Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On 2/17/25 18:38, Jim Jackson wrote:

On 2025-02-15, 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?  Heaven forbid there be
COMPETITION... then the incompetence of a candidate might draw
attention!
>

It certainly worried the other countries in the E.U. and made them
realise what could happen in their elections if they weren't careful.

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Elections are always fraught with peril as they assume an educated
electorate.  When people start thinking solely in terms of "I", then
it's easy to corrupt the vote.
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Of course, when their fantasies are never realized, they aren't smart
enough to realize they were duped.  And, by then, time has passed
leaving them worse off than before!
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 And it was ALWAYS someone else's fault :-)

I've never seen a politician keep all his promises. It's probably
impossible. Seeing the clowns that were elected as presidents of
the US these last 60 years or so, I got the impression that the
US is really ruled from behind the screens.
Jeroen Belleman