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(86,061 posts)Ain't that cunnin'? Too f'ing bad, vladdy.
Wicked Blue
(5,767 posts)That's why
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RKP5637
(67,032 posts)Walleye
(30,723 posts)Getting power again
Cirque du So-What
(25,812 posts)and posted on any RW discussion board without so much as a single eyebrow being raised.
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)election results.
LunaSea
(2,892 posts)Get ready for the longest winter ever, Vlad.
beastie boy
(9,063 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Putin hates to see democracy succeed as intended. He likes for Western democracies to fail and be rife with disasters, chaos, corruption and scenes like we had on Wednesday. Why? So can hold up the United States as an example to unhappy Russian citizens and proclaim, "See, what we have here is better than what the US has... Democracy doesn't work." And here we have an example of the President being punished for doing wrong. That is the exact example Putin doesn't want Russian citizens to see, because it might give them ideas. It might send them out into the streets to say, "We want a mechanism like the US has to hold Putin responsible for creating a hell on earth."
Remember, Putin just signed into law a decree that he is immune from any and all prosecution for any and all crimes for the rest of his life.
Impeachment is the opposite of that (at least symbolically).
niyad
(112,435 posts)actions.