Major gains by an opposition group were erased on Monday in Russia after the Electoral Commission added millions of online votes, a delayed count that drew calls of foul play for its lack of transparency. I guess it's fine if those things happen in the U.S. There's nothing wrong with transparency if similar types of things happen to the US. Remember, your memes will get fact checked, but ballots will not, folks. It's almost as though we live in Russia, right? Same story, different channel. I think we've all seen this before. It feels like, perhaps, perhaps they've learned from others. Or maybe others have learned from the Russians. And guess what folks? You're seeing it in results. The most popular president ever, ever seems to be greeted across the country in stadiums across the US with FU chants. So I thought you d want to see that to understand exactly where we are as a democracy and where we're at an all-time low in terms of hypocrisy, which is at an absolute ridiculous level of insanity. I don't want to accuse, but when it comes to hypocrisy, it seems like we have no issue with something that seems a little familiar to me... and I don t want to be accused of hypocrisy. I think you'll agree that hypocrisy is a real thing, and that we need to wake up to the fact that we are in need of it or else we're going to get thrown off the bandwagon. I mean, we're not even close to it, we don't have a clue what we're talking about, we are we re talking about . in this episode of Thick & Thin, we just don't get it? , we're all in this thing, we know we're in this one, we can do it, right ? we're here, we'll talk about it, I know we'll get it, and we'll all get it! We're not talking about it. We'll get there, we really soon, we will get there right? We'll see you in the next one, soon, right here, folks - we'll figure it out, we ll see you soon, soon. - I'll tell you all of it, soon -- we'll see y'all. -- Tom? -- -- My apologies for the technical difficulties? -- I'll be back, we promise
00:00:03.000Well, the US has apparently, according to a couple of major media organizations, condemned Russia's election crackdown as Putin's party wins a big majority.
00:00:17.000Right? Okay, so you would think that would be a big deal.
00:00:21.000That's something that's sort of interesting.
00:00:22.000So, according to Axios, major gains by an opposition group were erased on Monday in Russia after the Electoral Commission added millions of online votes.
00:00:40.000A delayed count that drew calls of foul play, I'm just reading to make sure I get it right, for its lack of transparency.
00:00:54.000Seriously? Let me read that again, just so we're all clear what the U.S. is upset about.
00:01:02.000I'm going to move this over a little bit so I don't have to lean, but major gains by opposition groups, this is all in Russia, were erased Monday after the Electoral Commission added millions of online votes, a delayed count that drew calls a foul play for its lack of transparency.
00:01:28.000I guess it's fine if those things happen in the United States.
00:01:31.000There's nothing, there's no lack of transparency if similar types of things happen to the U.S. I don't want to say that it exactly happened that way, but read it again and tell me where have you heard something rather similar.
00:01:48.000Apparently, the Babylon Bee and South Park have come together to become not a cartoon, And a parody site, but reality in the world in which we live.
00:02:03.000You literally can't make this stuff up anymore, right?
00:02:06.000There's something eerily familiar about this.
00:02:10.000You know, we've obviously had the safest election ever, but when similar things happen in other areas, the lack of transparency is a Is called and condemned.
00:02:25.000Remember, your memes will get fact-checked, but ballots will not, folks, right?
00:02:29.000Essentially. I gotta really caveat all of these things, because then they'll say, you're gonna get thrown off.
00:02:34.000It's almost as though we live in Russia, right?
00:02:40.000So I think we've all seen this before.
00:02:43.000It feels like, perhaps, They've learned from others.
00:02:49.000Or maybe others have learned from the Russians.
00:02:52.000I don't know. I don't want to accuse, but when major U.S. headlines and major news networks are calling that out and highlighting that, it seems like those people had no issue with something that seems to me, at least, Eerily familiar. So I thought you'd want to see that to understand exactly where we are as a democracy and where we are in terms of hypocrisy,
00:03:23.000which is at an all-time low and an all-time high level of absolute ridiculous insanity.
00:03:29.000And guess what, folks? You're seeing it in results, right?
00:03:32.000The most popular president ever, ever, Seems to be greeted across the country in stadiums across the country with a FU chants.