Remember how the evil Dems were going to steal elections with AI videos? Instead, it’s time to play Piss Off Your Own Dying Base With Empty Promises (batteries and oxygen not included).
President Donald Trump shared a bizarre AI video to social media in which he’s seen promoting “med beds” — a far-right conspiracy involving a magical bed that can supposedly heal any sickness.
In a post to his Truth Social platform late Saturday night, Trump shared a phony, AI-generated Fox News clip — purportedly from Fox’s My View with Lara Trump — in which he’s seen rolling out this magic technology to hospitals nationwide. (UPDATE: Trump has now deleted the video.)
“Every American will soon receive their own medbed card,” AI Trump said. “With it, you’ll have guaranteed access to our new hospitals led by the top doctors in the nation, equipped with the most advanced technology in the world.”
Can it cure cankles?
Free healthcare in america in 2025:
This really puts some perspective on things. He’s clearly a goa’uld.
Kinsey was better, even as a goa’uld
is that what they told him cured the strokes. Lol.
What better accessory for your Trump Med Bed than a Mike Lindell MyPillow.
All you need for a restful thought-free MAGA night.I have as much interest in a MyPillow as a Vance MySofa. And for the same reason.
The dementia is really starting to show…
What next? It’s available at your local Sharper Image?
I had to look up whether they were still around. They were a slightly nerdier SkyMall for when you were on the ground, so I expected not. Apparently they’re now one of those sites where there’s always a coupon and you’d be an idiot to pay full price.
Setting aside Trump, I have no idea why people who can apparently be mostly reasonable about, say, cars subscribe to utterly batshit insane views about diet and health and buy into all kinds of snake oil.
I’m not saying that there’s no magical thinking with cars — “my magical fuel additive” or whatever — but I have seen more utterly insane stuff regarding what someone should eat or how to treat medical conditions than in most other areas.
It’s also not new. You can go back, and find people promoting all kinds of snake oil when it comes to health. Some of my favorites are the utterly crazy stuff that came out when public awareness of radiation was new, and it was being billed as a magic cure for everything.
I get that not everyone is a doctor or a dietician. But you’d think that any time you see someone promoting something as a fix for a wide, unrelated range of conditions, that it should be enough to raise red flags for someone, layman or no.
I think it’s macroscopy vs microscopy.
Food and nutrition and health is all “invisible” to you in a way that a car engine isn’t. To the average person, even hearing cellular functions explained sounds like magic, because it takes SO MUCH knowledge to get to the point where you can truly grok how a specific medicine works in the body.
That also explains why fuel additives are an area where that happens in cars. You can’t see the difference in e.g. AKI ratings in action. You can’t see summer vs winter fuel blend changes. So why isn’t it possible that this additive could do things you can’t see as well?
I think it’s because the science of diet and health has contradicted itself so many times, and has given so many people such bad advice, and has frankly been so unreliable and untrustworthy for so long, that people’s bullshit detectors are less well tuned.
Edit: thinking about it, there’s probably another aspect, linked to why so many people fall for obvious financial scams and obviously bogus “job offers”. It’s because they want to believe it’s real.
Money, like health, is something most people care about. Too good to be true promises about an easy way to health or wealth have a natural appeal, especially to people who don’t have health or wealth and are desperate to improve their lot. And when you really, really want to be healthy again, and science isn’t offering you an easy way to get healthy, it’s easy to convince yourself that horse dewormer will fix all your problems.
Compare that to other types of conspiratorial thinking, like Holocaust denial, or creation science, or flat earth beliefs. For most people, history and physics are of only academic interest. Most people don’t have an emotional commitment to the shape of the Earth. So if they think about it at all, they review what they know and what they’ve been taught without any particular bias and come to the obvious conclusion that the earth isn’t flat.
And when conspiracy theories go mainstream, it’s usually because a large number of people passionately want them to be true.
So it’s not just that the science of diet and health is particularly bad, even though it is. It’s that there’s a particularly large number of people who want an easy, quick solution to good health and turn their brains off when someone promises them what they want.
Even without the huge ag lobbying boards doing their things, the sheer healthiness of eggs has, I swear, swung back and forth at least four times since the '80s. Like a Miller Lite “tastes great” “less filling” mudfight in the middle of a club.
Death, is that the cure?
Shame on FOX for airing this crazy UNTRUTH
I’m not seeing any reports it aired. Just generated and posted by Trump for whatever nefarious reason. I’d buy “This is why it’s OK we’re cutting back on Medicare and Medicaid.” Magic
beansbeds.Now, this said, whoever’s behind the video was pretty brilliant, as they’re able to use the Streisand Effect in their own favour. Even though it wasn’t actually aired at the time, well, now it’s a “news” clip Fox can run over and over under fair use.
Jeezus
