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When Trump caught Covid I actually thought to myself that this is a soap opera plot from a parallel dimension and the writers had just jumped the shark.

taxicab 6y ago
The news actually feels like it's just messing with me now. We live in the timeline where Osama Bin Laden's QAnon conspiracy theorist neice went on Fox News to say that she is really an American at heart and to give Trump her endorsement. WHAT??? Looks like the writers decided to bring back a reference to two seasons ago. [1] https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/tucker-carlson-hosted-qanon-conspiracy-theorist-noor-bin-ladin-talk-about https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/tucker-...
- cblconfederate 6y ago
  Damn the plot is thickening
dudul 6y ago
I'm actually curious to understand why it was such a big deal. A fair amount of world leaders, ministers, representatives and all did get sick. Was this not mentioned in the news at all in the US?
- makomk 6y ago
  The US media's coverage of Covid-19 outside the US mostly seems to be focused on pushing the narrative that the US is uniquely failing at dealing with it due to Trump. Most of the time they don't actually lie to do this, but the facts they include are very selectively chosen. So for example Boris Johnson's Covid infection got a lot of attention since he's seen as a kind of Trump analogue, but I don't think others did so much. (There was a really... interesting progression in the NYT's coverage of the Covid-19 outbreak in Spain where they downplayed it as obviously less severe than say Florida, omitting the already much worse trajectory it was on, then when it finally and inevitably became too bad to ignore they turned that whole thing into an allegory for Trump's failings too.)
mensetmanusman 6y ago
That would have only been true had he also been attacked by murder hornets.

taxicab 6y ago

The news actually feels like it's just messing with me now. We live in the timeline where Osama Bin Laden's QAnon conspiracy theorist neice went on Fox News to say that she is really an American at heart and to give Trump her endorsement. WHAT??? Looks like the writers decided to bring back a reference to two seasons ago. [1] https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/tucker-carlson-hosted-qanon-conspiracy-theorist-noor-bin-ladin-talk-about https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/tucker-...

cblconfederate 6y ago
Damn the plot is thickening

dudul 6y ago

I'm actually curious to understand why it was such a big deal. A fair amount of world leaders, ministers, representatives and all did get sick. Was this not mentioned in the news at all in the US?

makomk 6y ago
The US media's coverage of Covid-19 outside the US mostly seems to be focused on pushing the narrative that the US is uniquely failing at dealing with it due to Trump. Most of the time they don't actually lie to do this, but the facts they include are very selectively chosen. So for example Boris Johnson's Covid infection got a lot of attention since he's seen as a kind of Trump analogue, but I don't think others did so much. (There was a really... interesting progression in the NYT's coverage of the Covid-19 outbreak in Spain where they downplayed it as obviously less severe than say Florida, omitting the already much worse trajectory it was on, then when it finally and inevitably became too bad to ignore they turned that whole thing into an allegory for Trump's failings too.)

mensetmanusman 6y ago

That would have only been true had he also been attacked by murder hornets.