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Vladimir Putin is hours away from seizing power until 2036 as he casts his ballot on final day of 'rigged' vote on the future of constitution
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 1, 2020 | Tim Stickings

Posted on 07/01/2020 4:44:02 AM PDT by C19fan

Vladimir Putin is heading for victory in a referendum that could extend his rule until 2036 as Russia enters its final day of voting today. The Kremlin strongman would normally reach his term limit in 2024, but voters are set to back a plan to reset his tally to zero and allow him to run for two more terms. The package of constitutional changes would also increase Putin's powers to dissolve parliament and expand his influence over courts and prosecutors.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: alexeinavalny; dictatorforlife; juliuscaesar; kgb; putin; putinsbuttboys; russia; termlinits; vladtheimploder
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1 posted on 07/01/2020 4:44:02 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Russia should have elections like us with the true power not being elected. We like front men.

Demographics is destiny.


2 posted on 07/01/2020 4:47:49 AM PDT by EEGator
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Just something about the Russian psyche, they seem to love authoritarian rule. Heck, after 500 years of it maybe it's just what they're most comfortable with, from the Tsars to the Soviets to Putin. It probably didn't help matters that their one brief experiment with true democracy (the Boris Yeltsin years) was an utter economic disaster and considered the worst period in modern history.
3 posted on 07/01/2020 4:50:30 AM PDT by apillar
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...and so the Democrats are 4 months from the same here, except for MUCH LONGER than 2036, should they win, make DC and PR states, throw out all voting rules with their judges, start after our guns (again with their judges supporting it), and silence political opposition (yet again, with their judges supporting).

And yet SOME PEOPLE here STILL will sit out the November election, to ‘teach the Republicans a lesson’ - and no, I don’t give a crap if some of those DNC-enablers served in the military.


4 posted on 07/01/2020 4:51:06 AM PDT by BobL
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To: EEGator

It is not unreasonable to assume that Russians actually want a Czar, a powerful individual as ruler.

Russia is a backward nation


5 posted on 07/01/2020 4:51:13 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: EEGator

“If voting mad a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.” ~ I think Mark Twain?


6 posted on 07/01/2020 4:51:19 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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Regardless of whom, it’s pretty spot on.


7 posted on 07/01/2020 4:52:29 AM PDT by EEGator
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An anti Republican conservative is an anti American conservative


8 posted on 07/01/2020 4:52:36 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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I wouldn’t say we’re heading in a healthy direction.


9 posted on 07/01/2020 4:53:01 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: apillar

There is a lot to admire about Russia, politics is not one of them.


10 posted on 07/01/2020 4:53:15 AM PDT by C19fan
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Putin hasn’t been bad as far as Russian Leaders go- has he?

I mean he hasn’t murdered millions, Russia seems to have a stable economy and people are not starving, and he is not provoking the world...

There have been far worse than Putin. I really don’t care who Russians want as their leader, as long as it is not a power-hungry dictator bent on taking over the world.

And Putin does not seem to be that- is he?


11 posted on 07/01/2020 4:54:58 AM PDT by Mr. K (NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING IT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF)
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THIS MEANS WAR! (to the wacky neocons)


12 posted on 07/01/2020 4:55:38 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: EEGator

It all boils down to the President

He knows better than us that it is us or them

It up to him to exterminate them for being the seditionist vermin they are


13 posted on 07/01/2020 4:56:35 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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You make a good point. He has been very selective in his use of violence. Considering Russis’s past he has been very mild.


14 posted on 07/01/2020 4:56:50 AM PDT by C19fan
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Women and novels?


15 posted on 07/01/2020 4:58:03 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: bert

Our university system has more communists in it than the Russian Duma.


16 posted on 07/01/2020 4:58:59 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: EEGator

Definitely yes add art, music, science, military science, and mathematics. As a Generation Xer I think it is funny how Russian women went from the fat woman in the boiler suit from the Wendy’s commercial to Western men traveling to Russia to try to find a bride.


17 posted on 07/01/2020 5:00:02 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: bert

President Trump doesn’t concern me at all.
It’s the true establishment of losers in DC and business.
Sending manufacturing overseas while bringing in H1B’s, not to mention our immigration issue.
We know the D’s are anti USA, but I don’t see how country club R’s and Chamber of Commerce R’s aren’t just as bad.
At least D’s shoot you in the chest, not the back.


18 posted on 07/01/2020 5:01:41 AM PDT by EEGator
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We’re close in age I assume. C/O ‘93. (HS)
Fatties w/ babushkas to models...interesting.
I think in Russia you’re either a 2 or a 10.


19 posted on 07/01/2020 5:03:09 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Sirius Lee

““If voting mad a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.” ~ I think Mark Twain?”

...or, George Carlin.

Both truth-tellers with a great sense of humor.


20 posted on 07/01/2020 5:05:08 AM PDT by moovova
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