A repost and a reminder: The putin regime is illegitimate.
Trump is a pathetic liar and a complete and utter bastard. It is his BFF in the kremlin who is illegitimate.
This is a reminder. As we all know, Trump shits from his mouth. One pathetic lie follows another pathetic lie. Everyone knows he is lying every time he opens his mouth. The fascist in the kremlin lets other people like man with 150 or more Rolex watches or the stripper Zacharova lie on his behalf. Not Trump. He does not trust anyone to lie for him so he does the lying himself. The last days have witnessed a tsunami of lies from his sewer of a mouth. He has repeated muscovite lies about a democratically elected president in a free country.
The truth is of course that it is the fascist in the kremlin that is illegitimate.
Spoiler: The European Parliament’s resolotution 24 April 2024 on Russia’s undemocratic presidential elections and their illegitimate extension to the occupied territories defines the kremlin as illegitimate. That’s not all. The European Parliament also condemns the past presidential elections, the unconstitutional change of the constitution allowing him to be “president” for life, putin’s brutal genocial war against Ukraine and his brutal repression of ordinary muscovites and political opponents.
It is as we know also a brutal regime run by a little person with nothing but contempt for human rights and lives.
The resolution, as all EP resolutions begin by making clear that it based on international law, agreements and principles on human rights and fundamental freedom, rule of law and other fundamental building stones of civilised countries. Then comes a section where the resolutions states facts. After those, it concludes, condemns, urges for actions or in other words calls for changes for the better. One would think that this is pointless in the case of a fascist regimes such as the kremlin. But the EP resolution actually matters. Especially to the little fascist in chief who is a sensitive little person. He is obsessed by the image of muscovy as a great power, so the EP resolution will make him scream and shout in his bunker. That’s why he ordered his hackers to carry out a DDoS on the European Parliament’s website today (26 April)
Source: European Parliament website
I have written many posts about how putin began to dismantle the fragile muscovy democracy when Yeltsin made him president. He began by attacking the media, then the judiciary, and so on and so forth. I wrote a rather detailed post about that four and a half years ago:
putin’s elections are farcical elections.
Anyway, the EP resolution condemns these attacks, and also how putin’s contempt for free and fair elections has made the elections farcical.
C. whereas the so-called presidential election held by Russia from 15 to 17 March 2024 was conducted without any political competition, in a severely restricted environment of systemic and grave repression and during the Russian Federation’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine; whereas there were reports of voters being intimidated, voters being denied their right to vote, ballot boxes being stuffed, protocols from the precincts being falsified on a massive scale and independent domestic election observers being detained; whereas Russia illegally organised voting in the occupied Ukrainian territories of Crimea, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia, at times amid violence and threats by armed Russian soldiers; whereas Russia also has a record of organising illegal voting in Abkhazia and South Ossetia and in Transnistria, against the will of the Georgian and Moldovan authorities;
D. whereas the Russian authorities did not invite OSCE/ODIHR to observe its election, which runs contrary to Russia’s commitments and obligations as an OSCE participating state; whereas this was the second Russian election in a row to have been held without impartial and independent international election observers in the country;
E. whereas the Central Electoral Commission of the Russian Federation unreasonably refused to register as candidates any politicians critical of the regime or of the war of aggression, including some who had reportedly collected more than 100 000 signatures, as prescribed by the national legislation;
Some of these nefarious tactics are recorded, analysed and graphed by Varieties of Democracy. Analyses by its scholars show, unsurprisingly, that there are no such thing as a clean election in muscovy. The elections were not clean during Yeltsin, but things are much worse since putin became “president” in 2000.
putin’s fake elections.
Source: Variteties of Democracy. Note: The indicator ranges from 0 to 1 where 0 indicates that there are no such thing as free and fair elections.
The best way to make sure that you win the elections, is of course to assume full control over the authorities that carry out and monitor the elections. Authorites that in normal countries are independent to make sure that the elections are free and fair, are in muscovy in the hands of the little fascist in chief. The Election Management Body (EMB) in muscovy is a joke:
putin tells the Election Management Bodies how many votes he want.
Source: Variteties of Democracy. Note. The indicator ranges from 0 to 4 where a value of 0 indicates that the EMB is controlled by the incumbent government, the military, or other de facto ruling body. A value of 4 indicates that the EMB is autonomous and impartially applies elections laws and administrative rules
putin tortures and kills.
And they better do as he tells them or they’ll face the same fates as Nemtsov, Navalny, and the journalists that he had killed because he did not like what they wrote. It is dangerous to be against fascism in muscovy. putin will first have you tortured, then killed.
What happens if you stand up against the little fascist in chief.
Source: Variteties of Democracy. Note. The indicators ranges from 0 to 4. The lower the value, the more systematic frequently does the regime use murders and torture.