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Biden’s Brezhnev vibes
The Spectator ^ | 3 Dec 2020 | Katya Sedgewick

Posted on 12/03/2020 2:43:45 PM PST by Rummyfan

At least nobody in the Soviet Union voted for Brezhnev — the elections were a sham with Communist party candidates running unopposed. Everything was a sham, actually. In his mumbling, robotic tones, the general secretary delivered long-winded, heavy on Marxist cliches and utterly incomprehensible televised speeches. The economy flattened, dissidents were subjected to psychiatric torture, corruption proliferated, and the rate of substance abuse skyrocketed. That period of Soviet history is known as zastoi, or stagnation. It only made sense that the man on top was some sort of sclerotic.

Like Brezhnev, Biden’s rhetoric is ridden with clichés, but of a different, folksy kind. At the time when political slogans are catchy and provocative — Make America Great Again, Black Lives Matter — Biden’s yard signs read ‘Our best days are still ahead’, and ‘Build back better’. His Twitter account is full of platitudes like ‘This is our moment — ours together — to write a newer, bolder, more compassionate chapter in the life of our nation.’ He’s just a boring ordinary guy — until he lashes out at a voter, or bites on his wife’s finger.

Is Biden the candidate of American stagnation? His cognitive and physical decline is increasingly difficult to hide and it’s highly disturbing to witness it become a subject of speculation. I’ve lived through it before and it gives me the creeps. Free citizens of a free republic shouldn’t need a Kremlinologist to decipher what’s wrong with their president.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; bloggers

God Help Us. How long can a nation survive malignant mediocrities like Obama and Biden as chief executives?!

1 posted on 12/03/2020 2:43:45 PM PST by Rummyfan
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That there is something wrong with Biden is dangerously close to becoming a subject of open discussion. A topic rarely brought up outside conservative media after the Democratic primary was touched upon by satirical site the Onion when it ran a piece titled: ‘Doctors Concerned As Hairline Fracture In Biden’s Foot Spreads Through Entire Skeleton’.
2 posted on 12/03/2020 2:47:24 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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It’s pretty obvious that Biden is Baraq’s Third Term.
I’m not sure if Harris will be as submissive when she takes over though.


3 posted on 12/03/2020 2:47:47 PM PST by nascarnation
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The main purpose of the Biden presidency will be to replace Americans with a third-world voter base.

First step - the largest illegal alien amnesty in human history along with a declaration of immigration law suspension.


4 posted on 12/03/2020 3:09:40 PM PST by Dagnabitt
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Exactly.
Soviet Union under Brezhnev was a country of stagnation. The revolutionary euforia sizzled out. All socialist ideas were implemented and demonstrated to be not working. All what was left was nothing! To keep the socialism going on, the oppressive methods of Stalin were continued, but with a lot less efforts. Life in Soviet Union actually became somewhat bearable, as mass executions and genocides basically ceased. There was even some food and clothings in the shops, some housings were made available. But there was no visible future, no developments, no new ideas. Drinking and smoking were the only relaxations available. People learned how to live in this system and were surviving.
I see Biden admin as the same stage. No future, no progress, people learning how to shut up and follow the leadership towards nothing. No jobs, relaxing with marihuana. Getting stuff made in China. Living sad, vegetable life in the privacy of their own circle of trusted friends.


5 posted on 12/03/2020 3:15:27 PM PST by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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Just prior to the fall of the Berlin wall I vaguely remember the Russians ran a couple of old guys through as chief that lasted less than a year each.
That’s bed pan biden.


6 posted on 12/03/2020 3:21:08 PM PST by 9422WMR (Lie, cheat, steal. It’s how the democRATS operate. )
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Just prior to the fall of the Berlin wall I vaguely remember the Russians ran a couple of old guys through as chief that lasted less than a year each. That’s bed pan biden.

Chernenko and Andropov.... They were both very old and in bad health...

7 posted on 12/03/2020 3:39:05 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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Chernenko is the one I've been thinking of, re: Biden. Sadly, ol' Konstantin seemed to have more command of his faculties than Joe possesses.

There are a few Photoshop-worthy images out there, too...

Sigh. I remember when feeble old Communists were put in charge of the USSR, not the USA. Suddenly, 1984 seems very long ago.

8 posted on 12/03/2020 4:36:00 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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Andropov, as KGB chief, was the real power behind Brezhnev’s throne.


9 posted on 12/03/2020 4:36:03 PM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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I just looked up zastoi in the Russian dictionary. It does mean "stagnation." The related verb (zastoyat'sya) means "to become stagnant" or "to stay too long." Seems to fit Biden to a T.
10 posted on 12/03/2020 5:46:55 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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Biden reminds me more of Konstantin Chernenko. By the time he reached the ultimate brass ring, so decrepit and senile he barely has any idea what’s happening around him. A puppet to be manipulated by the powers behind the throne. Also, will conveniently die soon.


11 posted on 12/03/2020 5:49:18 PM PST by lump in the melting pot
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Victims of a Soviet virus, kalashnicough.


12 posted on 12/03/2020 5:50:14 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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And his kidneys failed as soon as he took over, so he spent his entite tenure on dialysis.


13 posted on 12/03/2020 6:15:28 PM PST by Loyalist (Dominion Voting Machines: We Give It 110% Every Time!)
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