post malone ergo propter malone: there is going to be backlash on this story in particular

there is going to be backlash on this story in particular

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

The Parkinson's angle in particular has been so fucking strange to me because it is very obviously the result of a game of telephone with "dementia -> alzheimer's -> parkinson's" because MUMBLING AND FORGETTING THINGS IS NOT WHAT FUCKING PARKINSON'S IS

Like someone in either a GOP or press group chat mixed up the two diseases and we now have to deal with all of this hot air because they've committed to it. It's so fucking weird!!

In fairness a common symptom (which my father had) is a weakening of the vocal cords. Seeing biden's stiffness and gait along with his voice primed me to credulity when i saw the nyt headline. but given the straightforward denials and the unmentioned legislative context, this is bs fuck the nyt

He also has spondylosis and arthritis plus peripheral neuropathy, which is the reported cause of his stiff gait

There damn well better be.

if I were Emily Baumgaertner i'd be looking up how COBRA works right now

that's a double diss because the national health reporter should already know how COBRA works, by the way

cf bsky.app/profile/josh...

"National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act" signed on July 2, 2024 (this is not mentioned in the NYT reporting)

the End Parkinson's Act couldn't possibly have anything to do with this

the backlash is the NYTimes is trash bsky.app/profile/john...

If I can refute the central insinuation of your article in five seconds by searching google, what you're doing is not journalism

The most obvious non-Biden explanation I've seen is that for the last year the administration has been pushing Parkinson's legislation, that was signed last week. Of course, if that or something like it *is* the explanation, it's quite possible it won't be believed.

'This bill is about hope’: President Biden signs End Parkinson’s Act into lawwww.fox13seattle.com A new bill signed into law by President Joe Biden offers a sense of relief to the nearly 1 million Americans living with Parkinson's disease.

I wonder, though: with eight visits to the White House in eight months, it's quite possible that records will show Biden wasn't even in DC for some of those times. Although Biden doesn't travel a huge amount, by President standards.

Biden definitely was out of town on the morning of March 28, 2024 bsky.app/profile/saba...

The NYT Parkinson's "scoop" is even worse than it seems from the headline, bc buried in paragraph 11 the reporters *know* Dr. Connard met with someone other than Biden, and on March 28, 2024 the President's Public Schedule shows Biden was in NYC the whole day

knew before i clicked peter baker would be on the byline

Who else would you call when you need a rat fucked but good?

why would peter baker vote when he can influence politics a million fold through his day job?

And the backlash will just make Sulz dig in deeper.

Seems to me that a lot of speculation about everyone going back to paying a lot of attention to the news (with eyeballs and money) is going to depend on there not being a substantial narrative of "The New York Times ratfucked the Democrats twice to give us Trump."

Agree. I started to quote it, and then screenshotted because I’m expecting them to delete

It's so slimey

bsky.app/profile/yabo...

New idea. You hire these people that can look into things and report on them. You can call them lookintoers. Ok, maybe that name needs a little work. They'll investigate while doing journalism. So, journastigate. Eh, we can workshop it.

Yeah... if it's it's something that I'd toss a black at a rando for, I sure as hell am gonna decide that's the point where I'm done having a major newspaper showing up on my feed. See ya, NYT. Or not.

*block. What the hell, brain? (on keyboard so I don't even get the autocorrect excuse)

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