Is Donald J Trump a psychopath?

Other than that it’s flawless. The clues about his outfit and the rug color, which were also possible notes of discrepancy, weren’t convincing to me. I think he just took off his tie and jacket.

Ashley Feinberg is a great reporter btw.

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This is the water,
and this is the well.
Drink full and descend."

Yeah also the video is terrifying and lynchian

As is trump himself to be fair

Lynchian (however worn out) def applies here.

He is, to rephrase what Jimmy Breslin said about Giuliani, a little man in search of his own death squad.

From NBC News about that Trump appearance before the staff of the UN Amb.

"A US official and another person briefed on the meeting by multiple people in attendance confirms the authenticity of the LA Times audio and what was said by Trump..."

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 26, 2019

"...this morning. The person briefed said that many of the diplomats in the room took particular offense because there were children in the audience and it was supposed to be a family-friendly event..."

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 26, 2019

"Instead, the kids there saw Trump talking ominously about treason and spies and how we need to be rougher on people."

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 26, 2019

an unsentimental education

Traumatizing children is all in a day's work for our president. Look at his own kids.

didn't his speech to the Boy Scouts include a line about the sex n' coke boat parties he used to go to

also didn't he tell a 7-year old "you don't still believe in Santa do you?" over Christmastime

I'd feel bad for Barron but somehow I doubt Trump could pick him out of a lineup

re: pee tape the renovation seems to close the case but both of these are pretty dumb

“The fact that his torso is completely motionless is a bit of a red flag that they purposely had an actor sit there motionless to easily composite a head back on"

excuse me have you seen the president before?

“filming a handheld video of another video playing on a screen absolutely destroys the quality, and is exactly the kind of thing you’d do to intentionally obscure detail and sell a fake.”

it's also exactly what asldkhfbldb oh nm

He’s a human obscenity

I need to look more carefully to see how different the renovations are. If it’s just the bed facing the wring way, that’s not necessarily a dealbreaker. The hotel could have been playing with the decor—moving things around as they planned the next renovation. These 18k suites aren’t occupied every night.

I think it could still be real.

The body language of the guy in the video seemed like Trump to me. Whoever made this made a real effort to get the details right.

man you are a trip

All I’m saying is I accept the conclusions of Ashley Feinberg. It’s likely not real. But it’s a weirdly convincing fake.

lol that is not all you are saying but whatev

yeah that's a much more realistic video than what I expected to flow out. Good job, deep state!

It's not convincing.

all we are saying is give peetape a chance

i thought it was likely that some fake pee tapes would get made, and this is likely one of them. really well done though. probably shot in the same hotel.

It appears that there’s a single soft white source directly above our subjects, somewhere on the ceiling between 45 and the buttocks,”

lol that is not all you are saying but whatev

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, September 26, 2019 5:08 PM bookmarkflaglink

All that he's saying... is give pee a chance

I thought there was always the thought that the original peetape could be a fake itself and mainly a commonly shared hope taht there was a real genuinely recorded tape that would be in circulation at some unspecified point in the future.
THough not sure if somebody would make a fake and not circulate it shortly afterwards i.e. 2016ish though it has always been something that was supposed to exist so that they had something to dangle just out of t's reach.

JUst realised this week that the trip that the peetape was supposed to be made on was 2013. Thought it was thought to be later.

What was that quote from the Watergate era about a steady "drip, drip, drip" of new revelations?

man you are a trip

'treeship's peetrip'. limited release soon.

Ok new theory: Team Trump created a deepfake themselves, so as to sow disinformation and doubt if the real tape ever surfaces. If there are multiple tapes in circulation no one will be able to say which is real.

Sort of an "I am Splurtacus" situation.

eesh trip

that’s basically what ashley feinberg’s slate article proposes xp

Yeah. The story is—the fake was weirdly good. They even filmed it in the same hotel room.

Sort of an "I am Splurtacus" situation.

Not Spartapiss?

Ok new theory: Team Trump created a deepfake themselves, so as to sow disinformation and doubt if the real tape ever surfaces. If there are multiple tapes in circulation no one will be able to say which is real.

do we really think they're smart enough to do this? have they been able to lie convincingly about anything?

I think this was made in 2016 by the russian government and that this is the tape steele was told about. All the russiagate nerds used to talk about how Putin would make fake “kompramat” all the time.

My intuition suggested that the tape was made by Team Trump themselves, but I was too embarrassed at the extent of my conspiracy theorizing to feel comfortable about expressing it here.

It might seem to make zero sense, except for this reason: the issue with Peetape was less that "Donald Trump might be into piss stuff" and more that "Putin has leverage here"; getting a fake tape out to non-credible sources would obfuscate the situation significantly and also remove any "Putin has leverage" narrative.

getting a fake tape out to non-credible sources would obfuscate the situation significantly and also remove any "Putin has leverage" narrative.

Evidence suggests that the sophistication of Trump's idea of protecting himself from outside threats has never risen past the level of sending threatening letters from his shyster lawyer or else sending hired goons to threaten physical violence. I'm not sure why he'd suddenly get so much more cunning, devious and sophisticated about it.

I was wondering what story would be on a totally fabricated peetape since the leverage thing is central. Presumably means you would need to show it to a limited audience who would leak out word of its existence. Since you wouldn't be able to rely on the memory nagging on the film subject's mind.
Rumour needs to get out to such an extent that weight of rumour outweighs 'victim's chance of dispelling its supposed existence.
& everybody already wants to think the worst of Trump which might undermine the weight of the threat since he's got little good name to besmirch.

you could just make a second peepee tape, Trump is absolutely dumb enough to get caught again

Oooh like a sequel?

a peequel

There's a reason they're so horny to depress voter turnout. They know that if all the dems actually show up and vote for dem candidates, they're toast.

I swear to god I am going to Lawnmower Man my through through the internet and manifest in the room of the next person who makes a pee tape joke so I can drop elbows

(I'll save the impeechment joke for another time then)

wait a minute, dip, I'm a peeceful man

djp (fucking autocorrect)

it doesn't take a whiz to know that trump's looking out for number one

To show you how dishonest the LameStream Media is, I used the word Liddle’, not Liddle, in discribing Corrupt Congressman Liddle’ Adam Schiff. Low ratings @CNN purposely took the hyphen out and said I spelled the word little wrong. A small but never ending situation with CNN!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 27, 2019

hyphen? does he think an apostrophe is used after something to indicate it's cutesy or misspelled and not shortened? Liddle?

so much and so little going on here

I just remembered that he is a rapist

Wish he could be impeached for that