medbed alert! elderly golfer's brain has gone fuckity-bye
lets suppose that President Joe Biden, in the middle of the night, had posted to social media an AI-generated deep-faked imaginary news report of himself, proudly announcing that every American would now have access to a non-existent medical device that would de-age them, heal them, and re-grow the shit out of their missing limbs.
you know exactly what would have happened next: the entire world would demanded to know what the fuck is wrong with Joe Biden? the press would have been screaming for an explanation, and rightfully so. Comer Fudd would have stepped on every rake in a mad dash to convene a hearing. dust off them photos of Hunter Bidens freakishly-oversized trouser-hog, Marge. wes-a havin us a good-ol an impeachment party.
world leaders would have called for an obviously-impaired Biden to step down. so would Republicans. so would Democrats.
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you know where Im going with this: on Saturday night, Donny Convict did just that: he posted a fake video of a fake Donny making a fake announcement about a fake medical device.
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/elderly-golfers-brain-has-gone-fuckity


IronLionZion
(50,017 posts)Dude knows it's fake, AI generated BS, but he chose to share it on his official account.
Escape
(290 posts)that 98% of his MAGA supporters are dumb enough to believe it.
EarthAbides
(375 posts)And just how much will a medbed card cost? And just when will a medbed hospital be built? And, where? Inquiring minds want to know...
Picaro
(2,199 posts)Because the concept of med beds comes from sci-fi.
In Larry Nivens Known Space series (which includes Ringworld) there are autodocs that are incredibly sophisticated and capable handling almost anything that you can think of from a medical standpoint, including transplants, limb replacements, burn therapy etc.
The concept has been out there for quite a while, and I dont think that the auto doc is unique to Larry Nivens work.
But the problem is is that they dont exist. At least not today.
LetMyPeopleVote
(170,588 posts)Someone used AI to create a fake Fox News segment that showed the president touting magical beds to the public. So why did he promote it?
Someone used AI to create a fake Fox News segment featuring Trump touting magical âMedBedâ technology. He then used to his platform to amplify the nonsensical pseudoscience.
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-09-29T18:39:10.323Z
Maybe nowâs a good time to renew the whole âcognitive declineâ conversation? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-medbed-pseudoscience-rcna234487
One day later, he helped introduce the public to the MedBed idea. Politico reported:
Yesterday on Truth Social, the president of the United States shared a video purporting to be a segment on Fox News (it wasnt) in which an A.I.-generated, deep-faked version of himself sat in the White House and promised that every American will soon receive their own MedBed card that will grant them access to new MedBed hospitals.
In all candor, Ill confess that Id never heard anything about this before the weekend, but evidently, there are fringe conspiracy theorists who believe there are magical, futuristic beds that can cure every disease, regrow missing limbs and even reverse the human aging process.
This is, of course, quite bonkers, though as the Politico report went on to note, An offshoot of MedBed believers are QAnon devotees who insist the non-existent technology is being used to secretly keep John F. Kennedy Jr. alive......
Incidents like these are not uncommon. Indeed, Democrats tried to make them a campaign issue ahead of Election Day 2024. In the races closing weeks, for example, Trump told a 12-minute story about Arnold Palmers genitalia, which came just days after the Republican decided to stop taking questions at a town hall event and instead swayed to music for 39 minutes.
A year later, Trump has promoted a medbed video for reasons that have not yet been explained.
As USA Todays Rex Huppke summarized, after Trump twice suggested he was headed to Russia when he was actually going to Alaska, Thats the sort of thing you hear before having to make a difficult decision about grandpas future. Huppke similarly recently described the president as being in obvious mental decline.