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Look at that table. And Trump ridiculed Biden for wearing a mask.
"You can be at the table or you can be on the menu."
“The metadata we located for some videos clearly shows that they were created by duplicating a single video file and then editing it. Whoever crafted the debunking video created the fake and debunked it at the same time.”
Don’t know why but this made me think of “double secret probation”…
I have read that the separation between him and others may also have to do with his state of mind; psychosis and paranoia brought on by COVID and/or steroids used for an illness that has been hidden from the public. The last while he’s become considerably bloated. It’s obvious in his face.
This is their passion. And it surely aligns with the Trump Wing of the GOP.
Or both!
Yes his face is like a moon. He’s been using fillers for a while to maintain the illusion of youth, and they haven’t been exactly subtle. But now there’s pretty clearly something else going on, and you’re right that it does look like steroids: there’s a whole raft of diseases that are treated with them – from arthritis to cancer, where they mitigate the inflammatory affects of chemotherapy. In Putin’s case, I vote for one that weakens the immune system so that he’s now totally paranoid about Covid. All the same, he supposedly waited half a year to get the Sputnik vaccine. Very weird.
But whether it’s steroids or he’s simply drifting into dementia, he has lost his mind.
Speaking of idiots spreading garbage for Putin, guess who else has been out there defending Vlad? None other than Glenn Fucking Greenwald.
And before you ask, yes, of course GFG blames the current US government for Putin’s actions against Ukraine.
Shocking, I know.
My theory is that all of the other chairs are rigged to tip backwards and dump the occupants into vats of acid, cremation chambers or metal chippers at the push of a button, but the engineering dates to the Soviet area so he has to sit that far from them to stay out of the splash zone.
I wondered about the bloating. Putin has grown pudgy.
I suspect your second photo may be a stock image. Could be wrong, but here is with Xi in February after he arrived for the Olympics.
It’s from Feb. 21, 2022, his pre-invasion address to the public.
And anybody’s gonna look puffier shot from below the chin. It’s a bad angle.
Fine. Everybody who’s been noticing the same thing is just wrong and you’re right. But note there’s no wattle at all in your shot and Putin’s looking down.
Let’s just drop it though. Or go on all day about if you like. Convince everyone in range. Whatever.
“have garnered thousands of likes and retweets on Twitter.”
Yeah, from RWNJs and KKKultists in the USA. Don’t believe for a second that this fact check fakery is targeted solely at the audience at home, etc. It lights up the Exalted Cyclops Carlson crowd and gives them tidbits to recirculate and latch onto.
