WASHINGTON: Vicious rumors about President Joe Biden’s “terminal sickness” “imminent demise” and a “White Home coup” and racist dogwhistles surrounding Kamala Harris’ life and profession flowed via the sewers of social media on Tuesday as MAGA maniacs went into full meltdown mode following an unexpectedly easy transition within the Democratic Occasion.With hashtags corresponding to #whereisjoe and #dumbasarock, Trump supporters rained abuse on his opponents, going as far as as to assert Democratic again room operatives had orchestrated a “palace coup” by blackmailing Biden into bowing out of the Presidential race.Laura Loomer, one such supporter patronized and praised by Trump, claimed Biden is “terminally ailing and unable to carry out his duties” and “closing preparations are being made for him, and “quickly we could have President @KamalaHarris because the forty seventh President.”Such insights had been apparently based mostly on Biden not being seen in public for 5 days (he’s at his seaside dwelling recovering from Covid). A slow-moving Biden getting right into a limo to move again to the White Home fueled additional rumors about his well being.However in an announcement, Biden mentioned he would tackle the nation from the Oval Workplace at 8 pm on Wednesday, “on what lies forward, and the way I’ll end the job for the American folks.”Such is the unvarnished ugliness of the MAGA maggots, as they’re referred to in some liberal circles, that they even prematurely killed off former President Jimmy Carter, who’s 99 and in hospice care. A pretend letter asserting his demise made its manner swiftly via MAGA circles on social media earlier than it was debunked. Poisonous MAGA trolls additionally continued to assault Kamala Harris with pretend narratives on X, now owned by Trump supporter Elon Musk, together with posting digitally altered pictures exhibiting intercourse predator Jeffery Epstein’s face is tremendous imposed on the face of her husband Douglas Emhoff.A few of the right-wing rage is tacitly inspired by Trump himself along with his vitriolic and sexist assaults on Kamala. Trump’s operating mate JD Vance has additionally taken the cue, fueling rumors about an impending White Home coup by telling Fox Information “If Joe Biden cannot run for president, he cannot function president.” Within the MAGA narrative, Democratic operatives will invoke Article 25 to exchange Biden with Kamala Harris in a “comfortable coup” to make her the forty seventh President even earlier than the elections. The MAGA meltdown is sort of inexplicable contemplating most polls performed after Biden ceded the nomination to Kamala present Trump main her by two to 5 factors. Evidently, the prospect of Trump being challenged by a liberal lady, and a brown one at that, has introduced out the worst in them.
