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[rockfordfile]

1. Reminds me of trump

[lagomorph777]

2. Once more, the dictator looks utterly isolated and despised, even in the most "friendly" surrounding

This picture fits right in with the "long table" pictures.

[poli-junkie]

3. Boy in the Bubble.

[Igel]

6. Call it a "cope cage". n/t

[Sogo]

4. Were there walls on that walkway leading up to the "performance chamber?"

I couldn't quite tell....

(He probably really gets off on the size of the crowd, just like Trump.)

[SallyHemmings]

7. It looks bigger than the tfg's

[Effete Snob]

5. So?

We would construct the same kind of thing around any president who wanted to show up with a surrounding relatively unvetted crowd.

Putin's an asshole but there is nothing special about putting leaders behind bullet proof shields.

[herding cats]

8. Sure, but this is an entire enclosure.

Which is something I've never seen before. He looks like a specimen in a cage and it negates his strongman persona he likes to project. This exceeds caution and implies paranoia.

[Effete Snob]

11. Because he is completely surrounded

We probably wouldn't do that with any of our presidents.

But, duh, yes, he is completely surrounded by people with lots of angles.

Find an American president doing that.

It's just strikes me as kind of pointless to make anything out of the fact that, yes, during public appearances world leaders use bullet proof shields appropriate to where the audience is. We do it. Everyone does it.

[WarGamer]

36. it's not, actually.

[AntiFascist]

27. JFK could have used this in Dallas

[Effete Snob]

35. As you may know, he turned it down that day

It looked like this when in use:





https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018/11/19/would-a-bubble-top-have-saved-kennedy-more-answers-from-the-strange-story-of-jfk-s-lincoln-limo/

[AntiFascist]

38. My understanding is that Nixon and Mommie Dearest had previously humiliated him about this n/t

[Tomconroy]

9. The speculation is he wasn't even there. His image was

Computer generated. Weirdly, he was cut off mid sentence.

[Effete Snob]

13. "Weirdly, he was cut off mid sentence"

In the video in the OP, he ends the speech without being cut off mid sentence.

And, no, there is no present technology to do a computer-generated 3D representation of a person in the center of the stadium with a 360 viewing angle.

[relayerbob]

10. Looked like he was wearing body armor, too nt

[PSPS]

12. Is this mega-church stagecraft a thing now? Very trumpian.

I have also noticed how both putin aand Xi have begun using the term "fake news" whenever confronted with unflattering truthful statements. All three of them (putin, xi and trump) seem to follow the identical script.

[doc03]

14. Oh my he is doing MAGA rallies now. nt

[Goonch]

15. Putin Caged

[Ilsa]

16. Attendance Required, I suppose?

I can imagine his special guards grabbing people off the street at gunpoint, sticking a small flag in their hands, and telling them they will remain until Bubble Boy leaves.

[highplainsdem]

18. Government employees who were bused in, according to an OP I posted with

a journalist's Twitter thread about the rally.

[Effete Snob]

19. Was it required for Trump?

There is this bizarre assumption that Putin does not have substantial support from the Russian population.

That assumption is wrong.

When he took over Crimea, it boosted his popularity immensely.

[alphafemale]

39. Ceasar was popular until he bled out on the stones

Funny how the dictators are so popular in polls,

Dream on trying to promote Pooty.

[littlemissmartypants]

21. They got paid. Something equal to between 3 and 5 US dollars but in Rubles.

Many stayed long enough to get tickets punched to show attendance, for payment and then they left before it even started.

This is what I learned from visiting Twitter.

🌻🇺🇦❤🇺🇦🌻 Slava Ukraini! 🌻🇺🇦❤🇺🇦🌻

[Effete Snob]

37. This is what I learned from visiting Twitter.

Ah, the very fount of accurate information.

[littlemissmartypants]

41. I admit it is a change from all the conjecture and false pondering we also might find.

Most people responding in such threads, current reply not excluded, blow smoke without even checking links or quoted sources. Whether it's Twitter or not.

It's not a search for truth or elevated discourse but most likely condescending and self righteous babbling that often makes it into the replies.

Then there are the sideways attempts at insults, the back handed compliments which don't even address the poster's content. Additionally, such replies don't reveal the intelligent superiority of the poster but reduce them to a pile of pettiness like the bits of clothing left after the witch is melted.

If one doesn't like the poster's use of Twitter as a source, one can seek out and post their presumably more elevated alternative.

Unfortunately, it has become the case with pervasive regularity, that Twitter invades DU. I replied to the content and attempted to provide a coherent account of it. I didn't criticize the OP based on their choice of sources, as much as it might disappoint me.

But it's clear the reply post is true to the moniker. Though I doubt the moniker is true. When one implies that they are above the fray, one should probably actually stay exactly there. Otherwise, it supports a more debase position than the one they proclaim they embody. Counterintuitive at best, self ostracizing at worst.

If you have a better source than Twitter for this content I'll be happy to read and comment on it too. Thanks for your reply.


❤

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[2naSalit]

17. Since when does...

The super soviet snowflake speak in front of large crowds in stadiums?

[Ilsa]

20. He's wearing a puffy coat, and it doesn't look like he's behind

bulletproof glass.

Something he said, per CNN:

Putin says rap music should be state guided
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is cracking down on rap music, saying it is an important part of pop culture but needs to be guided by the state. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports from Moscow.

[Ilsa]

26. The OP pic is too foggy to see that.

The pics in the news don't show the "cage."

[littlemissmartypants]

43. That might be intentional. Vlad probably doesn't want to look weak.

🌻🇺🇦❤🇺🇦🌻 Slava Ukraini! 🌻🇺🇦❤🇺🇦🌻

[WarGamer]

22. I don't see any lexan sheets.

[Ilsa]

24. Me neither. The giant frame appears to be holding spot lights and

sound equipment, not bullet proof shielding.

[WarGamer]

25. agreed.

I got to a lot of trade shows and that's just a standard lighting rig.

[whopis01]

28. There is no bulletproof rig there.

It is a scaffolding for holding the lights up.

You can see it better here.

[lindysalsagal]

29. That's alot of surface space for tomatoes and eggs. I hope someone can add those

sliding down the walls....

[WarGamer]

31. there are no walls.

[lindysalsagal]

32. It's bullet-proof, so, whatever stops the bullets can also stop the rotten vegetables.

[WarGamer]

34. what's bullet proof?

there is nothing there

[BlueIdaho]

30. Let's talk about staging...

This staging only makes him look tiny and insignificant. Even the flatscreens are too small for the space. Well done Vlad, you just owned yourself.

[WarGamer]

33. I read that the bulletproof cage was transported over State lines...

by Putins mom.

[Samrob]

40. TFG must be salivating at the sight of the crowd. Wishing he could get those crowds again. nt

[former9thward]

42. POTUS has the same arrangements for any public speeches.

As anyone who has seen a POTUS live knows. One Dallas is enough.

[UTUSN]

44. Updated for a Nuremburg Trial II