Reply to post: Re: Don't get sheep herded by the fake news media

Re: Don't get sheep herded by the fake news media

That Putin changed the Russian constitution to allow him to have more than two terms of presidential office should tell you everything you need to know.

You sir are full of hot air (or methane). Go and read it before lying in writing in public. THEIR CONSTITUTION DAY ONE SAID TWO CONSECUTIVE TERMS. There was NEVER a limit on non-consecutive in it. There was NEVER a moment when it was changed for that. Text is the same when it was first voted.

This is exactly the difference between the games played in other ex-soviet republics and Russia. They all changed their constitutions to allow the dictators to rule. Putin simply gamed it by swapping with Medvedev for a term. As obviously rigged, appalling and ugly as it can be it is perfectly legit and fully obeys the letter of their constitution as it was written day one. So he actually never broke it.

Going back to your other conjecture about playing by the rules. He himself not just "plays by the rules", he has created a cult of "playing by the rules". It is something they brainwash kids with now. The biggest damage that can be done to him propaganda-wise is to show that he has broken his word or a rule under which he has signed with actual documental and evidential proof. The west fails this every time because our idiots are fecking incompetent to even follow what their propaganda machine is doing and what are the obvious weaknesses.

Though, he has actually shot himself in the foot now by losing 15% of his rating by doing exactly that - breaking a rule he set in his early days on the pension age. ONE "not by the rules" proven and with a record cost him 15%. That in itself is remarkable - if one of our idiots turncoats on one of their promises or signatures they will hardly lose a percent. He lost 15%!!! This tells you everything you need to know about the cult of the "abide by your word" he has cultivated.

Going back to Brezhnev, Gromyko, etc - they broke any rule they liked any time they liked. I can run you down a historical timeline, but their signatures were almost as valuable as a signature of an American president (not worth the toilet paper it is on).