This is just wild seeing this after enduring so many so-called leftists and centrists constantly jabbering about how BidenSoOld for four years. Biden started normal; Taco is starting off in unhinged territory already and is not going to get any more sane with time.
Strangely enough, this is not the first time this month I’ve misread Weird AI as Weird AL
When did Weird Al start making tech spoof music videos instead of parody music videos?
You misread, I think. It’s a weird A1, like mayo flavored or something
Trump deletes Weird Al video? Goddammit I want my Weird Al video, even though I don’t know what song he’s parodying with a title like ”Shilling Magic Beds”…
In any case Weird Al is a national treasure, you can’t just delete his videos willy-nilly goddammit!!
/s
The ultimate power move now is for Yankovich to make a song shilling magic beds.
The man is a genius so i have no doubt he can do it.
that’s what I thought at first too.
I love how deep-facebook boomer mindrot is the official stance of my government! It only got better when the mindrot could generate itself at the low low price of boiling an ocean!
Fuck this reality man. Who can I talk to about cashing it in for a new one?
Weird Al rules!
Dude. I genuinely thought it was “Weird AL”. Was losing my mind trying to figure out what the fuck was happening
I’m so happy to know I’m not the only one thinking Weird Al got deleted lmao.
Impossible, he’s far too powerful
Impossible, he’s far too powerful
deleted by creator
You and me both! Probably a lot of us for that matter. What makes it worse is that the mental image of Weird AL making a short video singing about magic beds kinda tracks for me. I was just wondering what Trump was sharing it for. I know that man isn’t cool enough to have an appreciation for Weird AL
“Weird Al, or as I call him not so weird Al, because weird is such a nasty word. Nasty, nasty word. That’s what they called me. They called me weird, it was very unfair. I’m very Normal. But the media, and the left, the antifa, they called it wrong. They’re weird, everyone thinks so.”
-djt, probably
I was genuinely mad for a moment that this degenerate creep was dragging Weird Al into his nonsense.
“Medbeds” is a conspiracy that has spread extensively through far-right, QAnon circles. The idea is that the American government has access to futuristic medical pods that can cure any disease and even regrow limbs, but liberals have been hiding this information from the American public. One sect of QAnon believes the government is using a medbed to keep JFK alive.
Some companies have attempted to capitalize on the medbed conspiracy by promoting themselves as medbed-adjacent […] Tesla BioHealing sells a “MedBed Generator,” which is a metal canister that patients place under their actual bed, for $11,000.
In 2024, a Tesla BioHealing customer submitted a MAUDE Adverse Event Report to the FDA claiming the company’s MedBed Generator did nothing to heal his dying mother […]
I genuinely find it hard to understand how people who are this deeply stupid can even manage to keep themselves alive.
I know a Trump cultist who never learned to chew and swallow steak. He’s almost died choking on it multiple times.
He still eats it regularly. Sometimes by himself.
I feel like he could capitalize on a Random Acts of Steak forum. And so could we, eventually.
My roommate found a large dog on our front porch tonight. He turned his car around, aimed the headlights at it, then came up to the front of porch and took a picture of it to text me, BLOCKING ITS ONLY EXIT ROUTE.
I open the front door to see the shaking, scared dog ready to freak the fuck out and the roommate is getting out of his car to try and pet the cornered animal. I waved him off and kept the doors closed so it could feel safe and get away.
The more attention the dog got, the more violently it trembled. And my roommate just wants to pet the doggie.
My point is there are a lot of incredibly stupid people out there. Their stupidity will eventually kill them. It just hasn’t done so yet.
Not directly relevant, but: I live in a neighborhood that is not really great for walking since it has no sidewalks. It’s especially not great for walking at night since there are very few streetlights. Nevertheless many people walk here even after sunset, and the few people who carry flashlights have developed the strategy of shining the flashlight directly into the face of an approaching driver. It has apparently never occurred to them that blinding the driver of a two-ton vehicle heading straight at them is maybe not the wisest of ideas.
I suspect these are the same people that ride their bicycles against traffic, around blind turns, while wearing noise-canceling headphones.
Fair is fair for drivers blinding pedestrians with super brights.
Yeah, roommate sounds like a proper muppet. But what happened with the dog?
Nor how they can scrape together $11,000. But then again, some of the dumbest people around are billionaires and their special skill is “being shitty to others” so maybe it’s believeable enough.
Many of the at least older ones are liquidating 401ks and the like… or debt. Lots of people will take out stupid loans from bank or friends and family for the next “sure thing” great idea.
Basically the medical fraudsters who have been praying on Desperate people for decades latched on to the conspiracy movement because it was a very large mass of very credulous people
*preying on
Honestly, fear of death/aging/illness is an EXTREMELY powerful motivator. With a deep enough fear, you’ll override a lot of things like rationality. At some point, especially with a parent or loved one or yourself suffering from an incurable illness, especially a terminal illness, there’s a good chance you’ll try shotgunning solutions because it feels better than doing nothing.
Wait, why is Weird Al making videos about magic beds in the first place?
I call for a permanent kerning and specific stylization of the letter “I” so this issue is not further confused.
These are the dangers of sans-serif fonts.
I prefer calling it ‘a.i.’ because I’ll be damned if I’m going to give it capital letters.
Four characters feels like a lot of effort. I think I’d prefer to just not talk about it.
And I thought I was lazy. :) ‘ai’ works as well.
Steven Spielberg files suit in 3…2…
Just make serifs for the I standard, even with sans-serif fonts.
In this instance, just don’t capitalize the W in weird
Times are tough for parody artists
This was actually my first thought when I saw the original headline 😂🤣 I watched the Weird Al mockumentary just last week (weird af, but I liked it overall? Kinda jumped a shark or three towards the end)
read it three times and was wondering why Trump would censor Yankovic
The report then cuts to AI Trump speaking in direct, complete sentences inconsistent with the president’s normal speaking patterns.
lol
With low-effort crap posts like this (made even easier with GenAI) he is “recruiting” stupid people who believe anything that’s not from reputable sources (mainstream/science is boring and hard to understand, conspiracy myths are easy to "understand " and exciting) into his MAGA cult which is also consisting of right-wing extremists and “conservatives” who are easily dragged to the right and made into extremists as well.
The wealthiest entities in the economy are then allying with that cult and push more propaganda in the hopes of “recruiting” even more people into the cult.
The goal of these political and economic elites is to establish an autocracy without any painful regulations of the economy, so the goal is to get even richer at the cost of a functioning society and democracy. It’s the capitalism endgame - merge corporations with politics (going much further than previous lobbying and corruption), establish a fascist ruling class based on wealth and influence, and try to keep the population in line through lies and propaganda. They need stupids, crazies and extremists as supporters of this coup. This works best with right-wing crazies because they are the most gullible and easiest to manipulate. And by pushing propaganda on proprietary platforms, they can convert more people into the cult.
Inciting a culture war between the cult and the other part of the population protects the elites from a class war occurring. If the population is busy fighting with each other, the elites can sleep easy and continue to extract as much money as possible, for as long as possible.
Are his followers losing their medicaid soon? This must be the carrot they’re showing to still support him.
“Medbeds” is a conspiracy that has spread extensively through far-right, QAnon circles. The idea is that the American government has access to futuristic medical pods that can cure any disease and even regrow limbs, but liberals have been hiding this information from the American public. One sect of QAnon believes the government is using a medbed to keep JFK alive.
One sect of QAnon believes the government is using a medbed to keep JFK alive.
So not only do the “liberals” have magical medbeds but they’ve had them since 1963 and somehow managed to keep them secret for 62 years?
These are deeply stupid people we are talking about.
It’s why former Republican presidents only die during Democrat administrations. Like Reagan '04 and HW Bush '18.
The real question is why the fuck would they be using it to keep RFKjr alive of all people.
uhh, wrong Kennedy
Similar amount of working brain tissue though.
Oh my bad it was haha. Leaving it though cause it’s still funny.
Cult like behavior
You keep lying to the followers and the organization maintains its power as long as the lies flow and the followers keep believing in everything, no matter how untrue they may be.
They will all die believing in the lies.
I’m really starting to think many of them don’t believe the lies so much as just not having the intestinal fortitude to face the embarrassment of admitting they were wrong or easily duped. After so many of their prophecies’ expected due dates pass them by without coming to fruition, deep down they have to know the truth eventually - it’s the idea that they’ll be mocked mercilessly if they admit the truth that they’re afraid of.
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
That’s the reason why it’s so dangerous.
If they die believing the lies … to them, up to the moment of their death, they would have never been wrong.
We saw them doing this, literally, during Covid - “This whole Covid thing is a great big conspiracy! It’s just the flu/a cold…etc.”
I think we’ve all experienced this to one degree or another.
It’s why I’m so baffled by people who can’t recognize it in others.
Yeah, maybe you wouldn’t let it go so far. But the process is familiar.
Why is it easier to justify another person’s irrationality as something completely foreign to your human experience rather than something familiar?
For me, it’s so much easier to say “they’re just like me if I were a little stupider, more insecure, and much more proud.”
See, the problem with all of these insane conspiracy theories is: who would want to do that? Why would anyone do that for any reason? Especially considering that, if they went public with the technology, they could make, like, a kajillion dollars.
These people watch too many James Bond movies where the villain wants to destroy the world. I’m always like, “dude, you live on the world!“
That’s easy. The people who would hide this are the very control freaks who have already achieved extreme wealth. They are exactly the type that would want to keep something that powerful strictly for their own use, because becoming the richest, most powerful person on the planet would be inevitable once they are the sole immortal being.
Yeah, but that turns into more of an Altered Carbon situation, where it’s not really a secret, it’s just so expensive only the mega rich can afford it.
Everyone in Altered Carbon gets a stack, in the book they talk about how nobody wants to live that long except the rich people, who are broken inside and no longer human
Never read the book. The show is a bit different. From what I’ve come to understand, it was not an improvement.
Still, though, I think you get my point. The powerful and rich would want to capitalize and profit from this technology. They could keep it to themselves to the elites simply by making it un affordable to anyone else. Keeping it as a secret is counterintuitive to that goal.
Sounds like they watched Stargate and thought it was a documentary.
I guess they missed the part of how it takes away one’s soul with use.
So like, he saw the video, didn’t remember making it, and just thought “Shit, I did something amazing, people gotta know!”.
This has to be the first time someone was tricked into believing something about themselves by AI, right? “I don’t remember doing that, but there’s video so it must have happened”
i’m sure someone’s pulled a prank on a friend who was blackout drunk where they made an AI video of friend doing something stupid. Like eating an entire 5 gallon jar of pickles without chewing or idk, this isn’t really my type of prank.
eating an entire 5 gallon jar of pickles without chewing
Go on…
“bizarre” or a font with serifs would have saved us all some confusion.
Weird AI Slopovic
I’m quite sure it was on purpose for clicks.
It was very off putting to hear Trump speak in an adult mature way. Clearly terribly trained AI.
