By “near” I mean like a sphere of 10 Meters around them. You can’t manipulate them directly, it has to be a non-living object. You also can’t cause anyone else to die before their fated time of death.

So, how do you embarass them.

Trip them down the stairs? (zero injuries remember)

Drop their mug while they try to drink water?

C’mon, what’s the most embarassing thing you can do?

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    Hold their hairs that normally fall out in place until they are on camera then shed all at once.

    Make their eyes water whenever they are on camera by pushing just a little too much air at them.

    Wardrobe malfunctions are an option, but I think making them fumble everything would be better, so they try to hold a pen and it slips out of their hand etc.

    Make the camera drift upwards so they look shorter.

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    How well-developed is this telekinetic power? Could I, for example:

    • Continuously turn the air 10M around them into a horrific miasma of farts by doing organic chemistry with nearby carbon and sulfur sources?
    • Always make it much too uncomfortably warm near them by raising the local temperature?
    • Condense the moisture out of it so that the politicians are always dripping wet?

    I think in absence of doing real harm to them the best bet is to make them and everyone within 10M of them as extremely uncomfortable as possible.

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    Manipulate the gel in their hair.

    Their watch suddenly slips off their wrist.

    Belt opens, pants fall down.

    Or manipulate the watch-arm by moving the watch.

    Turn off microphone, or even make it fall down.

    Volume on max.

    Make their phone vibrate.

    ~~ Edit: make the fillings of their teeth fall out, or heck, keep their mouth shut by manipulating the fillings.

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    I’d move things around right-wing politicians to spell out “666”. This would be my full time job.

    Got the idea imagining if every MAGA hat, flag, sign, etc., suddenly got a burned vignette edge with 666 in black gothic lettering.

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    Someone who can’t get basic things done properly won’t gain much of a following or at least will be questionable. Therefore:

    Good old unzip, unbutton, and wardrobe disaster. Your politician’s pants or skirt fall to the floor and they are exposed, they may trip over that too.

    Similar shenanigans with shoelaces.

    Wearing a tie?" The wind " will always flap it on their faces. Repeatedly . Just like in TES

    They will always get food stains and smears. These people don’t know how to eat without making a mess. They will even “accidentally” stain people next to them.

    Can I manipulate Botox? Silicone? I’d be making them make faces or just have restless boobs if applicable.

    Now I’m gonna steal some ideas I’ve read posted here and add to my repertoire:

    recording and releasing information using their own phones,

    Keeping their mouth shut or messing up their speech, manipulating mouth fillings

    Turn on/off cameras and microphones, catching them unaware or spoiling their message

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    Their clothes always have the logos of their donors on them. The bigger the donation, the bigger, and more prominent the logo.

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      Sounds like free marketing for those donors. I would instead suggest, have the logos, but have them either vandalized or modified in a way that ridicules the logo owner. Now that’s going to generate friction

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    Break everything they touch. Chair, collapse. Table, fold in on itself. Door, you guest it falls off its hinges.

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      Reminds me of Alcatraz vs The Evil Librarians. The main character’s talent was breaking things. Takes a while for them to turn it into something other than just a curse.

      Just to show the scope of talents in the book, the main character’s grandfather was late to everything. Someone shooting at him? He’d arrive too late and the bullets would miss.

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        Reminds me of Piers Anthony’s Xanth books. Everyone has a singular magic talent, but some of them straight suck, like creating a colored spot on the wall. But used creatively, even the suck ones can have value, like the spot person becoming a master pointillist artist.

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    I dont know about embarassing but having any screen nearby them run a live fact check of any lies they tell.
    As for embarassing, live updates on the screen of last time: farted, picked nose, didnt wash hands, imagined someone naked (including just partially), didnt understand what they were just told, a little bit if of wee dripped out, tries to hide arousal/erection etc.

    Would love to see someones ‘imagined someone naked’ counter reset when they are talking to the queen, or ‘tries to hide erection’ when holding hands with ivanka.

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    I make a dildo fall out of Trump’s pocket.

    Edit to add: but not before I buy shares in leading dildo manufacturers, because no self-respecting MAGA will be caught dead in public without their pocket-dildo after that.

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    Open their phone and show the world all the dick pics, (child) porn, etc on them.

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      Nah, nobody will believe that. You have to be subtle. Just invite a journalist to the groupchats with his homies.

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      dick pics, (child) porn

      A certain country’s president already have their excuses.

      “CNN deekfake fake news, democrat sleepy joe pEdOpHiLe hunter biden’s cHyNa laptop hacked it bigly and planted the evidence.”

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    just make every loose item stick to them like a magnet. Either all the time or just when they obviously lie or otherwise twist the truth