Well, it would certainly surprise me if I received a 99% plurality of yes votes in a referendum to annex four provinces of a nation I wanted that I was currently trying to reduce to rubble.
But then I am not the type of asshole who thinks that I can gaslight the whole friggin’ world and have anyone but the most wretched of sycophants believe me.
But apparently Vlad the Mad is just that kind of dangling dingleberry…
“Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, claims that the results of the so-called referendums held in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, had taken him by surprise.
“”Frankly speaking, the results of the referendums did not only satisfy but also surprised me, as people there lived and continue to live in harsh conditions…the result is, of course, more than convincing, absolutely transparent and is not subject to any doubt”.
From 23 to 27 September, the occupiers held sham referendums about the integration of the occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts into Russia. According to the fabricated results, 87-99% of the population are in favour of the integration.”
BBC Russia watcher Francis Scarr tweeted about it and received some amusing replies:
— KS (@KevinSm39722853) October 5, 2022
Yeah, yeah, yuk it up but Ukraine’s gonna take them back and you won’t get a vote.
Putin gets surprised a lot. His Army sucks. Air Force sucks. Navy sucks. Ukraine wins the Battle of Kyiv, the Izium counter-offensive, the Lyman counter-offensive, current Kherson counter-offensive… 2022 is just one surprise after another for Putin.
— John R Bruning (@JohnRBruning) October 5, 2022
Yup
It's not like he's up for an acting award.
— Lawyer Cat Objects to Russia (@AppleCiderRadio) October 5, 2022
Nope. He sucks at that too.
It's incredible how this guy doesn't feel nauseous about himself, his whole life is nothing more than a pack of lies and his mouth only manages to spit out more and more lies that it must be disgusting to live like this.
— The Minah Bird Fella (@The_Minah_Bird) October 5, 2022
Mmm. That sounds oddly familiar 🤔🤔🤔
Weird how a man with a gun gets you the votes you want. So weird.
— Furies In The Ozarks (@OzarksTown) October 5, 2022
Ain’t it tho?
Can hardly wait for him to be surprised that the fitness room at The Hague prison in Scheveningen doesn’t have an underground hockey rink.
— Patrick™ 🇺🇦 🌻 (@GoOilers_17) October 5, 2022
I know who I will vote for for his bunkie.
🤣🤣🤣
He had to order FSB “NO, don’t tell me what final count will be – I want it to be surprise!”
— Raz Rasmussen ✚ (@MtnWaver) October 5, 2022
He loses any more tanks, he’s likely to get a real surprise.
He was SO SURPRISED that he started mobilization to defend the annexed lands 2 weeks before they were annexed. 🙂
— kyjo (@kyjoCz) October 5, 2022
Yup
— durrati 🇺🇦 (@durrati) October 5, 2022
Stay away from windows, Vlad, they can be real surprising.
The Russian troops probably swung the vote: “To heck with this – let’s just say it’s Russia and we can all go home and get the h*** outta here”
I think the best comparison is Rush Limbaugh. Trump announced at the WH he would be awarding that piece of shit Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That was awful in and of itself of course. But what made a toxic pile of shit more so was the SOTU, when Trump pointed out Limbaugh and announced he was being given that medal. And Rush, in a bout of playacting so bad he’d have gotten the Gong rung by every judge on that old Chuck Barris show acted like it was all a big fucking surprise to him! This crap from Pootie is that bad. One has to wonder how much longer it will be until he hears a pistol being drawn from the holster of someone walking behind him – and that instant of the bullet striking the back of his skull. That’s a surprise he’s likely to experience one day.
Like any of the Soviet leaders were surprised when they got 98% of the vote.