Because I believe that Donald Trump is a terrible president and an even worse human being, several times a week I will ragegoogle something like 'Trump is a moron' or 'MAGA is code for Nazi'. I say these things not because I have great confidence in the Democrats or that I am a liberal...but in the end the various algorithms out there regularly put things into my news feed that likely they think I want to hear. If I was a climate change denier, they would fill my box with opinions that rising seas are good for real estate along the seashore ("It's a seller's market if there's a shrinking amount of oceanview property!") If I lived my life thinking that all people are stupid and I'd rather hang out with horses, I'd get ads for T-shirts that have majestic horses on them. But because my online profile is likely as filled with English soccer, 70s yacht rock backstories, technology gadgets and anti-Trump sentiment, I get offered a lot of anti-Trump news. Lately I've noticed there are three primary avenues.
1)The "Here's how Trump is destroying America and the World!" stories. I actually agree with many of these stories, even if not everything is as bad as they say. Not everything depends upon Trump, but it's important to know how he and his minions are destroying efforts for clean energy, equality, and Ameica's place in the world, among a thousand other evil things he is doing.
2)The "Trump's support is collapsing in the polls!" stories. These bug me a bit more, because almost always the 38% floor for Trump never seems to get crashed through. But continually we are told about polls that show that Trump's supporters are finally waking up (nope), that the GOP will lose Congress (not likely), that the Democrats are rallying around ___ (laughable). Nothing is changing for his acolytes, even as Trump's stupidity is on daily display for anybody paying attention.
3)In recent weeks I've started to see a handful of "Trump is dying!" stories. Like the polling numbers, I think that this is mostly wishful thinking, because I don't really think that Trump will die within the next few years. No matter how obese, frail, or demented he seems, he will receive the best care available within the medical world. This weekend one of the things that popped up was a wondering header that said, "Trump has no public appearances this weekend! Could he be receiving a life-saving treatment?" Doubtful...likely he's playing golf or plotting with advisors about taking away rights from somebody or planning some grift for his sons to take advantage of. I don't really buy that the bruises on his hands or his swollen ankles or his slurred speech really mean that death is immanent; such things are simply the way of life for many senior Americans who live for years like this. Modern medicine (something that costs the government a LOT of money!) means that people will live a long time with all sorts of ailments. Most seniors will spend the last decade of their life going from doctor to doctor as they seek to manage conditions that are products of genetics or age or lifestyle; the only difference with Trump is that he is in a position to have the best practitioners come to him. Maybe we might get lucky and he'll do more listening to quacks like RFK Jr ("Hey Mr. President, drink this raw milk and don't pay attention to doctors!"), but I doubt it. If anybody is going to hang on, it's him.
Maybe I need to change what I google for so that I will have a more balanced newsfeed. But maybe I'll be like most people today, blissfully believing whatever appears in front of me.
