I’m getting the sneaking suspicion that these upcoming Russian elections might be less than legitimate…
It’s like you can’t even trust an autocratic regime with a history of underhanded deeds anymore.
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So now they have an election with only one candidate, in which case why fucking bother to hold it.
Oh what a fucking surprise.
So strong leader
It’s lucky the great journalist Tucker is in Moscow right now. I’m sure he’ll ask Putin about it!
Gee what a surprise, russians are the same as democrats. Who would have guessed
There goes the idea that Putin might use these elections as a sort of unofficial referendum on the “special military operation”.
I hope the other guy lives in a one story house.
wow what a shocker. i was totally NOT expecting this.
That’s terrible, do people get barred from running in elections in other countries?
I’m guessing this is going to be used to draw a false equivalency between Biden and Putin when things go south for Donald.
Joke of a country
Farce. Can’t believe grown-ups are doing such dumb shit on the regular.
Putin the weak.
That’s a handy outcome.
Better barred than dead.
Luckily not barred from life yet.
> “I collected more than 200,000 signatures across Russia. We conducted the collection openly and honestly.”
> The Central Election Commission said that more than 9,000 signatures submitted by Mr Nadezhdin were invalid.
> That left 95,587 names, meaning he was just short of the 100,000 required signatures to register as a candidate, commission member Andrei Shutov said.
The math isn’t adding up here, or did he collect >200k signatures but submitted only 104k out of which 9k are rejected?
I was honestly expecting him to develop a sudden aftershave allergy and a taste for polonium tea.
Shocker, no elections right lol
Who’s shocked?, “you” shocked? How about you? I know I’m shocked! Who’s gonna be shocked when he falls out a window here soon? I know I will be!
Meanwhile, birds fly
Well that was unexpected
He should avoid tall windows
He should be happy he hasn’t jumped out of a 5th floor window that can’t open after having shot himself in the back of his head a few times.
Those are just different flavours of Russian imperialism, including Navalny. They’re not as militaristic or simply insane as Putin, but they’re no friends of yours. (Unless you’re a local dictator, that is)
Putin accused him of insurrection.
This guy has big balls
“Challenger”
“Election”
Can’t wait to see if Barred should be in quotes too
Quick, act surprised!
I follow the war and russia quite a bit… but i don’t see how this is breaking?
It was never going to be anything else
*Those who can’t cheat an election, aren’t ready to cheat the World* – Could be a proverb
>Putin challenger
Putin had only one challenger in Russia in the recent past.
He is dead now.
Shocking.
I recommand him to leave Russia before he is barred from existing aswell.
Isn’t it better to let him participate and lose with 2% of the votes?
Fucking cowards.
So is putin literally the only candidate?
Dude needs to keep away from hotel windows.
Im sure tucker will call it ” is he too busy rapping bars to be preisdent,does he not care about the people like vlad? Im just asking questions”
Didn’t Zelenskyy do the same in Ukraine or is it ok there?
🙊
“He is not the first presidential hopeful to have run on an anti-war platform. In December, former TV journalist and independent politician Yekaterina Duntsova was barred from running because the election commission said there were mistakes on her application form.”
Once again Putin is elected in a landside with no challengers 🤣
You gonna ask Mr Putin about this, Tucker?
C”mon bud, you knew this was going to happen. Putins a cunt and cunts don’t like competition. The so called and laughable electoral commission are just protecting their arses as not to find themselves “committing suicide” after a visit from Putins pretorian guard.
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I’m getting the sneaking suspicion that these upcoming Russian elections might be less than legitimate…
It’s like you can’t even trust an autocratic regime with a history of underhanded deeds anymore.
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So now they have an election with only one candidate, in which case why fucking bother to hold it.
Oh what a fucking surprise.
So strong leader
It’s lucky the great journalist Tucker is in Moscow right now. I’m sure he’ll ask Putin about it!
Gee what a surprise, russians are the same as democrats. Who would have guessed
There goes the idea that Putin might use these elections as a sort of unofficial referendum on the “special military operation”.
I hope the other guy lives in a one story house.
wow what a shocker. i was totally NOT expecting this.
That’s terrible, do people get barred from running in elections in other countries?
I’m guessing this is going to be used to draw a false equivalency between Biden and Putin when things go south for Donald.
Joke of a country
Farce. Can’t believe grown-ups are doing such dumb shit on the regular.
Putin the weak.
That’s a handy outcome.
Better barred than dead.
Luckily not barred from life yet.
> “I collected more than 200,000 signatures across Russia. We conducted the collection openly and honestly.”
> The Central Election Commission said that more than 9,000 signatures submitted by Mr Nadezhdin were invalid.
> That left 95,587 names, meaning he was just short of the 100,000 required signatures to register as a candidate, commission member Andrei Shutov said.
The math isn’t adding up here, or did he collect >200k signatures but submitted only 104k out of which 9k are rejected?
I was honestly expecting him to develop a sudden aftershave allergy and a taste for polonium tea.
Shocker, no elections right lol
Who’s shocked?, “you” shocked? How about you? I know I’m shocked! Who’s gonna be shocked when he falls out a window here soon? I know I will be!
Meanwhile, birds fly
Well that was unexpected
He should avoid tall windows
He should be happy he hasn’t jumped out of a 5th floor window that can’t open after having shot himself in the back of his head a few times.
Those are just different flavours of Russian imperialism, including Navalny. They’re not as militaristic or simply insane as Putin, but they’re no friends of yours. (Unless you’re a local dictator, that is)
Putin accused him of insurrection.
This guy has big balls
“Challenger”
“Election”
Can’t wait to see if Barred should be in quotes too
Quick, act surprised!
I follow the war and russia quite a bit… but i don’t see how this is breaking?
It was never going to be anything else
*Those who can’t cheat an election, aren’t ready to cheat the World* – Could be a proverb
>Putin challenger
Putin had only one challenger in Russia in the recent past.
He is dead now.
Shocking.
I recommand him to leave Russia before he is barred from existing aswell.
Isn’t it better to let him participate and lose with 2% of the votes?
Fucking cowards.
So is putin literally the only candidate?
Dude needs to keep away from hotel windows.
Im sure tucker will call it ” is he too busy rapping bars to be preisdent,does he not care about the people like vlad? Im just asking questions”
Didn’t Zelenskyy do the same in Ukraine or is it ok there?
🙊
“He is not the first presidential hopeful to have run on an anti-war platform. In December, former TV journalist and independent politician Yekaterina Duntsova was barred from running because the election commission said there were mistakes on her application form.”
Once again Putin is elected in a landside with no challengers 🤣
You gonna ask Mr Putin about this, Tucker?
C”mon bud, you knew this was going to happen. Putins a cunt and cunts don’t like competition. The so called and laughable electoral commission are just protecting their arses as not to find themselves “committing suicide” after a visit from Putins pretorian guard.