meeting much less people and being responsible. For me, it was a sniffle, for him probably a good deal worse and he might have realise his physical fitness is worse than he thought, especially after the debate and the reaction to it. Nothing like some illness to show us were not infallible, even when potus.
I agree. My point is that humans greatly overestimate that which favors themselves. We don't know the truth. We may never. And, the masses are severely underestimating the probability that it's one big lie.
It's not that I don't care about you personally. But, your personal anecdote is far from the data required to back your claim. I'm not asking you to dig up data. I already know the media isn't reporting the epidemic anymore. It just doesn't make much sense to support your statement in that way.
I think the better question is: Why does it MATTER if it was a lie or not? Who exactly got harmed if Biden needed an excuse to back out to save his own ego? Whether Biden actually had Covid or not changes almost nothing
It matters to them and others like them because if Biden and the Democratic party were lying about Biden having Covid it's a really lame soundbite Maga turds can use to rationalize all of the hypocritical lies and nonsense Rebublicans spout whenever they open their mouths.
Even though deep down they know, they can't admit it to themselves because their entire personality hinges on being Maga (as you see with all of the tacky shit they wear and buy to make their homes a joke) and if they accept the reality that Trump and his cultists are pieces of shit it means they are pieces of shit, and that's an even harder pill to swallow than the fact Trump attempted a coup.
"Trump lied about being involved with Project 2025? Oh yeah? Well Biden lied about being sick!!!"
Because being involved with destroying democracy and making it possible for a lot of people to die by Isreali-style genocide is the same as lying about having a cold, even if Biden was lying.
What's next? Taking multiple weeks of time off from performing Presidential duties running America multiple times to go play golf?
Oh, that was Trump.
Our government lies to us regularly. But, the people won't even accept the possibility of a small one such as this. They've got to walk before they can run.
And those of you focussing on whether or not covid was an excuse/lie are on the extreme other end of the isle when the details of whether or not he lied about Covid make absolutely ZERO difference on the current situation. People in power lie, holy shit, life shattering revelation there!
So, the tactics you decided to go with were repetition and minimization? At least do this stupid thing well. Learn your logical fallacies and make more purposeful use of them.
Lmao username checks out I guess
This is projection.
My personal anecdote was not proof. It was letting you know that its common without data.
I dont thinknit was a lie. If it was, it was a pretty pointless one.
Youre clutching at straws and when you are askibgbfor evidence, but not asking, while spouting conspiracy theories, you don't make a good argument for anything.
I appreciate that you responded eight days later.
Federation issues it seems. I am getting your response now, another 7 days later.
A week delay makes meaningful participation impossible. As I'm on .world, my best guess is that a solution is best initiated by your instance's moderators. If you've not already then you should find the means to report.
The problem is world, I understand. Its too full. So its slow to federate with all others.
Thanks, but I prefer the concept of distribution, so happy to converse with all the other instances rather than just world.
The broader public don't care. Biden could have dropped out because his ice cream was too cold and people would be cool with it.
They'd hated the idea of him stepping down. Now they love it.
They care. And, it's about good and wholesome things. But, they haven't yet reasoned out how effectively act upon it.
Bullshit.
This is called gaslighting.
Everybody had been calling for him to step down, so it’s you attempting to gaslight.
Don't care, Biden's out.
^ bruh hasn’t heard that trump already picked a running mate.