Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:41:46 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
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On 2/14/2025 1:26 PM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

A candidate nobody had ever heard of, who wanted to turn the whole
country over to Putin, suddenly appeared at the last minute and won the
election by an incredibly large majority.  Doesn't that sound suspicious
to you -  and worth putting the result on hold while the circumstances
were checked?

 
But, isn't that the norm for the Russian mindset?

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These elections were in Romania, which is a European country on the
borders of Russia and is terrified that they will be in Putin's sights
after Ukraine.  The official line is that there was evidence of
'State-sponsored interference' in the elections, but it is obvious which
state is the most likely one.

Yeah, the usual bogie-man (we're supposed to automatically assume).
The bald fact is that there is not a single Western democracy you
could not claim has been unduly influenced by Russia: not one. You can
claim whatever you want and get *any* election voided if you're going
to go down that route - and all on the pretext of "defending
democracy." It would be laughable were it not so serious.

Vances speech spinning this as some undemocratic cabal blocking a
candidate who was freely elected is utter hypocracy in view of what
happened when Trump was kicked out the last time.