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Comment by rsynnott

1 day ago

One assumes that Putin has gotten the ol' piss tape out of storage.

It makes no sense. Who cares about the supposed 'pee tape' at this point? If such a thing were released, it would only excite the Trump base more. Ordering sex workers to urinate on a bed that Obama slept in? I wouldn't put it past Trump and Musk to conjure something like that up on purpose.

Clearly Putin has something on Trump, but what could that possibly be? He owns most of the system and controls the rest.

  • Ah, but the tape, if it exists, might confirm Stormy Daniels' testimony about his naughty bits. He seems like exactly the sort of insecure weirdo for whom that would be a really, really big deal; remember the whole hand size thing?

  • > Clearly Putin has something on Trump

    Why does it have to be that Putin is holding something over Trump to force this behavior? Occam's razor would say Trump just agrees with Putin and wants to form an alliance with him. They're natural allies because they have a similar worldview.

    • There’s ’similar worldview’, and then there’s parroting Russian propaganda to the extent that even a few of the generally snivelingly loyal Republican legislators appear to be raising eyebrows. Like, it’s weird behaviour.

  • > Clearly Putin has something on Trump, but what could that possibly be?

    Maybe something Epstein related. Even Trump's base has people who want to shoot pedophiles.

    • They all went silent when all those trump+ivanka+epstein photos came out. I haven't seen a peep in weeks and it used to be constant drum beating.

      It was never very real anyway since they have no problem with people like Matt Gaetz or organizations like the Catholic Church.

      My worry is you've got it slightly wrong and trumps base actually has people who just want to shoot _SOMEONE_ and the brief pedo obsession was just a way to label who is ok to hurt that day. Trump is great for them since he constantly says intentionally othering things like "genetics make better people"/"his supporters have better genes" and "all immigrants are criminals sent here by other countries" and "your immigrant neighbors are eating your pets" and "trans men athletes just want to hurt women in sports".

      It literally doesn't matter - people brought guns to protests and even broke in and stormed the capitol trying to get to the senators. I don't think any of them are anywhere close to holding trump accountable for anything, including paving the way for Putin.