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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago

Temu quality president.

[–] blave@lemmy.world 108 points 2 days ago (6 children)
[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] jve@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same joke but worse. Well done.

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[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 89 points 2 days ago (5 children)

For years, some on the extreme right have promoted the conspiracy theory that the U.S. military is in possession of technology — in the form of magic “med beds” — which can singlehandedly cure any disease and extend human life. The beds can supposedly even regrow missing limbs within minutes.

leaks show that the military really is in possession of such a device.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 41 points 2 days ago

The side effects of using that thing would explain how crazy some of the billionaire types have been getting of late I suppose...

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That’s the real reason he created the Space Force

Why does the Space Force have woodland camo if they aren’t going off world?

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[–] Bonifratz@sh.itjust.works 60 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Every American will receive a med bed card? So like, universal healthcare?

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

plus if it's good enough that's free surgery for trans people

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[–] notabot@piefed.social 20 points 2 days ago

Shh, don't distract him when he's starting to get the point. No matter how nuts he might be, if this plants the idea that the orange one supports healthcare for all in the minds of his followers, it might move some in the right direction.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Bonkers people do bonkers things.

Would you expect a sane output from someone who is about as mentally stable as The Joker.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

So this would essentially be the beds from Prometheus?

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)

FTFY

Trump ~~Posts an~~ Absolutely Bonkers ~~AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Disease~~

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No wonder Trump wants to remove any and all AI regulations, it makes it easier for him to grift people.

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Who benefits from flooding the public sphere with AI generated nonsense? Those who have power already.

[–] chiocciola@lemmy.cafe 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Ok, so was that video entirely AI and he saw it and posted it thinking maybe he was interviewed for it and forgot… or is that video real and he was actually interviewed and this was a real news clip?

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Fox News studio posted a statement, saying the clip was never aired on their channel. The entire news clip is AI, not just the part with Trump talking.

[–] chiocciola@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 day ago

I just think it’s ai voices over mostly real clips and obvious stock footage. If you make a cut every second of two no one can even tell that video doesn’t belong to the audio

But then, I have no interest in going framed by frame. I can see how this would fool someone as moronic as anyone to the right of left

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Far too coherent for it to have been real.

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Knowing the likes of Trump, it probably solves the problems of life in this way...

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Why would you put those vibes out into the world? Im not gonna be able to sleep for a week now...

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My grandmother actually believes that this "med bed" bullshit is real. It's not going to do anything.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not going to do anything.

I bet it will do one thing: Separate idiots from their money. There will inevitably be scammers who target the elderly, claiming that their medbed card was delayed because they owe back taxes. Now they need to go buy $5000 in Target gift cards, or else they’ll never be able to access their medbed.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Not just the elderly, there's a LOT of chronically and terminally ill people who fall for these scams because at some point, there's a lot of people who are willing to flail your arms and try anything, regardless of how dumb it sounds, rather than having to hear the doctors say "well we can try X for 3 weeks and see what we get out of it" for the 50th time.

[–] zululove@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Ok guys ngl I honestly believe their is a two tier tech system and billionaires have sci-fi level medical access to techniques that stretch lifespan to 120-170

[–] TechAnon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Why does the prez look like crap and his hand is rotting? Why do we see turtles in Congress freezing and needing a reboot?

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Except none of them have lived that long. They hype everything they do as The Next Big Thing, but none of it has been that in 20 years.

Smartwatches, VR/AR, crypto, Metaverse, AI, smart everything, IoT... There's gotta be a ton more. If those turds had a heal-everything box, they'd use them to make billions.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dunno, I've seen musks torso. That looks like a surgical fuck up to me but maybe he wanted to have the chest of a dumpster

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

I have no evidence to support this, but I think he took some poorly-researched HGH analogue, but didn't work out at all, so his bones got all fucky, his hair fell out, and he grew no muscle.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, no. None of this exists, nor will exist for at least decades to come, same as living beyond 120 years of age

[–] syreus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Ok guys ngl I honestly believe their is a two tier tech system"

Yes

"...and billionaires have sci-fi level medical access to techniques that stretch lifespan to 120-170"

No, but we are getting there. I think it's far more likely these billionaires will start building neural models of themselves so they can outlive their bodies. It will be the modern equivalent of an expensive portrait or statue. It will also be terrifying if left in charge of making decisions for large companies because pride and money.

[–] Cassanderer@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago

It would also be a cheap imitation, it will not be the immortality they are looking for, science is nowhere near this singularity they are dumping all of this money into.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

What a boring way to be a vampire. Show some originality, blood suckers!

[–] uss_entrepreneur@startrek.website 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Doolbs@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

He must have just watched it. Or one of his sycophants told him about it.

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So I take it this dipshit finally got around to watching Elysium? Surely his handlers should know by now that you shouldn't let Donny watch movies by himself after dark.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He didn't pick up on the theme of the commons defeating authoritarianism and only noticed the magic medical beds.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It’s like thinking Star Wars is all about cool glow stick fights. I mean, it is, but it’s about other stuff too.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 14 points 2 days ago

It's about pew, pew too.

Actually after Andor my Star Wars perspective has shifted. Any Star Wars from the epic to the small is about hope, and that anyone can contribute their part to change. Sometimes a person is a big part of that, sometimes just a small piece, but they're all important.

Wow, Trump wouldn't like that, would he? That is, if he could possibly pick up on that theme.

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[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Which version of med bed? The alien origin ones or the advanced earth civilization hidden under Mount Shasta?

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[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Awh poor Donnie wishes he wasn't a sick perverted fuck.

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So I've just decided that if the president of the United States can literally scam the dumbest people in the world out of money, it's carte blanche for me to do it as well. I'll return to morality if sanity ever returns to the world.

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 days ago

This is FANTASTIC NEWS! What's even More Fantastic is that Trump gave MORE Funding to Research and Medicine to make this A REALITY! I DO MY OWN RESEARCH!

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