Vladimir Putin addressed the nation of Russia Monday evening, local time. I typed as fast as I possibly could listening to the translator, and here's the text:
"There has been a tremendous coming together of society, a unification of society. There has been a firm support of the constitutional order by all the leading parties. All of them have been united in the face of the responsibility to defend the Fatherland."
"The organizers of this rebellion must understand they will be brought to justice. This is criminal activity and it must be punished. This was a colossal threat and it was a threat from the outside. However, the organizers of this rebellion have betrayed these people who were dragged into this organization. This kind of suicide is precisely what the Neo-Nazis here and in the West wanted. They wanted Russian soldiers to kill each other, for servicemen and civilians to be killed."
Ultimately, they wanted Russia to fail, our society to be fragmented, to be splintered. They wanted to take revenge for their failures at the front. But they slipped up. They made a mistake, especially with regard to the special services, which maintained their oath to the country... The courage, the sacrifice of the people of these organizations saved the Fatherland."
"At the same time, we learned that the overwhelmingly majority of Wagner group are also patriots to the country. They have proven their courage in defending Donbas and yet were encouraged to fight against their compatriots. By turning back, they avoided further bloodshed."
"We also have to talk about the people who decided to take these actions, which would have had tragic and devastating consequences for Russia as a whole. I should like to thank those commanders and soldiers in PMC Wagner Group who made the right decision to stop, go back and prevent bloodshed."
"I urge all of them to make contact with the Ministry of Defense or go back to their homes. This promise will be fulfilled. I repeat, it is the choice of each of you, a choice of the warriors of Russia who have acknowledged their fault."
"President Lukashenko also should be recognized for his role in achieving a peaceful resolution. It is the patriotic duty of everyone which has saved us and has saved the country as a whole."
I feel like tearing off my clothes and dancing in the rain (snow on Tuesday). Ofc I'm entirely too old to do that. But...
We were SO right.
Here's Snoop, who rapped "F--K Donald Trump" in 2017, now performing at a Trump supporting inauguration party.
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Watching people attempt to "unskew" polls conducted by all walks of this industry—ranging from Nate Cohn at The New York Times to Spencer Kimball at Emerson College to Tim Malloy at Quinnipiac—all to deny Donald Trump's gains against Joe Biden with various voting blocs, is more than a little sad.
The slew of recent polls over two weeks—to include no less than four today alone—have simply confirmed prior findings published from other pollsters who have previously been "unskewed". That includes your's truly and our work at BIG DATA POLL, Mark Penn at Harvard University, Patrick Ruffini at Echelon Insights, and many others.
I'm temped to equate this with an Occam's razor-like situation. But this debate is more about likelihood than simplicity.
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