Probably one of the few times I’ve seen him actually caught off guard (publicly)
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You don't know that. This might be a double of Putin which was caught out by AI Putin, rather than actual Putin being caught out by AI Putin.
Come on, man, now you're clowning.
Its one of many parallel AI Putins trained on a body double Putin, the latter of which was an understudy for one of the longest time double Putins.
They're not fucking around.
Maybe the AI Putin was the real Putin disguised by software to make him look like AI, and this is a warning to the double of Putin who replaced the real Putin in a coup ten years ago.
Putin the human has never existed. It has always been an AI double.
Pretty sure ol Pooty was just telling that caller in and anyone involved that they're about to fall out a window or spend some quality time in a labor camp.
That look, those facial gymnastics, those words. He was pissed.
Hope they get away with it. Fuck that asshole.
I hope they not only get away with it, but manage to spread a bunch of deepfake videos to fuck with Putin
That's just scripted TV with pre-approved questions. The challenge was: how to show he has absolutely no body-doubles whatsoever and can take a humerous jab from a spontaneous caller.
Putin cares a lot about his public image. He makes sure he is portrayed in a certain way on all media across Russia.
Deepfakes will be seen by him as being a real threat to his carefully curated persona.
Send in the clowns
They're already here....
I find it difficult to believe he didn't know this was possible. It's far more likely that it's not even slightly shocking to him that it's possible.
What's shocking to him, I think, is that it appeared in this feed.
Nevermind who made it - though if they get found out, I'd imagine they're window-fodder for sure. In reality, the people who facilitated this whole setup should be concerned. In his mind, this had no place being here, it wasn't funny in the slightest, and there will be hell to pay.
Defenestrated is an original Russian word.
Really? Isn't it originally from Prague, derived from latin terms? On two separate instances, wars were started because a bunch of dudes threw a bunch of other dudes out windows. Hence the Defenestrations of Prague.
I can't argue with you. All you do is cite hysterical facts and pretend that I don't know what you mean.
What a weird response. A three second search shows they aren’t “hysterical” or pretending you don’t know what they mean at all.
I mean the entire comment is just disinformation.
Been seeing a huge uptick in straight up nonsense and fascist antics here lately… weird times.
Man, there is no joking allowed here.
Rest assured, I too thought it pretty hysterical. The fact that a bunch of dudes decided "to hell with those assholes in charge, let's storm their building and toss them all out the window" is pretty funny. Then, 200 years later, they got another bunch of assholes and figured "hey it worked the first time..."
Honestly there were so many provoking questions that seemed like it had to have slipped through the vetting process that I am starting to think that this was vetted.
If the whole country knows you're a delusional liar and that media is staged propaganda, putting off a show with provocative questions that seem real might be a good move to reconnect with the citizens and appear able to take criticism and as if you don't live in an ivory tower.
But that assumes that Putin is playing some kind of 5D chess. Could be that, or it could be what it looked like - just a president being asked uncomfortable questions.
I'd have a lot more provocative questions than that, if I were Russian
But that's exactly the point. They were provocative, but not too extreme. Believable to cause a shock and a belief of honesty, of intruders, but not as provocative as they could have gotten.
But you aren’t Russian and don’t know their conditioning, if any
Surely there is no way this dude would get connected to Putin without being vetted first. So I would assume Putin wanted this interaction for some reason?
Makes him look easy going because he can take the pre-approved "jab", and gives him the opportunity to deny the existence of any body doubles without it being a "who asked?" Situation.
There's probably a situation where Putin plans to use a body double in the near future and he wants to preemptively "answer" the question before anyone else brings it up.
The caller did not identify by name.... Ha ha ha.... 🤮 🧐🤔🙄🙄
It’s clear why such an asker would want anonymity
Come on... The joke is that he'd call himself Putin.. But it's clearly a staged and scripted joke
The joke seems to be “Ooh this caller was anonymous, who could know why?”
How is it clearly scripted?
To play “devil’s advocate”, it could’ve been live and somebody felt it was funny and let it skip through
That thing he does with his eyes. I think that look is what is making all that tea taste funny.
Life is so weird