Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:50 PM

Who's seen the movie "Dave" with Kevin Kline as the POTUS who faked his own death?

I feel like we're about to see a variation of that. * knows he's going to lose the election. If he does, he'll go to prison (and possibly get a polonium cocktail). Faking his own death might be his only chance to get while the gettin's good.

OK, yes I'm being a bit hyperbolic. But I wouldn't put anything past this guy.

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Who's seen the movie "Dave" with Kevin Kline as the POTUS who faked his own death? (Original post)	flibbitygiblets	Oct 2020	OP
Oh for fuck's sake... nt	sweetloukillbot	Oct 2020	#1
Wait, didn't the real president die doing it with a misstres? Or was that Wag The Dog? Or	Guy Whitey Corngood	Oct 2020	#2
I think he had a stroke with his mistress, who was his assistant.	flibbitygiblets	Oct 2020	#6
Yes! I remember now. nt	Guy Whitey Corngood	Oct 2020	#11
The President in "Dave" didn't fake his own death.	Aristus	Oct 2020	#3
I think the potus had a stroke while boinking his mistress and the staff found a lookalike...	RockRaven	Oct 2020	#4
The real prez had a stroke and was secretly in a coma. When he died, "Dave" faked a public death.	Gidney N Cloyd	Oct 2020	#5
Right, I remember now. Thanks Gidney!	flibbitygiblets	Oct 2020	#8
He didn't fake it. He had a stroke and was in a coma so his aides got a double...	Binkie The Clown	Oct 2020	#7
Dave was a kind-hearted look-alike,	FraDon	Oct 2020	#9
Spending to "feel better"	CloudWatcher	Oct 2020	#10
Cf. the Akira Kurosawa classic Kagemusha	Tanuki	Oct 2020	#12
Forget the movie reference	matt819	Oct 2020	#14
Has anyone seen Alec Baldwin lately?	Mme. Defarge	Oct 2020	#13

Response to flibbitygiblets (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:51 PM

sweetloukillbot (8,671 posts)

1. Oh for fuck's sake... nt

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Response to flibbitygiblets (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:52 PM

Guy Whitey Corngood (25,861 posts)

2. Wait, didn't the real president die doing it with a misstres? Or was that Wag The Dog? Or

both???

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Response to Guy Whitey Corngood (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:55 PM

flibbitygiblets (7,220 posts)

6. I think he had a stroke with his mistress, who was his assistant.

And was in a coma, why is why they brought in a lookalike (Kline).

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Response to flibbitygiblets (Reply #6)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:57 PM

Guy Whitey Corngood (25,861 posts)

11. Yes! I remember now. nt

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Response to flibbitygiblets (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:53 PM

Aristus (61,615 posts)

3. The President in "Dave" didn't fake his own death.

He suffered a real stroke, and his power-mad cronies hired a look-alike to impersonate the President until one of them could maneuver his way into the Vice Presidency, and then reveal the real President's "death", thereby making himself President.

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Response to flibbitygiblets (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:54 PM

RockRaven (12,347 posts)

4. I think the potus had a stroke while boinking his mistress and the staff found a lookalike...

Who ended up being a decent potus and falling in love with the first lady, iirc. Then the lookalike fakes his death in public and they pull the plug on the real potus.

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Response to flibbitygiblets (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:54 PM

Gidney N Cloyd (18,967 posts)

5. The real prez had a stroke and was secretly in a coma. When he died, "Dave" faked a public death.

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Response to Gidney N Cloyd (Reply #5)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:55 PM

flibbitygiblets (7,220 posts)

8. Right, I remember now. Thanks Gidney!

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Response to flibbitygiblets (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:55 PM

Binkie The Clown (7,911 posts)

7. He didn't fake it. He had a stroke and was in a coma so his aides got a double...

...to take his place. A pretty good movie, as I recall.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106673/

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Response to flibbitygiblets (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:56 PM

FraDon (504 posts)

9. Dave was a kind-hearted look-alike,

smuggled into the White House when the jerky POTUS dies.

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Response to flibbitygiblets (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 06:56 PM

CloudWatcher (1,671 posts)

10. Spending to "feel better"

I was just thinking of this movie .. in particular the scene where "Dave" questions whether or not spending to convince people they've spent wisely on a car they've already bought ... and thinking it looked a lot like the $300 million CDC campaign to make people feel better about the virus.

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Response to flibbitygiblets (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 07:02 PM

Tanuki (14,207 posts)

12. Cf. the Akira Kurosawa classic Kagemusha

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Response to Tanuki (Reply #12)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 07:14 PM

matt819 (10,749 posts)

14. Forget the movie reference

And put aside the first response.

And, yes, tinfoil hat alert.

Do we put it past him to do that?

Or to “fake” a stroke and resign. But the “stroke” puts him in the Vincent gigante category. Too debilitated to be prosecuted.

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Response to flibbitygiblets (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 07:04 PM

Mme. Defarge (7,728 posts)

13. Has anyone seen Alec Baldwin lately?

Btw, I love that movie.

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