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user-inactivated  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 18, 2017

What's happening in DC?





user-inactivated  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Trump is being sworn in as our President on Friday. They're probably expecting both supporters and protesters and they're probably trying to do what they can to make sure things stay peaceful and safe.

user-inactivated  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh yeah, I forgot about that ritual.

Damn, that might get tense.

lil  ·  2865 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I imagine you haven't had a swearing for some time.

user-inactivated  ·  2865 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Obama's seemed fine. Heard nothing bad about it.

lil  ·  2865 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I meant in Russia.... There are elections. Occasionally.

user-inactivated  ·  2865 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are there?

...oh yes, that circus. Never felt like watching the same thing over and over. Putin's been around the throne for most of my life. I went to school the year he went to power.

lil  ·  2865 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Update: A historical source has been found for one version of this quote. The source is Boris Bazhanov's Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary, published in 1992 and only available, so far as I know, in Russian. The pertinent passage, which appears near the end of chapter five, reads as follows (loosely translated with the help of Google):

    "You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how."

still true I guess