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Vacationing With Vladimir (Why He Has An 85% Approval Rating)
BBC NEWS ^ | 08/05/2017 | BBC NEWS

Posted on 08/05/2017 8:28:25 AM PDT by goldstategop

Check out the video:

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-40837324/vacationing-with-vladimir

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Russia
KEYWORDS: bbcnews; putin; vacation; video
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For a guy in his 60s, the Russian President is bronzed and fit. Not too men go scuba diving, fishing and sailboating at his age.

He likes the guy stuff. No wonder Russian voters love him.

1 posted on 08/05/2017 8:28:25 AM PDT by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop

Well, part of it is how hated Boris Yeltsin was, the other part is how cool Putin is to a lot of Russians, apparently.


2 posted on 08/05/2017 8:36:18 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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Wow...he’s really hitting the lowest points now....why I recall all the years, actually decades, in which the Soviet leader had a 100% approval rating....you’d think the former head of the KGB could keep the numbers in the three digits...


3 posted on 08/05/2017 8:37:46 AM PDT by ransomnote
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"For a guy in his 60s, the Russian President is bronzed and fit. Not too men go scuba diving, fishing and sailboating at his age."

Oh Please the USA is full of men like this I know plenty of them

4 posted on 08/05/2017 8:43:25 AM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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Me for instance at that age


5 posted on 08/05/2017 8:44:10 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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Given the general state of health in Russia, Putin is actually very fit. Of course, he did have military training and still likely practices a lot of the exercises learned from that training.


6 posted on 08/05/2017 8:46:56 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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It's good to be the czar.

7 posted on 08/05/2017 8:47:46 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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The photo is symbolic

The tie is blue for Viagra


8 posted on 08/05/2017 8:50:29 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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This isn’t complicated.

Russians love their Country and their Leaders love their Country.

Here, nearly half the spoiled rotten whining Population thinks America sucks, especially if we have a Republican President who proclaims that he loves America.


9 posted on 08/05/2017 8:55:11 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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Putin is laughing at the Trump/Russia crisis in the United States: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-39957800/putin-laughs-at-political-chaos-in-the-us

What he's really laughing at is the the ridiculous chaos and confusion within the U.S.A., viz. decadence, including the stupidity of the American people who take seriously such attempts to reverse the 2016 Presidential Election and to make it impossible for Donald Trump, America's greatest Champion and Hero, to save America from destruction.

It's gotta be funny watching America from Russia: how the mighty U.S.A. won the Cold War and then destroyed itself with internal moral rot and decay, the same thing that destroyed the mighty Roman Empire.

But even in Russia, America's Fall must be grotesque: i.e. a combination of the hilarious and the horrifying.

10 posted on 08/05/2017 8:56:42 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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It's gotta be funny watching America from Russia: how the mighty U.S.A. won the Cold War and then destroyed itself with internal moral rot and decay

Moral rot and decay "movements"...all implemented by the Soviet Union, way back in the 60s.

11 posted on 08/05/2017 9:02:26 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs and RINOs...same thing)
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Vacation timing the same for Vlad and Donald....

must be a sign of collusion...

quick call Herr Mueller


12 posted on 08/05/2017 9:16:04 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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"Moral rot and decay "movements"...all implemented by the Soviet Union, way back in the 60s."

If so, the Russians must be laughing themselves silly at the stupidity--and weakness--of the American people! And how the Russians outsmarted them!

13 posted on 08/05/2017 9:27:41 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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fl


14 posted on 08/05/2017 9:32:40 AM PDT by maine-iac7 ( Christian is as Christian does mt-h)
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Russians have always preferred autocracy. That’s why it’s folly to think they would ever accept a US-type government structure.


15 posted on 08/05/2017 9:33:43 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ROCKLOBSTER; Savage Beast; All
Moral rot and decay "movements"...all implemented Distributed, Supported, Agitated and Funded by the Soviet Union and Lenin's Bolshevik Government, way back in the from the 20's through the 60's, to the 90's.

Make no mistake (Marx and Engels French, English and German Supported) Marxism is the culprit that "Implemented" Socialist Rot and Decay movements in both Russia and the US.

While the first victims (the Russians) were forced by the Soviet to support and promote this rot, we had our very own Commie traitors working with that support from the early 20th Century on to today.

16 posted on 08/05/2017 9:36:08 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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Russian citizens like Putin because they know he’ll do the best he can for Russia - he loves his country. Their care for Putin as a leader has nothing to do with ‘celebrity’ or ‘fitness’ or any of that crap...

The same types of lies are put out about Trump - “that’s it’s celebrity”... or some other equally shallow crap. But it’s not - it’s that citizens feel Trump cares about our country and he’ll do the best for us that he can.

Same with Putin.


17 posted on 08/05/2017 9:36:14 AM PDT by GOPJ (Jeff Flake - when only a shallow empty suit willing to trash fellow Republicans will do...)
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The smart Russians would love too see a bullet in Pootie’s head.

There is no shortage of men in their 60’s who are as active as this Russian thug midget....Pootie love is strong with you!


18 posted on 08/05/2017 9:36:30 AM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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“If so, the Russians must be laughing themselves silly at the stupidity—and weakness—of the American people! And how the Russians outsmarted them! “

Once the Russians get their murder rate, alcoholism rate, abortion rate, and life expectancy close to that of the United States they can laugh.

But for now, Russia is a socialist third world country.


19 posted on 08/05/2017 9:38:11 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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“It’s gotta be funny watching America from Russia: how the mighty U.S.A. won the Cold War and then destroyed itself with internal moral rot and decay, the same thing that destroyed the mighty Roman Empire.”

Funny how the Senate thing repeats itself.


20 posted on 08/05/2017 9:54:36 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to surviive.)
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