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Related: About this forumRussian Media Freak Over Joe Biden's Election Resurrection
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-media-freak-over-joe-bidens-election-resurrectionReporting on the U.S. elections for Russian state TV channel Rossiya 24, Alyona Pivkina made a gesture of surprise and said: Suddenly, Biden surged ahead. The revelation was followed by an awkward moment of silence between Pivkina and the seemingly stunned host of the news broadcast.
The pro-Kremlin newspaper Vzglyad complained that Biden rose from the ashes like a phoenix, prevailing in spite of the corruption scandals that have long been alleged and cultivated by the Russiansand the Republicansconcerning his son, Hunter, and his own activities in Ukraine.
With notable irritation, Vzglyad griped about Joe Bidens state primary victories in North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Alabama, claiming that the pro-Biden votes in rural states were secured by rednecks, who shoot skunks for fun, bowl, beat their wives and associate the word socialist with the communist threat. The newspaper bitterly surmised that through Bidens anticipated nomination, the U.S. elites won yet another Cold War against socialism.
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And here I'd thought the explanations from Sanders for Biden winning were creative.
But now we have a pro-Kremlin Russian paper explaining that Biden voters are wife-beating bowling rednecks who shoot skunks for fun.
Wow, you'd NEVER know which candidate Russia wants to see win our Democratic nomination...
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)I don't have a wife.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Beakybird
(3,329 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
2naSalit
(86,031 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Squinch
(50,773 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Chainfire
(17,304 posts)The would not be a Red State.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)I understand you can get a Russian wife through the mail. She probably comes in one of those omni-present Amazon boxes.
Russia is one stop shopping for wives and Orange Foolious talking points.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Chainfire
(17,304 posts)I befriended a Russian mail order bride when I worked at FSU. She had been her for about a dozen years. She was a very nice, and very attractive lady and, in the terminology of the local rednecks, she was a "dirt road sport."She was very feisty. I really enjoyed shooting the breeze with her. She married a much older professor, and seemed to have a working agreement with her husband for a private social life apart from him. Perhaps he just needed someone in the house or an escort for social functions.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
TexasTowelie
(111,282 posts)Wife-beating -- no, I never got married
Bowling -- no, I've only gone bowling once and was horrible so I never tried again
Redneck -- no, I moved away from my redneck hometown when I was 18 and went to college
Shooter -- no, the last time I shot a rifle was when I was 17, I might be able to hit the broad side of a barn
Skunks -- no, I'm trying to remember if I saw one in the last decade, but I nearly got sprayed by one when I was a kid
It appears that I failed every qualification set by the Russian commentator.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
getagrip_already
(14,225 posts)But I've pretty much lived by the philosophy that if the kremlin supported something, I opposed it.
Our interests rarely align. They certainly don't when it comes to politics.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Qutzupalotl
(14,230 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
highplainsdem
(48,718 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
lastlib
(22,978 posts)Once, out in our woods looking for a cow about to give birth after a heavy snow, I was approached by a mother skunk and three babies. Remembering the rule that skunks always have the right-of-way, I stopped, stood still, and watched *very quietly* as the little family walked across the toe of my boot. Without so much as a "by your leave", "excuse me", or "haha, I can do this because I'm a skunk," they were as nonchalant as they could have been.
So, no, Vlad, I don't shoot skunks for fun, bowl, or beat my wife. Nor do I associate the word 'socialist' with the communist threat. I DO, however, VOTE DEMOCRATIC! and I WILL vote for Joe Biden and AGAINST your puppet tRumpski.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
highplainsdem
(48,718 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Rollo
(2,559 posts)... but I do get skunks on my in-town property several times a year. Usually I know they've been around by the aroma. It's rare that I see one. Once I caught one in a humane live trap that I set out for a different depredating critter. That was interesting. I managed to free it without getting doused.
Eventually I found a gap under a fence the skunks were using as an entry point and blocked it off with some rocks. That reduced the problem, but didn't eliminate it entirely. The next night a skunk was running around on the other side of the fence letting off stink bombs. So I went back inside and had a big bowl of coleslaw. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
TwilightZone
(25,342 posts)Skunks and all.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Qutzupalotl
(14,230 posts)they sure sound like they have no clue.
Oh, and for further evidence of who they want:
Link to tweet
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
OnDoutside
(19,905 posts)on Biden and the Democratic Party coming back to bite them on the ass, must suddenly terrify them.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Cha
(295,899 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden