Long topics

And here’s another collision - about how VTsIOM sociologists weighed Putin, and he came out easy. And then, at the request of the Kremlin, they brought other scales , and he took over all the gold of the world and all its diamonds. This is the plot of this almost biblical story, parable.

Specifically, there was 31% of the people’s trust in Putin, and after the change it was again 72.3%, more than two times more. That is, it turned out like in the good Soviet times. Metaphor: you came to the store for boiled sausage, and a fat woman in a white coat gives you a small piece and says that it’s a kilogram and her scales are like that.

But this is actually a longer topic than just a failed survey. Because it includes the following subtopics. First things first, about sociologists . Have they gone crazy, our sociologists, to issue such initial figures to the Sultanate? Maybe they are tired of life or work is not expensive? Or should we assume that there are some Kremlin towers that are not averse to sending Putin a hint signal that it’s time to pack up? And they do this gradually, through faceless sociologists and anonymous respondents. A hint of what was no longer working for him. Which is already causing irritation. Which is no longer Teflon, but rusty. And that the elite is worried about this.

Moreover, these signals are only growing. But these include not only unsuccessful measurements. But also the fact that the church named after Putin’s friends did not cause delight in Yekaterinburg. People don't want to pray in it. And what, really, should we pray for? And the fact that people are tired of Moscow sending garbage on their heads, like in Arkhangelsk at the Shies station. And even the fact that the secret protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact were suddenly published, about which they always said that they were allegedly irretrievably lost or that they did not exist at all; even this we can regard as a certain hint.

A hint that we are dealing with the ever-present Empire of Nonsense. That they lied yesterday, they lie today, and they will lie forever and ever. And where will this lead us all? And this will most likely lead to the fact that one day Putin will get out of bed in the aura of his nonronism and excellent ratings, but Peskov is not there, he did it with a pen... Our Peskov has left for Paris.

About the changeover

Well, everything is clear here, since the technological kitchen is naked. If you are asked how you would like it, that they will steal five years of your pension without pay and whether the first person in the state is responsible for this theft, then you, not suspecting anything wrong, are unlikely to say that you will like it, and that, yes , is responsible because he is responsible for everything. And the sociologist will recalculate the answers and conclude that you do not trust Putin.

What if a sociologist comes up to you along with a police officer and asks the question directly: “Bitch, do you trust our president? As a father, as a mentor? And by the kidneys, by the kidneys... (But let’s not say too much.) Then the answer, I think, will be completely different.

About trust

And here is pure ontology. The structure of the Universe. What exactly is “trust”? Do we trust the underwater snake that it will not turn out to be a ladybug? Do we trust winter to come? How, for example, can I say that I don’t trust Putin, if I trust him absolutely. He said he would return the Scoop - and he did. In the main aspects, like the lack of good cheese. He said that the price would not stand for Crimea to sail to its native harbor - and did not stand. Delivered the Munich speech. Invented a superweapon. My own voice, therefore, is in that new 72% of absolute trust that it will ruin both me and the country.

About panic and apocalypse in the Kremlin

Indeed, there is such a panic. Indeed, there is a premonition of the apocalypse. Although some political strategists hastened to declare that 30% is great, Americans are jealous. But there is nothing wonderful about it, and they know it, and everyone else understands it too. The plot turns out to be worthy of Netflix. And this is what he would look like in the television series.

Synopsis.

The Hot Zone

Somewhere on the outskirts of Russia an infected “monkey” appeared, no longer trusting Putin. Direct contact with her by another loyal “monkey” or a loyal employee of a kind of Orwellian zoo simply explodes the mind of the person in contact, he scatters into bloody pieces, and the antidote has not yet been found. However, the military (read sociologists), as usual, hide the problem in order to avoid chaos, fool the Kremlin with reports of victory, and sweep the problem under the rug. Meanwhile, there are more and more infected “monkeys”. An epidemic begins. Day X is approaching.

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In Dzerzhinsk, at one of the city-forming enterprises producing essential consumer goods, such as “ammunition ,” an explosion occurred.

The explosion is small, it would not be worth sharpening it. No one was killed, perhaps only about a hundred were wounded. Yes, “damage was recorded in 180 residential buildings and several dozen social facilities,” although, of talk of major destruction course, there was no . But the main problem, it turned out, was not this, but the fake news that flooded social networks. us about this The governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin, honestly warned . And the fact that they will be suppressed to the fullest extent of the law, fortunately, such laws have been invented immeasurably. Such a lead to the plot.

Plot. Meanwhile, deputy of the Pskov Legislative Assembly Lev Shlosberg (from the Yabloko party) conceived a provocation .

He spoke out precisely against laws that infringe on freedom of speech and, in his opinion, dilute the whole meaning of the democratic Constitution won by the August Revolution. Why does what the Duma came up with today begin to seem like a coup d’etat, and why does a public ship with such a crew of sailors as the Duma begin to list like your Titanic?

Schlosberg's ethos is to save the ship. And the point of the proposal is to take advantage of the right of legislative initiative and torpedo the Duma law on disrespect for power with a law on disrespect for the people. Then maybe we’ll live a little longer and sail on this Titanic. With these words he addressed the Pskov deputies.

Of course, Schlosberg is paradoxical. He operates in a vicious circle, described by the now fashionable Slezkine:

"Some laws are more 'fundamental' than others, and some fundamental laws are subject to interpretation by priests or Supreme Courts whose mission is to sanctify changing norms in the light of those laws, but these kinds of constitutional traditions are more vulnerable than their Talmudic predecessors because of the obvious flawedness of the logical circle (all lawmaking is limited by the constitution, which is the result of lawmaking). The problem is solved by strengthening the legal-rational framework with the sacred attributes of immortal peoples or by linking constitutional regimes to “natural law” (and deriving citizen’s rights from “human rights”).” Yu. Slezkine. "Government House".

But, as has already been noted, this was, of course, a total provocation on Schlosberg’s part. He had no doubt at all that he would not be supported . On the contrary, his hidden goal was to present the rest of the deputies of the Pskov Legislative Assembly as such stupid freaks, which turned out great. However, real politics is about provoking political opponents and presenting them in the ugliest form so that your point of view wins.

At the same time, I myself do not want to say that they, the Pskov deputies, were really such stupid freaks (that would be disrespect for the authorities) as Lev Shlosberg presented them. But they behaved in response to Schlosberg’s proposal like the most typical stupid freaks. As, in fact, he expected.

Because this is what they answered him...

That they are not at all interested in the Constitution of Russia, nor its violations, nor the fundamental and natural rights of a Russian citizen. The main thing for them is to divide their Pskov budget. As for Deputy Schlosberg, he owes his “colleagues” an apology for coming at them with such indecent nonsense. And the correspondent whom he invited and who is snooping around the hall here, she should have crawled on her knees first and tearfully asked the Pskov servants of the people to allow her to be present in the holy of holies of the Pskov parliament. And then, maybe... Maybe they would forget about Schlosberg's indecency.

So everyone got what they wanted. And Schlosberg, and the deputies, and the correspondent. But obviously this is also a long topic. About democracy and democrats. About those whom people elect. How they deteriorate and mature in the places of their choice, how they turn into vegetables, rot and become poison.

Not only in the Duma, but throughout the vast periphery.

And about what we can expect next.


Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/DPA/TASS