Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On 2/15/2025 11:41 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
 

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?

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

 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.

My point was that the mindset in the SSRs is that there is no "choice".
As the "leaders" are afraid of the people.  And, that this reinforces
the lethargy/"resignation" in their populaces.

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.

Well, vance suffers from all sorts of delusions -- including the
"mandate" (from 48% of the vote!) they were given.
Trump has come to realize he has to be considerably more cautious lest
he risk losing his base due to the consequences of HIS words/actions
(hence the effort to "prepare" folks for worse times ahead:  "But,
it will be WORTH it!")
I've taken quite a bit of delight in pointing this out to his
supporters:  "Thank GOD I can still run my gas guzzler and won't
be coerced into buying an EV!  And, can enjoy tax cuts NOW without
worrying abou thaving to pay for them at some future date.  After
all, *I* don't have kids or grandkids to wonder about the world
that I left them!  Oh, YOU do?  Gee, sorry to hear that...  Maybe
they'll forgive you?"