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        I don’t think the kompromat angle makes sense at this point. It may have once but now? What could they have that would matter? Americans voted for him. Full on piss tapes being leaked online wouldn’t make a difference.

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          Yup. We know he’s a rapist, a racist, and a criminal, and that didn’t lose him any support. What exactly could there be that would turn off his supporters? At this point I really don’t think anything would do it. They’d just say “well, on him it looks good!”

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            They could have Epstein videos of him fucking a thirteen year old and I’d bet there’d be a referendum on lowering age of consent to twelve. And I’m not sure it wouldn’t pass at this point.

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              Why would they lower the age of consent for people who (in their eyes) don’t have rights to begin with?

              People as things, that’s where it starts.

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          At this point, even if there were photos of him fucking 10 yo kids, he would just say it is ai and his voter base would not give a fuck.

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          Do you not know how vain this old shit diaper is?? The man colors his skin orange. To him, it most certainly makes a difference.

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            Does it though? Trump cares about his crowd sizes. He doesn’t give a fuck that people think he abuses women. He wears that shit like a badge of honor. He proclaims his corruption loudly and his fans think it makes him shrewd. I honestly can’t imagine what Putin has on him that would matter. Maybe a picture of his tiny… hands, but he’d just claim it was faked.

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              In the vernacular of these fucks, isn’t he cuck and a beta? For real, as dumb as it is, this is how they measure a man

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          Video of him with an underage blonde girl whom he calls “Ivanka”. She’s the one and only person he needs in his life. And she’ll abandon him.

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              Pedophilia gets higher support among republicans because it shows he can commit worse crimes and get away with it.

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              I feel like that would be different. Video evidence would remove a lot of plausible deniability.

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                Nobody would or could see the evidence as that would be very weird, immoral and also illegal. Very easy for the people denying it to just call it fake news or AI or whatever. It would require trust in the justice system which is pretty much non existent for MAGA followers, and more recently also eroded in the saner part of the population (albeit for better reasons).

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          I dunno. And of course the idea that there even is kompromat isn’t substantiated. But if there is, and you accept the idea that Trump has NPD, then the answer is not whether the voters would care, but that he would.

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        I really wonder what it could possibly be? Trump has every lawsuit imaginable waged against him, he has broken just about every law and proven himself to be a terrible human being. Even if Putin has video of him raping kids (which given Trumps connection to Epstein seems likely), I don’t know at this point it would matter? His followers would just say fake news or not even care. And he’s already elected as supreme leader, president for life, dictator or king, however you want to state it.

        Putin will probably have him killed if he doesn’t follow the plan, but I have a feeling Trump wants to follow the plan regardless.

        I think it was naive of us thinking there’s no way someone would be willingly become a cuck for Putin, he must have some leverage. But I feel at this point, Trump just really really wants to be Putins main bitch.

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          Putin will probably have him killed if he doesn’t follow the plan, but I have a feeling Trump wants to follow the plan regardless.

          Putin/Russia doesn’t have this power. I don’t get the conspiracy that Russia is controlling the US government, when the shitshow in Ukraine has shown the incompetence of Russia on a grand scale. If anything this power dynamic is the other way around. The US has way more power and resources to make Putin disappear than Russia does to do the opposite.

          I do think you are correct that Trump just want to be allies with Putin and follow his plan. I don’t think there is any coercion involved in this except maybe financial and diplomatic benefits to Trump. (for example, election interference/social media psyops)

          Basically, if Trump wasn’t on board with this and allowing this conspiracy to happen, then Russia wouldn’t even be relevant here.

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    Is this not very clearly a public demonstration of how absolutely pwned he is by Russia? Am I reading too much into this? This feels like the kind of thing that gets revealed with dramatic musical effects in a spy movie when someone looks over and sees a headline or a news clip.

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      They are trying to incite a civil war next.

      They will reveal they stole the election and a civil war will start.

      lying on a blue carpet with the U.S. seal, as though the editors of the men’s magazine knew something in advance about the future of their model."

      They are just confirming she’s their asset.

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        I assume the plantation text messages are part of them stoking a civil war.

        Wouldn’t surprise me if they hacked a bunch of voting machines.

        Still I’m really curious what trumps response will be.

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          Some Republican fuckwad will screenshot your comment and use that to argue that Democrats are not accepting the election results. I’m not disagreeing with you, just expressing my endless cynicism, newly expanded Wednesday morning

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          Not necessarily stoking a civil war, but raising tension among those they intend to attack. Textbook psyops.

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        They will reveal they stole the election and a civil war will start.

        That’s laughable that you think that would trigger a full blown civil war. Minor scuffle at most.

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        Fuck. If they lose control of Trump they’ll for sure skip to that step. I was thinking they’d spend the next few years working to keep him in power. But yeah if that option is out they only have finite time to execute.

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    “… why has the media chosen to scrutinize my celebration of the human form in a fashion photo shoot? Are we no longer able to appreciate the beauty of the human body?"

    Because this is pornography and project 2025 says distributors of porn should be imprisoned. Thats why you’re being scrutinized.

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    Trump will mistake it for flattery and not an overt insult, like his supporters thought Putin literally endorsed Kamala and didn’t use it as an opportunity to make a slight

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      You give Putin far less credit than he deserves. Trump knows. He was financed by Russia and is a puppet for the money. Flaunting Milania sends a message he cannot retaliate.

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    How is this not a bigger story?

    This is Russia just taunting the US that he is basically the US soon to be commander in chief’s proverbial daddy.

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    But weren’t those like professional shots or something for some magazine or whatever?

    Kind of defeats the whole owned factor when everyone has already seen them.

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        Which Is so strange to me. If Trump gets his way with the dictatorships, if that threatened him that much, he could wipe Russia off the map. We already publicly know they have a paper army, and we know Russia never had nearly the number of nukes they claimed, how could anyone who becomes a dictator with the US military be afraid of anything but people close enough to him to kill him?

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          This may surprise you but they don’t really need as many nukes as Russia claims to have on paper. As long as they have enough that work, or hell, even just one, MAD is in play.

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          Russia probably still has enough nukes for MAD. And it’s not likely China would tolerate an attack on Russia.