We hear from "conservatives" all the time about how they consider themselves to be paragons of virtue, and others (the 'others du jour') are less worthy etc etc. We all know that tune, we all know it's bullshit, and we can all see examples of its bullshit-ness practically every day.
You could reasonably expect normal people to be shamed into better behavior, but these Daddy State assholes can't be - because they aren't fuckin' normal.
They are without honor, and so they can only be dealt with by rejecting them and their bullshit pronouncements outright, giving them no quarter and no audience. They have to be driven back - away from normal decent people. I was going to say 'back to the rock they live under', but that elevates them to the status of worms and blind venomous centipedes, and I have too much respect for lowly creatures to consider these assholes on a par with the creepy-crawlies.
Anyway -
by way of
Married Putin Stooge Accused of Hiding Kids With Secret American Lover
Vladimir Solovyov is one of Russia’s top-tier propagandists, omnipresent on the airwaves of the state media and twice decorated by Russian President Vladimir Putin for his service to the Kremlin. He often derides the West as “satanic,” and refers to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “holy war.” Scarcely a broadcast goes by without Solovyov calling for nuclear strikes against the United States and its allies.
As it turns out, the 59-year-old TV host might be hiding an explosive secret himself.
A bombshell report from Alexei Navalny’s FBK team on Monday, called “Vladimir Solovyov’s American secret,” claims that Solovyov—who is married with eight children—is suspiciously linked to another family.
While investigating properties in Russia with obscure ownership records, the Navalny group reportedly tied Solovyov to a villa in Sochi and an apartment in Moscow reportedly owned by 42-year-old Svetlana Abrosimova, a retired basketball player and U.S. citizen.
Records obtained by the team allegedly show that Abrosimova traveled to the U.S. with the Russian propagandist in 2016. Abrosimova reportedly stayed in the U.S. through 2017, during which she gave birth to twin girls. According to the investigation, Solovyov made almost monthly visits to the U.S. until Abrosimova and her newborn twins moved back to Russia in June 2017.
The details of the trips were reportedly gleaned from paperwork filed for a coronavirus test the pair took in November 2021, which listed them as sharing the same address. The document reportedly featured Solovyov’s passport details, including travel information. The Navalny team also concluded that the pair share a driver and have made several doctor’s visits together, including one where they filed paperwork for the coronavirus test.
Photos of the pair—including one where they are standing side by side and another where they appeared to be chatting to each other while seated at a sport’s game—were also published in the documentary investigation.
In the report, the Navalny team alleges that multiple anonymous sources close to the couple have confirmed that Solovyov is the father of Abrosimova’s two children. The twins reportedly share the middle name “Vladimirovna,” in what appears to be a derivation of the propagandist's first name. Solovyov’s daughter, Yekaterina, is likewise a citizen of the U.S.
Solovyov did not immediately respond to a comment request from The Daily Beast about the allegations. Neither did Abrosimova.
During his shows, Solovyov often bemoans the loss of his Italian villas, but gleefully points out that he is yet to be sanctioned by the United States.
Given his patriotic fervor and theatrical desire for the destruction of the West, news that Vladimir Solovyov may be secretly nurturing an American dream of his own has many Kremlin critics blasting him as a hypocrite on social media.
The Navalany team investigation has also uncovered luxury homes in the same Sochi neighborhood where Ambrosimova reportedly lives, allegedly owned by General Sergey Surovikin and Andrei Patrushev, the son of Nikolai Patrushev, who serves as Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
Stop wondering why American MAGA clowns can't bring themselves to support NATO and Ukraine publicly.
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Former Moscow Officials Reveal Why They’re Laughing at Putin Now
Outlandish rhetoric from Russian officials has turned the Kremlin into a laughing stock—with potentially serious consequences for Vladimir Putin, according to some former insiders.
Citizens of Russia have become the captive audience of a dystopian “comedy club” run by the government, according to some former Moscow officials.
And the Kremlin, it appears, is not in on the joke.
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared last week that beer in Prague, where a summit between Kremlin critics recently took place, contains “female sex hormones” and called the opposition officials who met there “half-wits.” On the same day, his best friend Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Russian Security Council and former KGB hardliner, warned of a deadly “radioactive cloud that is now moving towards Western Europe” from Ukraine.
The bizarre propaganda lines—apparently meant to evoke fear among Russian exiles of cognitive decline by way of drinking beer, or death via the enriched uranium supplied to Ukraine by the West—fell flat. Putin's remarks were widely mocked on social media, while experts at Russia’s own State Atomic Agency said that “the story with the approaching cloud is somehow exaggerated.”
The outpouring of ridiculous rhetoric in Moscow has gotten so out of hand that some former Kremlin insiders have resorted to creating memes inspired by the words and actions of Russian officials.
That includes Putin’s former speechwriter, Abbas Galyamov, who put together photos of Putin drinking beer in response to the “female sex hormones” remarks, captioned with the sentence: “The president knows what he is talking about.”
Galyamov worked as a speechwriter for Vladimir Putin from 2008 to 2010, later taking on positions in the regional government and the Russian federal election agency. He made the decision to leave Russia in 2018, when he says he became disillusioned by “the fascistization” of the regime.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, Galyamov elaborated on his affinity for making jokes about the Kremlin—and the privilege of being able to do so.
“There is much less respect for them now than before,” he told The Daily Beast. “If not for the political repression, all Russians would have thought of them as inhumane and mocked them.”
The Best Medicine
Though men like Putin’s ideologist, Vyacheslav Volodin, have long been feared across Russia, critics appear to have become increasingly bold in their public mockery of them.
In a push to get more Russians to learn Chinese earlier this month, Volodin said that the English language, which is taught in every Russian school and university, is “dead”—triggering yet another wave of jokes.
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THE BASICS:
- The Daddy State lies as a means of demonstrating power.
- The lies have practically nothing to do with the subject of the lies.
- Lying about everything is a way to condition us - to make us accept the premise that they can do anything they want.
The goal is to dictate reality to us.
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