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Baitball Blogger

(52,268 posts)
Sat Feb 22, 2025, 01:43 PM Feb 2025

So, did Putin find a cure for that genetic disorder they claimed he had a few years back?

The last reports were that he had three years to live. I hate to say it, but he looks healthy to me.

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So, did Putin find a cure for that genetic disorder they claimed he had a few years back? (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Feb 2025 OP
What's the point of this? Prairie Gates Feb 2025 #1
I think people should be reminded of their false predictions if they were way over the top (not saying in this instance) Polybius Feb 2025 #5
What a hero Prairie Gates Feb 2025 #7
I want to stress that I only do it if the predictions are wild Polybius Feb 2025 #8
Not sure why the first response has such an angry tone True Dough Feb 2025 #2
Yesterday Repuke Senator Thom Tillis said Putin IS a cancer Ponietz Feb 2025 #3
I'll be more mindful of looking at current photos. Thank you. Baitball Blogger Feb 2025 #4
That's wild Polybius Feb 2025 #6
Let's ask Zelenskyy what he was thinking Ponietz Feb 2025 #10
I doubt he believes it (at least I hope he doesn't) Polybius Feb 2025 #11
I think it was a Putin double who visited Mariupol in early 2023. John1956PA Feb 2025 #14
was all bullshit Takket Feb 2025 #9
maybe "they" were lying? WarGamer Feb 2025 #12
that's a good question. I don't know what happened samsingh Feb 2025 #13
He started the rumor himself to flush out rivals who would celebrate his death. hunter Feb 2025 #15

Prairie Gates

(8,077 posts)
1. What's the point of this?
Sat Feb 22, 2025, 01:45 PM
Feb 2025

Dunking on people who wanted to believe sometuhing three years ago? Everybody also wanted to believe Trump had dementia in his first term. Is that your next target?

Seems like better ways to spend time.

Polybius

(21,868 posts)
5. I think people should be reminded of their false predictions if they were way over the top (not saying in this instance)
Sat Feb 22, 2025, 02:05 PM
Feb 2025

I use the bookmark option quite often, and if I see predictions that are wild, I sometimes come back months later to ask them what they were thinking. I don't do it to be rude, I do it because it helps them make more reasonable future predictions, and I legitimately want to hear their reply.

Needless to say, they usually don't respond.

True Dough

(26,518 posts)
2. Not sure why the first response has such an angry tone
Sat Feb 22, 2025, 01:52 PM
Feb 2025

but I guess this U.S. administration is enough to make a lot of people upset.

I think it's a worthy question. There are a lot of conspiracy theories out there relating to Putler. You've surely seen that he supposedly has numerous doppelgangers who stand in for him. Not sure if that's true and, if so, how many of them there are.

It's also well known that Pooty doesn't like to put himself in public and be close to others for fear of getting sick, or poisoned, or stabbed. You've seen images of him meeting with people where he's at the far end of a very long table?

I have also seen videos of the purported real Putin and he has a tremor. Then the Kremlin releases a version where AI has been used to remove the tremor.

It's all very interesting to me.

And like Orrex's daily "Is he dead yet" thread, I have the same hopes for the Russian dicktator.

Ponietz

(4,310 posts)
3. Yesterday Repuke Senator Thom Tillis said Putin IS a cancer
Sat Feb 22, 2025, 01:58 PM
Feb 2025

As to your question, Zelenskyy and others maintained Putin was replaced by a body double.

January 2023 claim by Zelenskyy
In January 2023, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly "questioned whether Vladimir Putin was still alive" during a virtual address to the World Economic Forum and suggested that Putin might have already been replaced by his body double.[15]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claims_of_Vladimir_Putin's_incapacity_and_death|


Polybius

(21,868 posts)
6. That's wild
Sat Feb 22, 2025, 02:08 PM
Feb 2025

He would have to not only look exactly like him, but also sound like him too.

Polybius

(21,868 posts)
11. I doubt he believes it (at least I hope he doesn't)
Sat Feb 22, 2025, 02:37 PM
Feb 2025

He doesn't appear to be a tinfoil hat type of guy. Probably psychological warfare.

John1956PA

(4,945 posts)
14. I think it was a Putin double who visited Mariupol in early 2023.
Sat Feb 22, 2025, 03:38 PM
Feb 2025

However, I do not see evidence that a body double was used at any other time.

Takket

(23,689 posts)
9. was all bullshit
Sat Feb 22, 2025, 02:14 PM
Feb 2025

people were also posting here rumors that he had cancer. then someone would post a picture of him looking "pale" and Doctor DU took that as proof he had 5 minutes to live. it was pretty absurd.

hunter

(40,657 posts)
15. He started the rumor himself to flush out rivals who would celebrate his death.
Sat Feb 22, 2025, 03:46 PM
Feb 2025

It'd be no surprise if he outlived many of them.

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