Today’s fragment from Yulia Latynina’s “Kod Dostupa” has a bit about the result of the US presidential election. And, it so happens that it is related to my pinned tweet:
“I want to start with a simple amazing incident when, right on the election day, Joe Biden introduced his granddaughter to supporters and called here with the name of his late son, Beau Biden.
“This is my son, Beau Biden, who many of you helped elect to the Senate in Delaware,” Joe Biden said, putting his hand on his granddaughter's shoulder. After that, Biden recovered, but called her Finnegan Natalie and said she he was Bo's daughter.
But in fact, Finnegan is the daughter of his other son, Hunter Biden. So a person n this condition will now become the president of the United States. This was, a visual demonstration of Biden's cognitive state, which explains why, instead of running,
he spent most of the election campaign in the basement.

Moreover, this remarkably resembles the 1996 Russian presidential campaign. Remember, when all the media unanimously cheered for Yeltsin in full conviction
that it is vital that the people should be lied in their faces and frightened as much as possible by Zyuganov, just as now they tried to frighten the American voter with Trump. And, in fact, of course we can understand the organizers of the 1996 election. They set themselves
Genuinely good goals, they did save Russia from Zyuganov. But the problem was that they showed that the people can be as brainwashed as one may please. And the next president, who came after Yeltsin, used the tools which they created to the full.”

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