Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Sunday announced, after weeks of speculation, that he had a fall last month that landed him in the hospital.
A few years ago, I would have dismissed this type of thing as tinfoilhattery, but hear me out.
Don’t you think the way the newspaper is incorporated into the shot is odd? The positioning is strange – like it doesn’t quite belong with its surroundings.
Well, what if someone took an old photo and used AI to add today’s newspaper in at the bottom of the frame? When you zoom in on the newspaper headline, it looks like gibberish.
Could it be compression artifacts? Maybe. But even then, the shape of the letters looks very odd. Doesn’t even look like English.
If no stronger evidence materializes, I reckon this is a fake intended to buy some time.
Look at the blurry area all around the end of the index(?) finger, like a sloppy photoshop edit inserting the newspaper. The picture could have been taken at any time; he’s had several health events with hospital visits. On a more conspiracy-minded note, he may have pre-posed a bunch of photos for various situations.
Maybe McConnell wouldn’t have done that, but they’ve probably made all kinds of photos of trump in lots of different scenarios to be used if needed. Authoritarian governments do that kind of thing. Look at Iran pretending the new Ayatollah is alive and well, even though he’s never been seen since the initial attack, not even to attend his father’s funeral.
Seriously, I can of course have no idea what’s going on, but it’s fun/interesting to speculate. They’ve done so many dystopian things and lied so much and so blatantly, these ideas are actually pretty plausible.
Normally I would also call the conspiracy stuff silly. But so often now the Trump administration has done the stupidest things to buy “just two weeks” as if expecting some undefined miracle to save them, then when it doesn’t just doubling down again and again. I could imagine them doing this.
Just going to add for conspiracy enthusiasts that the paper in the photo is from the Washington Post. A paper owned by Republican devotee billionaire with their own AI company and an army of developers with ample digital media experience, Jeff Bezos. Even if Bezos was not directly involved in creating a deep fake, it’s not unreasonable to suspect that he provided an advanced copy of that page of the paper for others to do whatever they wanted. 🤔
A few years ago, I would have dismissed this type of thing as tinfoilhattery, but hear me out.
Don’t you think the way the newspaper is incorporated into the shot is odd? The positioning is strange – like it doesn’t quite belong with its surroundings.
Well, what if someone took an old photo and used AI to add today’s newspaper in at the bottom of the frame? When you zoom in on the newspaper headline, it looks like gibberish.
Could it be compression artifacts? Maybe. But even then, the shape of the letters looks very odd. Doesn’t even look like English.
If no stronger evidence materializes, I reckon this is a fake intended to buy some time.
I thought the same at first and looked up the Sunday copy, to me it does look like artifacting.
https://x.com/ScottNover/status/2076482114522866169
The area around the index finger is really odd yeah
Look at the blurry area all around the end of the index(?) finger, like a sloppy photoshop edit inserting the newspaper. The picture could have been taken at any time; he’s had several health events with hospital visits. On a more conspiracy-minded note, he may have pre-posed a bunch of photos for various situations.
Maybe McConnell wouldn’t have done that, but they’ve probably made all kinds of photos of trump in lots of different scenarios to be used if needed. Authoritarian governments do that kind of thing. Look at Iran pretending the new Ayatollah is alive and well, even though he’s never been seen since the initial attack, not even to attend his father’s funeral.
Seriously, I can of course have no idea what’s going on, but it’s fun/interesting to speculate. They’ve done so many dystopian things and lied so much and so blatantly, these ideas are actually pretty plausible.
Normally I would also call the conspiracy stuff silly. But so often now the Trump administration has done the stupidest things to buy “just two weeks” as if expecting some undefined miracle to save them, then when it doesn’t just doubling down again and again. I could imagine them doing this.
Just going to add for conspiracy enthusiasts that the paper in the photo is from the Washington Post. A paper owned by Republican devotee billionaire with their own AI company and an army of developers with ample digital media experience, Jeff Bezos. Even if Bezos was not directly involved in creating a deep fake, it’s not unreasonable to suspect that he provided an advanced copy of that page of the paper for others to do whatever they wanted. 🤔
Dude the post is owned by Bezos
Edit: just to be clear though the paper in the photo looks very suspicious
Curses! I got the wrong billionaire. Thanks. Let me correct my conspiracy theory.
Kinda weird that the only change I had to make was the name.
his smile and glasses look ‘edited’
He also appears to be in suspiciously ruddy health for an 84-year-old man who’s allegedly been at death’s door for weeks. I don’t buy it.