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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have a theory of what is on the "tape", and it's not two women urinating...
You know, that would be no big deal: people watch stuff like that nightly on Youporn and Pornhub and all those other sites like www.perfectgirls.net, not that I would have ever heard of these sites, but that's what I've heard...
No...I got to thinking: it has to be something so surreal, so shocking, so awful AND ILLEGAL that there is no backtracking or explanation which will suffice...
And then I got to thinking about fiction...which is often not as strange as fact and I thus combined several elements to create the ultimate set piece, if I were writing a tawdry novel of international espionage.
1. In The Godfather Part II, the Senator is set up with a prostitute who is murdered by a third party after the Senator passes out from an administration of a drug. He awakens to find her dead and 'coincidentally' Tom Hagan, the Consigliere, sets all aright and the Senator, once a sworn enemy, is owned by the Mob. Murder is a capital crime and has no statute of limitations and thus the revelation of the video could be made in perpetuity without any loss of ability to prosecute. Oh yes: and the victim and her DNA and the perpetrator's are preserved in a strict chain of evidence
2. The unforgivable sin of obsessive pedophilia as exemplified by Nabokov's Lolita. And this guy is no James Mason....
3. From Russia With Love, where the protagonist (Bond) is lured to a hotel room with the promise of a code machine for England if he takes the gorgeous Russian woman with him: he is filmed having sex with her through a two-way mirror.
And so if you combine the three, you have a dead, underage girl with virtually incontrovertible video and audio footage. If you add that to the economic threat of family ruination and thus BRAND RUINATION, these are very powerful weapons indeed.
As a post script, if you go back and READ From Russia With Love, you will see that absolutely nothing has changed, including intricate plans to obtain kompromat, use of sex, use of poisons as exemplified by Rosa Klebb's poison blade concealed in her shoe, assassins on foreign soil, and all the rest. One thing the Russians are is ingenious...do not think lightly of their brilliance.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,528 posts)We'll see.
Yonnie3
(17,422 posts)Today, it seems possible.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,104 posts)nothing more than monetary. He either owes millions, or has been promised millions if he cooperates with putin.
Generic Brad
(14,272 posts)I have been avoiding saying this publicly for the longest time because I actually do not want it to be true. But I have thought his panicked overreaction to the Pee Pee Tape makes sense if it is a snuff film of him violently attacking a child victim. He even bragged on the campaign trail that he could kill someone and his base would not abandon him. I really hope that didn't happen.
Mme. Defarge
(8,014 posts)the tape may have exposed something criminal and symbolizing humiliating Obama.
madaboutharry
(40,190 posts)but Im not sure if it really is about sex. Im still in the money laundering camp. But it could be both.
Arkansas Granny
(31,507 posts)I also firmly believe that it's much worse than a couple of women peeing on a bed.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Having just watched Rachel, who makes even a 'to do' list interesting; what you did was make your 'take' on the tapes, - very interesting.
Thank you PCIntern
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)I am now going to go wash out my brain.
But I agree with one thing: it must be something that would be financially devastating, ethically-inexcusable, morally-indefensible and have no expiration date.
You may be on to something here . . . .
Any fiction writers among us who specialize in espionage thrillers ?
uponit7771
(90,304 posts)Ilsa
(61,690 posts)who said today that they don't think a pee pee tape is a problem for trump, that his supporters would be fine with him having hookers over to pee on the bed that Barack and Michelle slept on.
I think it must be something illegal, too, like underage girls.
I think Putin also has trump's purse strings. If putin gets mad, he will undo trump's financial house of cards. All of them will be broke.
jmowreader
(50,530 posts)Come on: Trump snuck out on his wife and new son to fuck a porn star, and that didnt hurt him with the Deplorables. The only thing sex-related that might work is him willingly giving someone a blowjob.
Trump begging the Russian Mafia for money is a different story. Because Trump brags about how rich he is, a tape proving hes so broke he has to use mob money WOULD do him in.
rainin
(3,010 posts)My vote is on embarrassing material. His nudity or homosexual acts.
FakeNoose
(32,596 posts)Dick-pics! Teenie-weenie-peenie and maybe an underage girl is blowing him.
Somehow it has to really be him and not photoshopped or faked.
He would be absolutely humiliated, and he'd do anything to keep it hidden.
brooklynite
(94,363 posts)greyl
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Initech
(100,041 posts)Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....